# data.cityofnewyork.us, free, Application token: Business verification API

> This dataset features licenses issued by the NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP)—formerly the Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA).

data.cityofnewyork.us's Application token plan for the business verification API costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. We check each provider's docs for 11 fields. data.cityofnewyork.us's docs list 2: Registered name, Principal address.
You get as many calls as you like.
In [our business verification API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt), this plan scores 84.8 out of 100.
We rank 1,561 plans for business verification APIs by price. Half the plans cost $7.895 or less per 1,000 companies. This plan and 199 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 companies of the 1,561 plans. [See the best free business verification API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt)
[Scoris's €19 pack](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/scoris/19-pack/llms.txt) covers any number of companies in 8 countries only. Scoris's €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), [CompanyData.com](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/companydata-com/249-monthly/llms.txt) and [Didit](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/didit/top-up-from-50/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-cityofnewyork-us/free-application-token
- [Business verification API: the 14 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt)
- Get it: https://dev.socrata.com/docs/app-tokens.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://data.cityofnewyork.us/resource/w7w3-xahh.json`
- API key: with the plan, on https://dev.socrata.com/docs/app-tokens.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://dev.socrata.com/foundry/data.cityofnewyork.us/w7w3-xahh?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Sold by: data.cityofnewyork.us (https://data.cityofnewyork.us?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

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

## Score

- Overall score: 84.8
- Price score: 100
- Accuracy score: 93
- Cost to get started score: 77
- Bundle score: 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: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: This dataset features licenses issued by the NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP)—formerly the Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA).

## Data

- Freshness: 1 week
- Countries: United States
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: NYC.gov Terms of Use, which the NYC Open Data pages link to (the dataset's metadata names no licence): "You agree to access and use NYC.gov only for lawful purposes. [...] By accessing NYC.gov, you agree that you will not: use NYC.gov to commit a criminal offense or to encourage others to engage in any conduct which would constitute a criminal offense, use NYC.gov in a way to give rise to civil liability or encourage others to engage in any conduct which would give rise to civil liability, use NYC.gov to impersonate other parties or entities, use NYC.gov to upload any content that contains a software virus, [...] or any other computer code, files, or programs that may alter, damage, or interrupt the functionality of NYC.gov or the hardware or software of any other person who accesses NYC.gov, upload, post, email, or otherwise transmit any materials that you do not have a right to transmit under any law or contractual relationship, alter, damage, or delete any content posted on NYC.gov, disrupt NYC.gov or its servers or networks in any way, or claim a relationship with or represent any business, association, or other organization with which you are not authorized to claim such a relationship or to represent." "All other design, information, text, graphics, images, pages, interfaces, links, software, and other items and materials contained in or displayed on NYC.gov, and the selection and arrangements thereof, are the property of the City of New York. All rights are reserved." "To request permission to use City intellectual property located on NYC.gov, please visit the List of NYC Agencies and then contact the appropriate agency."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- Enough for: no limit

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 6.04 s

## The call

- You send: $q. Optional: $where, $limit, $offset, $order
- Method: GET
- Path: /resource/w7w3-xahh.json

## About the plan

- Plan: Application token
- Who can get it: anyone who registers an application token in a Socrata profile

## The 31 fields the plan's answer can hold

license number, business name, DBA name, business unique ID, business category, license type, license status, initial issuance date, license expiration date, license details, contact phone, address type, building number, street, cross street, third street, unit type, apartment or suite, city, state, ZIP code, borough, community board, council district, building identification number, borough-block-lot number, neighborhood tabulation area, 2010 census block, 2010 census tract, latitude, longitude

## data.cityofnewyork.us's plans (2)

- [data.cityofnewyork.us, free, Application token](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-cityofnewyork-us/free-application-token/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 18% complete, 1 week
- [data.cityofnewyork.us, free, No application token](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-cityofnewyork-us/free-no-application-token/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 18% complete, 1 week

## data.cityofnewyork.us's calls (1)

- `GET /resource/w7w3-xahh.json`: [data.cityofnewyork.us, free, Application token](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-cityofnewyork-us/free-application-token/llms.txt)

## data.cityofnewyork.us's APIs (2)

- [data.cityofnewyork.us: business verification API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-cityofnewyork-us/free-application-token/llms.txt)
- [data.cityofnewyork.us: company discovery API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/data-cityofnewyork-us/free-application-token/llms.txt)

## data.cityofnewyork.us: 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
- [Scoris, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/scoris/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 18% complete, 1 week
- [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
- [data.cityofchicago.org, free, Application token](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-cityofchicago-org/free-application-token/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 18% 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 2026-11-08.

- https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Business/Issued-Licenses/w7w3-xahh?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://data.cityofnewyork.us/api/views/w7w3-xahh.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://data.cityofnewyork.us/resource/w7w3-xahh.json?$limit=2&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://dev.socrata.com/docs/app-tokens.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://dev.socrata.com/docs/endpoints.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://dev.socrata.com/docs/queries/limit.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://dev.socrata.com/docs/queries/offset.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://dev.socrata.com/docs/queries/order.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://dev.socrata.com/docs/queries/q.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://dev.socrata.com/docs/queries/where.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://dev.socrata.com/docs/response-codes.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://dev.socrata.com/foundry/data.cityofnewyork.us/w7w3-xahh?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://www.nyc.gov/main/terms-of-use?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing