Find Legal Entity Identifiers by company name in the global GLEIF register, optionally nar
Find Legal Entity Identifiers by company name in the global GLEIF register, optionally narrowed to one country. Returns the LEI, legal name, registration and entity status, jurisdiction, legal address and the local registry the entity is registered at — the identifier bridge between national company registers worldwide. Use when: What is the LEI for this company?
3000 (raw units)
price
4
calls / 30d
2
unique payers
2026-09-09
updated
Provider
api.eckari.com · discovered, not yet claimed by its owner
Payment (x402 accepts[])
[
{
"scheme": "exact",
"network": "eip155:8453",
"payTo": "0x9d6b6fdB04040a55d58B24ff4C90C08cf6083C8f",
"asset": "0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913",
"amount": "3000",
"maxTimeoutSeconds": 60
}
]Output schema
{
"bazaar": {
"info": {
"input": {
"method": "GET",
"queryParams": {
"country": "GB",
"limit": 3,
"q": "TESCO PLC"
},
"type": "http"
},
"output": {
"example": {
"data": {
"country": "GB",
"items": [
{
"entity_status": "ACTIVE",
"jurisdiction": "GB",
"legal_address": {
"city": "WELWYN GARDEN CITY",
"country": "GB",
"lines": [
"TESCO HOUSE",
"SHIRE PARK, KESTREL WAY"
],
"postal_code": "AL7 1GA",
"region": "GB-HRT"
},
"legal_name": "TESCO PLC",
"legal_name_language": "en",
"lei": "2138002P5RNKC5W2JZ46",
"match_source": "filter",
"registered_as": "00445790",
"registered_at": {
"name": "Companies House",
"ra_code": "RA000585"
},
"registration_status": "ISSUED"
},
{
"entity_status": "INACTIVE",
"jurisdiction": "GB",
"legal_address": {
"city": "WELWYN GARDEN CITY",
"country": "GB",
"lines": [
"TESCO HOUSE",
"SHIRE PARK, KESTREL WAY"
],
"postal_code": "AL7 1GA",
"region": null
},
"legal_name": "TESCO TREASURY SERVICES PLC",
"legal_name_language": "en",
"lei": "213800DJFYY7MSLDKD28",
"match_source": "filter",
"registered_as": "07656305",
"registered_at": {
"name": "Companies House",
"ra_code": "RA000585"
},
"registration_status": "RETIRED"
},
{
"entity_status": "ACTIVE",
"jurisdiction": "GB",
"legal_address": {
"city": "WELWYN GARDEN CITY",
"country": "GB",
"lines": [
"C/O TESCO PENSION TRUSTEES LIMITED",
"TESCO HOUSE, SHIRE PARK, KESTREL WAY"
],
"postal_code": "AL7 1GA",
"region": "GB-HRT"
},
"legal_name": "TESCO PLC PENSION SCHEME",
"legal_name_language": "en",
"lei": "JL5Y1BHW3R0NH5H6C288",
"match_source": "filter",
"registered_as": null,
"registered_at": {
"name": null,
"ra_code": "RA999999"
},
"registration_status": "ISSUED"
}
],
"page": {
"has_more": true,
"limit": 3,
"next_offset": 3,
"offset": 0,
"returned": 3,
"total": 11
},
"query": "TESCO PLC"
},
"meta": {
"capability": "entity.lei.search",
"freshness": "near_live",
"source": "gleif",
"version": "2.1.0"
}
},
"type": "json"
}
},
"routeTemplate": "/v1/entities/lei/search",
"schema": {
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"input": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"method": {
"enum": [
"GET",
"HEAD",
"DELETE"
],
"type": "string"
},
"queryParams": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"country": {
"description": "ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code of the entity's legal address, used to narrow the search (e.g. GB, US, DE).",
"pattern": "^[A-Za-z]{2}$",
"type": "string"
},
"limit": {
"default": 10,
"description": "Maximum number of entities to return. Capped at 25 because that is the most records one fuzzy-completion fill-in pass can hydrate; a larger page could not be filled and would misreport how much GLEIF holds.",
"maximum": 25,
"minimum": 1,
"type": "integer"
},
"offset": {
"description": "Zero-based offset into the result set for paging. Pass back page.next_offset from the previous response; page.has_more says whether there is one. GLEIF pages by page number, so an offset that is a multiple of limit is one upstream page - which is every offset page.next_offset produces. Capped at 9900 because GLEIF refuses page-based pagination beyond 10,000 records; beyond that, narrow the query.",
"maximum": 9900,
"minimum": 0,
"type": "integer"
},
"q": {
"description": "Legal entity name or name fragment. GLEIF applies its own matching to this value; Eckari does not re-rank the results.",
"maxLength": 200,
"minLength": 2,
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"q"
],
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"const": "http",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type",
"method"
],
"type": "object"
},
"output": {
"properties": {
"example": {
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type"
],
"type": "object"
}
},
"required": [
"input"
],
"type": "object"
}
},
"payment-identifier": {
"info": {
"required": false
},
"schema": {
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"id": {
"maxLength": 128,
"minLength": 16,
"pattern": "^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+$",
"type": "string"
},
"required": {
"type": "boolean"
}
},
"required": [
"required"
],
"type": "object"
}
}
}Use it
curl
curl "https://api.eckari.com/v1/entities/lei/search" # -> 402 Payment Required, accepts[] lists how to pay # retry with a PAYMENT-SIGNATURE (or PAYMENT header) once paid
JavaScript
const res = await fetch("https://api.eckari.com/v1/entities/lei/search");
if (res.status === 402) {
const { accepts } = await res.json();
// pay one of accepts[] via an x402 client, then retry with the payment header
}Python
import httpx
res = httpx.get("https://api.eckari.com/v1/entities/lei/search")
if res.status_code == 402:
accepts = res.json()["accepts"]
# pay one of accepts[] via an x402 client, then retry with the payment headerMachine-readable
Everything on this page is also available as clean JSON at /resources/4308.json, and this resource appears in /discovery/resources and /discovery/search.