Brazil CNPJ Company Lookup: Receita Federal Data

Bulk-look up Brazilian companies by CNPJ: legal and trade name, status, opening date, CNAE activity, size, share capital, Simples/MEI, full address, phone, email and partners (QSA). Open Receita Federal data, no login. $2 per 1,000 companies.

Data source: the open CNPJ dataset of the Receita Federal do Brasil, served by the free BrasilAPI (brasilapi.com.br). It needs no login, proxy or browser. Results are returned as clean, flat JSON that is ready for spreadsheets, databases, BI tools and AI agents.

What can you use it for?

• Enrich Brazilian B2B lead lists with address, phone, email and activity (CNAE)
• KYC/KYB checks: confirm a supplier's CNPJ is active and see its partners
• Segment customers by size, share capital and Simples Nacional status
• Clean CRM records with official legal names
• Use it as a tool from AI agents through the Apify MCP server, or schedule it and send new results to Slack, Google Sheets or a webhook

Input

Field	Name	Description
cnpjs	CNPJs	CNPJ numbers, with or without punctuation, e.g. 19.131.243/0001-97
includePartners	Include partners (QSA)	Return partner names, roles and entry dates
concurrency	Concurrency	Lookups in parallel

Example input

{
  "cnpjs": [
    "19131243000197",
    "00000000000191",
    "11222333000181"
  ]
}

Output

Each result is one dataset item with these fields: cnpj, cnpjFormatted, legalName, tradeName, status, statusDate, openedAt, headOffice, legalNature, size, shareCapitalBRL, simplesNacional, mei, cnaeCode, cnaeDescription, secondaryCnaes, street, number, complement, district, city, state, postalCode, phone1, phone2, email, partners, partnerCount, source, scrapedAt.

Example output (real result, long fields shortened)

{
  "cnpj": "19131243000197",
  "cnpjFormatted": "19.131.243/0001-97",
  "legalName": "OPEN KNOWLEDGE BRASIL",
  "tradeName": "REDE PELO CONHECIMENTO LIVRE",
  "status": "ATIVA",
  "statusDate": "2013-10-03",
  "openedAt": "2013-10-03",
  "headOffice": "MATRIZ",
  "legalNature": "Associação Privada",
  "size": "DEMAIS",
  "shareCapitalBRL": 0,
  "simplesNacional": null,
  "mei": null,
  "cnaeCode": "9430800"
}

Rows that could not be processed (for example a handle, package or domain that does not exist) are returned with an error field and are not charged.

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

Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing. You pay $0.002 per company returned, plus standard Apify platform usage, which is small because the Actor uses lightweight HTTP requests (no browser). You are never charged for results that are not returned. To cap spending, set a maximum cost per run in the run options.

Tips

• Start with a small max-results value to check your filters, then scale up.
• Schedule the Actor (for example daily) to monitor changes over time.
• The data comes straight from the source, so its freshness and completeness depend on that publisher.

Disclaimer

This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by any website, platform or data publisher named here. Use it in line with the target sites' terms and applicable privacy laws (e.g. GDPR/CAN-SPAM for contact data). Verify critical decisions against the official source.