Why does an active entity have a lapsed LEI?

They are separate fields. entity_status is about the entity; status is about the LEI registration, which lapses if it is not renewed.

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

GLEIF LEI Search API and MCP — Find Entities in the Global LEI Index

Send a company name or LEI code and get matching entities from the Global LEI Index: LEI, name, LEI status, address, legal form code, creation date, category, jurisdiction, registration dates and the managing issuer. Filters narrow the list by active or inactive LEI, exact LEI status, entity category and country.

Run it in the app Read the API docs

You send: a company name or LEI code, plus optional status, reg_status, category and country filters
You get back: LEI, name, LEI status, address, legal form code, creation date, category, jurisdiction, registration dates and managing issuer
Coverage: Records on Global LEI Index (GLEIF).
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
Global LEI Index (GLEIF) directly	Type the name into Global LEI Index (GLEIF) 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 the register named on this page — 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
`total_items`	number	How many records are in this response.
`first_item`	object	The first record, repeated from items for quick access.
`items`	array	The matching LEI records.
`total_found`	number	How many matches the register reported for the query.
`page_count`	number	How many result pages were read for this request.
`blocked`	boolean	True if the register could not be read; false on a normal run.
`items[].registration_number`	string	The LEI.
`items[].name`	string	Legal name.
`items[].status`	string	LEI registration status, e.g. LAPSED or ISSUED.
`items[].entity_status`	string	Entity status, e.g. ACTIVE.
`items[].address, items[].headquarters_address`	string	Legal and headquarters address on one line.
`items[].company_type, items[].legal_form_code`	string	Legal form code, e.g. EI4J.
`items[].legal_form_other`	null	Free-text legal form. Null in the sample.
`items[].incorporation_date`	string	Creation date.
`items[].category, items[].sub_category`	string / null	Entity category such as GENERAL. Sub-category is null in the sample.
`items[].jurisdiction, items[].country`	string	Jurisdiction (e.g. US-CA) and country code.
`items[].registered_at, items[].registered_as`	string	Registration authority id and the entity's number there.
`items[].other_names, items[].transliterated_other_names`	array	Other names. Empty in the sample.
`items[].initial_registration_date, last_update_date, next_renewal_date`	string	LEI registration, last update and next renewal dates.
`items[].managing_lou`	string	LEI of the managing issuer.
`items[].corroboration_level, items[].conformity_flag`	string	Validation level and conformity flag.
`items[].url`	string	Link to the record on search.gleif.org.
`proxy_traffic_bytes`	number	Traffic used by the run, in bytes.
`session_id`	string	Id of this run, for tracing.
`kind`	string	The source that produced the response.
`human`	string	A short readable summary of the result.
`total_points`	number	Points charged for this run.

Response

Example response

A real response, as returned.

{
  "session_id": "11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111",
  "kind": "gleif_companies_search",
  "keyword": "Apple",
  "max_items": 2,
  "start_page": 1,
  "partial": false,
  "human": "# GLEIF — LEI search — company search\n\n- **Keyword:** Apple\n- **Results:** 2 of 592 found\n- **Proxy traffic:** 115.8 KB",
  "machine": {
    "total_items": 2,
    "first_item": {
      "registration_number": "549300X743WADMY1OQ21",
      "name": "26426 NATIONAL TRAILS PROPERTY LLC",
      "status": "LAPSED",
      "address": "C/O MUNEM MAIDA, 13601 APPLE VALLEY ROAD, 92308 APPLE VALLEY, US-CA, US",
      "url": "https://search.gleif.org/#/record/549300X743WADMY1OQ21",
      "company_type": "EI4J",
      "incorporation_date": "2019-09-17",
      "legal_form_code": "EI4J",
      "legal_form_other": null,
      "entity_status": "ACTIVE",
      "category": "GENERAL",
      "sub_category": null,
      "jurisdiction": "US-CA",
      "country": "US",
      "headquarters_address": "13601 APPLE VALLEY RD, 92308 APPLE VALLEY, US-CA, US",
      "registered_at": "RA000598",
      "registered_as": "201926710142",
      "other_names": [],
      "transliterated_other_names": [],
      "initial_registration_date": "2020-07-03",
      "last_update_date": "2025-06-24",
      "next_renewal_date": "2021-07-02",
      "managing_lou": "5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12",
      "corroboration_level": "FULLY_CORROBORATED",
      "conformity_flag": "NON_CONFORMING"
    },
    "items": [
      {
        "registration_number": "549300X743WADMY1OQ21",
        "name": "26426 NATIONAL TRAILS PROPERTY LLC",
        "status": "LAPSED",
        "address": "C/O MUNEM MAIDA, 13601 APPLE VALLEY ROAD, 92308 APPLE VALLEY, US-CA, US",
        "url": "https://search.gleif.org/#/record/549300X743WADMY1OQ21",
        "company_type": "EI4J",
        "incorporation_date": "2019-09-17",
        "legal_form_code": "EI4J",
        "legal_form_other": null,
        "entity_status": "ACTIVE",
        "category": "GENERAL",
        "sub_category": null,
        "jurisdiction": "US-CA",
        "country": "US",
        "headquarters_address": "13601 APPLE VALLEY RD, 92308 APPLE VALLEY, US-CA, US",
        "registered_at": "RA000598",
        "registered_as": "201926710142",
        "other_names": [],
        "transliterated_other_names": [],
        "initial_registration_date": "2020-07-03",
        "last_update_date": "2025-06-24",
        "next_renewal_date": "2021-07-02",
        "managing_lou": "5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12",
        "corroboration_level": "FULLY_CORROBORATED",
        "conformity_flag": "NON_CONFORMING"
      },
      {
        "registration_number": "54930084X7ZWMJMFPT42",
        "name": "Maida's Property LLC",
        "status": "LAPSED",
        "address": "C/O Munem Maida, 13601 Apple Valley Road, 92308 Apple Valley, US-CA, US",
        "url": "https://search.gleif.org/#/record/54930084X7ZWMJMFPT42",
        "company_type": "EI4J",
        "incorporation_date": "2010-04-19",
        "legal_form_code": "EI4J",
        "legal_form_other": null,
        "entity_status": "ACTIVE",
        "category": "GENERAL",
        "sub_category": null,
        "jurisdiction": "US-CA",
        "country": "US",
        "headquarters_address": "13601 Apple Valley Road, 92308 Apple Valley, US-CA, US",
        "registered_at": "RA000598",
        "registered_as": "201011210282",
        "other_names": [],
        "transliterated_other_names": [],
        "initial_registration_date": "2013-07-17",
        "last_update_date": "2025-05-30",
        "next_renewal_date": "2015-07-23",
        "managing_lou": "5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12",
        "corroboration_level": "FULLY_CORROBORATED",
        "conformity_flag": "NON_CONFORMING"
      }
    ],
    "total_found": 592,
    "page_count": 1,
    "blocked": false,
    "proxy_traffic_bytes": 118582
  },
  "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-gleif-companies-search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"keyword":"Apple","max_items":2}'

Use cases

What teams use it for

Where this field shows up in an actual workflow.

Finding a LEI

Turn a company name into its LEI for use in filings and reconciliation.

Lapsed LEI sweeps

Filter by LEI status and read renewal dates to find lapsed registrations.

Country or category screens

List entities in one country or category, such as funds.

Coverage & limits

Coverage, freshness and limits

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

Coverage

Records on Global LEI Index (GLEIF).

Freshness

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

Handling

Global LEI Index (GLEIF) 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

—A short name matches many entities, including unrelated ones with the word in an address; read name and country.
—The list does not include parents, children or ISINs. GLEIF company returns them.
—Only entities that hold a LEI are in the index.

FAQ

Questions, answered

status (active or inactive), reg_status (exact LEI status), category and country, along with keyword, max_items and start_page.

Related sources

GLEIF company

Full record for one LEI.

LEI Lookup search

Search the lei-lookup.com register.

All corporate registries

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

Try gleif company search on your own data

One request format across every source in the catalog.

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