Guides
Everything we have written, in French and English: concrete situations, dated factual comparisons, and one page per API route.
Use cases (15)
Fifteen concrete situations, from verifying a supplier before payment to anticipating public-contract expiries. Each page states what the routes do, what they do not do, and what the figures are worth.
- Verify a supplier before you pay them
One call, one verdict: active company number, VAT validated live at VIES, IBAN form-checked, bank identified. No account, no API key, paid per call. - Cross-check the identifiers printed on an invoice you received
An invoice's VAT number can be valid at VIES yet belong to another company than the printed number. One call cross-checks all three identifiers. - Preparing supplier master data for the French e-invoicing mandate
Reception becomes mandatory on 1 September 2026 for every VAT-liable French company. Clean 2 to 100 suppliers per call, with per-block provenance. - Validate an intra-community VAT number
Live validation against VIES for every EU member state, with the consultation identifier kept as proof. An outage is never served as an invalid number. - Assessing a customer's default risk
A 0-100 score at ~12 months, computed at call time from filed accounts, with every component, its threshold and a confidence level. - Monitoring a portfolio of customers or suppliers
1 to 100 targets checked daily against official sources, for 30, 90 or 365 days. Ed25519-signed webhook, e-mail digest, and always pollable. - Detecting insolvency proceedings
Administration, liquidation, deregistration: by company number or by criteria. Czech, British and Latvian registers also covered. - Comparing companies on official data
2 to 5 companies side by side: identity, default-risk score, latest statutory accounts, alerts. A comparability block flags when the comparison is meaningless. - Automating business verification (KYB)
One call returns a full file on a French company: identity, officers, legal alerts, accounts, sanctions screening — each block with its provenance. - Screening a counterparty against sanctions lists
UN, EU, OFAC, United Kingdom, French asset freezes, Swiss SECO. Fuzzy matching with a 0-100 confidence score per hit — never a bare yes/no. - Identifying a company's beneficial owners
The UK PSC register and the Latvian register, live and as open data. For France, only ownership from filed articles of association is available. - Checking a provider's authorisation
Payment, e-money, insurance, telecoms, asset management, crypto: three official registers by company number, plus the ESMA registers by name. - Anticipating public-contract expiries
Buyers typically re-tender 4 to 9 months before expiry. Filter contracts ending inside your window by CPV segment and department, with the incumbent holder. - Building a B2B prospecting list
Multi-criteria filters over the complete registry: activity, area, legal form, workforce, age, certifications. 100 active companies per page. - Querying European company registers
One response shape for thirteen countries, plus what each register does not publish. Belgian, Danish, British and Swedish annual accounts.
Comparisons (6)
Six comparisons with dated, sourced facts. Each starts with what the other service does better than us, and two of them recommend not choosing us.
- Sirenic or Pappers: which one for which need
Surveyed on a paid Pappers account: credit cost per field, whether scoring is recomputed, PEP coverage. Dated facts, sources cited. - Sirenic or Societe.com
Their API is quotation-based, IP-restricted, capped at 60 requests per minute. Ours is publicly priced and callable without an account. - Sirenic or Infogreffe
Regulated prices surveyed 2026-08-19: Kbis €3.06, annual accounts €9.08, statement of charges up to €62.88. What the court registry does and we never will. - Sirenic or API Entreprise (DINUM)
API Entreprise is reserved for public bodies, free, and grants access to certificates the private sector cannot obtain. - Sirenic or the INPI register directly
French national register data is free over API and SFTP, with an account. This comparison honestly says when you should ingest it yourself rather than pay us. - Sirenic or the free company-search API
Free, key-less, 52 search criteria, 7 requests per second. To find a company number, pay nothing. Here is exactly where it stops, measured on a real call.
API reference (80)
One page per route in the pricing grid, with its price, an extract from a genuinely paid response, the expected identifier format and what the route does not do.