Pappers
Pappers is a web-based service for looking up legal, corporate, and financial information about French companies.
What Pappers is
Pappers is a web-based service for looking up legal, corporate, and financial information about French companies. Its records include statutes, accounts, brands, executives, and shareholders. Advanced search can filter companies, executives, beneficial owners, documents, and BODACC publications, as well as search text within legal documents. Search results can be downloaded in Excel format.
The API provides company records, search results, and documents, and includes a Zapier connector for workflow automation. A new API account created with a professional email receives 100 free credits; API access stops when the account has used all its credits. Company and executive monitoring supports customizable email or webhook alerts, with Zapier and Make integrations. Pappers Pro combines monitoring, exports, an AI assistant, solvency reports, credit limits, and beneficial-owner information for companies in 14 European countries. The Basic surveillance plan is free. Starter costs €200 a year and Business costs €480 a year. Pappers says its company data is updated daily from official sources, but does not guarantee that site information is complete, accurate, current, or error-free.
Good
- Searches company, executive, ownership, and document records.
- Search results can be exported in Excel format.
- API includes records, search results, and documents.
- Monitoring alerts can be sent by email or webhook.
- Basic surveillance plan costs nothing.
Watch out
- API access stops when account credits are used.
- MCP access to Pappers Justice requires an API subscription of at least 5K credits per month.
- Pappers does not guarantee information is complete or accurate.
Who it suits
Pappers suits people researching French companies and those who need to search legal documents or monitor companies and executives. Its API and workflow connectors may also suit organizations automating access to company records.
Verdict
Pappers brings company lookup, document search, exports, monitoring, and API access together for French company information. Keep the stated data caveat in mind, and check API credit requirements if using integrations.
Plans and prices
From Pappers's own pricing page, checked 5 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Basic (Surveillance) | Free | 10 entreprises surveillées · 1 destinataire d’alertes · 3 listes · 100 entreprises favorites |
| Starter (Surveillance) | €200 a year | 300 entreprises surveillées · 300 dirigeants surveillés · 3 destinataires d’alertes · listes et favoris illimités · 200 € / an |
| Business (Surveillance) | €480 a year | 1 000 entreprises surveillées · 1 000 dirigeants surveillés · 5 destinataires d’alertes · listes et favoris illimités · 480 € / an |
| Entreprise (Surveillance) | Priced on request | Entreprises et dirigeants surveillés sur devis · destinataires illimités · listes et favoris illimités · Sur devis |
The facts
Each one read from Pappers's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Advanced search
- Its search can filter companies, executives, beneficial owners, documents and BODACC publications, and search text in legal documents.checked 5 Oct 2026
- API
- The API provides company records, search results and documents, and offers a Zapier connector for automating workflows.checked 5 Oct 2026
- API support
- Technical support is available to customers on a paid API tier throughout their subscription.checked 5 Oct 2026
- API usage limit
- The API stops working when all account credits have been used.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Data updates
- Pappers says its company data is updated daily from official sources including INSEE, INPI and BODACC.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Exports
- Search results can be downloaded in Excel format.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The Pappers MCP connects to Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Mistral and HuggingChat, and can work alongside other MCP servers such as Data Gouv, a CRM or an internal database.checked 5 Oct 2026
- MCP access limit
- MCP access to Pappers Justice is available only with API subscriptions of at least 5K credits per month.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Monitoring
- Company and executive monitoring supports customizable alerts by email or webhooks, with integrations for Zapier and Make.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Pro product
- Pappers Pro combines monitoring, exports, an AI assistant, solvency reports, credit limits and beneficial-owner information for companies in 14 European countries.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Security and data caveat
- Pappers says it does not guarantee that site information is exhaustive, accurate, up to date, error-free or complete.checked 5 Oct 2026
Money
- API free credits
- A new API account created with a professional email receives 100 free credits.checked 5 Oct 2026
The company
- Company information
- Pappers lets users look up legal, corporate and financial information about French companies, including statutes, accounts, brands, executives and shareholders.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 2020checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- 99 avenue Achille Peretti, 92200 Neuilly-sur-Seine, Francechecked 28 Sep 2026
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