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SEC API pricing and alternatives: cached company discovery API, GET /exchange/{exchange}

SEC API's sitellms.txtBest company discovery API in 2026
15% complete: 2 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields
$0.00per 1,000 companiesThe cheapest of the 328 plans we rank by price is Deepline, top-up. Deepline's cached company discovery API costs nothing beyond the plan price.GetProspect, Hunter and Skrapp are the best cached company discovery API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of SEC API's 6 plans
Call: GET /exchange/{exchange} one of SEC API's 3 calls for this API
API: Cached company discovery API one of SEC API's 5 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 1 day old. You get companies from SEC API's database.
  • 2 of the 13 key fields we check. Industry, Locations.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 requests once, enough for 100 pages. Calls stop once your requests run out.
  • One call. You send exchange to GET /exchange/{exchange}. The call returns the matching companies.
  • Who can get it: anyone, no credit card required. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

SEC API: cached company discovery API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 companies. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a day old.

This planSEC API, free, GET /exchange/{exchange}Sumble, free, POST /v9/organizations, OrganizationsHirebase, freeExploreYC, free, GET /searchDanskCVRAPI, free, Hobby, GET /companies/search
$ per 1,000 companies$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness15%46%69%62%46%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0DKK 0
Enough for100 pages, once500 results a month50 results a month5 pages a day1,000 pages a month
Freshness1 day1 day1 day1 day1 minute
Who can get itanyone, no credit card requiredanyone who can form a binding contract with Sumble and is at least 18 (the terms: 'You may only use the Services if you can form a binding contract with Company', 'you are at least 18 years of age')anyone 16 or over who can form a binding contract (the terms: "You must be at least 16 years old and able to form a binding contract", commercial use requires an API plan), one free account for each person or organizationanyoneanyone with an account, no card required, Danish companies (CVR numbers), Norwegian ones need Pro

Every cached company discovery API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-28.

  1. sec-api.io
  2. sec-api.io/docs/mapping-api
  3. sec-api.io/docs/mapping-api/list-companies-by-exchange
  4. sec-api.io/policies/terms-of-service
  5. sec-api.io/pricing

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Description, not in the answer
  • Industry
  • Type and status, not in the answer
  • Images, not in the answer
  • Technologies, not in the answer
  • Employees, not in the answer
  • Social profiles, not in the answer
  • Headquarters, not in the answer
  • Locations
  • Funding, not in the answer
  • Revenue and budgets, not in the answer
  • Parents, not in the answer
  • Phones, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 companies$0.00
Perpage, size not stated
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Most per searchno limit
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchThe Mapping API resolves a ticker symbol, CIK, CUSIP or company name to a set of standardized company details.
Data
Freshness1 day
Keep datano limit
Use data"Customers enrolled in the free \"Start\" Subscription may only use the Services for personal, non-commercial purposes and may not display or distribute Provider Data to third parties in any manner." "Customer will not, and will not allow third parties under its control to: (i) copy, modify, create a derivative work of, reverse engineer, decompile, translate, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to extract any or all of the source code of the Services [...], [...] (iii) resell or distribute any or all of the Services separately from any integrated Application, (iv) create multiple Applications or Accounts to simulate or act as a single Application or Account (respectively) or otherwise access the Services in a manner intended to avoid incurring Fees or exceed usage quotas [...]" "If Customer distributes Provider Data, Customer must state that the data was provided by Provider and provide a hyperlink to https://sec-api.io." "Customer may not publicly disclose, directly or through a third party, the results of any comparative or compatibility testing, benchmarking, or evaluation (each, a \"Test\") of the Services, unless the disclosure includes all information necessary for Provider or a third party to replicate the Test and includes the right to use the information necessary to replicate the Test. [...]" Pricing page, Usage: Personal & Startups "Personal. For startups: business internal.", Business Internal Use "Business internal only.", Enterprise & Institutions "Business internal + redistribution and reselling."
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 requests
Enough for100 pages, once
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendexchange
MethodGET
Path/exchange/{exchange}
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone, no credit card required
The 17 fields the plan's answer can hold

name, ticker, CIK, CUSIP, exchange, delisted, security category, sector, industry, SIC code, SIC sector, SIC industry, Fama-French sector, Fama-French industry, currency, location, ID

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