Free company data: what you find and why it is not enough for sales

ONRC, data.gov.ro, the Ministry of Finance, ANAF and BPI, compared with a cleaned and filtered company list

Company data is public. Useful contact details are not.

A company’s name, CUI, address, CAEN code, status and financial statements can be consulted for free. For sales, however, you need a phone number or an email address that works today and a file you can use straight away, without days of cleaning.

Free for checks, cleaned for sales.

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In short: public data on Romanian companies is free: from ONRC (including the open datasets on data.gov.ro) you get the name, CUI, registered office, company status and authorised activities, from the Ministry of Finance the financial statements, from ANAF the VAT status and fiscal inactivity, and from the Insolvency Proceedings Bulletin (BPI) the insolvencies. The open datasets, however, contain no phone, email or website, and the contact details declared at registration are not updated. For prospecting you need contact details that are valid today and a list filtered by CAEN code, county and size, which you receive directly in Excel.

What you find for free, and where

The official sources, what they contain and what they cost.

SourceWhat it containsCostFormat
ONRC – open data (data.gov.ro)registered companies: name, CUI, registration number, legal form, registered office address, company status, authorised CAEN activities; no phone, email or websitefreeCSV files, updated periodically
ONRC – extracts and certificatesidentification data, shareholders, directors, company historyfee per documentPDF / online
Ministry of Financeannual financial statements: turnover, profit, average number of employees, debtsfreeweb page, search by CUI
ANAFVAT registration, fiscal inactivityfreeweb page and web service (API)
BPI (ONRC)insolvency proceedingsbasic information free on the European e-Justice portal; the full bulletin by subscriptiononline

Sources checked on 26.10.2026: the “Companies registered with the Trade Register” dataset on data.gov.ro (ONRC) and the ONRC, Ministry of Finance and ANAF portals.

Why contact details from the register are usually useless for sales

They are not in the open files. The ONRC datasets on data.gov.ro contain the company’s name, address, status and activities, but no column for phone, email or website.

They date from incorporation. Contact details declared at registration often belong to the lawyer or consultant who set up the company: the same phone number and email for dozens of companies.

They are not updated. A mobile number that was correct at incorporation may since have been changed by the director, and the register does not find out.

The files need cleaning. Fields are separated by “^”, the address is split into 12 columns, diacritics are written differently from one record to another and some old companies show CUI 0. Before any import into a CRM, the file has to be cleaned.

What you get in a Firmeo export

The same companies, ready for sales.

Filters

  • CAEN codes (rev. 3), county, town
  • turnover, profit, number of employees
  • active companies only

Contact details

  • email, mobile and landline phone, website
  • management
  • mandatory fields, e.g. only companies with an email address

The file

  • Excel or CSV
  • number of companies and price before you order
  • the list arrives immediately after payment

Updates

  • the database is updated daily
  • public sources: ONRC, company websites, Google
  • plus updates made by users

When free data is enough

If you want to check a specific company, count the companies in a field for a market analysis or carry out a study, the free sources are enough and you do not need to buy anything. On Firmeo, checking a company by CUI is free, and the company barometer shows how many companies are set up and how many are deregistered. A paid list is worth it when you want to contact the companies: that is when current contact details and the time saved on cleaning matter.

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Frequently asked questions

Short answers about free data and cleaned lists.

Is company data from ONRC free?

Mostly, yes. ONRC publishes open datasets of registered companies on data.gov.ro (name, CUI, address, status, authorised CAEN activities) free of charge. Extracts and certificates, for example with shareholders and directors, are issued for a fee per document.

Can I download the list of all companies from data.gov.ro?

Yes. The “Companies registered with the Trade Register” dataset can be downloaded in CSV format and is updated periodically. The files contain no phone, email or website and must be cleaned before import: “^” separator, address spread over several columns, company status and CAEN activities in separate files, decoded with the code lists published by ONRC.

Why does the phone number from the register not answer?

Because it is usually the number declared at incorporation, often belonging to the lawyer or consultant who registered the company, and it is not updated when the director changes their number.

Where do the contact details come from and how often are they updated?

The contact details available on Firmeo come from public sources, such as the Trade Register (ONRC), companies’ official websites and Google, as well as from information provided directly by users who update their profiles on the platform. Our database is updated daily, including with information obtained from marketing campaigns and from updates made by users. We constantly look after the accuracy and relevance of the information, to give you access to contact details that are as current as possible.

What needs cleaning in an ONRC file?

The “^” separator (Excel reads it correctly only if you select it at import), the address split into 12 columns, diacritics written differently, old records with CUI 0, and the status and CAEN codes, which are translated using the separately published code lists.

When is a paid list worth it?

When you want to contact the companies: you need current phone numbers and email addresses, filters by CAEN code, county, turnover and employees, and a file ready to import. On Firmeo you see the number of companies and the price before ordering and receive the list in Excel immediately after payment.

Go straight to the list you need

Choose companies by CAEN code, county and turnover, see the price in advance and receive the Excel file immediately after payment.

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