Company Registers by Country
Every country keeps an official register of its legally registered businesses. Each one works differently: some are free and instant, others charge per document or hide the useful parts behind a login. These guides show you how to search each register, what it costs, and how to verify a business step by step.
Australia Company Register
Two registers side by side: ASIC for companies, the ABR behind ABN Lookup for everyone else, sole traders included. Free to search, thin on accounts.
8,516,590 registered businesses
Germany Company Register
Free to search, free documents since 2022, but split across three systems and roughly 150 local courts. How to find the right one.
6,752,336 registered businesses
Netherlands Company Register
One national register covering sole traders too, so the index is unusually complete. Free to search, but every document beyond the basics is metered.
3,842,456 registered businesses
Spain Company Register
Kept province by province, but with shared national portals on top. The core record is free, extracts cost from €2.60, and accounts really are public.
5,392,767 registered businesses
Switzerland Company Register
Europe's most pleasant register to search: free, unlimited, four languages, official API. Also the hardest to get financials from, because nobody files any.
1,364,087 registered businesses
Beyond searching one business at a time
Register websites are built for looking up a single business. They are not built for pulling a list, enriching a CRM or running checks at volume. When you need that, there are three routes:
- Free lookup tools to check one business quickly without visiting the register yourself.
- A company data API to query official registry records in real time from your own systems, with per-country register APIs for single-market use.
- Bulk registry data when you need whole markets delivered as a file rather than queried one record at a time.
We keep official registry records for over 200 countries, refreshed monthly from the registers themselves.