Company Registry Lookup: SIRENE, LEI, Brreg & KYB Data

Look up companies in official business registers by name, registration number, EU VAT number or LEI: France (SIREN/SIRET, Sirene), Norway (Brønnøysund / Brreg), Finland (PRH / YTJ), Czechia (ARES, IČO) and the worldwide GLEIF LEI index. One clean row per company — legal form, status, incorporation date, registered address, industry code (NAF / NACE), employees, VAT number, LEI, website — straight from the public registers, with no API key and no personal data. Pay only per company found.

Typical uses

• KYB and onboarding checks: confirm that a supplier or customer exists, is active, and matches the name, address and registration number it gave you.
• CRM and lead enrichment: turn a list of SIRENs, org numbers or VAT numbers into legal names, addresses, industry codes, size bands and websites.
• LEI lookup: find the LEI of a company from its national number, or the registry data behind an LEI.
• Data cleaning: normalize company names and numbers across France, the Nordics and Czechia, with a common NACE code for cross-country analysis.
• AI agents: give an agent a reliable "who is this company?" tool backed by official sources.

What you get

Field	Description
query	Your input line.
found	false on the free row of an input with no company (note says why).
matchType	identifier (looked up by number or LEI) or name (name search).
registry	FR-SIRENE, NO-BRREG, FI-PRH, CZ-ARES or GLEIF.
country	Country of the company (ISO code).
name	Registered legal name.
registrationNumber, registrationNumberType	SIREN, organisasjonsnummer, Business ID (Y-tunnus), IČO; for GLEIF the local number as filed.
headOfficeSiret	France: SIRET of the head office.
vatNumber	France: intra-EU VAT number computed from the SIREN with the official key. Norway: NO…MVA when VAT-registered. Finland: when VAT-liable. Czechia: DIČ.
lei, leiStatus	Legal Entity Identifier and its status (ISSUED, LAPSED…), found in GLEIF from the registration number.
legalForm, legalFormCode	Legal form as named by the register (local language; English for Finland) and its code.
status, statusDetail	active, winding-up (bankruptcy, liquidation, insolvency) or closed, with details and dates.
incorporationDate, closedDate	Dates (YYYY-MM-DD).
address, street, postalCode, city, addressCountryCode	Registered (head office) address.
industryCode, industryLabel, industryCodeSystem	Main activity as published (NAF rev. 2, Norwegian SN, Finnish TOL, CZ-NACE).
naceCode	EU NACE class (dd.dd) from the first four digits of the national code.
employeeRange / employeeCount	Size band (France, Czechia) or registered headcount (Norway).
website	Website registered with the register (Norway, Finland).
revenue, netIncome, financialYear, currency	France: latest published accounts, when public.
sourceUrl	Official public page of the company.
sourceLicense	Licence and attribution of the source data.
observedAt	When the register was queried.

Not every register publishes every field: a field the register does not publish is null, never guessed.

Input

{
  "queries": ["552032534", "NO923609016MVA", "0112038-9", "00177041", "969500KMUQ2B6CBAF162", "FR: Decathlon", "Danone"],
  "country": "auto",
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 3,
  "activeOnly": true,
  "addLei": true
}

• Numbers are routed automatically by format and check digit: SIREN (9 digits) or SIRET (14) → France, organisation number (9 digits) → Norway, 1234567-8 → Finland, IČO (8 digits) → Czechia, 20-character LEI → GLEIF. EU VAT numbers of these countries work too (FR27552032534, NO923609016MVA, FI01120389, CZ00177041). A number with a wrong check digit gets a free row saying so.
• Names are searched in the register chosen in country: France, Norway, Finland, Czechia, or the worldwide LEI index (the default for auto). Prefix a line to choose per line: FR: Decathlon, NO: Equinor, FI: Supercell, CZ: Alza.cz, LEI: Spotify. National registers list every company of the country; the LEI index covers entities worldwide that have an LEI (banks, listed and regulated companies, funds, many larger firms).
• maxResultsPerQuery (1–100): companies returned per name, best match first as ranked by the register. A number always returns its one company.
• activeOnly (default true): name searches skip closed, bankrupt or liquidating companies. Lookups by number always return the company with its status.
• addLei (default true): adds the LEI to France, Norway, Finland and Czechia results (free).
• Domain names cannot be looked up: none of these registers is searchable by website.

Personal data: what is never returned

Only company-level data is returned. No directors, officers, shareholders or beneficial owners — the Actor does not even download them. Sole proprietorships are withheld, because their name is the owner's name: French entrepreneurs individuels and groups of natural persons (catégories juridiques 1000, 2110, 2210, 2310), Norwegian enkeltpersonforetak (ENK), Czech self-employed persons (legal forms 101–108, 424, 425) and GLEIF sole proprietors. The Finnish open data already excludes private traders. A withheld match is never charged; a number that belongs to a sole proprietorship gets a free row explaining why. Norwegian entities deleted from the register are not returned, as Brønnøysund asks re-users to drop them.

Output example

A real row from a run on 2026-10-07:

{
  "query": "552032534",
  "found": true,
  "matchType": "identifier",
  "registry": "FR-SIRENE",
  "country": "FR",
  "name": "DANONE",
  "registrationNumber": "552032534",
  "registrationNumberType": "SIREN",
  "headOfficeSiret": "55203253400703",
  "vatNumber": "FR27552032534",
  "lei": "969500KMUQ2B6CBAF162",
  "leiStatus": "ISSUED",
  "legalForm": "SA à conseil d'administration (s.a.i.)",
  "legalFormCode": "5599",
  "status": "active",
  "statusDetail": null,
  "incorporationDate": "1955-01-01",
  "closedDate": null,
  "address": "59-61 RUE LA FAYETTE 75009 PARIS",
  "street": "59-61 RUE LA FAYETTE",
  "postalCode": "75009",
  "city": "PARIS",
  "addressCountryCode": "FR",
  "industryCode": "70.10Z",
  "industryLabel": "Activités des sièges sociaux",
  "industryCodeSystem": "NAF rev. 2",
  "naceCode": "70.10",
  "employeeRange": "1000-1999",
  "employeeCount": null,
  "website": null,
  "revenue": 27376000000,
  "netIncome": 2100000000,
  "financialYear": "2025",
  "currency": "EUR",
  "sourceUrl": "https://annuaire-entreprises.data.gouv.fr/entreprise/552032534",
  "sourceLicense": "Licence Ouverte 2.0 (Etalab). Source: API Recherche d'entreprises (INSEE Sirene, INPI RNE)",
  "observedAt": "2026-10-07T16:28:17.915Z",
  "schemaVersion": "1.0"
}

Pricing

Pay per result: you pay only for each company returned (event company-result).

Apify plan	Price per company	1,000 companies
Free	$0.0025	$2.50
Bronze	$0.002	$2.00
Silver	$0.0016	$1.60
Gold	$0.0012	$1.20

Free: inputs with no company, invalid numbers, unsupported countries, withheld sole proprietorships and the LEI enrichment. No start fee, no add-ons. The run stops cleanly at the maximum cost you set and only charges what was delivered. Free inputs still use computing time: if a run's inputs keep finding no company (for example a few hundred unknown names searched in GLEIF, or about a thousand in France, with almost no match), the run stops early with a warning in its OUTPUT, leaves the remaining inputs unrun and charges nothing for them. The price per company stays the same; ordinary lists, where most inputs find a company, are not affected. On the free Apify plan a run is limited to 10 inputs and 5 companies per name.

Use it from code, automations or AI agents

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/plainrows~company-registry-lookup/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"queries": ["552032534", "NO: Equinor"], "maxResultsPerQuery": 1}'

• n8n, Make, Zapier: use the Apify app/node, action "Run Actor" with plainrows/company-registry-lookup, then read the dataset items.
• AI agents (MCP): add https://mcp.apify.com?tools=plainrows/company-registry-lookup to Claude, Cursor or any MCP client, and ask "check that SIREN 552032534 is active and give me its LEI".

Sources and licences

Register	Source	Licence	Rate we use
France	API Recherche d'entreprises (INSEE Sirene, INPI RNE)	Licence Ouverte 2.0	5 requests/s (limit: 7/s)
Norway	Enhetsregisteret API, Brønnøysund Register Centre	NLOD 2.0	5 requests/s
Finland	PRH open data, YTJ API v3	CC BY 4.0	~3 requests/s
Czechia	ARES, Czech Ministry of Finance	Public register (informational)	5 requests/s (limit: 500/min)
Worldwide	GLEIF API	CC0	≤ 55 requests/min (limit: 60/min)

Each row carries its sourceLicense and sourceUrl for attribution. This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of these registers or by GLEIF.

What this is not

• Not an extract with legal value: for proof (Kbis, firmaattest, výpis), order it from the register.
• Not a people search: no directors, owners or contact persons, no e-mails or phone numbers.
• Not (yet) the UK: Companies House requires a registered API key; UK entities with an LEI are available through the LEI index.
• Name search quality is the register's own: France and Norway rank by relevance; Finland returns matches in no particular order, so the Actor reads up to three pages of matches and re-ranks them by name similarity — use the Business ID for an exact match.

Run summary

The run's OUTPUT record (key-value store) gives: inputs submitted and run, inputs with no result, companies billed, sole proprietorships withheld, rows with an LEI, requests sent per register, duplicates removed, invalid inputs, and any warning (budget reached, free-plan limit, LEI service unavailable, early stop after too many inputs with no company).

FAQ

How do I look up a company by its registration number? Paste the number: SIREN/SIRET (France), organisation number (Norway), business ID 1234567-8 (Finland), IČO (Czechia) or a 20-character LEI. The register is chosen automatically from the format.

Can I search by company name? Yes: names are searched in the register set in country, or per line with a prefix such as FR: Decathlon or NO: Equinor.

Is the UK (Companies House) covered? Not directly yet; UK entities with an LEI are found through the worldwide LEI index.

Does it return directors or contact details? No: company data only. No directors, owners, e-mails or phone numbers.

Is the result an official extract? No: for a document with legal value, order it from the register.

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Support

Questions, a register you need (UK, Switzerland, Belgium…), or a field missing? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab.