# LEI Lookup — GLEIF Company Data, Addresses & Parent Companies (`northbell/lei-gleif-lookup`) Actor

Look up companies in the GLEIF Legal Entity Identifier registry by LEI code or company name: legal name, legal and HQ address, jurisdiction, legal form, local registration number, status, renewal date, BIC, and the direct and ultimate parent company. Official GLEIF API. KYB-ready.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/northbell/lei-gleif-lookup.md
- **Developed by:** [Northbell](https://apify.com/northbell) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $0.80 / 1,000 entities

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## LEI Lookup — GLEIF Company Data, Addresses & Parent Companies

Look up companies in the **Global Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) registry** run by GLEIF — by **LEI code** or by **company name** — and get one clean row per legal entity: **legal name and other names, legal and headquarters address, jurisdiction, legal form, local registration number, entity and registration status, next renewal date, BIC and other identifiers**, plus optionally its **direct and ultimate parent company** and **number of subsidiaries**.

### What you get

| Field | What it is |
|---|---|
| `lei`, `legalName`, `otherNames`, `transliteratedNames` | identity |
| `legalAddress`, `headquartersAddress`, `country`, `jurisdiction` | where it is registered and operates |
| `legalFormCode`, `category`, `entityCreatedAt` | legal form (ISO 20275 ELF code) and type |
| `registrationAuthorityId`, `localRegistrationNumber` | the company number in its national register |
| `entityStatus`, `registrationStatus`, `firstRegisteredAt`, `lastUpdatedAt`, `nextRenewalAt`, `corroborationLevel` | is it active, and is its LEI current or lapsed |
| `bic`, `mic`, `ocid`, `spGlobalIds`, `successorLeis` | links to other identifiers |
| `directParent`, `ultimateParent`, `directChildrenCount` | ownership, with *Add parents* / *subsidiaries* |
| `search`, `match` | for name searches: the name you gave and whether it matched the exact legal name or full text |

Sole-proprietor records (where the legal name is a person's name) are **not** returned; their count is in the run's OUTPUT.

### Use it for

- **KYB and onboarding** — verify a counterparty's legal name, address, status and registration number
- **Ownership mapping** — direct and ultimate parents for a list of suppliers or clients
- **Data enrichment** — add LEI, BIC and local company numbers to a company list
- **Compliance checks** — find lapsed LEIs before they block a trade report

### Input

```json
{ "companies": ["Apple Inc.", "Siemens AG", "315700DHB47UOCE2LE29"], "includeParents": true }
```

Measured on October 7, 2026: 4 names and 2 codes with parents and subsidiaries in 37 seconds; 2 names without them in 10 seconds. Data comes from GLEIF's official API (CC0 open data) — no login, no API key. GLEIF allows 60 requests a minute, so large runs are paced.

### Pricing

**$1.00 per 1,000 entities**, or **$2.00 per 1,000** with parents or subsidiaries, plus $0.01 per run. Error rows are free. The $0.01 run-start fee is the one charge every run pays, even one that returns nothing.

### For AI agents

`{"companies": ["Siemens AG"], "maxResultsPerName": 1}` returns Siemens' LEI, address and registration number. Rows have `type`: `entity` or `error`.

# Actor input Schema

## `companies` (type: `array`):

Company names (exact legal names come first, then full-text matches) or 20-character LEI codes, one per line.

## `countries` (type: `array`):

Two-letter codes of the legal address, e.g. "US", "DE", "JP". Applies to name searches.

## `activeOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Name searches skip entities GLEIF marks as inactive (merged, dissolved).

## `maxResultsPerName` (type: `integer`):

How many entities to return for each company name you search. Exact legal-name matches come first.

## `includeParents` (type: `boolean`):

Two extra lookups per company.

## `includeChildrenCount` (type: `boolean`):

Add how many direct subsidiaries each entity has reported to GLEIF. Rows with relations are priced as "entity with relations".

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "companies": [
    "Apple Inc.",
    "315700DHB47UOCE2LE29"
  ],
  "activeOnly": true,
  "maxResultsPerName": 10,
  "includeParents": false,
  "includeChildrenCount": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `entities` (type: `string`):

Legal entities with addresses, identifiers and status.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "companies": [
        "Apple Inc.",
        "315700DHB47UOCE2LE29"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("northbell/lei-gleif-lookup").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "companies": [
        "Apple Inc.",
        "315700DHB47UOCE2LE29",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("northbell/lei-gleif-lookup").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "companies": [
    "Apple Inc.",
    "315700DHB47UOCE2LE29"
  ]
}' |
apify call northbell/lei-gleif-lookup --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,northbell/lei-gleif-lookup"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/3wJY22ab6sq1NbzQD/builds/b9tu4SNd7yk5UGXKo/openapi.json