German Company Data

Look up German company identity and registration details, including court, legal form, status, address and directors where available.

Pay by wallet (x402) Germany: all company records german-company-data

Example

Example input

{
  "company_name": "SAP SE"
}

The fields it answers with are listed under Output fields.

Inputs

Field	Type	Required	What it is
`court`	string	No	Registergericht (German commercial court). Required when providing 'hrb_number'. Example: "Amtsgericht Landsberg a. Lech".
`company_id`	string	No	OpenRegister canonical id, e.g. "DE-HRB-F1103-267645". Preferred when known — skips name resolution and consumes one fewer API call.
`hrb_number`	string	No	Handelsregister number (e.g. "HRB 2001"). When provided, 'court' is also required — HRB/HRA numbers are per-court and not globally unique.
`company_name`	string	No	Company name for fuzzy search via /v1/autocomplete/company.

Output fields

How reliably each field appears in a successful answer.

Field	Type	Appears
`lei`	string or null	Sometimes (present only for some inputs)
`court`	string or null	Always (present in every successful answer)
`status`	one of active, terminated, unknown	Always (present in every successful answer)
`capital`	object or null	Usually (present for most inputs)
`directors`	array	Usually (present for most inputs)
`is_active`	boolean or null	Always (present in every successful answer)
`company_id`	string	Always (present in every successful answer)
`legal_form`	string or null	Usually (present for most inputs)
`company_name`	string or null	Always (present in every successful answer)
`country_code`	string	Always (present in every successful answer)
`register_type`	string or null	Always (present in every successful answer)
`terminated_at`	string or null	Sometimes (present only for some inputs)
`industry_codes`	array	Usually (present for most inputs)
`incorporated_at`	string or null	Usually (present for most inputs)
`registered_address`	object or null	Usually (present for most inputs)
`registration_number`	string or null	Always (present in every successful answer)
`business_description`	string or null	Usually (present for most inputs)

How to call it

The same tool through each route. MCP clients reach it through Strale’s server at https://api.strale.io/mcp; the call below is what the agent sends.

# Needs an API key. max_price_cents caps what this call may cost.
curl -X POST https://api.strale.io/v1/do \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STRALE_API_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "capability_slug": "german-company-data",
    "inputs": {
      "company_name": "SAP SE"
    },
    "max_price_cents": 20
  }'

{
  "tool": "strale_execute",
  "arguments": {
    "slug": "german-company-data",
    "inputs": {
      "company_name": "SAP SE"
    },
    "max_price_cents": 20
  }
}

import { Strale } from "straleio";

const strale = new Strale({ apiKey: process.env.STRALE_API_KEY! });
const result = await strale.do({
  capability_slug: "german-company-data",
  inputs: {
    "company_name": "SAP SE"
  },
  max_price_cents: 20,
});

import os
from straleio import Strale, DoRequest

strale = Strale(api_key=os.environ["STRALE_API_KEY"])
result = strale.do(DoRequest(
    capability_slug="german-company-data",
    inputs={
        "company_name": "SAP SE",
    },
    max_price_cents=20,
))

# No account. The first request answers 402 with the price in USDC;
# an x402 client pays it from your wallet and repeats the request.
curl -i 'https://api.strale.io/x402/v2/german-company-data?company_name=SAP+SE'

Limitations

Provider credits and rate limits affect availability
OpenRegister allows 500 credits per rolling 30 days on the configured plan; a name lookup normally uses 11 credits and a `company_id` lookup 10. HTTP 402 indicates exhausted credits and HTTP 429 a short-term rate limit; the tool can be paused until usable credits are restored.
What to do instead: Use `company_id` when known and reuse results within the permitted refresh window to avoid repeated lookups.
UBO data not covered
Beneficial ownership from the German Transparenzregister is not included.
What to do instead: Request beneficial-ownership information directly from the Transparenzregister with authorised access.
Stored registry data can be up to four weeks old
Company records are refreshed at least every four weeks, with daily updates for financials and new incorporations. The tool does not request a live Handelsregister refresh.
What to do instead: For same-day filings, check Handelsregister directly; `provenance.fetched_at` records retrieval time rather than the original filing time.
HRB/HRA numbers require court (Registergericht)
HRB and HRA numbers are unique only within their registration court, so the same number can identify different companies. Both `hrb_number` and `court` are required for a number lookup.
What to do instead: Prefer 'company_id' (OpenRegister canonical, e.g. "DE-HRB-F1103-267645") when known — it skips the autocomplete step and consumes one fewer Free-tier credit.