Are activities in English?

They come in Dutch as the register publishes them.

How do I get the full record?

Send the registration_number to Netherlands company.

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

Netherlands Company Search (KVK) API and MCP — Find Companies by Name

Send a name and get back matching Dutch companies: KVK number, name, status, legal form, registration date, address, activity description, trade names and branch details, with a link to each record. Set max_items to control the batch.

Run it in the app Read the API docs

You send: a company name
You get back: matching Dutch companies with KVK number, status, legal form, address, activity, trade names and branch number
Coverage: Netherlands — entities on KVK Handelsregister.
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
KVK Handelsregister directly	Type the name into KVK Handelsregister 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 Netherlands — 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	Id of this run, for tracing.
`kind`	string	Source type of the response.
`keyword`	string	The search text you sent.
`max_items`	number	The cap you set on returned records.
`start_page`	number	Results page the search started from.
`partial`	boolean	Whether the result set is incomplete.
`human`	string	Readable summary with the number of results and matches found.
`total_points`	number	Points charged: one per returned record.
`machine.total_items`	number	Records returned in this batch.
`machine.first_item`	object	The first returned record, same shape as one entry of items.
`machine.items[]`	array	The returned records.
`machine.total_found`	number	Matches the register reports for the search; null when it does not report one.
`machine.page_count`	number	Result pages read.
`machine.blocked`	boolean	Whether the register refused the request.
`machine.proxy_traffic_bytes`	number	Size of the data transferred for the run, in bytes.
`machine.items[].registration_number`	string	KVK number.
`machine.items[].name`	string	Company or establishment name.
`machine.items[].status`	string	Registration status, e.g. Ingeschreven (registered).
`machine.items[].address`	string	Visiting address.
`machine.items[].url`	string	Link to the listing on the register.
`machine.items[].company_type`	string	Legal form.
`machine.items[].incorporation_date`	string	Registration date (YYYY-MM-DD).
`machine.items[].legal_form_code`	string	Short legal-form code, e.g. BV.
`machine.items[].branch_number`	string	Branch (vestiging) number.
`machine.items[].registration_type`	string	Hoofdvestiging (head office) or another type.
`machine.items[].activity`	string	Activity description in Dutch.
`machine.items[].trade_names[]`	array	Trade names.
`machine.items[].former_trade_names[]`	array	Former trade names; empty in the sample.
`machine.items[].statutory_name`	string	Name as in the articles.
`machine.items[].postal_address`	null	Null in the sample.

Response

Example response

A real response, as returned.

{
  "session_id": "11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111",
  "kind": "nl_companies_search",
  "keyword": "philips",
  "max_items": 2,
  "start_page": 1,
  "partial": false,
  "human": "# Netherlands — KVK Handelsregister — company search\n\n- **Keyword:** philips\n- **Results:** 2 of 1549 found\n- **Proxy traffic:** 31.9 KB",
  "machine": {
    "total_items": 2,
    "first_item": {
      "registration_number": "90428587",
      "name": "Philips & Philips B.V.",
      "status": "Ingeschreven",
      "address": "Van Hengellaan 2, 1217AS Hilversum",
      "url": "https://www.kvk.nl/zoeken/?source=handelsregister&q=90428587",
      "company_type": "Besloten Vennootschap",
      "incorporation_date": "2023-06-07",
      "legal_form_code": "BV",
      "branch_number": "000056159579",
      "registration_type": "Hoofdvestiging",
      "activity": "Het uitoefenen van de rechtspraktijk als advocaat.",
      "trade_names": [
        "Philips & Philips B.V."
      ],
      "former_trade_names": [],
      "statutory_name": "Philips & Philips B.V.",
      "postal_address": null
    },
    "items": [
      {
        "registration_number": "90428587",
        "name": "Philips & Philips B.V.",
        "status": "Ingeschreven",
        "address": "Van Hengellaan 2, 1217AS Hilversum",
        "url": "https://www.kvk.nl/zoeken/?source=handelsregister&q=90428587",
        "company_type": "Besloten Vennootschap",
        "incorporation_date": "2023-06-07",
        "legal_form_code": "BV",
        "branch_number": "000056159579",
        "registration_type": "Hoofdvestiging",
        "activity": "Het uitoefenen van de rechtspraktijk als advocaat.",
        "trade_names": [
          "Philips & Philips B.V."
        ],
        "former_trade_names": [],
        "statutory_name": "Philips & Philips B.V.",
        "postal_address": null
      },
      {
        "registration_number": "17062897",
        "name": "Philips Stadion",
        "status": "Ingeschreven",
        "address": "PSV-laan 81, 5616LX Eindhoven",
        "url": "https://www.kvk.nl/zoeken/?source=handelsregister&q=17062897",
        "company_type": "Stichting",
        "incorporation_date": "1983-11-02",
        "legal_form_code": "ST",
        "branch_number": "000001978284",
        "registration_type": "Hoofdvestiging",
        "activity": "Het houden van aandelen van PSV N.V. en het bevorderen van het voetbal en andere sporten in het algemeen",
        "trade_names": [
          "Philips Stadion"
        ],
        "former_trade_names": [],
        "statutory_name": "Stichting PSV Voetbal",
        "postal_address": null
      }
    ],
    "total_found": 1549,
    "page_count": 1,
    "blocked": false,
    "proxy_traffic_bytes": 32628
  },
  "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-nl-companies-search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"keyword":"philips","max_items":2}'

Use cases

What teams use it for

Where this field shows up in an actual workflow.

Resolve a name to a KVK number

Get the number for a full lookup.

Tell similar names apart

Use legal form, activity and address to pick the right entity from a list.

Sector and keyword sweeps

Collect Dutch entities carrying a keyword, with activity text.

Screening lists

Check supplier names against the register.

Coverage & limits

Coverage, freshness and limits

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

Coverage

Netherlands — entities on KVK Handelsregister.

Freshness

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

Handling

KVK Handelsregister 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 are matches on name, so a brand name can return unrelated entities.
—postal_address is null in the sample.
—Name history and establishment lists are in Netherlands company, not here.

FAQ

Questions, answered

machine.total_found reports the register's count (1,549 for philips in the sample).

Related sources

Netherlands company

Full Dutch company record by KVK number.

Belgium company search

Search Belgian companies by name.

All corporate registries

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

Try netherlands company search on your own data

One request format across every source in the catalog.

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