Free Company Verification: Search 300M+ Records From Official Government Registries
Most free company verification tools make you pay before they show you anything useful. Zephira does the opposite. Anyone visiting the site gets 3 free searches with no signup, no credit card, and no email gate — enough to confirm a company exists, see its registration number, check its current legal status, view the registered address, and identify the legal form.
The same applies to officers. Type a director's name and you'll see every appointment they currently hold or have held, across every jurisdiction we cover. Live or resigned. Active or dissolved.
This is not a marketing teaser. It's a structural decision: registry verification is a basic compliance and due diligence task, and basic tasks should be free. Paid plans exist for teams that need higher volume, API access, bulk data, financials, UBOs, and shareholder enrichment — but the verification layer itself is open.
This guide explains what you can verify for free on Zephira, why it matters for compliance and due diligence work, and how it compares to what you'd otherwise pay for.
One field. Two modes — Companies or Officers. Search by company name, registration number, VAT, LEI, or ticker. Filter by jurisdiction or leave it on All to query 100+ registries at once.
What free company verification gives you
Free company verification on Zephira returns the core legal identity of any registered company — sourced directly from official government registries. No scraping. No second-hand aggregators. No reseller chains.
| Field | What it confirms | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Company status | Active · Dissolved · In liquidation · Struck off | Confirms the entity legally exists today |
| Registration number | Official ID issued by the registry | Primary identifier for KYB, contracts, invoices |
| Country & jurisdiction | Where the company is incorporated | Governs which laws and registry rules apply |
| Legal form | Ltd · PLC · LLC · GmbH · S.A. · KK · GK | Determines disclosure obligations and liability |
| Registered address | Official address on file with the registry | Required for service of process and KYB |
| Incorporation date | When the entity was formed | Signals operating history and shell-company risk |
| Website | Where available | Cross-check identity against trading presence |
Or paste a registration number, VAT, LEI, or ticker. Cross-jurisdictional in a single query.
Status, registration number, registered address, incorporation date, legal form — sourced directly from Companies House. Free. No signup.
Every field is pulled directly from the source registry — Companies House for UK entities, the Handelsregister for German entities, the Touki system for Japanese entities, and so on. When the registry updates, our record updates.
What you can verify for free about people
Officer and director search is the second free layer. Type a name and you'll see appointments across our coverage of 100+ jurisdictions.
For each person, the free profile returns:
- Year of birth
- Nationality
- Total number of appointments
- Full appointment history — current and historical
- For each appointment: company name, registration number, role, appointment date, residency, and status
Returns every appointment that matches — across every jurisdiction in coverage, in one query. Filter by country if you need to narrow.
50 appointments, role, dates, residency, status of every company. The pattern that exposes shell directors and conflicts of interest.
This is the search compliance teams use to spot patterns: directors with 50+ appointments across multiple jurisdictions, recently resigned positions, or links between entities that don't appear connected on paper. It's also the search that journalists, investigators, and procurement teams use to validate counterparties before signing.
Every record on Zephira is sourced directly from the official government registry of the company's home jurisdiction. We do not scrape, repackage, or rely on second-hand aggregator feeds. Each record carries source attribution showing exactly where the data came from and when it was last updated.
Why free company verification matters
The reason most legal-identity verification is paywalled isn't that the data is expensive to provide. It's that it has historically been bundled with enrichment data — financials, ownership, sanctions screening — and sold as a single subscription.
That bundling broke an obvious workflow. A procurement officer who needs to confirm one supplier's registration number shouldn't have to subscribe to a $5,000-a-year platform. A founder doing a quick check on a prospective partner shouldn't have to negotiate with a sales team. A compliance analyst running a top-of-funnel screen shouldn't burn a paid API call to find out the entity is dissolved.
Free verification fixes the workflow. The registry layer — does this company exist, what is its number, where is it registered, who runs it — is open. Paid plans pick up where verification ends: financials, full ownership chains, UBOs, firmographic enrichment, real-time monitoring, bulk delivery.
How to search
The search is on the homepage. Two tabs: Companies and Officers.
Search a company
- Select the Companies tab.
- Type the company name, registration number, VAT number, LEI, or ticker symbol.
- Optionally narrow by jurisdiction.
- Click Search.
Results return the legal name, country, registration number, status, and registered address. Click any result for the full free profile.
Search a director or officer
- Select the Officers tab.
- Type the person's name.
- Optionally narrow by jurisdiction.
- Click Search.
Results show every officer matching that name across our coverage, with their title, company, country, and current status (Current or Resigned). Click any result to view the full appointments history.
Coverage
Free company verification covers companies and officers from 100+ jurisdictions, including:
- United Kingdom — Companies House (full PSC and officer data)
- Germany — Handelsregister
- France — RCS / SIREN / Sirene
- Spain — Registro Mercantil
- Italy — Registro Imprese
- Netherlands — KvK
- United States — All 50 state registries plus DC
- Canada — All provinces and federal
- Japan — Touki + NTA Corporate Number
- Singapore — ACRA
- Australia — ASIC
- United Arab Emirates — Abu Dhabi and Dubai
- India, Brazil, Mexico, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Ireland, Sweden, Belgium, Poland, Czech Republic, and 80+ more
A small number of jurisdictions are not covered because the underlying registry does not make individual records publicly searchable. Where coverage exists, free verification works the same way regardless of country.
How Zephira compares to other free company verification tools
| What you get | Zephira (free) | National registry portals | Aggregator search engines |
|---|---|---|---|
| Company status | Free | Free or paid per record | Free, often outdated |
| Registration number | Free | Free | Often missing |
| Registered address | Free | Free | Sometimes |
| Legal form | Free | Free, jurisdiction-specific | Inconsistent |
| Officer / director search | Free | Per-jurisdiction only | Patchy |
| Cross-jurisdiction search | Free | No — one country at a time | Limited |
| Source attribution | Direct from registry | Direct | Frequently unclear |
| Signup required | No | Often | Often |
| Language | English (normalised) | Local language only | Mixed |
The difference that compounds: most national registries are excellent for their own jurisdiction and useless outside it. Aggregators give you cross-jurisdictional search but rarely cite their source or guarantee freshness. Zephira gives you both — direct-from-registry sourcing with normalised English output across every jurisdiction, in one search box.
Trusted by enterprise teams
Free verification is the entry point. Underneath the same data infrastructure, enterprise teams run KYB, compliance, and procurement workflows at scale — onboarding suppliers, screening counterparties, and monitoring corporate change events across hundreds of jurisdictions in a single pipeline.
Verifies businesses across the global talent marketplace using government registry data, replacing fragmented per-country verification with a unified API.
Read case study →Enhanced payment risk management and compliance efficiency by integrating direct-from-registry data into onboarding and ongoing monitoring.
Read case study →Integrated government registry intelligence into digital transformation programmes — using verified entity data as the foundation for downstream analytics.
Read case study →When free verification isn't enough
Free verification answers the question does this company exist and who runs it. It doesn't answer:
- What does it earn? — Financials, including turnover, net assets, profit, and historical reporting.
- Who actually owns it? — Shareholders, beneficial owners, and corporate group structures.
- What does it look like operationally? — Employee headcount, estimated revenue, industry classification, contact details.
- Has anything changed since I last looked? — Real-time monitoring of registration changes, director appointments, and dissolution events.
- Can I integrate it? — REST API access and bulk delivery via S3 or SFTP.
These sit on the paid plans. Pricing starts at $99/month for the Starter plan and scales to enterprise contracts with unlimited API calls and bulk feeds. Resale rights are included on every plan — meaning if you build a product on top of Zephira data, you can ship it.
Why free search, and why now
The company registry data market has been organised around gatekeeping for two decades. Three trends have made that model obsolete.
Government registries themselves are opening up. The UK's Companies House provides a free REST API. France's INPI and Sirene APIs are free. Japan's NTA Corporate Number lookup is free. The EU's BRIS network and the upcoming OpenEU register continue the direction. The argument for paywalling registry verification has weakened.
Compliance volume has increased. Every B2B platform, marketplace, and fintech now runs KYB at the edge — onboarding suppliers, sellers, partners, and counterparties at high frequency. Top-of-funnel verification needs to be cheap or free; otherwise it doesn't happen, and the regulatory exposure compounds.
Aggregator quality has degraded. As certain legacy aggregators have moved away from free access or sunset their public search, the gap for transparent, source-attributed, free verification has opened. Zephira is built to fill it — with first-party registry sourcing, English normalisation, and cross-jurisdiction coverage in a single interface.
If verification is the basic compliance task it should be, it should be free. That's the position. The free search is live now at zephira.ai.
Frequently asked questions
Is Zephira's company search really free?
Yes. Free company verification on Zephira gives every visitor 3 searches with no signup, no credit card, and no email gate. Each search returns the legal profile — status, registration number, country, registered address, incorporation date, legal form, and website. Officer search works the same way. For higher volume or commercial use, paid plans cover advanced data layers like financials, full ownership chains, UBOs, firmographic enrichment, API access, and bulk delivery.
How do I check if a company is active or dissolved for free?
Go to zephira.ai, select the Companies tab, type the company name or registration number, and click Search. The status field on every result confirms whether the company is Active, Dissolved, In Liquidation, or Struck Off — sourced directly from the official government registry of the company's home jurisdiction.
Can I find a company's registration number for free?
Yes. Type the company name into the search and the registration number appears on every result. This is the official identifier issued by the source registry — Companies House number for UK entities, SIREN for French entities, HRB number for German GmbHs, Corporate Number for Japanese entities, and so on.
Can I search for directors and company officers for free?
Yes. Switch to the Officers tab on the homepage, type the person's name, and search. Results return every appointment that person currently holds or has held across our coverage of 100+ jurisdictions, with title, company, country, status (Current or Resigned), year of birth, nationality, and total appointment count.
What jurisdictions does Zephira cover for free verification?
Free verification covers 100+ jurisdictions including the UK, all EU member states, the United States (all 50 states plus DC), Canada (all provinces and federal), Japan, Singapore, Australia, UAE (Abu Dhabi and Dubai), India, Brazil, Mexico, Hong Kong, Switzerland, and many more. Cross-jurisdictional search works in a single query — no need to search each registry separately.
Where does Zephira get its data?
Directly from official government registries. Companies House for the UK, the Handelsregister for Germany, RCS and INPI for France, the Touki system and NTA for Japan, ACRA for Singapore, ASIC for Australia, state-level Secretary of State registries for the United States, and equivalent official sources in every other covered jurisdiction. Records carry data provenance attribution showing the source.
How current is the company data on Zephira?
Records refresh as the source registry updates. For most jurisdictions, that means new filings appear within days of being lodged with the registry. For real-time monitoring with change notifications — director appointments, address changes, dissolution events — paid plans include automated alerting.
What is the difference between free verification and a paid plan?
Free verification confirms legal identity: status, registration number, country, address, legal form, incorporation date, and officer / director appointments. Paid plans add company financials, full shareholder and UBO data, corporate group linkage, firmographic enrichment (employee headcount, estimated revenue, contact details, industry classification), digital insights, REST API access, bulk delivery via S3 or SFTP, and resale rights.
Is Zephira an alternative to OpenCorporates?
Yes. Zephira covers similar registry breadth — 100+ jurisdictions of company and officer data — and provides free search without an account. The differences: Zephira sources directly from primary registries with provenance attribution, normalises all jurisdictions into a unified English-language data model, includes resale rights on paid plans, and offers a production-grade REST API plus bulk delivery for enterprise integration.
Can I use Zephira's free data in my product?
Free search is for individual verification use. For commercial use — embedding, displaying, redistributing, or reselling Zephira data inside a product or service — paid plans starting at $99/month include resale rights. Enterprise contracts include unlimited API calls and bulk delivery via S3 or SFTP, with no per-query restriction.
