France Company Search: SIREN, SIRET lookup and French B2B lists from Sirene

Look up French companies by SIREN, SIRET, VAT number or name, or build a B2B list of French companies by NAF code, department, postal code and headcount, in one run. Use it for lead generation, CRM enrichment, KYC and supplier checks, market sizing and invoice validation. The Actor reads the official French government company search API (API Recherche d'entreprises by DINUM, the service behind annuaire-entreprises.data.gouv.fr), which combines the INSEE Sirene register and the national business register (RNE). Each row has the company name, SIREN and head-office SIRET, NAF activity code and label, legal form, size category, employee band, address with coordinates, intra-EU VAT number, latest revenue and net income when published, labels such as RGE or Qualiopi, and directors. $1.50 per 1,000 companies; invalid numbers and searches with no match are free. No API key, no login.

What you get from France Company Search

• Exact lookups. SIREN (9 digits), SIRET (14 digits) or French VAT number (FR27552032534). Check digits are validated first, so typos come back as free rows instead of wrong companies. For a SIRET you also get that establishment's address and status.
• Name matching. Company names return the best match (or up to 25), ranked by company size by default, so "Michelin" gives the Michelin group company, not a one-person shop with the same name.
• B2B lists with filters. NAF/APE codes (for example 62.01Z software, 43.21A electricians), departments, postal codes, INSEE employee bands, SME/mid-size/large category, active only, plus optional free text. With a location filter you also get the local establishment that matched.
• Directors and officers from the RNE: name and role (and SIREN for corporate officers such as auditors). No birth dates.
• Finances and labels: latest published revenue (chiffre d'affaires) and net income, all published years, and flags like rge, qualiopi, bio, ess, organisme_formation, finess.
• Clean, flat columns that export straight to CSV or Excel, plus a link to the public Annuaire des Entreprises page for each company.

Sample output (JSON)

{
  "query": "552032534",
  "queryType": "siren",
  "found": true,
  "siren": "552032534",
  "siretHeadOffice": "55203253400703",
  "name": "DANONE",
  "active": true,
  "status": "active",
  "creationDate": "1955-01-01",
  "nafCode": "70.10Z",
  "nafLabel": "Activités des sièges sociaux",
  "legalForm": "SA à conseil d'administration (s.a.i.)",
  "companyCategory": "GE",
  "employeeRange": "1,000-1,999",
  "employeeRangeYear": 2024,
  "establishments": 19,
  "openEstablishments": 3,
  "address": "59-61 RUE LA FAYETTE 75009 PARIS",
  "postalCode": "75009",
  "city": "PARIS",
  "department": "75",
  "latitude": 48.8763540066087,
  "longitude": 2.34353640229216,
  "vatNumber": "FR27552032534",
  "financialYear": 2025,
  "revenueEur": 27376000000,
  "netIncomeEur": 2100000000,
  "labels": ["finess"],
  "directors": [
    { "type": "person", "name": "ANTOINE BERNARD DE SAINT AFFRIQUE", "role": "Directeur Général" },
    { "type": "company", "name": "ERNST & YOUNG AUDIT", "siren": "344366315", "role": "Commissaire aux comptes titulaire" }
  ],
  "directorsCount": 13,
  "annuaireUrl": "https://annuaire-entreprises.data.gouv.fr/entreprise/552032534",
  "error": null
}

(Directors shortened here.) Free rows have found: false and the reason in error, for example invalid SIREN (check digit fails).

How to use it

1. Paste SIREN/SIRET numbers or company names into SIREN, SIRET or company names, one per line.
2. And/or fill the list filters: NAF codes, departments, postal codes, employee ranges, category.
3. Run, then export as CSV, Excel or JSON, or call it from the API, Make, n8n or Zapier.

Example input: enrich a list of SIRENs and names

{
  "companies": ["552032534", "85520050700017", "Leroy Merlin", "Decathlon"],
  "includeDirectors": true
}

Example input: software companies with 20 to 99 employees in the Lyon area

{
  "nafCodes": ["62.01Z", "62.02A"],
  "departments": ["69"],
  "employeeRanges": ["12", "21"],
  "activeOnly": true,
  "maxResults": 500
}

The API serves at most 10,000 companies per search, so for very large lists run one department at a time.

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.0015 per company returned ($1.50 per 1,000), cheaper on higher Apify plans. A company found by two inputs is charged once. Invalid SIREN/SIRET numbers, names or searches with no match and companies already returned in the run come back free (or are skipped). Set Max companies or a maximum charge per run to cap spend; the Actor stops cleanly at the limit and also stops before the run timeout, keeping everything it already saved.

FAQ

Where does the data come from, and can I reuse it? From the official API Recherche d'entreprises run by the French government (DINUM), built on the INSEE Sirene register and the INPI national business register. The data is published as open data under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0, which allows commercial reuse with attribution ("Source: Annuaire des Entreprises / Sirene, INSEE"). Companies that opted out of public listing (non-diffusibles) are not in the API.

How do I find a company's SIREN from its name? Put the name in the input. You get the best match with its SIREN, head-office SIRET and VAT number; raise Results per company name to see more candidates.

Is the VAT number validated? It is the standard French VAT number computed from the SIREN. It is not checked against the EU VIES service.

What about personal data of directors? Directors are published in the public register. The Actor returns only name and role, never birth dates. If you use names for outreach, you are the data controller under the GDPR and must have a lawful basis.

How fresh is it? The source updates daily from Sirene and the RNE; lastUpdated shows the last change for each company.

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Not affiliated with or endorsed by DINUM, INSEE or INPI. Data: Annuaire des Entreprises / API Recherche d'entreprises, Licence Ouverte 2.0.