GLEIF LEI Company Registry Lookup — official Access Service, no
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$2.00 / 1,000 lei record scrapeds
GLEIF LEI Company Registry Lookup — official Access Service, no
Look up any company's Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) record via GLEIF's official public Access Service: legal name, status, jurisdiction, legal form, HQ country/city, managing LOU, registration/renewal dates. CC0 licensed open data, no login. Useful for KYB / due-diligence.
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GLEIF LEI Company Registry Lookup — official Access Service, no login
**GLEIF LEI API** — Search any company's Legal Entity Identifier via GLEIF's official Access Service: legal name, status, jurisdiction, HQ country/city. CC0 licensed, no login.Search the full Global LEI Index — every company that has ever registered a Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) — through GLEIF's own public Access Service. No login, no proxies: this is the same API GLEIF documents and publishes for exactly this kind of lookup.
Open data, CC0 1.0 licensed: free to use commercially, no permission or attribution required (source: GLEIF LEI Data Terms of Use). This actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by GLEIF — it's an independent client of their public API.
Tested (2026-09-02)
| Search | Records found | Time |
|---|---|---|
OpenAI | 19 | 1.56s |
Tesla | 87 | 2.43s |
Shopify | 9 | 1.23s |
A search matches on legal name (partial match), so one query can return every registered entity carrying that name — parent companies, subsidiaries, and unrelated companies that happen to share a word.
GLEIF LEI API — input
Each target is a company legal name (or part of one). A name with no LEI registrations simply returns 0 items (no charge).
GLEIF LEI API — output fields
One dataset item per LEI record:
| Field | |
|---|---|
lei | the 20-character Legal Entity Identifier |
legal_name | registered legal name |
entity_status | ACTIVE / INACTIVE |
category | e.g. FUND, GENERAL |
jurisdiction | ISO country/region code of incorporation |
legal_form_id | ISO 20275 legal form code |
hq_country / hq_city | headquarters country and city (no street address — company-identifying fields only, no personal data) |
registration_status | ISSUED / LAPSED / RETIRED / etc. |
managing_lou | the Local Operating Unit (issuer) managing this LEI |
initial_registration_date / last_update_date / next_renewal_date | LEI lifecycle dates |
No personal data: LEI records identify companies and funds, not individuals.
Use Cases
- KYB (Know Your Business) onboarding: verify a counterparty's legal entity status and jurisdiction before onboarding
- Counterparty / trade-finance risk screening: check LEI status (
ACTIVE/LAPSED/RETIRED) before extending credit - Regulatory compliance: confirm a vendor holds the ACTIVE LEI required by regulations such as EU SFTR or MiFID II
- Corporate structure research: map legal names to jurisdictions and registration history for due diligence
Why this over GLEIF's own website
gleif.org's search is built for one lookup at a time. This actor runs a batch of company names in one call and hands back structured rows — for KYB checks, counterparty screening, or due-diligence pipelines that need this in a dataset, not a web page.
Pricing
Pay per event: $2.00 per 1,000 LEI records collected. Nothing else.
