Legal entity (LEI) lookup

Look up a legal entity in the official GLEIF registry. Send POST /api/lei-lookup with no required fields (2 optional) and pay $0.005 per call over x402 or MPP (there is no free tier). It returns a JSON object with found, record, parents and source.

Pass a 20-character LEI for the full record - legal name, jurisdiction, legal form, addresses, registration status, and the reported direct + ultimate parent entities - or pass a company name to fulltext-search the registry and get ranked candidate LEIs. Unknown LEIs return {found:false}; parents that aren't reported return null. Official registry data, keyless.

Category: Live public data · Tags: data lei gleif legal-entity company enrichment kyc

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Parameters

Example request

curl -i -X POST https://agent402.tools/api/lei-lookup \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"lei":"HWUPKR0MPOU8FGXBT394"}'

Without payment this returns HTTP 402 Payment Required with the exact price for lei-lookup; any x402 v2 or MPP client pays it and retries.

Example response

{
  "found": true,
  "record": {
    "lei": "HWUPKR0MPOU8FGXBT394",
    "legalName": "APPLE INC.",
    "jurisdiction": "US-CA",
    "entityStatus": "ACTIVE",
    "legalAddress": {
      "city": "Cupertino",
      "region": "US-CA",
      "country": "US"
    },
    "registration": {
      "status": "ISSUED",
      "nextRenewal": "2026-10-13T00:31:58Z"
    }
  },
  "parents": {
    "direct": null,
    "ultimate": null
  },
  "source": "api.gleif.org"
}

From an MCP client

catalog.call {
  "slug": "lei-lookup",
  "params": {
    "lei": "HWUPKR0MPOU8FGXBT394"
  }
}

The hosted connector at https://agent402.tools/mcp needs a payment for lei-lookup; the stdio package pays it from a wallet or from AGENT402_CREDITS_KEY. Local install: npx -y agent402-mcp.

Errors and behavior

• Every field is optional. An input the tool rejects returns an HTTP 4xx whose body carries error, tool, expected, required and example.
• A paid call that ends in any status of 400 or above is not charged over x402, MPP or a prepaid credits key: settlement is cancelled when the tool fails. The exception is a Tempo push credential, a transfer the buyer sent before the call: it settles before the tool runs, so if the tool then fails the payment is recorded as a refund owed to the paying wallet.
• Wallet-only: this tool reaches the network or stored state, so it has no proof-of-work tier. A prepaid card-credits key issued earlier (Authorization: Bearer a402_...) also pays it.
• A GET or HEAD to /api/lei-lookup returns the same 402 quote, so the price can be read without a body.
• An Idempotency-Key header makes a retried paid call replay the first 200 instead of charging again (an answer larger than 1 MB is not replayed).

Paid call (JavaScript agent)

import { wrapFetchWithPayment } from "@x402/fetch";
import { x402Client } from "@x402/core/client";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

const client = new x402Client();
client.setSpendControls?.(false); // keep your own spending ceiling in code
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(KEY) });
const payFetch = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);

const res = await payFetch("https://agent402.tools/api/lei-lookup", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "lei": "HWUPKR0MPOU8FGXBT394"
  }),
});

Part of these workflows

Legal entity (LEI) lookup is one step in this skill pack, each sold as a single call:

• Entity enrichment - Company name → verified identity + web footprint dossier: Wikidata facts, the official LEI legal-entity record, the SEC EDGAR filer, domain registration, tech stack, and brand favicon - in one pass.

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