Return the current legal status of a UK company from the Companies House registe
Return the current legal status of a UK company from the Companies House register — active, dissolved, liquidation, administration, receivership, voluntary-arrangement and others — with status detail, cessation date, a derived is_active (true for the live-on-the-register statuses active, open and registered) and a derived is_striking_off for an active company with a proposal to strike off. One call, one authoritative register answer. Use when: Is this UK company still active?
Paid test badge: not yet. The checks above are free: we call the tool without paying and read the payment request it sends back. The Verified badge needs paid calls whose answers match the promised output, and nobody can buy a badge.
Endpoint
GET https://api-staging.eckari.com/v1/companies/uk/:company_number/status
| Category | Company and compliance |
|---|---|
| Provider host | api-staging.eckari.com |
| Networks | eip155:84532 |
| Payment schemes | exact |
| Self-reported calls, 30 days | 1 from 1 payers (the provider's figure, not ours) |
Our checks, last 30 days
| Day | Result | HTTP | Asked | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-24 | valid payment request | 402 | $0.003 | 23 ms |
Example input (from the provider)
{
"method": "GET",
"pathParams": {
"company_number": "00445790"
},
"queryParams": {},
"type": "http"
}
Promised output schema (from the provider)
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"input": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"method": {
"enum": [
"GET",
"HEAD",
"DELETE"
],
"type": "string"
},
"pathParams": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"company_number": {
"description": "Companies House company number, also called the company registration number (CRN), e.g. 00445790, SC123456, NI000001, BR008975. The identifier itself is 1-8 letters/digits; surrounding whitespace is ignored (which is why maxLength is 10), but the value must not contain internal spaces. Short numeric values are zero-padded to 8 characters. A whitespace-only or over-long value is rejected as INVALID_INPUT before any payment or upstream call.",
"maxLength": 10,
"minLength": 1,
"pattern": "^\\s*[A-Za-z0-9]{1,8}\\s*$",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"company_number"
],
"type": "object"
},
"queryParams": {
"properties": {},
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"const": "http",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type",
"method"
],
"type": "object"
},
"output": {
"properties": {
"example": {
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type"
],
"type": "object"
}
},
"required": [
"input"
],
"type": "object"
}