Brazil CNPJ Lookup: Receita Federal Company Data & QSA (Consulta CNPJ)

Paste a list of CNPJs and get back the official Receita Federal record of each Brazilian company: legal name (razão social), trade name (nome fantasia), registration status (situação cadastral), CNAE codes, address, share capital, opening date, Simples Nacional / MEI flags and the partners and directors list (QSA). $1 per 1,000 companies found, platform usage included. Invalid and unregistered CNPJs cost nothing and are named in the run status.

You can also search companies by economic activity: give a CNAE code, optionally narrowed to states or cities, and get the active companies registered under it.

Built for KYC / KYB onboarding, supplier and customer due diligence, CRM enrichment, lead lists by CNAE and AI agents that need to check a Brazilian company in one call.

Why this actor

• Check digits validated before anything is queried, including the new alphanumeric CNPJs issued since July 2026 (12.ABC.345/01DE-35). Typos come back as invalid_cnpj with the reason, never as a silent miss, and are free.
• Accepts what your spreadsheet has: formatted or raw CNPJs, numbers that lost their leading zeros, CNPJ: ... prefixes, an 8-digit root (returns the 0001 head office), comma or line separated lists, or objects from another actor with a cnpj field.
• A named answer for every CNPJ: found, not_found (absent from the monthly registry snapshot AND from a live registry read), not_in_snapshot, unavailable or not_queried, each with a plain-language note.
• Fallbacks when a source is down: the monthly Receita Federal open-data snapshot is read from minhareceita.org, then from the BrasilAPI mirror, and a CNPJ missing from the snapshot (for example a company registered this month) is checked live on open.cnpja.com. Each row says which source answered.
• Registry data only. Nothing is added from outside the official record. Partner tax IDs come masked as the Receita Federal publishes them (***912137**), and for individual entrepreneurs (empresário individual, MEI) the street address and contacts are left out.
• Fair pricing: one flat price per company found, no compute or proxy line, nothing charged for misses.

Input

Look up a list of CNPJs:

{
    "cnpjs": ["33.000.167/0001-01", "00000000000191", "07526557000100"]
}

Search active software companies (CNAE 6201-5/01) in the Federal District:

{
    "cnaeCodes": ["6201501"],
    "states": ["DF"],
    "onlyActive": true,
    "maxResults": 100
}

Field	What it does
cnpjs	CNPJs to look up, any common format, up to 10,000 per run. One row per distinct CNPJ.
cnaeCodes	Optional company search by 7-digit CNAE code (6201501 or 6201-5/01).
states	Search only: two-letter UF codes (SP, RJ, MG...). Empty means all of Brazil.
cityCodes	Search only: 7-digit IBGE municipality codes (3550308 is São Paulo).
includeSecondaryCnae	Search only: also match companies that list the CNAE as a secondary activity. Off by default.
onlyActive	Search only: skip closed (baixada), suspended, inapta and nula registrations. On by default; skipped companies are free.
maxResults	Search only: maximum companies returned (default 100, up to 5,000).

You can combine a CNPJ list and a search in one run. A company is charged once per run even if both return it.

Output (one row per company)

{
    "input": "33.000.167/0001-01",
    "cnpj": "33000167000101",
    "cnpjFormatted": "33.000.167/0001-01",
    "cnpjRoot": "33000167",
    "lookupStatus": "found",
    "legalName": "PETROLEO BRASILEIRO S A PETROBRAS",
    "tradeName": "PETROBRAS - EDISE",
    "establishmentType": "headquarters",
    "registrationStatus": "ATIVA",
    "isActive": true,
    "registrationStatusDate": "2005-11-03",
    "registrationStatusReason": "SEM MOTIVO",
    "openingDate": "1966-09-28",
    "legalNatureCode": 2038,
    "legalNature": "Sociedade de Economia Mista",
    "companySize": "DEMAIS",
    "shareCapitalBrl": 205431960000,
    "mainCnaeCode": "0600001",
    "mainCnaeDescription": "Extração de petróleo e gás natural",
    "secondaryCnaes": [{ "code": "1921700", "description": "Fabricação de produtos do refino de petróleo" }],
    "street": "AVENIDA REPUBLICA DO CHILE",
    "number": "65",
    "district": "CENTRO",
    "city": "RIO DE JANEIRO",
    "cityIbgeCode": 3304557,
    "state": "RJ",
    "zipCode": "20031170",
    "phone": "2121660000",
    "simplesNacional": null,
    "mei": null,
    "taxRegimes": [{ "year": 2024, "regime": "LUCRO REAL" }],
    "partnerCount": 8,
    "partners": [
        { "name": "MAGDA MARIA DE REGINA CHAMBRIARD", "type": "person", "role": "Presidente", "roleCode": 16, "since": "2024-06-07", "ageRange": "Entre 61 a 70 anos", "document": "***612937**" }
    ],
    "source": "minhareceita.org",
    "dataAsOf": "2026-10"
}

Rows for CNPJs that were not found carry the same input, cnpj and lookupStatus plus a note, and are not charged:

{ "input": "99999999000191", "cnpj": "99999999000191", "lookupStatus": "not_found", "note": "Not registered: absent from the 2026-10 snapshot (minhareceita.org) and from the live registry read (open.cnpja.com)." }

The dataset view "Companies" shows the main columns; the full row keeps every field.

Pricing

Pay per event, no subscription. Apify platform usage is included in the price: no compute line, no proxy line, no API key to buy.

Event	When	Price
Actor start	Once per run	$0.001
Company	Per company found and delivered	$0.001 ($1 per 1,000)

Bronze, Silver and Gold plans get 10%, 20% and 30% off the per-company price ($0.70 per 1,000 on Gold). Invalid CNPJs, unregistered CNPJs and companies skipped by your filters are free.

Example: checking 5,000 supplier CNPJs, of which 4,800 exist, costs $4.80 plus $0.001.

FAQ

Where does the data come from? From the Receita Federal's open CNPJ data (Dados Abertos do CNPJ), published monthly and served by minhareceita.org, with brasilapi.com.br as a mirror. CNPJs missing from that snapshot are checked against a live registry read on open.cnpja.com. source and dataAsOf say which one answered and how fresh it is.

How fresh is it? The snapshot is the latest monthly Receita Federal release (dataAsOf, for example 2026-10). A company opened or changed after that release can differ; for a CNPJ the snapshot does not have, the actor asks the live source, up to 4 per run because that source allows about 5 requests a minute. Beyond that the row says not_in_snapshot (free), so you can re-run those CNPJs later.

Is the CNAE search complete? It pages through the source's own search until its last page or your maxResults. The source sometimes asks to slow down on heavy searches ("busca muito custosa"); the actor waits and retries, and if the source still refuses, the run says so instead of returning a short list as if it were complete.

Does it validate CNPJs? Yes. The two check digits are verified before any request, using the Receita Federal rule that also covers the alphanumeric CNPJ format. Invalid entries are listed with the reason (wrong length, wrong check digits, repeated digits) and cost nothing.

Can I search by company name? No. None of the open sources offers a name search, so the actor does not pretend to. You can search by CNAE code, state and city, or look up known CNPJs.

Can I get all branches (filiais) of a company? Give each branch CNPJ, or the 8-digit root for the head office. A branch listing by root is not available from the open sources.

Is the share capital exact? For very large companies the snapshot mirror rounds shareCapitalBrl to about 8 significant digits (Ambev's R$ 58,308,213,544.96 comes back as 58,308,215,000). Small and mid-size capitals are exact.

Is this LGPD-friendly? The actor returns only what the Receita Federal publishes for reuse. Partner CPFs stay masked as published, there is no search by person, and no emails or phones are added from outside the registry. For individual entrepreneurs (MEI, empresário individual) the street address and contacts are not returned. How you use the data downstream is your responsibility as controller.

Does it work with AI agents? Yes. Like every Apify actor it can be called through the API and MCP, so Claude, Cursor and similar tools can use it as a "check this CNPJ" tool.

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