data.boston.gov pricing: business verification API, GET /
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$0.00per 1,000 companiesIn our business verification API benchmark, this plan scores 75.7 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.Scoris' €19 pack 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, Didit and CompanyData.com are the best business verification API providers in the Datacircle benchmark for companies in any country.
Plan: No API key data.boston.gov's only plan
Call:
GET /, Licensing Board Licenses one of data.boston.gov's 2 callsGET /, Active Food Establishment LicensesFree, No API key$0.00 per 1,000api/ 3/ action/ datastore_ search GET /, Licensing Board LicensesFree, No API key$0.00 per 1,000api/ 3/ action/ datastore_ search
API: Business verification API one of data.boston.gov's 2 APIs
- Business verification API
- Company discovery API
GET /, Active Food Establishment Licensesapi/ 3/ action/ datastore_ search - Company discovery API
GET /, Licensing Board Licensesapi/ 3/ action/ datastore_ search
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- 2 of the 11 fields on our checklist. Registered name, Principal address.
- Nothing to pay. data.boston.gov limits how many calls you get but gives no number.
- One call. You send
qtoGET /. You setapi/ 3/ action/ datastore_ search resource_to "04dc653b-1789-4374-9669-b07df7233344". The call returns the register's record of the company.id - Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
data.boston.gov: business verification API alternatives
data.boston.gov alternatives: other business verification API providers by price
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| This plandata.boston.gov, free, No API key, GET /api/3/action/datastore_search, Licensing Board Licenses | Latinfo, free, GET /co/rues/registry/search | INSEE, free | Scoris, free | Milquery, free | Cuitalizer, free | |
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| $ per 1,000 companies | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| Completeness | 18% | 27% | 45% | 18% | 27% | 18% |
| Billing | free | free | free | free | free | free |
| Pay | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | ARS 0 |
| Enough for | not published | 1,296,000 calls a month | not published | 2,592,000 calls a month | not published | 15 calls a month |
| Freshness | unknown | stored | 24 hours | 1 week | stored | 7 days |
| Who can get it | anyone | anyone with a GitHub or Google account, one account per person or organization | anyone | anyone | anyone | anyone |
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.
- data.boston.gov
- data.boston.gov/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=04dc653b-1789-4374-9669-b07df7233344&limit=2
- data.boston.gov/api/3/action/package_search?q=business%20license&rows=10
- data.boston.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=licensing-board-licenses
- docs.ckan.org/en/2.10/maintaining/datastore.html
- docs.ckan.org/en/latest/api/index.html
- opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/1-0/
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 | 75.7 |
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| Price score | 100 |
| Accuracy score | 64 |
| Cost to get started score | 100 |
| Bundle score | 0 |
| $ per 1,000 companies | $0.00 |
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| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Aggregators | none |
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| Also pays for | nothing else |
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| $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | The Licensing Board issues a variety of licenses under MGL Chapter 138 and Chapter 140 including Billiards, Bowling, Common Victualler (Food Service), Alcoholic Beverages, Innholder, and Dormitories/Lodging houses. This dataset lists all licenses that are currently active. |
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| Countries | United States |
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| 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. [...]" |
| Pay | $0 |
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| Batch | 1 |
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| Answer | in the call |
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| Median | 0.01 s |
| You send | resource_id "04dc653b-1789-4374-9669-b07df7233344", q. Optional: filters, full_text, distinct, plain, language, limit, offset, fields, sort, include_total, total_estimation_threshold, records_format |
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| Method | GET |
| Path | /api/3/action/datastore_search |
| Plan | No API key |
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| Who can get it | anyone |
The 26 fields the plan's answer can hold
license number, historical license number, license status, license category, license type, issue date, expiration date, business name, DBA name, comments, location comments, opening time, closing time, patrons out time, capacity, premises description, applicant, manager, day phone, evening phone, street address, city, state, ZIP code, GPS X coordinate, GPS Y coordinate