Api Endpoint

2s

Official UK company registry (Companies House). Two modes: pass query to search companies by name (returns company number, name, status, type, incorporation date, address), or pass companyNumber for the full registry profile — legal name, status, company type, jurisdiction, incorporation/cessation dates, SIC activity codes, registered office address, accounts (next due, last made-up-to), confirmation-statement due date, charges and insolvency flags, previous names, and the officers list (name, role, appointed/resigned dates, nationality, occupation). Free, Open Government Licence (commercial use permitted). The authoritative UK-company KYB lookup — complements business.lei (GLEIF) and business.br-cnpj (Brazil).

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Offering

Provider
2s.io
Method
GET
Offering type
Api Endpoint
Transport type
http
Category
Legal And Compliance
Delivery
Not provided
Pricing model
Not provided
x402 version
2

Endpoint context

URL
https://2s.io/api/business/uk-companies
MIME type
application/json
First seen
2026-10-16T01:52:52.778Z
Last seen
Tags
public-records, identifiers, AI-agents, us-gov-data, X402, upto-billing, ai-gateway, agent-infrastructure

Payment pricing

x402 payment terms are the authoritative price for calling this endpoint.

Payment option 1
0.0036 USDC
Atomic price: 3600 · Network: eip155:8453 · Asset: USDC · Scheme: exact
Payment option 2
0.0036 USDC
Atomic price: 3600 · Network: solana:5eykt4UsFv8P8NJdTREpY1vzqKqZKvdp · Asset: USDC · Scheme: exact
Raw x402 terms
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  {
    "scheme": "exact",
    "network": "eip155:8453",
    "asset": "0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913",
    "amount": "3600",
    "payTo": "0x2b6D4988Db4723E6908Db86Ab2b8dFBc51FC32C5"
  },
  {
    "scheme": "exact",
    "network": "solana:5eykt4UsFv8P8NJdTREpY1vzqKqZKvdp",
    "asset": "EPjFWdd5AufqSSqeM2qN1xzybapC8G4wEGGkZwyTDt1v",
    "amount": "3600",
    "payTo": "TW6ntaGzvj63ZgPjszd4FCGmVTGfzv1MAYZbjYcyWhn"
  }
]

Observed health

Status
Healthy
Latest latency
86 ms
Average latency
215 ms
HTTP status
402
Last checked
Reachability
100% over 13 checks

Latency is measured to the first response headers. A reachable result does not verify response accuracy or merchant identity.

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "type": {
      "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
      "const": "GET"
    },
    "queryParams": {
      "properties": {
        "query": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Company name to search."
        },
        "companyNumber": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Companies House number, e.g. 09446231."
        },
        "limit": {
          "type": "integer",
          "description": "Max search results / officers (1-50, default 10)."
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "type",
    "method",
    "queryParams"
  ]
}

Output schema

{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "input": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "type": {
          "const": "http"
        },
        "method": {
          "const": "GET"
        },
        "queryParams": {
          "properties": {
            "query": {
              "type": "string",
              "description": "Company name to search."
            },
            "companyNumber": {
              "type": "string",
              "description": "Companies House number, e.g. 09446231."
            },
            "limit": {
              "type": "integer",
              "description": "Max search results / officers (1-50, default 10)."
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "type",
        "method",
        "queryParams"
      ]
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "input"
  ]
}