Validate an EU VAT number against the official European Commission VIES registry
Validate an EU VAT number against the official European Commission VIES registry, with retries and caching for reliability. Returns validity, company name and address. Use when onboarding or invoicing an EU business and you must confirm its VAT number is registered.
Answeringour last check, 2026-10-11
1 of 1checks answered this week
184 msmedian answer time
$0.003listed price per call
$0.003price it asked us
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
POST https://toolrail.dev/vat/validate
| Category | Company and compliance |
|---|---|
| Provider host | toolrail.dev |
| Networks | eip155:8453, solana:5eykt4UsFv8P8NJdTREpY1vzqKqZKvdp |
| Payment schemes | exact |
| Self-reported calls, 30 days | 0 from 0 payers (the provider's figure, not ours) |
Our checks, last 30 days
| Day | Result | HTTP | Asked | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-11 | valid payment request | 402 | $0.003 | 184 ms |
Example input (from the provider)
{
"body": {
"countryCode": "IE",
"vatNumber": "6388047V"
},
"bodyType": "json",
"method": "POST",
"type": "http"
}
Promised output schema (from the provider)
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"input": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"body": {
"properties": {
"countryCode": {
"type": "string"
},
"vatNumber": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"type": "object"
},
"bodyType": {
"enum": [
"json",
"form-data",
"text"
],
"type": "string"
},
"method": {
"enum": [
"POST"
],
"type": "string"
},
"type": {
"const": "http",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type",
"method",
"bodyType",
"body"
],
"type": "object"
},
"output": {
"properties": {
"example": {
"properties": {
"consultationDate": {
"type": "string"
},
"countryCode": {
"type": "string"
},
"name": {
"type": "string"
},
"source": {
"type": "string"
},
"valid": {
"type": "boolean"
},
"vatNumber": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type"
],
"type": "object"
}
},
"required": [
"input"
],
"type": "object"
}