Global LEI Company Registry (GLEIF)

What you get

• S — Starter slice: 720K entities
• M — Research pack: 6.8M rows incl. Level 2 relationships
• L — Full golden copy: entities + relationships + reporting exceptions
• Data dictionary, datasheet and QA report included with every package

Sample preview

First 50 rows of the real free-sample file — the identical schema you get in every package. Click a column to sort, or filter across all rows.

Coverage statistics

Records

13,589,679

Legal entities

3,393,673

Countries

236

Fields

76

Time coverage

2012-06-05 – 2026-08-04

Largest package

1.1 GB

Available packages

Real contents of the current builds — row counts, sizes and checksums come from the packaging manifest, not estimates.

Built from the official GLEIF Golden Copy 2026-08-04 16:00 UTC publication: 3,393,673 LEI legal entities (Level 1, LEI-CDF 3.1), 483,370 who-owns-whom consolidation relationships (Level 2, RR-CDF 2.1) and 6,279,384 parent reporting exceptions (REPEX 2.1); see pipelines/gleif.

Free Open Data — full downloads

This dataset is part of the DataForge Open Data program: the upstream license (Dual license — CC BY-NC 4.0 (DataForge curated layer; academic/personal use, attribution + backlink required); commercial use requires a DataForge commercial license. Upstream data: CC0 1.0, GLEIF golden copy (GLEIF Terms of Use permit commercial redistribution)) permits free redistribution, so the complete packages below are free — no signup. Please cite DataForge (data.zalize.com) with a backlink when you use or share this data.

License: Dual license — CC BY-NC 4.0 (DataForge curated layer; academic/personal use, attribution + backlink required); commercial use requires a DataForge commercial license. Upstream data: CC0 1.0, GLEIF golden copy (GLEIF Terms of Use permit commercial redistribution) · Attribution: DataForge (data.zalize.com), built from GLEIF CC0 golden-copy data

Full package inventory

Every package registered in the delivery catalog for this dataset — 12 packages, 4.3 GB total , 38,564,636 rows. Sizes, row counts and SHA-256 checksums come straight from the packaging pipeline.

How to get this data

All packages are hosted on the Hugging Face Hub: free/open packages live in a public dataset repo (direct downloads, no signup); paid or restricted editions are delivered from a private repo with token access after approval.

# Download the whole dataset repo (hf CLI — pip install -U huggingface_hub)
hf download zalizedata/global-lei-company-registry-dataset --repo-type dataset --local-dir global-lei-company-registry-dataset

# Or just one archive
hf download zalizedata/global-lei-company-registry-dataset archive/archive/gleif-tier1-M-2026-08-04.zip --repo-type dataset

Protocol access (hf://, resolve links, token auth for private repos) is documented in the developer docs →

Pricing

AI-training use requires the AI-Training tier (1.5× base); redistribution licensing is quoted individually. Annual subscriptions get 2 months free. License details →

Update frequency & delivery

• Source: GLEIF golden copy files, published under CC0 1.0 (commercial redistribution permitted).
• Every package ships with a MANIFEST (per-file row counts, bytes, sha256) for verification.

Compliance & provenance

Collected only from publicly accessible pages and endpoints — no login-required data, no CAPTCHA solving, no forged authentication. Collection is rate-limited with an identified User-Agent, and collection logs are retained. PII is removed or pseudonymized. Every record carries its source URL and collection timestamp. Sold under a tiered commercial license.

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