# Annuaire des Entreprises, free: Business verification API

> L’API Recherche d’entreprises permet à tout le monde de rechercher et de trouver une entreprise française.

Annuaire des Entreprises's business verification API on its Open access plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 8 of the 11 key fields we check: Registered name, Entity number, Tax ID, Entity type, Status, Formation date, Principal address, Officers.
You get up to 18,144,000 calls a month.
Half of the 626 plans we rank by price cost $7.895 per 1,000 companies or less. This plan and 52 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 companies of the 626 plans.
[INSEE](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/insee/free/llms.txt), [Companies House](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/companies-house/free-get-search-companies/llms.txt) and [Annuaire des Entreprises](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/annuaire-des-entreprises/free/llms.txt) are the best business verification API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/annuaire-des-entreprises/free
- [Best business verification API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.api.gouv.fr/les-api/api-recherche-entreprises
- Request: `GET https://recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr/search`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr/docs/#tag/Recherche-textuelle/paths/~1search/get
- Sold by: Annuaire des Entreprises (https://annuaire-entreprises.data.gouv.fr)
- Checked: 2026-10-31

## In the answer

- Completeness: 73%
- Registered name: ✓
- Entity number: ✓
- Tax ID: ✓
- Entity type: ✓
- Status: ✓
- Formation date: ✓
- Principal address: ✓
- Officers: ✓

## Score

- Overall score: 81.8
- Price score: 100
- Data score: 81
- Cost to get started score: 100
- Bundle score: 50
- Performance score: 26

## Price

- $ per 1,000 companies: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Recherche géographique

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: L’API Recherche d’entreprises permet à tout le monde de rechercher et de trouver une entreprise française.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 day
- Countries: France
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "Le « Réutilisateur » est libre de réutiliser l’« Information » : [...] Sous réserve de : mentionner la paternité de l’«Information» : sa source (a minima le nom du « Concédant ») et la date de la dernière mise à jour de l’« Information » réutilisée. [...] Cette mention de paternité ne doit ni conférer un caractère officiel à la « Réutilisation » de l’« Information », ni suggérer une quelconque reconnaissance ou caution par le « Concédant », ou par toute autre entité publique, du « Réutilisateur » ou de sa « Réutilisation ». [...] l’ « Information » peut être librement réutilisée, sans faire obstacle aux libertés accordées par la présente licence, à condition de respecter le cadre légal relatif à la protection des données à caractère personnel. [...] La « Réutilisation » ne doit pas induire en erreur des tiers quant au contenu de l’« Information », sa source et sa date de mise à jour."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- Enough for: 18,144,000 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 7
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.39 s

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: activite_principale, categorie_entreprise, code_collectivite_territoriale, convention_collective_renseignee, code_postal, code_commune, departement, region, epci, egapro_renseignee, est_achats_responsables, est_alim_confiance, est_association, est_bio, est_collectivite_territoriale, est_entrepreneur_individuel, est_entrepreneur_spectacle, est_ess, est_finess, est_organisme_formation, est_patrimoine_vivant, est_qualiopi, est_rge, est_siae, est_administration, est_societe_mission, est_uai, etat_administratif, id_convention_collective, id_finess, id_rge, id_uai, nature_juridique, section_activite_principale, tranche_effectif_salarie, nom_personne, prenoms_personne, date_naissance_personne_min, date_naissance_personne_max, type_personne, ca_min, ca_max, resultat_net_min, resultat_net_max, limite_matching_etablissements, minimal, include, page, per_page, page_etablissements, sort_by_size
- Method: GET
- Path: /search

## About the plan

- Plan: Open access
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 158 fields the plan's answer can hold

entity name, registered name, acronym, entity ID, kept entity ID, status, entity type, formation date, closure date, last update date, INSEE last update date, RNE last update date, NAF code, NAF 2025 code, activity section, company category, company category year, employer status, employee size range, employee size range year, number of establishments, number of open establishments, disclosure status, commercial prospecting opposition, VAT numbers, officers, officer last name, officer first names, officer birth year, officer birth date, officer role, officer nationality, officer type, officer entity ID, officer entity name, revenue by year, net income by year, local authority code, local authority INSEE code, local authority level, local authority elected officials, elected official last name, elected official first names, elected official birth year, elected official role, elected official sex, collective agreement recorded, collective agreement IDs, FINESS legal IDs, RNF number, gender equality index recorded, responsible purchasing label, Alim'Confiance inspection, association, lawyers directory listing, organic certification, individual entrepreneur, performing arts entrepreneur, social and solidarity economy, health and social sector, training organisation, training organisation IDs, Qualiopi certification, RGE certification, public service, administration, L100-3 body, SIAE structure, SIAE type, mission company, UAI establishment, living heritage company, GHG report filed, association ID, performing arts licence status, de minimis aid, ADEME aid, headquarters address, headquarters postal code, headquarters commune code, headquarters commune, headquarters department, headquarters region, headquarters EPCI, headquarters geo ID, headquarters latitude, headquarters longitude, headquarters SIRET, headquarters status, headquarters creation date, headquarters activity start date, headquarters closure date, headquarters NAF code, headquarters NAF 2025 code, headquarters employee size range, headquarters employee size range year, headquarters employer status, headquarters trade name, headquarters brand names, headquarters FINESS IDs, headquarters organic certification IDs, headquarters collective agreement IDs, headquarters OPCO membership, headquarters training organisation IDs, headquarters RGE IDs, headquarters UAI IDs, headquarters disclosure status, headquarters address complement, headquarters street number, headquarters last street number, headquarters street number suffix, headquarters street type, headquarters street name, headquarters special delivery, headquarters CEDEX code, headquarters CEDEX name, headquarters foreign country code, headquarters foreign country, headquarters foreign commune, headquarters coordinates, headquarters trades register activity, headquarters last update date, headquarters INSEE last update date, establishment address, establishment postal code, establishment commune code, establishment commune, establishment region, establishment EPCI, establishment geo ID, establishment latitude, establishment longitude, establishment SIRET, establishment status, establishment creation date, establishment activity start date, establishment closure date, establishment NAF code, establishment NAF 2025 code, establishment employee size range, establishment employee size range year, establishment employer status, establishment trade name, establishment brand names, establishment FINESS IDs, establishment organic certification IDs, establishment collective agreement IDs, establishment OPCO membership, establishment training organisation IDs, establishment RGE IDs, establishment UAI IDs, establishment disclosure status, establishment was headquarters, is headquarters, total results, page, results per page, total pages

## Annuaire des Entreprises's plans (1)

- [Annuaire des Entreprises, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/annuaire-des-entreprises/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 73% complete, 1 day

## Annuaire des Entreprises's calls (1)

- `GET /search`: [Annuaire des Entreprises, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/annuaire-des-entreprises/free/llms.txt)

## Annuaire des Entreprises's APIs (1)

- [Annuaire des Entreprises: business verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/annuaire-des-entreprises/free/llms.txt)

## Annuaire des Entreprises: business verification API alternatives

- [INSEE, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/insee/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 45% complete, 24 hours
- [OpenSOSData, free, POST /v1/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/opensosdata/free-post-v1-lookup/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Cobalt Intelligence, free lookups, GET /v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/cobalt-intelligence/free-lookups-get-v1-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 91% complete, live
- [Charity Commission, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/charity-commission/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 36% complete, live
- [ABN Lookup, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/abn-lookup/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 36% complete, 1 hour

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-31.

- https://github.com/annuaire-entreprises-data-gouv-fr/search-infra
- https://github.com/etalab/licence-ouverte/blob/master/LO.md
- https://recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr/docs/
- https://recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr/openapi.json
- https://recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr/search?q=airbus
- https://www.api.gouv.fr/les-api/api-recherche-entreprises
- https://www.data.gouv.fr/dataservices/api-recherche-dentreprises