Australia ASIC Company Search

Search the Australian corporate registry — ASIC company numbers (ACN) cross-referenced from the Australian Business Register (ABR, operated by the ATO). Built for analysts, researchers, fintech builders and AI agents.

📊 Sample Output

name	abn	status	registration_date	company_type	registered_address
ATLASSIAN PTY LTD	53102443916	registered	2002-10-08	Pty Ltd	NSW 2000, Australia
ATLASSIAN CAPITAL PTY. LTD.	69122325811	registered	2006-10-23	Pty Ltd	NSW 2000, Australia
ATLASSIAN CORPORATION PTY. LTD.	46122325777	registered	2006-10-23	Pty Ltd	NSW 2000, Australia
ATLASSIAN FOUNDATION PTY. LTD.	14130633377	registered	2008-06-11	Pty Ltd	NSW 2000, Australia
The Trustee for Karatas Family Trust	79704045991	registered	2022-04-11	Discretionary Trading Trust	VIC 3121, Australia
ATLASSIAN AUSTRALIA 1 PTY LTD	98166799542	registered	2013-11-15	Pty Ltd	NSW 2000, Australia

Real rows from run DUpnLRJUDFhwtenUw on build 0.0.7 (2026-09-25), unedited apart from masked emails/phones and shortened long text; fields the source does not publish are empty.

🔧 Input reference

Field	Type	Default	What it does
companyName	string	"Atlassian"	Free-text company / entity name. Matches against the ASIC Connect / ABR registers (~3M Australian companies + business names + trading names). Examples: 'Atlassian', 'Commonwealth…
acn	string	""	Optional. Exact 9-digit ACN assigned by ASIC at incorporation (e.g. '102 595 786' for Atlassian Pty Ltd — spaces are tolerated). If provided, returns the single matching company r…
abn	string	""	Optional. Exact 11-digit ABN assigned by the Australian Business Register (e.g. '53 102 595 786' — spaces tolerated). The ABN is a superset of ACN: every registered Australian com…
status	string (any, registered, deregistered, external administration)	"any"	Filter by ASIC registration status. 'registered' (active companies), 'deregistered' (struck off), 'external administration' (liquidation / receivership / voluntary administration)…
includeOfficers	boolean	true	If true, attempts to enrich each company with its officer list (directors, secretaries) where ASIC public information exposes it. Note: ASIC charges for full Company Extract docum…
maxResults	integer	10	Hard cap on companies returned (and metered for billing). Default 25. The actor follows search pagination up to this cap.

🧾 JSON sample record

One real record from run DUpnLRJUDFhwtenUw (emails/phones masked, long text shortened):

{
  "name": "ATLASSIAN PTY LTD",
  "acn": "102443916",
  "abn": "53102443916",
  "status": "registered",
  "registration_date": "2002-10-08",
  "company_type": "Pty Ltd",
  "registered_address": "NSW 2000, Australia",
  "jurisdiction": "NSW",
  "officers": [],
  "officers_source": "asic_extract_required",
  "gst_registered": true,
  "gst_effective_from": "2002-10-08",
  "entity_type": "Australian Private Company",
  "last_review_date": "2008-05-29",
  "business_names": [],
  "trading_names": [],
  "data_source": "Australian Business Register (ABR, operated by ATO) + ASIC (Australian Securities & Investments Commission). ACN cross-references ASIC's incorporated companies register.",
  "_source_url": "https://abr.business.gov.au/ABN/View?abn=53102443916"
}

💰 Pricing

Event	Price (USD)	When it is charged
Actor Start (apify-actor-start)	$0.00005	Charged when the Actor starts running. Number of events charged depends on Actor memory (one event per GB, minimum one event).
Company Record (apify-default-dataset-item)	$0.08	Charged per ASIC company record returned

Pay-per-event: you pay only for what the run delivers. A run that delivers nothing bills no result events (only the actor-start event, when the actor defines one). Example: a run that delivers 100 results costs 100 × $0.08 = $8.00 plus the start fee.

📊 What you get

Clean JSON, one record per company / registered entity:

• name — Legal entity name as published by the registry
• acn — 9-digit Australian Company Number (ASIC), where the entity has one
• abn — 11-digit Australian Business Number
• status — registered / deregistered / external administration / unknown
• registration_date — ISO date the ABN became active
• company_type — Pty Ltd, Ltd, Sole Trader, Partnership, …
• entity_type — the registry's own entity-type label
• registered_address — main business location as published (locality/state/postcode)
• jurisdiction — state code (NSW, VIC, QLD, …) or AU
• gst_registered, gst_effective_from — GST registration status and start date
• last_review_date — last registry review date, where published
• business_names, trading_names — arrays of published alternate names
• officers, officers_source — best-effort directors/secretaries from ASIC's free public Registry Search (see below)
• data_source, _source_url — provenance and a linkback to the record

Officers caveat: ASIC gates full officer histories behind paid Company Extracts. This actor returns only the officer signal the free public search exposes; officers_source tells you exactly what happened (asic_extract_required, asic_http_403, no_acn_available, not_requested, …). Officers are frequently an empty array — that is the source's limitation, not a run failure.

Pricing: $0.08 per company record returned (Pay-Per-Event) — about 12 records per $1. Only delivered records are charged: a search that matches nothing returns 0 rows and charges nothing for results.

▶️ Example input

{
  "companyName": "Atlassian",
  "maxResults": 3,
  "includeOfficers": false
}

Or look up an exact number:

{ "abn": "53 102 443 916" }

🤖 Use with AI agents

Structured JSON built for LLM and agent pipelines — point Claude, the OpenAI Agents SDK, an n8n flow or any MCP-aware client at it and pull Australian registry records on demand.

Sample agent prompt:

Look up an Australian company by ACN and return its status and type.

Agentic payments (x402): Supports agentic payment via x402 — agents can call this actor with USDC, no API key required.

Run it on a schedule

Registry records change slowly, so a weekly or monthly run is enough to watch a set of companies for a status change such as deregistration or external administration. Each run returns the entities matching your name or number search; most rows come back the same, with updated values when a status, GST registration or business name changes, and new rows when a new entity matches your search. The actor has no new-only mode, so compare runs on abn to spot new entities and changed fields. Send each run's results onward with a webhook, Google Sheets, Zapier, Make or the Apify API.

Video guides from Apify: Schedule your Actor · Integrations

FAQ

Why use this instead of the official ABN Lookup or ASIC registry search?

Both government searches are free to use one record at a time. What this actor adds is a name search that returns many matching entities as clean JSON, with ACN, ABN, status, company type, GST details, business names and a link back to the record, plus a status filter and runs you can schedule and export. It is not made by or linked to ASIC, the ABR or the ATO.

What does a typical run cost?

You pay per result, not for run time: $0.08 for each row in the results, plus $0.00005 per run start (charged per GB of run memory, minimum one). A run that returns 10 company records costs about $0.80. Live prices are always shown in the Pricing tab.

How do I look up an Australian company by ABN or ACN?

Put the 11-digit number in abn or the 9-digit number in acn; spaces are fine. The actor returns the matching record with its name, status, registration date, company type, entity type, state and GST details. Note that registration_date is the date the ABN became active.

Can I get the directors of an Australian company?

Only in a limited way. ASIC keeps full officer details behind paid Company Extracts, so this actor returns only what the free public search shows, and officers is often an empty list. The officers_source field tells you why, for example asic_extract_required.

How do I find Australian companies in liquidation or administration?

Set status to "external administration" along with a companyName search. The other choices are "registered", "deregistered" and "any". Use maxResults to cap how many records come back.

Does it return full street addresses?

No. registered_address is the main business location as the registry publishes it, which is the state and postcode (for example "NSW 2000, Australia"), not a street address.

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