# SEC API, free: Cached leadership change API

> The Director and Officer Changes Data API provides access to a database of changes in directors, officers and compensation plans, extracted from material event disclosures filed under Item 5.02 of Form 8-K.

SEC API's cached leadership change API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 changes. It returns all 3 key fields we check: Change, Person, Company.
The cheapest of the 20 plans we rank by price is [PredictLeads, pay as you go, 10,001-100,000 API Calls, GET /companies/{company_id_or_domain}/news_events](https://datacircle.dev/cached-leadership-change-apis/predictleads/pay-as-you-go-10001-100000-api-calls-get-companies-company-id-or-domain-news-events/llms.txt), at $0.01 per 1,000 changes. PredictLeads charges for each page of results. The $0.01 price is for pages of 1,000 changes each.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/cached-leadership-change-apis/sec-api/free
- Get it: https://sec-api.io/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.sec-api.io/form-8k`
- API key: with the plan, on https://sec-api.io/pricing
- Its API docs: https://sec-api.io/docs/director-officer-changes-form-8k-item-5-02-data-api
- Sold by: SEC API (https://sec-api.io)
- Checked: 2026-10-28

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Change: ✓
- Person: ✓
- Company: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 changes: $0.00
- Per: page of 50
- Billing: free

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: The Director and Officer Changes Data API provides access to a database of changes in directors, officers and compensation plans, extracted from material event disclosures filed under Item 5.02 of Form 8-K.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 minute
- Keep data: no 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 get: 100 requests
- Enough for: 100 pages, once

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: from, size, sort
- Method: POST
- Path: /form-8k

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone, no credit card required

## The 44 fields the plan's answer can hold

ID, accession number, filing date, period of report, form type, CIK, ticker, company name, items disclosed, key components, change type, departure type, effective date, positions, reason, person name, age, continued positions, positions at other companies, academic affiliations, background, previous positions, family relationships, one-time pay, annual pay, equity pay, equity vesting, no compensation, restitution, continued consulting role, consulting end date, amendment summary, term extended, term shortened, old term end date, term end date, compensation increased, compensation decreased, disagreements, interim, bonus plans, organization changes, additional reportable events, total results

## SEC API's plans (6)

- [SEC API, free](https://datacircle.dev/cached-leadership-change-apis/sec-api/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 1 minute
- [SEC API, $55 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/cached-leadership-change-apis/sec-api/55-monthly/llms.txt): 100% complete, 1 minute
- [SEC API, $239 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/cached-leadership-change-apis/sec-api/239-monthly/llms.txt): 100% complete, 1 minute
- [SEC API, $588 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/cached-leadership-change-apis/sec-api/588-yearly/llms.txt): 100% complete, 1 minute
- [SEC API, $2,388 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/cached-leadership-change-apis/sec-api/2388-yearly/llms.txt): 100% complete, 1 minute
- [SEC API, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/cached-leadership-change-apis/sec-api/contact-us/llms.txt): 100% complete, 1 minute

## SEC API's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /form-8k`: [SEC API, free](https://datacircle.dev/cached-leadership-change-apis/sec-api/free/llms.txt)

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## 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.

- https://sec-api.io
- https://sec-api.io/docs/director-officer-changes-form-8k-item-5-02-data-api
- https://sec-api.io/policies/terms-of-service
- https://sec-api.io/pricing