578,209 business entities registered with the Secretary of State, read live from the records. Run a free Puerto Rico business entity search by name, registered agent, officer or address — the same filings the Secretary of State holds — or browse by city and registration year below.
Charts are drawn from the same live counts as the directory below. Registrations before 1987 (158,180 companies) are left off the year chart. Not every filing carries a status or a NAICS code; a company can fall into more than one business category.
This is a free Puerto Rico business entity search built on the public business register — all 578,209 of them — that the Secretary of State maintains. Search by entity name for an exact match or partial match, or by registered agent, officer or principal office address, and open any entity to see its entity status, entity type, registration (formation) date, entity ID and filing number and the registered agent and officer names on the public filing. Domestic and foreign entities, corporations, limited liability companies, limited partnerships and business trusts all appear together, and the directory below browses the same records by city and by registration year.
How to run a Puerto Rico business entity search
The Puerto Rico business entity search covers every Puerto Rico business registered with the Secretary of State. Enter your search criteria in the box above — a business name or entity name, a registered agent name, an officer or principal name, or a physical address — and choose an exact match or a partial name match. A standard search returns the entity name, entity type and entity status; an advanced search narrows by more search criteria; opening a result loads the full entity profile with the detailed information the Secretary of State publishes. Use it to check name availability before you register a new business, to confirm an existing entity is active and in good standing, to find a company's registered agent, or to review the filing history and annual reports behind a Puerto Rico company — the same records power a Puerto Rico LLC search, a corporation search and a search by registered agent name, and match what the Puerto Rico Secretary of State business search returns.
Status on record: Active 225,470 · Inactive 21 · Dissolved 46,172 · Revoked 10 · Withdrawn 2,808 · Canceled 300,891 · Merged 1,755 · Pending 640. Not every filing carries a status.
Sorted by registration date as the Secretary of State files it. Registries publish on their own schedule — the newest filings on record can trail the registry itself.
The legal business name as registered with the Secretary of State. A name search matches exact and partial names; the profile also carries former names, trade names and assumed (fictitious) business names where the register files them.
Entity ID & filing number
The unique entity ID and filing number the Secretary of State assigns each entity. It is the most reliable way to tell apart similarly named businesses and links to the entity’s filing history and filing images.
Entity status
Active, inactive, dissolved, revoked, withdrawn, merged, canceled or pending — the entity status the Secretary of State records. An active status in good standing is the register’s own signal that an entity is current on its annual reports and filings.
Entity type
Corporation, limited liability company, limited partnership, business trust or other form — Puerto Rico recognises numerous business entity types, from a sole proprietorship and small businesses to large corporations — and whether the entity is domestic to Puerto Rico or a foreign entity registered to legally transact business there.
Registration & formation date
The formation date the entity was formed or first registered, as filed in its formation documents. Browse the full directory below by registration year to see every entity formed in a given year.
Registered agent & officers
Where the Secretary of State publishes them, the registered agent name, principal office address, principal name, officers and directors appear on the entity profile — the people and physical address on the public filing, not private ownership percentages.
Checking name availability before you form an entity, verifying a counterparty is active, or confirming a registered agent are the common reasons to run a Puerto Rico business entity search. Netstate republishes the Secretary of State filing and labels every field with its source; it is not a certificate of good standing or an FCRA consumer report.
Beyond the entity search: due-diligence records
The Secretary of State filing is the corporate record. For fuller due diligence on a Puerto Rico business, Netstate cross-references it against 60 other registers and 16 federal datasets in one lookup — so an entity search can surface trade names and assumed names, UCC filings (the security interests recorded against a company’s assets), business licenses and permits, and an EIN where one is on record, alongside the corporate filing. For consumer-facing complaint history, the Better Business Bureau and the state’s consumer-protection office hold records the corporate register does not.
The Secretary of State is the filing office of record for Puerto Rico. Netstate republishes the same filings and cross-references them against 60 other registers and 16 federal datasets — one lookup covers every jurisdiction at once, with each field labeled with its source.
Common questions
Type a business name, registered agent or officer name, or an address into the search box above and open the matching entity. Every result is a Puerto Rico entity on file with the Secretary of State, with its entity ID / filing number, entity status, entity type and registration date shown. Searching is free and needs no account.
Enter the LLC's name in the search box for an exact or partial match, or search by its registered agent or principal address. The entity profile shows the LLC's entity status, entity type, formation date and entity ID / filing number exactly as the Secretary of State files them — the same fields as a corporation or limited partnership search.
578,209 business entities are on file with the Secretary of State. The count is read live from the records on every page load, not from a cached estimate, and covers active and inactive entities across every entity type.
Yes — searching and browsing the directory are free and don't require an account, the same as the Secretary of State's own entity search. A paid plan adds credits to unlock full profiles, plus watchlists and exports.
Each entity profile shows its entity status as the Secretary of State records it — active, inactive, dissolved, revoked, withdrawn, merged or pending. An active status is the register's own signal that an entity is current on its filings; the hub above breaks down how many Puerto Rico entities sit in each status. Netstate republishes the status field and is not itself a certificate of good standing.
Open the entity's profile: where the Secretary of State publishes them, the registered agent, principals, officers and directors are listed with the entity. The Secretary of State does not publish ownership percentages, so the search identifies the people on the public filing, not a private cap table. Since FinCEN's 2026 rule ended federal beneficial-ownership (BOI) reporting for US companies, the state filing — alongside UCC and court records — is again the main public ownership trail; the 50-state guide at /resources/find-llc-owner shows what each register exposes.
Yes. Every Puerto Rico entity carries a unique entity ID / filing number assigned by the Secretary of State; searching or opening that number goes straight to the one matching entity, which is the most reliable way to disambiguate similarly named businesses.
Business-entity filings held by the Secretary of State — name, entity type, status, registration date, registered agent and address — are public record, and Netstate republishes them with each field labelled by source. Some jurisdictions also expose permits and licences; where they do, the counts appear in the summary above.
The Secretary of State is the filing office of record for Puerto Rico. Netstate republishes its filings and labels every field with the source, so you can verify any record at its origin.
Counts are read from the Secretary of State records on every request. City names are shown as the registry files them; filing variants of the same city are merged under one page. Field provenance is documented in the methodology.