Can I filter by status?

The request accepts an optional status filter, alongside keyword, max_items and start_page.

Do I pay for lookups that come back empty?

No. You are charged per result, so a request that finds nothing costs nothing. Testing this against a messy list is free to get wrong.

What does a lookup cost?

1 point per returned record, which is $1 per 1,000, and only records that come back are charged. Points come out of your monthly plan allowance, so there is no separate per-country contract.

Corporate registry

Australia Company Search API and MCP — Find an ABN by Company Name

Send a name and get the matching Australian entities back, each with its ABN, name, status, state and postcode, and a link to the ABN Lookup record. It is the way to turn a name from an invoice, a website or a CRM row into the ABN you need for the company lookup.

Run it in the app Read the API docs

You send: A company or business name
You get back: Matching entities with ABN, name, status, location and a link to each record
Coverage: Australia — entities on ABN Lookup.
Price: 1 point per returned record — $1 per 1,000; Billed per record actually returned, capped by max_items. A request that returns nothing costs nothing.

Comparison

Ways to get this data

Three approaches teams use today, and where each one runs into trouble.

Approach	What it takes	Cost	Trade-off
ABN Lookup directly	Type the name into ABN Lookup and read the results	Usually free, sometimes per-document	A different interface, language and data shape for every country you add
Collecting it yourself	Build and host a crawler per register, then keep each one alive	Infrastructure and maintenance	Registers change their pages without warning, and nobody is on the hook when yours breaks
NeuralVerge	One request, the same shape as every other source in the catalog	$1 per 1,000, misses not billed	Covers Australia — other countries are separate sources with the same request format

Response

What you get back

Every field in the example response below.

Field	Type	Description
`session_id`	string	Identifier of this run. Keep it to trace the call.
`kind`	string	Source that produced the response.
`keyword`	string	The search text you sent.
`max_items`	number	The cap on returned records.
`start_page`	number	The results page the run started from.
`partial`	boolean	True when the run stopped before reading everything it was asked for.
`human`	string	Readable summary of the run in Markdown, including how many results were found.
`machine.total_items`	number	Number of records returned in this response.
`machine.first_item`	object	The first returned record, repeated as the first entry of items.
`machine.first_item.registration_number`	string	The ABN, as eleven digits.
`machine.first_item.name`	string	The matched name.
`machine.first_item.status`	string	ABN status, for example Active or Cancelled.
`machine.first_item.address`	string	State and postcode as the register shows them.
`machine.first_item.url`	string	Link to the ABN Lookup record.
`machine.first_item.company_type`	null	Entity type. Empty in search results; use the company lookup for it. Null in the sample response, so the type is not shown there.
`machine.first_item.incorporation_date`	null	Registration date. Empty in search results; use the company lookup for it. Null in the sample response, so the type is not shown there.
`machine.first_item.abn_formatted`	string	The ABN with spaces, as printed on documents.
`machine.first_item.name_type`	string	Which kind of name matched, for example Entity Name or Business Name.
`machine.items`	array	Every returned record, each with the same fields as first_item.
`machine.total_found`	number	How many matches the register reports in total, which can be more than you asked for.
`machine.page_count`	number	Number of result pages read.
`machine.blocked`	boolean	Whether the register refused the read. False in the sample.
`machine.proxy_traffic_bytes`	number	Traffic used by the run, in bytes. Informational.
`total_points`	number	Points charged for the run, one per returned record.

Response

Example response

A real response, as returned.

{
  "session_id": "11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111",
  "kind": "au_companies_search",
  "keyword": "woolworths",
  "max_items": 2,
  "start_page": 1,
  "partial": false,
  "human": "# Australia — ABN Lookup — company search\n\n- **Keyword:** woolworths\n- **Results:** 2 of 155 found\n- **Proxy traffic:** 140.6 KB",
  "machine": {
    "total_items": 2,
    "first_item": {
      "registration_number": "97342304522",
      "name": "THE WOOLWORTHS",
      "status": "Cancelled",
      "address": "SA 5069",
      "url": "https://abr.business.gov.au/ABN/View?abn=97342304522",
      "company_type": null,
      "incorporation_date": null,
      "abn_formatted": "97 342 304 522",
      "name_type": "Entity Name"
    },
    "items": [
      {
        "registration_number": "97342304522",
        "name": "THE WOOLWORTHS",
        "status": "Cancelled",
        "address": "SA 5069",
        "url": "https://abr.business.gov.au/ABN/View?abn=97342304522",
        "company_type": null,
        "incorporation_date": null,
        "abn_formatted": "97 342 304 522",
        "name_type": "Entity Name"
      },
      {
        "registration_number": "88000014675",
        "name": "WOOLWORTHS",
        "status": "Active",
        "address": "NSW 2153",
        "url": "https://abr.business.gov.au/ABN/View?abn=88000014675",
        "company_type": null,
        "incorporation_date": null,
        "abn_formatted": "88 000 014 675",
        "name_type": "Business Name"
      }
    ],
    "total_found": 155,
    "page_count": 1,
    "blocked": false,
    "proxy_traffic_bytes": 143992
  },
  "total_points": 2
}

Integration

How to run it

The same lookup works from the app, the API, or as a tool an agent can call mid-task.

Results come back in the same envelope as every other source: a session id, a readable summary, the structured result and the points charged.

curl -X POST https://api.neuralverge.ai/functions/v1/run-au-companies-search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"keyword":"woolworths","max_items":2}'

Use cases

What teams use it for

Where this field shows up in an actual workflow.

Name to ABN

Resolve a company name to its ABN before a lookup or an onboarding check.

Spotting lapsed registrations

Separate active registrations from cancelled ones in a list of near-identical names.

Cleaning a customer list

Match free-text company names against the register and flag the ones that do not exist.

Finding the business behind a brand

Search a business name and see which entity holds it.

Coverage & limits

Coverage, freshness and limits

What this source covers, how fresh it is, and where it stops.

Coverage

Australia — entities on ABN Lookup.

Freshness

Read at request time, so the answer reflects the register as it stands when you ask.

Handling

ABN Lookup is a public register. Every response carries the source URL it was read from and a session id you can trace.

What it will not do

—Results show a state and postcode, not a full address.
—Entity type and registration date are empty in search results; run the company lookup for those.
—A name can match both entity names and business names, so check name_type before assuming a match is the legal entity.

FAQ

Questions, answered

Set max_items to cap the number returned. total_found tells you how many matches the register reports, which is often more than you asked for.

Related sources

Australia company

Full record for one ABN, with GST status and name history.

All corporate registries

Company registers across Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific, plus global LEI lookup.

Try australia company search on your own data

One request format across every source in the catalog.

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