US Business Registry Search: Company Records from 6 States

$1 per 1,000 company records. Platform usage included. No rental, no minimum.

The four most used Secretary of State business search actors on Apify Store charge $2.00 to $14.00 per 1,000 results (Store prices checked 5 October 2026). This actor returns company records from the official registries of six states for $1. Check that your states are covered (see below).

Open it in Apify Console

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What it costs

Records	This actor	Most used state business search actors on the Store
1,000	$1.00	$2.00 to $14.00
10,000	$10.00	$20 to $140
100,000	$100.00	$200 to $1,400

Plus $0.001 per run. A daily run of 300 records costs about $0.30, or about $9 a month. A name with no match costs nothing beyond the run fee.

Why people switch

• One flat price. Compute and proxy are included, so the bill follows the number of records and nothing else.
• Official open data, not scraped search pages. The actor queries the states' own open data APIs. No API key, no login, no CAPTCHA. In our test runs, 48 records from six states took between 8 seconds and a few minutes, depending on how fast the state portals answered.
• Six states, one row shape. NY, CO, CT, OR, PA and TX come back with the same field names: entity ID, type, status, formation date, addresses, registered agent and, where published, officers. Good for KYB checks, registered agent lookups and brand name sweeps.
• Best matches first. Exact names (with any ending such as Inc or LLC) come first, then names that start with your words, then names that contain them. Each entity is delivered once per run, and you pay for rows only.

Quick start

1. Open the actor, type one or more company names, press Start.
2. Or paste this input:

{ "companyNames": ["Tesla", "Nike"], "maxResultsPerState": 4, "maxItems": 50 }

3. Download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them through the API.

Use it from code

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/one_dollar_store~us-business-registry-search/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"companyNames": ["Tesla"], "states": ["NY", "CT"], "matchMode": "exact"}'

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("one_dollar_store/us-business-registry-search").call(
    run_input={"companyNames": ["Nike"], "maxResultsPerState": 4}
)
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["state"], item["entityName"], item.get("status"))

Use it from an AI assistant

Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other assistants can call this actor through Apify's MCP server. Add it with this server address:

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=one_dollar_store/us-business-registry-search

Then ask, for example: "Is Nike, Inc. registered and active in Colorado and Texas? Show the registered agent for each."

Switching from another state business search actor

Most of them take a company name, a state and a result limit. Here they are companyNames (a list, so one run can cover many names), states (one or more) and maxResultsPerState. The core fields are entityName, entityId, state, entityType, status, formationDate, address and registeredAgent.

States covered

State	Source	What the dataset holds
New York (NY)	Department of State, data.ny.gov	Active corporations, LLCs and partnerships, with registered agent, service of process address and chief executive
Colorado (CO)	Secretary of State, data.colorado.gov	All entities, active and inactive, with principal address and registered agent
Connecticut (CT)	Secretary of the State, data.ct.gov	All entities, active and inactive, with registered agent, officers, NAICS code and business email
Oregon (OR)	Secretary of State, data.oregon.gov	Active businesses, including assumed business names, with registered agent and a link to the state record
Pennsylvania (PA)	Department of State, data.pa.gov	Active registrations, with officers and directors
Texas (TX)	Comptroller of Public Accounts, data.texas.gov	Entities set up for Texas franchise tax, with their Secretary of State file number, charter date and status

Other states are not covered because we found no open dataset of their business entities that can be searched by name. The actor never scrapes state search pages that use a CAPTCHA.

Input

Field	Type	Default	What it does
companyNames	list of text	required	Business names to look up. Each is searched in every chosen state. Not case sensitive.
states	list	all six	Any of NY, CO, CT, OR, PA, TX.
matchMode	choice	contains	contains, startsWith or exact.
maxResultsPerState	number	25	Most entities per name and state.
onlyActive	yes/no	no	Skip dissolved, withdrawn and forfeited records (changes CO, CT and TX).
includeOfficers	yes/no	yes	Adds Connecticut officers from the state's principals dataset.
maxItems	number	1000	Most rows in the whole run (minimum 10).
proxyConfiguration	proxy	Apify datacenter	The default works well for these APIs. Its cost is included in the price.

Output fields

Field	Meaning
searchName, matchType	Your name and how it matched: exact, starts_with or contains.
state, stateName	Registry state.
entityName, entityId	Registered name and the state's ID or file number.
entityType, entityTypeCode	Type in words; the code for CO and TX.
status, statusDetail	Status as the state reports it.
formationDate, jurisdiction	Formation date and state or country of formation.
address, mailingAddress	Street, city, state, zip, country.
registeredAgent	Name and address.
officers	Name and title, where published: CT, PA, the NY chief executive, OR representatives.
source, sourceDataset, scrapedAt	Agency, dataset link and collection time.

State extras: serviceOfProcess (NY), county (NY, PA), naicsCode (CT, TX), email, domesticOrForeign, annualReportDueDate, dissolutionDate (CT), recordUrl (OR), taxpayerNumber, fileNumberType, franchiseTaxSince (TX). A field the state does not publish is left out.

Sample results

Real rows from a test run on 4 October 2026. One full row:

{"searchName": "Nike", "matchType": "exact", "state": "NY", "stateName": "New York",
 "entityName": "NIKE, INC.", "entityId": "894628", "entityType": "FOREIGN BUSINESS CORPORATION",
 "status": "Active", "formationDate": "1984-02-14", "jurisdiction": "Oregon", "county": "New York",
 "serviceOfProcess": {"name": "UNITED AGENT GROUP INC.", "street": "600 Mamaroneck Avenue #400", "city": "HARRISON", "state": "NY", "zip": "10528"},
 "registeredAgent": {"name": "UNITED AGENT GROUP INC", "street": "600 MAMARONECK AVENUE, SUITE 400", "city": "HARRISON", "state": "NEW YORK", "zip": "10528"},
 "officers": [{"name": "JOHN J. DONAHOE", "title": "Chairman or chief executive officer"}],
 "source": "New York Department of State", "sourceDataset": "https://data.ny.gov/d/n9v6-gdp6",
 "scrapedAt": "2026-10-04T13:34:34.237Z"}

Four more, main fields only:

state	entityName	entityId	entityType	status	formationDate	registeredAgent
CT	TESLA, INC.	1075301	Stock	Active	2012-06-14	C T CORPORATION SYSTEM
TX	NIKE, INC.	0007364406	Foreign profit corporation	Active	1986-08-01
CO	NIKE, INC.	19981170007	Foreign profit corporation	Good Standing	1998-09-21	United Agent Group Inc.
CT	NIKE, INC.	0252810	Stock	Withdrawn	1990-09-24	Secretary of State

The Connecticut Tesla row also lists two officers, a NAICS code and its Austin, TX address; the Texas row carries the taxpayer number and franchise tax start date.

Limits

• Active only in NY, OR and PA: those datasets hold active entities, so dissolved companies there are not found. A missing company may also be registered under another legal name, or not in that state.
• Texas comes from tax records, not the Secretary of State search. It covers entities set up for franchise tax, which includes most corporations, LLCs and limited partnerships doing business in Texas.
• Freshness follows the states. On 4 October 2026 the New York, Colorado, Connecticut and Texas datasets had been refreshed within two days, Oregon on 29 September and Pennsylvania on 2 September. Very recent filings may be missing.
• Contains searches on very common words are slow in the biggest datasets (Pennsylvania, Texas); expect up to about 20 seconds per state.
• State portals are sometimes slow. When one answers slowly or fails for a moment, the actor waits and retries, so a run can take a few minutes. In tests on 5 October 2026, a single Colorado or Pennsylvania search took about two minutes.

FAQ

What is the cheapest US business registry scraper on Apify? This actor costs $1 per 1,000 records with platform usage included. The most used Secretary of State business search actors on the Store charged $2.00 to $14.00 per 1,000 when we checked on 5 October 2026. It covers six states, so check yours is among them.

How much does it cost to scrape 10,000 business records? $10, plus $0.001 for each run.

Do I pay for compute or proxy on top? No. Platform usage is included in the $1 per 1,000 price.

Is this the official Secretary of State search? No. It reads the registry datasets the state agencies publish on their open data portals. It is an independent tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any state.

What does "Governor" mean in Pennsylvania rows? It is Pennsylvania's term for a member of the governing board, such as a director.

Is it legal? The actor uses only public records that the states publish as open data, with no login. You are responsible for how you use them: follow each portal's terms and the laws that apply to you, including privacy and marketing rules when records name people.

Do I need an Apify account? Yes. Actors run from an Apify account, and a free account is enough to start: it includes $5 of platform usage every month. You can sign up here. This is a referral link and it costs you nothing.

Is there a limit on the free plan? Yes. A run started from a free plan account delivers the first 10 results, then ends with a message and a link to the plans. Any paid plan returns everything you ask for, up to your own limit. The price per result is the same on every plan.

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Changelog

• October 2026: first release.