# Sirenic or Infogreffe

This is the simplest of the six comparisons, because the answer is often “use Infogreffe”. A document issued by the court registry is legally authoritative; an API response is not. If you need an enforceable document, stop here. If you need to read information at scale, the comparison becomes useful.

## What Infogreffe does better than us

Let us start there, because it is what decides half the cases — and because a comparison where the competitor never wins anything does not deserve to be read.

- A document issued by the court registry is **legally authoritative**. Sirenic issues **no Kbis** and does not aim to: for a bank file, a public tender or litigation, you need Infogreffe (or the registry), not us.
- The statement of registered charges (liens, pledges, security interests) has **no equivalent** in our catalogue, at any price.
- The price is regulated, therefore **predictable and enforceable** — which a commercial price never is.

## When to use Infogreffe — which is often

- You must produce a **Kbis extract**: we issue none, at any price. Bank file, public tender, litigation, account opening: it is the registry.
- You need a **statement of registered charges** — liens, pledges, security interests. No equivalent on our side.
- You want a **certified copy** of articles or a deed, with the legal weight attached.
- You prefer a **regulated price** — predictable and enforceable — to a commercial one.

## Infogreffe: what we found

Surveyed on 2026-08-19, source: [https://www.infogreffe.fr/tarifs](https://www.infogreffe.fr/tarifs). Every line is verifiable by you, at the same address.

- Prices are **regulated** by the French order of 26 February 2026, published in the Official Journal on 28 February 2026; the pricing page is marked “Mis à jour le 1er mars 2026”.
- Kbis extract: **€3.06 incl. VAT** electronically, €2.44 at the registry counter, €4.00 by post.
- Full copy of annual accounts: **€9.08 incl. VAT** electronically. Simple balance sheet (keyed data): €5.42. Copy of articles or a deed: €9.08.
- Full statement of registered charges: **€61.06 to €62.88 incl. VAT** depending on the channel. History of amendments to the commercial register: €7.88.

## What Sirenic does differently

- **Pay per call, no account, no key.** A `402` call, a settlement in USDC or EURC, the response. No sign-up, no contract, no IP address to declare, no expiring credits. 79 routes are reachable that way.
- **An upstream outage closes the route.** We answer `503` and cancel the payment rather than serve a degraded response. A registry snapshot that is too old also closes the route that reads it, instead of selling dead data.
- **Ed25519-signed responses.** You can prove months later what was served to you, and when.
- **Per-block provenance.** Each block of a file declares its official registry and as-of date, rather than a blanket “official sources” claim.
- **Reading, not producing a document.** We return structured JSON a program can use, where an official document is made to be shown to a third party.
- **Scale changes everything.** Checking 1,000 suppliers through KYB batches costs a few tens of cents; 1,000 copies of annual accounts at the regulated €9.08 come to €9,080. Both answers are correct, they simply answer different questions.
- **What the registry does not cover**: sanctions screening, regulator authorisations, public contracts and their expiries, European annual accounts, VIES validation, IBAN checking, default-risk scoring, sector statistics.
- **Daily monitoring** rather than a one-off request: the registry delivers on demand, it does not warn you.

## The foundation, in measured figures

Measured in our database on 2026-08-19: 29,922,486 company numbers and 43,896,818 establishments, 6,542,232 financial years across 1,586,046 companies, 3,402,583 detailed tax-form line items, 9,196,396 registry filings, 765,960 public contracts of which 173,633 expire within 18 months, 130,165 names across 6 official sanctions lists, 47,731 authorisations from 9 authorities, 138,020 regulated industrial sites and 2,934 sectors with statistics.

> ⚠️ These are a **dated snapshot from 2026-08-19**, not a live counter. We republish them at each measurement rather than round them up.

## How this comparison is built

Every fact carries its **survey date** and its **source address**, so that you can contradict it. Nothing is extrapolated: what we could not survey is marked as not surveyed rather than guessed. And every page names what the compared service does better than us — a comparison without that section is not a comparison.

If you spot an error or a fact that has become false, write to [contact@sirenic.eu](mailto:contact@sirenic.eu?subject=Comparison%20correction): we will correct the page and its survey date.

## 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](mailto:contact@sirenic.eu?subject=Euro%20credit%20packs) 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](https://api.sirenic.eu/openapi.json) and in [llms.txt](https://api.sirenic.eu/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

| Route | Price | What it returns |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `/v1/entreprise/{siren}/documents` | $0.02 | Official filings of a French company at the INPI RNE registry: lists the legal deeds (statutes, general-meeting minutes, mergers...) and filed annual accounts, with filing dates and the document IDs needed to download each PDF from the document endpoint. Only documents the registry marks as public are listed. The starting point for document due diligence in France: see which official documents, deeds and annual-account filings exist before paying to download one. Cached 24h. |
| `/v1/documents/{type}/{id}` | $0.10 | PDF download of official documents from the French INPI RNE registry: retrieve the original filed document by type (actes | bilans) and document ID from the document list endpoint — legal deeds such as statutes and general-meeting minutes, or filed annual accounts. Typical size 1-10 MB, streamed as-is from the registry at request time; response is application/pdf. The primary-source evidence for due diligence on a French company: the actual deed or annual-accounts filing, not a summary. |
| `/v1/entreprise/{siren}/finances` | $0.01 | Financials of a French company from annual accounts filed at the INPI registry, with Banque de France ratios: revenue, EBITDA, net income, debt ratio, financial autonomy — one entry per fiscal year. Includes the full structured financial statements line items (liasse fiscale tax form, incl. balance sheet) as keyed by INPI, for up to the 20 latest fiscal years. A perimetre_comptable block states whether figures are statutory or consolidated, and flags series where the source conflates the two. |
| `/v1/kyb/batch` | $0.105 / entité | Batch KYB and bulk company lookup: full Know Your Business files for 2 to 100 French companies in one call (comma-separated sirens parameter) — bulk due diligence, compliance and onboarding screening of a whole portfolio, each file with per-block provenance (official register + as-of date). Billed per company at $0.105 (30% off the $0.15 unit price); the amount is quoted from the number of SIREN. A SIREN with no diffusible company is returned as trouve=false and billed as one lookup. |

## Frequently asked questions

### Can I get a Kbis extract through your API?

No, and we do not plan to. A Kbis is issued by the court registrar and derives its value from that issuance. We serve documents filed with the national register, which is a different thing.

### Do your documents replace a certified copy?

No. We give access to filed documents, useful for analysis; to prove something, you need the registry's copy.

### Are the prices you quote current?

They were surveyed on 2026-08-19 on their pricing page, marked “updated 1 March 2026” and referring to the French order of 26 February 2026. Being regulated, they change only by order — check the date before relying on them.

## Take it further

- [See a real response (free)](https://api.sirenic.eu/exemples/entreprise-siren-documents.json)
- [Get the quote for /v1/entreprise/{siren}/documents](https://api.sirenic.eu/v1/entreprise/552032534/documents)
- [Read the route reference](https://api.sirenic.eu/en/api)
- [Get notified about euro packs](mailto:contact@sirenic.eu?subject=Euro%20credit%20packs)

## Read next

- [Sirenic or the INPI register directly](https://api.sirenic.eu/en/compare/sirenic-or-inpi-directly-source-is-free-ingesting)
- [Sirenic or Societe.com](https://api.sirenic.eu/en/compare/sirenic-or-societe-com-public-pricing-versus-quotation)

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Volume figures on this page were measured in our database on 2026-08-19. They are dated snapshots, not live counters.

Full catalogue : https://api.sirenic.eu/