Company Registry & Registration Lookup: Officers, Status

Verify any company against its official register, the business register of its country or state: confirm that it exists, is active and is registered under the name and number it gave you. Send a legal name or a registration number and one register key, and you get that register's own record: registration id, legal name, entity status, registration and dissolution dates, registered address, and, where the register publishes them, officers and filings. Send a region instead and every register in it is searched at once, best matches first. Try it now with the prefilled input: Nestle across Europe and C 10 in Malta.

For KYB and KYC onboarding teams, supplier due diligence, CRM cleaning and entity resolution: $0.005 per matched record, $0.15 per region search, no start fee, and less on Apify's Silver and Gold plans. Use it as your company registration number lookup and business register search where you would otherwise open OpenCorporates or the GLEIF LEI search by hand, one country at a time.

Each query is answered from the register and passed straight through to your run's dataset. Official registers only: no data brokers, no aggregator database, no scraped directories, and no copy of the answers kept on our side.

What you get

• ✅ The register's record, with its provenance. Every row carries the register it came from, the register's licence, the source URL and an as_of date, so an auditor can see where each fact originated.
• ✅ One schema across 42 official registers plus GLEIF. Companies House, INSEE Sirene, KBO/BCE, ACRA, the NTA Corporate Number site, Sunbiz, Zefix and the rest of the table below, all returning the same fields, so a Companies House lookup and a Sirene lookup parse with the same code.
• ✅ Two priced events and nothing else. $0.005 per matched record on a single-register query, $0.15 per region search, both lower on Apify's Silver and Gold plans. No start fee, no subscription, no minimum. A no-match costs nothing, and so does a register that did not answer.

This is not a certified extract. For legal proof order the extract from the register itself.

👥 Who uses a company registry lookup?

• 🏦 KYC and KYB onboarding. Before a merchant, borrower or counterparty goes live, confirm the legal name, registration number, status and registered address against the register, and keep the source_url and source_as_of in the case file.
• 📦 Supplier due diligence. Check that a vendor is registered and active in the country it claims, see its dissolution date if it has one, and read the officers where the register publishes them, before a contract or a payment run.
• 🗺️ Sales territory cleaning. Run a CRM export through the register of each country, drop dissolved and struck-off entities, fix legal names and fill registration ids, so territories and quotas are built on companies that exist.
• 📈 Investment research. Resolve a target across every register in a region in one query, find its LEI holders and their local numbers through GLEIF, and read registration dates and filing history from the source rather than from a commercial database.
• 🤖 AI agents and pipelines. Structured JSON with the source, licence and snapshot date on every record, callable from the Apify API, the MCP server and the Python and JavaScript clients. The Actor charges only for events, with no start fee, so it is eligible for agentic payment.

▶️ How to look up a company in an official register in 5 steps

1. Open this Actor in the Apify Console.
2. Under queries, add one row per lookup: a company name or registration number in query, and a register key or a region (all, europe, americas, asia_pacific, us) in jurisdiction. Leave max_candidates at 50 or lower it.
3. Click Start.
4. Download the results from the run's dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them through the Apify API.
5. Optionally, schedule the run to re-check a list, for example weekly, or add a webhook that fires when the run finishes.

⬇️ Input: a company name or a registration number, and where to look

One row per lookup. The prefilled input runs a Europe search for a name and a Malta lookup by number.

{
  "queries": [
    {"query": "Nestle", "jurisdiction": "europe"},
    {"query": "C 10", "jurisdiction": "mt"}
  ],
  "max_candidates": 50
}

Field	What it does
queries[].query	A company name or a registration number, at most 200 characters. Each register decides which one it received from its own number shape, so 0403.170.701 goes to Belgium as a number and Nestle goes everywhere as a name. Accents and legal-form suffixes (Ltd, GmbH, S.A.) are tolerated.
queries[].jurisdiction	A register key from the coverage table, or a region: all, europe, americas, asia_pacific, us.
max_candidates	Cap on the shortlist a query may return, across every register it searched. Default and maximum 50.

A name sent to a register marked number only is not searched. It comes back as an uncharged error item that names the register and the number shape it expects. An empty query, a query over 200 characters or an unknown key is rejected before any paid step, also uncharged, and the run still ends normally.

⬆️ Output: one dataset item per register record

Every item carries type, the query and jurisdiction you sent, and charged, so the dataset is the complete record of what you paid for.

type	Charged	Contents
record	on a single-register query, once when status is matched or ambiguous	the register's record, flattened
search_summary	once per region or all-registers search	best_match, counts, and the registers searched, unavailable and skipped
error	never	an error code and a message

status on a record is one of matched (one entity, confidence attached), ambiguous (several plausible entities, see candidates) or no_match (the register answered and holds nothing by that name or number).

A real matched record, the second prefilled query (empty fields shortened):

{
  "type": "record", "query": "C 10", "jurisdiction": "mt", "register": "mt", "searched_by": "number",
  "status": "matched", "charged": true, "charged_event": "registry_record", "confidence": 100,
  "registration_id": "C10", "legal_name": "BALLUT BLOCKS LIMITED", "english_name": null,
  "legal_form": "Limited Liability Company - Private Exempt Single Member",
  "entity_status": "active", "entity_status_raw": "Active",
  "registration_date": "1965-04-23", "dissolution_date": null,
  "country": "Malta", "country_code": "MLT", "state": null, "city": "NAXXAR",
  "street_name": null, "street_number": null, "building": "WIED FILEP", "postal_code": null, "po_box": null,
  "display_address": "WIED FILEP, NAXXAR, MALTA",
  "officers": [], "filings": [], "candidates": [],
  "source_register": "Malta (Malta Business Registry open data)", "source_name": "mbr_open_data_mt",
  "source_url": "https://openapi.baros.mbr.mt/api/v1/companies/C%2010",
  "source_as_of": "2026-09-08", "source_mode": "mirror_names_live_numbers",
  "source_licence": "CC BY 4.0", "source_attribution": "Malta Business Registry (MBR) open data",
  "via": null, "message": null
}

The real summary item of the first prefilled query, a Europe search for Nestle (16 registers answered, 17 records, 3 matched, 1 ambiguous with a shortlist, 13 with no match, 13 seconds on a warm instance and about 30 on a cold one):

{
  "type": "search_summary", "query": "Nestle", "jurisdiction": "europe", "scope": "europe",
  "status": "ok", "charged": true, "charged_event": "registry_search",
  "best_match": {"register": "ch", "status": "matched", "legal_name": "Nestlé AG", "english_name": "Nestlé Ltd.",
                 "registration_id": "CHE-105.909.036", "confidence": 100, "entity_status": "active",
                 "display_address": "Zugerstrasse 8, 6330 Cham, Switzerland", "via": "gleif", "...": "..."},
  "n_records": 17, "n_matched": 3, "n_ambiguous": 1, "n_candidates": 28,
  "jurisdictions_searched": ["bg", "ch", "cy", "ee", "fi", "fr", "gb", "ie", "lei", "lt", "lv", "mt", "ro", "rs", "si", "sk"],
  "jurisdictions_unavailable": [],
  "jurisdictions_skipped": ["be", "cz", "no", "pl", "se"],
  "elapsed_s": 13.11
}

The other two matches in that search were the LEI record of NESTLÉ S.A. in Vevey and THE NESTLE COMPANY LIMITED in Ireland (closed, registered 1965). France answered ambiguous with a shortlist of French entities named NESTLE, each with its SIREN. via: "gleif" on the Swiss record means GLEIF supplied the local number and the Swiss register was then asked by number.

jurisdictions_skipped are the number-only registers a name cannot be sent to. jurisdictions_unavailable are registers that did not answer within the search deadline: they may well hold the company, and a single-register query gives them the full 60 seconds.

Officers carry name, title and flags (is_director, is_shareholder, is_psc, is_executive). Filings carry the register's own filing type, date and description. Both are lists, kept as JSON in CSV exports. Export the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel or XML, or read it through the Apify API.

💰 How much does a company registry lookup cost?

Event	Price	When it fires
registry_record	$0.005	once per record with status matched or ambiguous, on a single-register query
registry_search	$0.15	once per query whose jurisdiction is a region or all, whatever it finds
Actor start	none	this Actor has no start event
No match, register unavailable, number-only register given a name, invalid input	free

The prices in this table are what the Apify Free and Bronze plans pay. On Silver and Gold both events cost less, applied automatically, and Platinum and Diamond pay the Gold price.

Region search (registry_search):

Plan	Price per region search
Free and Bronze	$0.15
Silver	$0.12
Gold	$0.10

Matched record (registry_record):

Plan	Price per matched record
Free and Bronze	$0.005
Silver	$0.004
Gold	$0.003

There is no Actor start fee and no platform-usage surcharge: the two events above are the whole bill. Every worked example below is therefore the whole figure, with nothing to add per run. Each is at the Free and Bronze prices, with Silver and Gold in parentheses:

• Three registration numbers looked up in three registers, all three found: 3 x $0.005 = $0.015 (Silver $0.012, Gold $0.009).
• One name in one register that comes back ambiguous with a shortlist of 12 candidates: $0.005 (Silver $0.004, Gold $0.003), one record with the shortlist inside it.
• One name in one register, nothing found: $0.00 on every plan.
• One Europe search, whatever the outcome: $0.15 (Silver $0.12, Gold $0.10).
• The prefilled input (one Europe search and one Malta number that matches): $0.15 + $0.005 = $0.155 (Silver $0.124, Gold $0.103).
• A CRM list of 1,000 UK companies checked by company number, 940 found: 940 x $0.005 = $4.70 (Silver $3.76, Gold $2.82).

A region search is priced as one unit of work because it queries every register in the region in parallel, GLEIF first, and merges the answers into one ranked shortlist. If you already know the country, a single-register query is cheaper and gives that register the full deadline. Set a spending limit on the run if you want a hard cap: the Actor stops before the next query once the limit is reached and marks any record it could not charge.

You can try the Actor on the Apify free plan, which includes monthly platform usage credit and needs no credit card.

🗺️ Which business registers can you search?

42 official registers in 31 countries plus GLEIF, generated from the service on 2026-09-11. Every one answers from the register itself or from a scheduled copy of its open-data file, and says which. Key is the value to pass as jurisdiction.

Key	Register	Search by	Number example	Mode	Refresh	Officers	Owners	Filings	Licence
ar	Argentina (Registro Nacional de Sociedades)	name or number	30-54668997-9	mirror	monthly	no	no	no	CC BY 4.0
au	Australia (ABN Lookup, Australian Business Register)	name or number	51 824 753 556	live	live	no	no	yes	public record
be	Belgium (Crossroads Bank for Enterprises, KBO/BCE)	number only	0403.170.701	live	live	yes	no	yes	public record
br	Brazil (Receita Federal CNPJ register via public APIs)	number only	33.000.167/0001-01	live	live	yes	yes	no	public record
bg	Bulgaria (Commercial Register, Registry Agency)	name or number	831642181	live	live	yes	yes	no	public record
ca (also ca_federal, ca_on, ca_qc)	Canada (Canada's Business Registries search: federal, Ontario, Quebec)	name or number	1234567	live	live	no	no	yes	Open Government Licence - Canada
ca_bc	Canada, British Columbia (OrgBook BC)	name or number	BC0123456	live	live	no	no	yes	Open Government Licence - British Columbia
cy	Cyprus (Department of Registrar of Companies open data)	name or number	HE 12345	live	live	yes	no	no	CC BY 4.0
cz	Czech Republic (ARES economic entities)	number only	45274649	live	live	no	no	no	public record
ee	Estonia (e-Business Register open data)	name or number	10238429	live	daily	no	no	no	CC BY 4.0
fi	Finland (PRH/YTJ Business Information System open data)	name or number	0112038-9	live	live	no	no	no	CC BY 4.0
fr	France (Recherche d'entreprises, INSEE Sirene)	name or number	552032534	live	live	yes	no	no	Licence Ouverte 2.0
gr	Greece (General Commercial Registry, G.E.MI.)	name or number	1037501000	live	live	yes	yes	no	ODC-BY-1.0
in	India (Ministry of Corporate Affairs data from public web sources)	number only	L22210MH1995PLC084781	live	live	yes	no	yes	public record
ie	Ireland (Companies Registration Office open data)	name or number	104547	live	live	no	no	yes	CC BY 4.0
il	Israel (Registrar of Companies)	name or number	516943180	mirror	daily	no	no	no	public record
jp	Japan (NTA Corporate Number Publication Site)	name or number	1180301018771	live	live	no	no	no	Public Data Terms of Use v1.0 (公共データ利用規約 第1.0版)
lv	Latvia (Register of Enterprises open data)	name or number	40003245752	live	live	no	no	no	CC0
lt	Lithuania (Register of Legal Entities, Registru centras)	name or number	301844044	live	live	no	no	no	CC BY 4.0
mt	Malta (Malta Business Registry open data)	name or number	C 10	mirror for names, live for numbers	daily	no	no	no	CC BY 4.0
lei	Global (GLEIF Legal Entity Identifier register)	name or number	HWUPKR0MPOU8FGXBT394	live	live	no	no	no	CC0
no	Norway (Bronnoysund Register Centre, Enhetsregisteret)	number only	923609016	live	live	no	no	no	NLOD 2.0
pe	Peru (SUNAT RUC register, padron reducido)	name or number	20100113610	mirror	monthly	no	no	no	ODC-BY
pl	Poland (National Court Register, KRS open API)	number only	0000012345	live	live	yes	no	yes	public record
ro	Romania (ANAF by CUI, ONRC trade register mirror for names)	name or number	14399840	mirror for names, live for numbers	every 14 days	no	no	no	CC BY 4.0 (ONRC open data), public record (ANAF)
rs	Serbia (Business Registers Agency, APR)	name or number	17162543	mirror	monthly	no	no	no	Serbian Open Data Licence
sg	Singapore (ACRA entities, data.gov.sg)	name only		live	live	no	no	no	Singapore Open Data Licence
sk	Slovakia (Register of Legal Entities, RPO)	name or number	31333532	live	live	yes	no	no	CC BY 4.0
si	Slovenia (AJPES Business Register, PRS)	name or number	5043611	mirror	twice a month	no	no	no	CC BY 4.0
se	Sweden (Bolagsverket, Valuable Datasets API)	number only	556703-7485	live	live	no	no	no	CC0 1.0
ch	Switzerland (Zefix central business name index)	name or number	CHE-105.909.036	live	live	no	no	yes	OGD Open use. Must provide the source (opendata.swiss terms_by)
gb (also UK, gb_sct, uk)	United Kingdom (Companies House)	name or number	00000006	live	live	yes	no	yes	OGL v3
us_ak	United States, Alaska (Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing)	name or number	1127D	mirror	weekly	no	no	no	public record
us_co	United States, Colorado (Secretary of State business entities)	name or number	19981033526	live	live	yes	no	yes	public record
us_ct	United States, Connecticut (Business Registry)	name or number	1234567	live	live	yes	no	yes	public record
us_dc	United States, District of Columbia (DLCP corporate registration)	name or number	924244	live	live	yes	no	yes	public record
us_fl	United States, Florida (Division of Corporations, Sunbiz)	name or number	P12000012345	mirror	weekly	yes	no	no	public record
us_ia	United States, Iowa (active business entities open dataset)	name or number	153725	mirror	weekly	yes	no	no	public record
us_ny	United States, New York (Department of State active corporations)	name or number	69033	live	live	no	no	yes	public record
us_or	United States, Oregon (Secretary of State active businesses)	name or number	8739914	live	live	yes	no	yes	public record
us_pa	United States, Pennsylvania (Department of State current registered businesses)	name or number	139000	live	live	yes	no	yes	public record
us_tx	United States, Texas (Comptroller franchise tax account status)	name or number	0806671479	live	live	yes	no	yes	public record
us_va	United States, Virginia (State Corporation Commission)	name or number	11763213	mirror	monthly	yes	no	no	public record

Regions you can search as one query: all (All registers (search)), europe (Europe (search)), americas (Americas (search)), asia_pacific (Asia Pacific (search)), us (United States (search)).

lei is GLEIF, the global Legal Entity Identifier register: a worldwide name check that answers for LEI holders only (roughly 2.5 million entities, mostly companies that trade financial instruments) and returns their local registration number and register. A region search asks GLEIF first and then queries the registers it points to by number, which works even on registers that only accept numbers.

Mode tells you where the answer comes from. live queries the register on every lookup. mirror answers from a scheduled copy of the register's own open-data file, refreshed on the cadence in the Refresh column, and each record's source_as_of carries the snapshot date of that copy. A register that publishes only a names file answers names from the mirror and numbers from the register itself. Registers are added on request, and the table is generated from the live service, so it is always what the Actor can do today.

🔎 How the lookup works

1. The query goes to the register you named, or to every register in the region in parallel. Each register decides from its own number shape whether it received a number or a name.
2. A number is looked up directly. A name is matched with accent folding, legal-form normalization and token comparison against the register's search or its mirrored open-data file, and scored: one clear winner is matched, several plausible entities are ambiguous with the candidates listed, capped at max_candidates.
3. On a region search GLEIF is asked first. Every LEI holder by that name comes with its local registration number and register, and those become number lookups at the matching registers.
4. Answers are merged into one list, best first, and the same entity reached by name and by number is kept once.
5. Every record is returned with its register, the register's licence and attribution, the source URL and as_of: the day of the query for a live register, the snapshot date for a mirrored one.
6. A register that did not answer inside the deadline is listed under jurisdictions_unavailable, never folded into "not found". Nothing is estimated or inferred: every field on a record is the register's own value, and confidence scores the name match only.

⏱️ How long does a lookup take?

A single-register query answers in 1 to 20 seconds, depending on the register. A region search runs its registers in parallel under a 40 second deadline and returns what has answered by then (the Europe search above took 13 seconds). Each query has a 60 second wall-clock limit inside the Actor, and a transport failure or an upstream 5xx is retried once before it becomes an error item. Queries run one after another, so a run of 100 single-register lookups typically finishes in a few minutes.

🔌 Company registry API, clients and integrations

Run the Actor from the Apify Console, from the Apify API, from the Python or JavaScript client, from the Apify MCP server, or from Make, Zapier and n8n through the Apify integrations. Schedule it to re-check a vendor list weekly, and set a webhook on run completion to pull the dataset into your own system.

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("pvalyou/company-registry-lookup").call(run_input={
    "queries": [
        {"query": "0403.170.701", "jurisdiction": "be"},
        {"query": "Nestle", "jurisdiction": "europe"},
    ],
})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["type"], item.get("register"), item.get("status"), item.get("legal_name"), item.get("charged"))

🔐 Data, licences and privacy

• Official registers only. Every register in the table is queried through its public search, its public API, or the open-data file the register itself publishes. GLEIF is the worldwide LEI cross-reference. No data brokers, no aggregator databases, no scraped directories.
• Licence and attribution per record. source_licence and source_attribution carry the register's terms (Open Government Licence, CC BY 4.0, Licence Ouverte 2.0, CC0, public record and others). Keep the attribution when you republish.
• Pass-through, no retained copy. Each query is answered from the register and passed through to your run. The results live in your own Apify dataset, under your account's retention settings. No copy of the answers is retained on our side and no index of people is built from them. Operational logs keep the query text, the register key, timing and the billing outcome, which is what running and billing the service needs.
• Officers and owners only where the register publishes them. The Officers and Owners columns in the table say which registers do. Identifiers a register masks stay masked, and dates of birth appear only where the register prints them.
• Personal data. Officer and owner names are personal data that registers publish under company-law publicity. Use them only where you have a lawful basis (for KYB and due diligence this is usually legitimate interest) and in line with the laws of your jurisdiction. A person who wants a record corrected should ask the register that published it, which is the only place a correction takes effect. Objections about this Actor's processing can be raised through the Issues tab on this page.
• No access controls bypassed. No CAPTCHA solving, no logins, no credentials of yours. Robots directives are respected, and a register that asks us to stop is removed from the table.

🔗 Works well with

One company, five other questions, each sold on its own: Company Enrichment API for the firmographics, classification and funding of the same company, Website Liveness Check for whether its site is live, parked or redirected, Job Postings for the open roles on its own job board, Patent Lookup for its patents by applicant, and LinkedIn Person Enrichment for the career records of the officers you find here.

❓ FAQ

Is the data live or cached?

Both, and each record says which. source_mode is live when the register was queried at the moment of your lookup and mirror when the answer came from a scheduled copy of the register's own open-data file. source_as_of is the date the answer describes: the day of the query for a live register, the snapshot date for a mirror.

Can I use it as a company registry API?

Yes. Every Actor on Apify is callable through the REST API, the Python and JavaScript clients and the MCP server, and can be scheduled or wired to Make, Zapier and n8n. See the snippet above.

What does a no-match mean, and does it cost anything?

no_match means the register answered and holds nothing by that name or number. It is free. Before concluding the company does not exist, check jurisdictions_skipped (number-only registers that a name cannot be sent to) and jurisdictions_unavailable (registers that did not answer in time).

Why is a register listed as unavailable?

It did not answer inside the deadline. Registers go slow, go offline for maintenance, or rate-limit callers. An unavailable register is not a "no": retry it as a single-register query, which gives it the full 60 seconds, and nothing is charged for the unavailable answer.

Do you return officers, directors and beneficial owners?

Where the register publishes them, yes: the Officers and Owners columns in the coverage table say which. Officers carry name, title and role flags. Personal identifiers that a register masks stay masked.

Is it legal to use, and what about GDPR?

The records are public registry data published by the registers under the licences shown on each record. Keep the attribution when you republish. Officer names are personal data under laws such as the GDPR, so use them only where you have a legitimate reason and in line with the laws of your jurisdiction. The Data, licences and privacy section above describes what the Actor does and does not do with the data.

Is the record a certified extract?

No. This is not a certified extract. For legal proof order the extract from the register itself. The source_url on each record points to the register's own page or API for that entity, which is where to start.

Why did a name search return nothing for a country I expected?

Some registers publish numbers only, with no name search. They are marked number only in the table, they appear under jurisdictions_skipped on a region search, and a name sent to one directly comes back as an uncharged error item. Use GLEIF (lei) or a region search to find the number, then look it up by number.

Is there a free tier or a trial?

Every no-match and every unavailable register is free, and Apify's free plan credit covers the first paid lookups. There is no subscription: you pay per matched record or per region search and nothing else.

How fresh are mirrored registers?

The Refresh column gives the cadence, from daily to monthly depending on how often the register publishes its file, and source_as_of on each record gives the exact snapshot date, so you always know how old the answer is.

📏 Limits

• A query is at most 200 characters, and each query has a 60 second wall-clock deadline inside the Actor.
• A region search runs under a 40 second deadline and reports registers that missed it as unavailable.
• max_candidates is at most 50 per query, across every register searched.
• Queries run one after another. Exact duplicates (same text, same register) within one run are collapsed.
• The run's spending limit is honoured: the Actor stops before the next query once it is reached.

💬 Support and feedback

Found a register that answered wrong, or one you need that is not in the table? Open an issue on this Actor's page with the query, the register and what you expected. Issues are answered by the developer, and registers are added by request.

📝 Changelog

• 0.1 update (2026-09-11) Region search lowered to $0.15, and both events are now cheaper on Apify's Silver and Gold plans: $0.12 and $0.10 per region search, $0.004 and $0.003 per matched record. README: status badge at the top, a five-step how-to, a price table per plan, and cost examples recomputed at the new prices.
• 0.1 (2026-09-08) First public release: 40 official registers in 30 countries plus GLEIF, region searches (all, europe, americas, asia_pacific, us), two priced events, no start fee.