# Open Data DC, free: Business verification API

> In order to operate legally in District of Columbia, most businesses must get a Basic Business License (BBL) from the Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection (DLCP).

Open Data DC's Free plan for the business verification API costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. We check each provider's docs for 11 fields. Open Data DC's docs list 3: Registered name, Entity type, Principal address.
Open Data DC limits how many calls you get but gives no number.
In [our business verification API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt), this plan scores 87.1 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.](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt)
[Scoris' €19 pack](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/scoris/19-pack/llms.txt) 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](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 the Datacircle benchmark for companies in any country.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/open-data-dc/free
- [Business verification API in 2026: the 8 best compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt)
- Get it: https://opendata.dc.gov/pages/data-policy?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://maps2.dcgis.dc.gov/dcgis/rest/services/FEEDS/DCRA/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: Open Data DC (https://opendata.dc.gov?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 27%
- Registered name: ✓
- Entity type: ✓
- Principal address: ✓

## Score

- Overall score: 87.1
- Price score: 100
- Accuracy score: 93
- Cost to get started score: 100
- 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 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: In order to operate legally in District of Columbia, most businesses must get a Basic Business License (BBL) from the Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection (DLCP).

## Data

- Countries: United States
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, the dataset's licence: "[...] a worldwide, royalty-free, non-sublicensable, non-exclusive, irrevocable license to exercise the Licensed Rights in the Licensed Material to: reproduce and Share the Licensed Material, in whole or in part, and produce, reproduce, and Share Adapted Material." "If You Share the Licensed Material (including in modified form), You must: retain the following if it is supplied by the Licensor with the Licensed Material: identification of the creator(s) of the Licensed Material and any others designated to receive attribution [...], a copyright notice, a notice that refers to this Public License, a notice that refers to the disclaimer of warranties, a URI or hyperlink to the Licensed Material to the extent reasonably practicable, indicate if You modified the Licensed Material and retain an indication of any previous modifications, and indicate the Licensed Material is licensed under this Public License, and include the text of, or the URI or hyperlink to, this Public License." "No downstream restrictions. You may not offer or impose any additional or different terms or conditions on, or apply any Effective Technological Measures to, the Licensed Material if doing so restricts exercise of the Licensed Rights by any recipient of the Licensed Material." "No endorsement. Nothing in this Public License constitutes or may be construed as permission to assert or imply that You are, or that Your use of the Licensed Material is, connected with, or sponsored, endorsed, or granted official status by, the Licensor or others designated to receive attribution [...]" "Patent and trademark rights are not licensed under this Public License."

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.71 s

## The call

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

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 40 fields the plan's answer can hold

customer number, license status, license type, license status date, license start date, license end date, initial issue date, business activity, premise address, premise in DC, entity name, entity trade name, entity type, primary activity flag, category service type, business owner first name, business owner middle name, business owner last name, billing address, agent first name, agent middle name, agent last name, agent entity, data refreshed on, ward, Advisory Neighborhood Commission, single member district, district, police service area, neighborhood cluster, business improvement district, main street, Master Address Repository ID, square, suffix and lot, latitude, longitude, X coordinate, Y coordinate, global ID, object ID

## Open Data DC's plans (1)

- [Open Data DC, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/open-data-dc/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 27% complete

## Open Data DC's calls (1)

- `GET /dcgis/rest/services/FEEDS/DCRA/FeatureServer/0/query`: [Open Data DC, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/open-data-dc/free/llms.txt)

## Open Data DC's APIs (2)

- [Open Data DC: business verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/open-data-dc/free/llms.txt)
- [Open Data DC: company discovery API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/open-data-dc/free/llms.txt)

## Open Data DC: 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
- [NPPES NPI Registry, free](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/nppes-npi-registry/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 9% 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://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode?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://maps2.dcgis.dc.gov/dcgis/rest/services/FEEDS/DCRA/FeatureServer/0?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://maps2.dcgis.dc.gov/dcgis/rest/services/FEEDS/DCRA/FeatureServer/0/query?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://maps2.dcgis.dc.gov/dcgis/rest/services/FEEDS/DCRA/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://opendata.dc.gov/api/search/v1/collections/dataset/items?q=basic%20business%20licenses&limit=3&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://opendata.dc.gov/pages/data-policy?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing