# data.texas.gov, free, With an app token: Business verification API

> This file contains a list of active taxpayers set up for franchise tax under Tax Code Chapter 171. The file includes taxpayer name, address, and other public business information.

data.texas.gov's business verification API on its With an app token plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 3 of the 11 key fields we check: Entity number, Tax ID, Status.
You get as many calls as you like.
In [our business verification API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt), data.texas.gov scores 82.7 out of 100 on this plan.
Half of the 706 plans we rank by price cost $7.895 per 1,000 companies or less. This plan and 58 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 companies of the 706 plans.
[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 Scoris's €99 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 our benchmark for companies in any country.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-texas-gov/free-with-an-app-token
- [Business verification API: 9 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.texas.gov/resource/9cir-efmm.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.texas.gov/9cir-efmm?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Sold by: data.texas.gov (https://data.texas.gov?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-01

## In the answer

- Completeness: 27%
- Entity number: ✓
- Tax ID: ✓
- Status: ✓

## Score

- Overall score: 82.7
- Price score: 100
- Accuracy score: 88
- 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 file contains a list of active taxpayers set up for franchise tax under Tax Code Chapter 171. The file includes taxpayer name, address, and other public business information.

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Countries: United States
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "Information on CPA's sites is public domain and may be copied and used as permitted by law, with the exception of pictures, official symbols, and registered service marked names and logos. While CPA attempts to maintain a high degree of accuracy, we will not be held liable for errors or omissions that may occur."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- Enough for: no limit

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.06 s

## The call

- You send: $where. Optional: $select, $order, $limit, $offset
- Method: GET
- Path: /resource/9cir-efmm.json

## About the plan

- Plan: With an app token
- Who can get it: anyone with a Socrata account, which registers an application token in its profile

## The 18 fields the plan's answer can hold

taxpayer number, taxpayer name, taxpayer address, taxpayer city, taxpayer state, taxpayer ZIP code, taxpayer county code, taxpayer organizational type, record type code, responsibility beginning date, SOS or COA file number, SOS charter date, SOS status date, SOS status code, right to transact business code, current exempt reason code, exempt begin date, NAICS code

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

- [data.texas.gov, free, With an app token](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-texas-gov/free-with-an-app-token/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 27% complete, stored
- [data.texas.gov, free, Without an app token](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-texas-gov/free-without-an-app-token/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 27% complete, stored

## data.texas.gov's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /resource/9cir-efmm.json`: [data.texas.gov, free, With an app token](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-texas-gov/free-with-an-app-token/llms.txt)

## data.texas.gov's APIs (3)

- [data.texas.gov: business verification API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-texas-gov/free-with-an-app-token/llms.txt)
- [data.texas.gov: company discovery API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/data-texas-gov/free-with-an-app-token/llms.txt)
- [data.texas.gov: company enrichment API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/data-texas-gov/free-with-an-app-token/llms.txt)

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

- [CZ Agents, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/cz-agents/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 18% complete, stored
- [GovFiles, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/govfiles/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 91% complete, stored
- [Infyner, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/infyner/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 27% complete, stored
- [SOSfinder, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/sosfinder/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 91% complete, stored

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-01.

- https://comptroller.texas.gov/about/policies/privacy.php?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://data.texas.gov/api/views/9cir-efmm.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://data.texas.gov/dataset/Active-Franchise-Taxpayers/9cir-efmm?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://data.texas.gov/resource/9cir-efmm.json?$limit=2
- 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/select.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/foundry/data.texas.gov/9cir-efmm?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing