Validate a VAT number at VIES

Three states, never two: valid, invalid, unavailable. Many integrations collapse the third into the second for simplicity, and then block compliant customers whenever a member state's administration has an outage. We refuse that collapse.

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What the route returns

Catalogue description, exactly as agents read it:

EU VAT validation against the official VIES service: validate any intra-community VAT number (all member states) for compliance and due diligence. This tax id check is the tax half of verify supplier before payment, and a required check under the e-invoicing mandate France September 2026. Returns valid/invalid/unavailable status with the VIES consultation identifier as proof — VAT number validation usable across Europe for KYB and supplier onboarding.

Expected identifier

An intra-community VAT number, country prefix included.

A wrongly formatted identifier returns 400 and is not billed — but it costs you a round trip. It is the leading cause of failed calls on the foreign routes.

Extract from a genuinely paid response

Dated snapshot from 2026-07-29, truncated to one item per array. It is not live data. The full extract is served free of charge from the samples surface, and the schema from the OpenAPI document.

{
 "numero": "FR27552032534",
 "pays": "FR",
 "statut": "valide",
 "nom": "SA DANONE",
 "adresse": "59 RUE LA FAYETTE 75009 PARIS",
 "request_identifier": null,
 "verifie_le": "2026-07-29T07:29:08.915Z",
 "valide": true,
 "source": "VIES — Commission européenne (service officiel de validation TVA)",
 "disclaimer": "Statut au moment de la consultation ; en cas d'indisponibilité du service de l'État membre, le statut est `indisponible` (jamais un faux invalide)."
}

Price and billing

Price: $0.003. The authoritative amount is the one in the 402 quote returned by the route itself — not this text, which derives from the same grid but is still just a page.

An error response cancels the payment: a 400, 404 or 503 is never billed. An upstream outage closes the route with a 503 rather than serving a degraded response.

Calling the route

# 1. Le devis, sans rien payer : la route répond 402 avec son montant
curl -i https://api.sirenic.eu/v1/tva/verifier/{numero}

# 2. L'appel réglé — le client x402 paie le devis et rejoue la requête
npx x402-fetch https://api.sirenic.eu/v1/tva/verifier/{numero}

# 3. Ou en MCP, dans Claude Code / Cursor / un agent
claude mcp add --transport http sirenic https://api.sirenic.eu/mcp

What this route does not do

VIES answers “this number is assigned and active”. It does not answer “this number belongs to the company you think” — depending on the state, the name returned is partial or absent. For matching, cross-check the registry.

Neighbouring routes

How you pay

Every route is paid per call, in USDC or EURC on the Base network, over the x402 protocol: no account to create, no API key, no subscription. The first call returns a 402 quote your client settles, then replays the call. A failed call is never billed.

Would you rather have a euro invoice and prepaid credits? That is in preparation, and we will not announce a date until it is open. Write to contact@sirenic.eu and we will let you know when it opens.

Paid responses are Ed25519-signed: you can later prove what was served to you, and when. The whole catalogue is free to read in the OpenAPI document and in llms.txt.

One call, end to end

# Client x402 (npm) — le devis 402 est réglé et l'appel rejoué automatiquement
npx x402-fetch https://api.sirenic.eu/v1/entreprise/552032534

# Ou en MCP, dans Claude Code / Cursor
claude mcp add --transport http sirenic https://api.sirenic.eu/mcp

Routes used and pricing

RoutePriceWhat it returns
/v1/tva/verifier/{numero} (free sample)$0.003EU VAT validation against the official VIES service: validate any intra-community VAT number (all member states) for compliance and due diligence. This tax id check is the tax half of verify supplier before payment, and a required check under the e-invoicing mandate France September 2026. Returns valid/invalid/unavailable status with the VIES consultation identifier as proof — VAT number validation usable across Europe for KYB and supplier onboarding.

Take it further

No account to create, no key to request: the first step is free and shows you exactly what you would be buying.

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