Saudi commercial registration guides
Learn how to look up business records, connect the API and interpret official published Ministry of Commerce data.
How to check a Saudi commercial registration
Learn how to look up a Saudi CR number, read published business details and check the source period before using a result in your workflow.
Read the guideCR number vs unified national number in Saudi Arabia
Understand Saudi commercial registration and business unified national numbers, avoid confusing them with personal IDs, and choose the right lookup input.
Read the guideIntegrate a Saudi commercial registration API
Build server-side Saudi CR lookups for supplier onboarding and business registration, with protected API keys, dated results and clear error handling.
Read the guideUnderstanding quarterly Saudi business records
Read Saudi CR quarterly reports, compare published record counts and interpret legal-form and registered-capital breakdowns with the right source context.
Read the guideBusiness numbers, CR numbers and personal IDs
Saudi CR Pro handles business identifiers only: a 10-digit commercial registration (CR) number or a business unified national number.
Personal national IDs and residency numbers are a different class of identifier. They are not supported, and you should not send them to this service.
Keep the two kinds of number in separate fields in your own systems. A business number identifies an entity; a personal ID identifies a person.
Understanding published Ministry records
Results come from official published Ministry of Commerce records imported into our database. Every result shows the data period and lookup time.
SaudiCRpro is an independent service. Results reflect the published release, rather than changes made after that release.
For current official status or a certified extract, use the Ministry of Commerce inquiry service.
Reading found and not-found results
Found means the number appears in the snapshot. It does not prove that the business is active.
Not found means the number is absent from that snapshot. A newer registration, or a record the source does not publish, will not appear.
Treat not found as a prompt for further checks, never as proof that a business does not exist.
Where snapshot updates come from
The source publishes registry data on a quarterly schedule. An administrator imports a file, maps its columns explicitly and records the period and the exact source URL.
An import goes live only when an administrator activates it. A failed import leaves the active snapshot unchanged.
The active period is always shown beside results and in the API metadata.
Your first server-side API call
Create a key in your dashboard, then call GET /api/v1/lookup/{number} from your server with either Authorization: Bearer or x-api-key.
Handle both found and not-found responses, and store the snapshot period with the result you keep.
Do not call the API from browser code.
Key security and limits
Keys are shown once. Store them in server-side secrets, never in source control, browser code or URLs. Rotate a key if you suspect exposure.
The API allows 60 requests per minute per account and a cumulative ceiling of 1,000,000 admitted lookup/search requests shared across keys and entitled sessions. The ceiling does not reset.
The demo uses shared global, daily and hourly fair-use protections. If a request is rate-limited, follow Retry-After when provided.