# data.pa.gov, free, With an application token: Business verification API

> This dataset contains counts of active business registrations in Pennsylvania and is broken down by County.

data.pa.gov's business verification API on its With an application token plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 6 of the 11 key fields we check: Registered name, Entity number, Entity type, Formation date, Principal address, Officers.
You get as many calls as you like.
Half of the 523 plans we rank by price cost $5.00 per 1,000 companies or less. This plan and 37 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 companies of the 523 plans.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-pa-gov/free-with-an-application-token
- Get it: https://dev.socrata.com/docs/app-tokens.html
- Request: `GET https://data.pa.gov/resource/xvd7-5r2c.json`
- API key: with the plan, on https://dev.socrata.com/docs/app-tokens.html
- Its API docs: https://dev.socrata.com/foundry/data.pa.gov/xvd7-5r2c
- Sold by: data.pa.gov (https://data.pa.gov)
- Checked: 2026-10-31

## In the answer

- Completeness: 55%
- Registered name: ✓
- Entity number: ✓
- Entity type: ✓
- Formation date: ✓
- Principal address: ✓
- Officers: ✓

## 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 contains counts of active business registrations in Pennsylvania and is broken down by County.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 month
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "Data sets available through data.pa.gov are offered free and without restriction. [...] While not required, when using data from data.pa.gov in your own work, we ask that proper credit be given."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- Enough for: no limit

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: $where on business_name. Optional: $limit, $offset, $order
- Method: GET
- Path: /resource/xvd7-5r2c.json

## About the plan

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

## The 21 fields the plan's answer can hold

business name, filing number, address line 1, address line 2, city, state, ZIP code, type of business registration, creation date, governor or principal officer, officer last name, officer middle name, officer first name, county name, county code, latitude and longitude, county boundary, senatorial district, municipality boundary, house district, school district

## data.pa.gov's plans (2)

- [data.pa.gov, free, With an application token](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-pa-gov/free-with-an-application-token/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, 1 month
- [data.pa.gov, free, Without an application token](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-pa-gov/free-without-an-application-token/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 55% complete, 1 month

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

- `GET /resource/xvd7-5r2c.json`: [data.pa.gov, free, With an application token](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-pa-gov/free-with-an-application-token/llms.txt)

## data.pa.gov's APIs (1)

- [data.pa.gov: business verification API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-pa-gov/free-with-an-application-token/llms.txt)

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

- [OpenSOSData, free, POST /v1/lookup](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/opensosdata/free-post-v1-lookup/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [handelsregister.ai, free, GET /v1/fetch-organization, fetch-organization](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/handelsregister-ai/free-get-v1-fetch-organization-fetch-organization/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 64% complete, 1 month
- [INSEE, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/insee/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 45% complete, 24 hours
- [MBIE, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/mbie/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 45% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-31.

- https://data.pa.gov/api/views/xvd7-5r2c.json
- https://data.pa.gov/data-policy
- https://data.pa.gov/resource/xvd7-5r2c.json?$limit=2
- https://dev.socrata.com/docs/app-tokens.html
- https://dev.socrata.com/docs/queries/limit.html
- https://dev.socrata.com/docs/queries/where.html
- https://dev.socrata.com/docs/response-codes.html
- https://dev.socrata.com/foundry/data.pa.gov/xvd7-5r2c