cos-data.seattle.gov pricing: business verification API
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- Free, Application tokenApplication token$0.00 per 1,000
- Free, No application tokenNo application token$0.00 per 1,000
GET / resource/ wnbq-64tb.json cos-data.seattle.gov's only callAbout this item
- A copy at most 1 day old. You get records from cos-data.seattle.gov's copy of the register.
- 2 of the 11 fields on our checklist. Registered name, Principal address.
- Nothing to pay. You get as many calls as you like.
- One call. You send
$qtoGET /. You can also sendresource/ wnbq-64tb.json $where,$limit,$offsetand$order. The call returns the register's record of the company. - Who can get it: anyone who registers an application token in a Socrata profile. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
cos-data.seattle.gov: business verification API alternatives
cos-data.seattle.gov alternatives: other business verification API providers by price
We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 companies. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a day old.
| This plancos-data.seattle.gov, free, Application token | INSEE, free | Paianjenul, free, check_vat | CompanyVerify, free pilot, GET /v1/uk/company/search | eucompliance.tools, free, no key, GET /free/company | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 companies | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| Completeness | 18% | 45% | 0% | 55% | 55% |
| Billing | free | free | free | free | free |
| Pay | $0 | $0 | €0 | $0 | $0 |
| Enough for | no limit | not published | no limit | 60,000 calls a month | 150 calls a month |
| Freshness | 1 day | 24 hours | live | 24 hours | live |
| Who can get it | anyone who registers an application token in a Socrata profile | anyone | anyone with a free account | anyone | businesses only (the terms' Unternehmer within § 1 UGB, not consumers) |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-08.
- cos-data.seattle.gov/City-Administration/Active-Business-License-Tax-Certificate/wnbq-64tb
- cos-data.seattle.gov/api/views/wnbq-64tb.json
- cos-data.seattle.gov/resource/wnbq-64tb.json?$limit=2
- data.seattle.gov/stories/s/Data-Policy/6ukr-wvup/
- dev.socrata.com/docs/app-tokens.html
- dev.socrata.com/docs/endpoints.html
- dev.socrata.com/docs/queries/limit.html
- dev.socrata.com/docs/queries/offset.html
- dev.socrata.com/docs/queries/order.html
- dev.socrata.com/docs/queries/q.html
- dev.socrata.com/docs/queries/where.html
- dev.socrata.com/docs/response-codes.html
- dev.socrata.com/foundry/cos-data.seattle.gov/wnbq-64tb
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Registered name
- Entity number, not in the answer
- Tax ID, not in the answer
- Entity type, not in the answer
- Status, not in the answer
- Good standing, not in the answer
- Formation date, not in the answer
- Registered agent, not in the answer
- Principal address
- Officers, not in the answer
- Filings, not in the answer
| Overall score | 76.2 |
|---|---|
| Price score | 100 |
| Accuracy score | 71 |
| Cost to get started score | 77 |
| Bundle score | 0 |
| $ per 1,000 companies | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Aggregators | none |
|---|
| Also pays for | nothing else |
|---|
| $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing | $0.00 |
|---|
| Their pitch | This dataset contains active business license tax certificate data for the City of Seattle |
|---|
| Freshness | 1 day |
|---|---|
| Countries | United States |
| Keep data | no limit |
| Use data | Public Domain, the dataset's licence, and the portal's Seattle Open Data Terms of Use: "By using data made available through this site the user agrees to all the conditions stated in the following paragraphs. [...] To the extent the data consists of a list of individuals or can be readily sorted, filtered, or configured as a list of individuals, it is not to be used for a commercial purpose. [...] Unless otherwise indicated, data on this site does not require specific attribution." |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|---|
| Enough for | no limit |
| Batch | 1 |
|---|
| Answer | in the call |
|---|---|
| Median | 0.04 s |
| You send | $q. Optional: $where, $limit, $offset, $order |
|---|---|
| Method | GET |
| Path | /resource/wnbq-64tb.json |
| Plan | Application token |
|---|---|
| Who can get it | anyone who registers an application token in a Socrata profile |
The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold
business legal name, DBA name, ownership type, NAICS code, NAICS description, license start date, street address, city, state, ZIP code, business phone, city account number, UBI