# data.detroitmi.gov, free: Business verification API

> A Business License is the City's stamp of approval for a business to operate within the city limits.

data.detroitmi.gov's Free plan for the business verification API costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. We check each provider's docs for 11 fields. data.detroitmi.gov's docs list 2: Registered name, Principal address.
data.detroitmi.gov limits how many calls you get but gives no number.
We haven't run data.detroitmi.gov through [our business verification API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt) yet.
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-detroitmi-gov/free
- [Business verification API: the 14 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt)
- Get it: https://data.detroitmi.gov/pages/about-detroit-open-data?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://services2.arcgis.com/qvkbeam7Wirps6zC/arcgis/rest/services/bseed_active_business_licenses/FeatureServer/0/query`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://developers.arcgis.com/rest/services-reference/enterprise/query-feature-service-layer/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Sold by: data.detroitmi.gov (https://data.detroitmi.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: ✓

## 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: A Business License is the City's stamp of approval for a business to operate within the city limits.

## Data

- Countries: United States
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Terms of Use developed by the Department of Information Technology ("DoIT"), which its Disclaimer page points to: "Any user of the City of Detroit ("City" or "The City") data portal agrees to all of the following disclaimers and waives all claims against, and to hold harmless, the City of Detroit, its agents, appointees, elected officials, and employees with regard to any matter related to the use or the contents of the data portal." "Public data made available on the City of Detroit data portal is provided as a public service, on an "AS-IS" basis, and for informational purposes only." "The City of Detroit data portal and all public data contained on such portal shall be subject to Terms of Use developed by the Department of Information Technology ("DoIT")" "The City shall reserve the right to discontinue availability of content on the City of Detroit data portal at any time and for any reason." Its About page: "The portal offers access to standardized data that can be easily retrieved, combined, downloaded, sorted, searched, analyzed, redistributed and re-used by individuals, business, researchers, journalists, developers, and government [...]"

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: where. Optional: outFields, objectIds, time, having, returnDistinctValues, returnIdsOnly, returnCountOnly, orderByFields, groupByFieldsForStatistics, outStatistics, resultOffset, resultRecordCount, sqlFormat
- Method: GET
- Path: /arcgis/rest/services/bseed_active_business_licenses/FeatureServer/0/query

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 20 fields the plan's answer can hold

record ID, business name, address, license type, license category, expiration date, neighborhood, council district, ZIP code, street number, street prefix, street name, street type, parcel ID, address ID, longitude, latitude, object ID, X coordinate, Y coordinate

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

- [data.detroitmi.gov, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-detroitmi-gov/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 18% complete

## data.detroitmi.gov's calls (1)

- `GET /arcgis/rest/services/bseed_active_business_licenses/FeatureServer/0/query`: [data.detroitmi.gov, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-detroitmi-gov/free/llms.txt)

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

- [data.detroitmi.gov: business verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-detroitmi-gov/free/llms.txt)
- [data.detroitmi.gov: company discovery API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/data-detroitmi-gov/free/llms.txt)

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

- [Latinfo, free, GET /co/rues/registry/search](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/latinfo/free-get-co-rues-registry-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 27% complete, stored
- [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
- [Milquery, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/milquery/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 27% complete, stored
- [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

## 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.detroitmi.gov/api/search/v1/collections/dataset/items?q=business%20licenses%20current&limit=3&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://developers.arcgis.com/rest/services-reference/enterprise/query-feature-service-layer/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://services2.arcgis.com/qvkbeam7Wirps6zC/arcgis/rest/services/bseed_active_business_licenses/FeatureServer/0/query?where=1%3D1&outFields=*&resultRecordCount=2&f=json&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://services2.arcgis.com/qvkbeam7Wirps6zC/arcgis/rest/services/bseed_active_business_licenses/FeatureServer/0?f=json&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/content/items/05389654d3aa4516940ec6978745489b/data?f=json&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/content/items/2addfbf566464896b4aa032ac873549b?f=json&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/content/items/3d3439cc799c424aa009af63efdc7ab1/data?f=json&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/content/items/e055d4ab2ee440798e0682f3d9ce0ef0/data?f=json&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing