# data.boston.gov, free, No API key, GET /api/3/action/datastore_search, Active Food Establishment Licenses: Business verification API

> This dataset contains a list of restaurants that met the City's standards to become licensed food service establishments.

data.boston.gov's No API key plan for the business verification API costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. We check each provider's docs for 11 fields. data.boston.gov's docs list 2: Registered name, Principal address.
data.boston.gov limits how many calls you get but gives no number.
In [our business verification API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt), this plan scores 0.0 out of 100.
We rank 1,735 plans for business verification APIs by price. Half the plans cost $7.895 or less per 1,000 companies. This plan and 227 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 companies of the 1,735 plans. [See the best free business verification API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt)
[Scoris' €19 pack](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/scoris/19-pack/llms.txt) covers any number of companies in 8 countries only. Scoris' €19 pack costs less up front than SafeDeal's ₸50,000 (about $110) monthly plan.
[GovFiles](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/govfiles/top-up/llms.txt), [Didit](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/didit/top-up-from-50/llms.txt) and [CompanyData.com](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/companydata-com/249-monthly/llms.txt) are the best business verification API providers in the Datacircle benchmark for companies in any country.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-boston-gov/free-no-api-key-get-api-3-action-datastore-search-active-food-establishment-licenses
- [Business verification API in 2026: the 8 best compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt)
- Get it: https://data.boston.gov?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://data.boston.gov/api/3/action/datastore_search`, Active Food Establishment Licenses
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://docs.ckan.org/en/2.10/maintaining/datastore.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing#ckanext.datastore.logic.action.datastore_search
- Sold by: data.boston.gov (https://data.boston.gov?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-09

## In the answer

- Completeness: 18%
- Registered name: ✓
- Principal address: ✓

## Score

- Overall score: 0.0. We give it 0 overall because its Accuracy score is 0.
- Price score: 100
- Accuracy score: 0
- Cost to get started score: 100
- Bundle score: 0
- Performance score: 0. We could not measure how fast this provider answers a call, so we count it as 0.

## Price

- $ per 1,000 companies: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: This dataset contains a list of restaurants that met the City's standards to become licensed food service establishments.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 day
- Countries: United States
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL), the datasets' licence: "[...] there are no restrictions or requirements placed on the recipient by this document. Recipients may use this work commercially, use technical protection measures, combine this data or database with other databases or data, and share their changes and additions or keep them secret. It is not a requirement that recipients provide further users with a copy of this licence or attribute the original creator of the data or database as a source. [...]"

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: resource_id "f1e13724-284d-478c-b8bc-ef042aa5b70b", q. Optional: filters, full_text, distinct, plain, language, limit, offset, fields, sort, include_total, total_estimation_threshold, records_format
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/3/action/datastore_search

## About the plan

- Plan: No API key
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

business name, DBA name, street address, city, state, ZIP code, license status, license category, license description, license added date, day phone, property ID, latitude and longitude

## data.boston.gov's plans (1)

- [data.boston.gov, free, No API key, GET /api/3/action/datastore_search, Active Food Establishment Licenses](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-boston-gov/free-no-api-key-get-api-3-action-datastore-search-active-food-establishment-licenses/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 18% complete, 1 day

## data.boston.gov's calls (2)

- `GET /api/3/action/datastore_search`, Active Food Establishment Licenses: [data.boston.gov, free, No API key, GET /api/3/action/datastore_search, Active Food Establishment Licenses](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-boston-gov/free-no-api-key-get-api-3-action-datastore-search-active-food-establishment-licenses/llms.txt)
- `GET /api/3/action/datastore_search`, Licensing Board Licenses: [data.boston.gov, free, No API key, GET /api/3/action/datastore_search, Licensing Board Licenses](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-boston-gov/free-no-api-key-get-api-3-action-datastore-search-licensing-board-licenses/llms.txt)

## data.boston.gov's APIs (2)

- [data.boston.gov: business verification API pricing, 1 plan, GET /api/3/action/datastore_search, Active Food Establishment Licenses](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-boston-gov/free-no-api-key-get-api-3-action-datastore-search-active-food-establishment-licenses/llms.txt)
- [data.boston.gov: company discovery API pricing, 1 plan, GET /api/3/action/datastore_search, Active Food Establishment Licenses](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/data-boston-gov/free-no-api-key-get-api-3-action-datastore-search-active-food-establishment-licenses/llms.txt)
- [data.boston.gov: company discovery API pricing, 1 plan, GET /api/3/action/datastore_search, Licensing Board Licenses](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/data-boston-gov/free-no-api-key-get-api-3-action-datastore-search-licensing-board-licenses/llms.txt)

## data.boston.gov: business verification API alternatives

- [INSEE, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/insee/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 45% complete, 24 hours
- [Paianjenul, free, check_vat](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/paianjenul/free-check-vat/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [CompanyVerify, free pilot, GET /v1/uk/company/search](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/companyverify/free-pilot-get-v1-uk-company-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, 24 hours
- [eucompliance.tools, free, no key, GET /free/company](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/eucompliance-tools/free-no-key-get-free-company/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, live
- [CVR API, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/cvr-api/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, 1 day

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-09.

- https://data.boston.gov?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://data.boston.gov/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=f1e13724-284d-478c-b8bc-ef042aa5b70b&limit=2&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://data.boston.gov/api/3/action/package_search?q=business%20license&rows=10&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://data.boston.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=active-food-establishment-licenses&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://docs.ckan.org/en/2.10/maintaining/datastore.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/api/index.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/1-0/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing