🇧🇷 Brazil CNPJ Lookup — Receita Federal Company Data, Bulk

Look up Brazilian companies by CNPJ, in bulk, or search the Receita Federal register by state, CNAE activity, municipality and legal nature, and get one clean row per company: legal and trade name, registration status and its date and reason, opening date, legal nature, size, share capital, primary and secondary CNAE activities, address, registered phone and email, Simples Nacional and MEI status, tax regime by year, and partners that are companies.

CNPJs can be typed with or without punctuation; their check digits are verified before anything is fetched, and invalid ones are listed and never charged. Filter by status (ATIVA, BAIXADA…), headquarters or branch, and opening date — openedAfter plus a state and CNAE gives you newly opened companies in a sector.

The data is the Receita Federal's public CNPJ register (public under Brazil's access-to-information law), read through the open Minha Receita API. The unit of output is one company record delivered; CNPJs that are not found are not billed.

Who buys this and for what job

• KYB, onboarding and credit teams checking a supplier's or customer's CNPJ status before approving them.
• Sales teams building lists of active companies by sector (CNAE), state and size.
• Data teams enriching a CRM's CNPJs with activity, size and address.
• Market researchers counting new openings by sector and city.

Buyers usually search for this as "consulta CNPJ", "CNPJ lookup API" or "Receita Federal company data".

📊 Sample Output

cnpj	legal_name	status	opened_on	city	size
59.074.926/0001-74	KATO CONSULTORIA EM DADOS LTDA	ATIVA	2025-01-24	SAO PAULO / SP	MICRO EMPRESA
59.075.266/0001-46	BAYER INFO TECH LTDA	ATIVA	2025-01-24	SAO PAULO / SP	MICRO EMPRESA
59.075.278/0001-70	V+ ASSESSORIA EM SERVICOS DE SAUDE LTDA	ATIVA	2025-01-24	SAO PAULO / SP	MICRO EMPRESA
04.423.028/0001-92	SCALA SUPRIMENTOS INDUSTRIAIS LTDA	ATIVA	2001-04-25	BARUERI / SP	EMPRESA DE PEQUENO PORTE
03.917.451/0001-86	CARPE DIEN INFORMATICA LTDA	ATIVA	2000-06-28	SAO PAULO / SP	MICRO EMPRESA
14.256.781/0001-94	NINETEC S.A.	ATIVA	2011-09-06	SAO PAULO / SP	DEMAIS
36.713.059/0001-74	(withheld: individual entrepreneur)	ATIVA	2020-03-18	SAO JOSE DOS CAMPOS / SP	MICRO EMPRESA

Rows from live run xhF5eXOhDyyHFggwK on Apify (São Paulo state, CNAE 6201-5/01 (custom software development), status ATIVA, 40 companies). Notice the row marked withheld: for individual entrepreneurs (MEI and Empresário Individual) the name, address, phone and email belong to a person and are not delivered; the status, activity and dates still are.

✅ What you get

Every field of each record:

• record_id, cnpj, cnpj_formatted, cnpj_root, branch_type — the CNPJ (14 digits and formatted), its 8-digit root, MATRIZ or FILIAL.
• legal_name, trade_name — razão social and nome fantasia.
• status, status_date, status_reason, special_situation, special_situation_date — situação cadastral and its details.
• opened_on, legal_nature_code, legal_nature, company_size, share_capital_brl — opening date, natureza jurídica, porte, capital social in reais.
• main_activity_code, main_activity, secondary_activities — primary CNAE and the secondary CNAEs.
• street, number, complement, district, postal_code, city, city_ibge_code, state, country — registered address.
• phone_1, phone_2, fax, email — registered contacts (+55 format).
• simples_opt_in, simples_since, simples_until, mei_opt_in, mei_since, mei_until — Simples Nacional and MEI status.
• tax_regime_latest, tax_regime_history — tax regime by year (Lucro Real, Lucro Presumido…), when on file.
• company_partners, partner_people_count — partners that are companies (name, CNPJ, role, since) and the number of individual partners (not named).
• individual_entrepreneur, withheld — whether personal fields were withheld, and which.
• source, source_url, read_at — source, API address, when read.

⚙️ Sample inputs

Two CNPJs (the Store example)

{
  "cnpjs": ["33.000.167/0001-01", "00.000.000/0001-91"],
  "maxRecords": 10
}

Petrobras and Banco do Brasil.

Active software companies in São Paulo

{
  "states": ["SP"],
  "cnaes": ["6201501"],
  "statuses": ["ATIVA"],
  "maxRecords": 5000
}

Software companies opened this year in São Paulo

{
  "states": ["SP"],
  "cnaes": ["6201501"],
  "primaryCnaeOnly": true,
  "openedAfter": "2026-01-01",
  "maxScan": 100000,
  "maxRecords": 2000
}

Opening-date filters run on what the search reads; maxScan sets how far it reads.

Check a list of suppliers

{
  "cnpjs": ["60.701.190/0001-04", "33000167000101", "07.526.557/0001-00"],
  "maxRecords": 1000
}

Paste up to 100,000 CNPJs.

Input fields:

Field	Meaning
cnpjs	CNPJs to look up, any punctuation (check digits verified).
states, cnaes, primaryCnaeOnly, municipalities, legalNatureCodes	search filters (a state-only search is limited to 3 states).
statuses, branchType, openedAfter, openedBefore	keep only these statuses, headquarters or branches, and opening dates (applied to what the search reads).
maxScan	how many search results to read before stopping (default 20,000).
includeTaxRegime	add tax regime by year (default on).
maxRecords	stop after this many companies (default 1,000). Each delivered company is billed.

🧾 JSON sample record

{
  "record_id": "f390a46df5803e0d34bd912f",
  "cnpj": "33000167000101",
  "cnpj_formatted": "33.000.167/0001-01",
  "cnpj_root": "33000167",
  "branch_type": "MATRIZ",
  "legal_name": "PETROLEO BRASILEIRO S A PETROBRAS",
  "trade_name": "PETROBRAS - EDISE",
  "status": "ATIVA",
  "status_date": "2005-11-03",
  "status_reason": "SEM MOTIVO",
  "special_situation": null,
  "special_situation_date": null,
  "opened_on": "1966-09-28",
  "legal_nature_code": "2038",
  "legal_nature": "Sociedade de Economia Mista",
  "company_size": "DEMAIS",
  "share_capital_brl": 205431960000,
  "main_activity_code": "600001",
  "main_activity": "Extração de petróleo e gás natural",
  "secondary_activities": [
    {
      "code": "1921700",
      "description": "Fabricação de produtos do refino de petróleo"
    },
    {
      "code": "3520401",
      "description": "Produção de gás; processamento de gás natural"
    },
    {
      "code": "3520402",
      "description": "Distribuição de combustíveis gasosos por redes urbanas"
    },
    {
      "code": "4681801",
      "description": "Comércio atacadista de álcool carburante, biodiesel, gasolina e demais derivados de petróleo, exceto lubrificantes, não realizado por transportador re"
    },
    {
      "code": "8630599",
      "description": "Atividades de atenção ambulatorial não especificadas anteriormente"
    }
  ],
  "street": "AVENIDA REPUBLICA DO CHILE",
  "number": "65",
  "complement": null,
  "district": "CENTRO",
  "postal_code": "20031170",
  "city": "RIO DE JANEIRO",
  "city_ibge_code": "3304557",
  "state": "RJ",
  "country": "BRASIL",
  "phone_1": "+552121660000",
  "phone_2": null,
  "fax": null,
  "email": null,
  "simples_opt_in": null,
  "simples_since": null,
  "simples_until": null,
  "mei_opt_in": null,
  "mei_since": null,
  "mei_until": null,
  "tax_regime_latest": {
    "year": 2024,
    "regime": "LUCRO REAL"
  },
  "tax_regime_history": [
    {
      "year": 2016,
      "regime": "LUCRO REAL"
    },
    {
      "year": 2017,
      "regime": "LUCRO REAL"
    },
    {
      "year": 2018,
      "regime": "LUCRO REAL"
    },
    {
      "year": 2019,
      "regime": "LUCRO REAL"
    },
    {
      "year": 2020,
      "regime": "LUCRO REAL"
    },
    {
      "year": 2021,
      "regime": "LUCRO REAL"
    },
    {
      "year": 2022,
      "regime": "LUCRO REAL"
    },
    {
      "year": 2023,
      "regime": "LUCRO REAL"
    },
    {
      "year": 2024,
      "regime": "LUCRO REAL"
    }
  ],
  "company_partners": [],
  "partner_people_count": 8,
  "individual_entrepreneur": false,
  "withheld": [],
  "source": "Receita Federal open CNPJ data (via Minha Receita)",
  "source_url": "https://minhareceita.org/33000167000101",
  "read_at": "2026-10-18T02:56:38Z"
}

🔧 How it works

CNPJ lookups are one request each; searches are read 1,000 companies per page with the API's cursor, one page every 1.5 seconds, because the API limits searches to keep lookups fast (if it asks the actor to slow down, it waits and continues). Status, branch and opening-date filters are applied to the companies read, so maxScan controls how far a search reads. The same company found by a lookup and a search is delivered once.

Natural-person data stays out: individual partners are counted but never named (their names and masked CPFs are not read into rows), and for MEI, Empresário Individual and the other natural-person legal forms the name, trade name, street address, postal code, phone and email are withheld, because they are a person's. Companies whose legal name contains a founder's name are legal entities and are delivered as registered.

Every run reads each host's robots.txt first: a path it disallows is skipped, listed in the run receipt and never charged. Only public internet addresses are fetched (no private, loopback or cloud-metadata addresses, checked again on every redirect). No logins, no CAPTCHA solving, no proxies.

Delivery is pushed first and charged after. The run receipt (RUN_RECEIPT) lists every CNPJ with found / not found / invalid, the search pages read, how many rows each filter dropped, and the delivered and charged counts.

💰 Pricing example

Per company record delivered, no start fee, no monthly charge:

Apify plan	Price per company record
Free	$0.05
Bronze	$0.045
Silver	$0.04
Gold, Platinum, Diamond	$0.0335

• 10 company records: $0.50 on the Free plan, $0.34 on Gold.
• 1,000 company records: $50.00 on the Free plan, $33.50 on Gold.
• 10,000 company records: $500.00 on the Free plan, $335.00 on Gold.

Coverage and size. Proof runs on 18 Oct 2026: the two-CNPJ Store example in 4 seconds; 40 active São Paulo software companies in 37 seconds; four CNPJs (one with a bad check digit, skipped and not charged) plus a DF search in 3 seconds. The Receita Federal register covers every CNPJ ever issued (headquarters and branches, all statuses); Minha Receita refreshes it from the Receita's monthly release.

⚖️ Legal & ToS

The CNPJ register is public data published by the Receita Federal under Brazil's Lei de Acesso à Informação. This actor reads it through Minha Receita, an open-source project that serves the register as a public API.

Use contact fields lawfully; Brazil's LGPD applies to any personal data you go on to process. Personal fields of individual entrepreneurs are withheld here for that reason.

Every run reads each host's robots.txt first: a path it disallows is skipped, listed in the run receipt and never charged. Only public internet addresses are fetched (no private, loopback or cloud-metadata addresses, checked again on every redirect). No logins, no CAPTCHA solving, no proxies.

❓ FAQ

Do I need a key? No.

Can I search by a partner's CPF or name? No. People are never named or searched in this actor.

How fresh is it? As fresh as the Receita Federal's latest monthly CNPJ release loaded by Minha Receita.

🆘 Troubleshooting

• A CNPJ is 'not found' — It is not in the register (check it); it is not billed.
• Search returns nothing — Check the CNAE (7 digits) and municipality codes (IBGE or SIAFI numbers, not names).
• SOURCE UNAVAILABLE — The API did not answer after retries. Nothing was charged.

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