data.boston.gov pricing: company discovery API, GET /
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$0.00per 1,000 companiesWe haven't run data.boston.gov through our company discovery API benchmark yet.We rank 1,326 plans for company discovery APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.498 or less per 1,000 companies. This plan and 200 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 companies of the 1,326 plans. See the best free company discovery API plan.PeopleSearch.im's $5 pack covers any number of companies. PeopleSearch.im's $5 pack costs less up front than StackScan's $189 monthly plan.GetProspect, Hunter and PeopleSearch.im are the best company discovery API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: No API key data.boston.gov's only plan
Call:
GET /, Active Food Establishment Licenses one of data.boston.gov's 2 callsGET /, Active Food Establishment LicensesFree, No API key$0.00 per 1,000api/ 3/ action/ datastore_ search GET /, Licensing Board LicensesFree, No API key$0.00 per 1,000api/ 3/ action/ datastore_ search
API: Company discovery API one of data.boston.gov's 2 APIs
- Business verification API
GET /, Active Food Establishment Licensesapi/ 3/ action/ datastore_ search - Business verification API
GET /, Licensing Board Licensesapi/ 3/ action/ datastore_ search - Company discovery API
About this item
- A copy at most 1 day old. You get companies from data.boston.gov's database.
- 1 of the 13 fields on our checklist. Headquarters.
- Nothing to pay. data.boston.gov limits how many pages you get but gives no number.
- One call. You call
GET /withapi/ 3/ action/ datastore_ search resource_set to "f1e13724-284d-478c-b8bc-ef042aa5b70b". The call returns the matching companies.id - Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
data.boston.gov: company discovery API alternatives
data.boston.gov alternatives: other company discovery API providers by price
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 plandata.boston.gov, free, No API key, GET /api/3/action/datastore_search, Active Food Establishment Licenses | Loopster, free | Findymail, free trial, POST /api/intellimatch/search, Search leads | Sumble, free, POST /v9/organizations, Organizations | Captapi, free | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 companies | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| Completeness | 8% | 23% | 31% | 54% | 38% |
| Billing | free | free | free | free | free |
| Pay | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Enough for | not published | 30,000 pages a month | not published | 500 results a month | 50 pages, once |
| Freshness | 1 day | 1 day | live | 1 day | live |
| Who can get it | anyone | anyone, no credit card needed | anyone 18 or over | anyone 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 at least 18 years old, once their email is verified |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-09.
- data.boston.gov
- data.boston.gov/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=f1e13724-284d-478c-b8bc-ef042aa5b70b&limit=2
- data.boston.gov/api/3/action/package_search?q=business%20license&rows=10
- data.boston.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=active-food-establishment-licenses
- docs.ckan.org/en/2.10/maintaining/datastore.html
- docs.ckan.org/en/latest/api/index.html
- opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/1-0/
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, not in the answer
- 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
- Locations, not in the answer
- Funding, not in the answer
- Revenue and budgets, not in the answer
- Parents, not in the answer
- Phones, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 companies | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | page of 32,000 |
| Billing | free |
| Aggregators | none |
|---|
| Most per search | no limit |
|---|---|
| Also pays for | nothing else |
| $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | This dataset contains a list of restaurants that met the City's standards to become licensed food service establishments. |
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| Freshness | 1 day |
|---|---|
| Countries | United States |
| Keep data | no limit |
| Use data | Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL), the datasets' licence: "[...] there are no restrictions or requirements placed on the recipient by this document. Recipients may use this work commercially, use technical protection measures, combine this data or database with other databases or data, and share their changes and additions or keep them secret. It is not a requirement that recipients provide further users with a copy of this licence or attribute the original creator of the data or database as a source. [...]" |
| Pay | $0 |
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| Batch | 1 |
|---|
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | resource_id "f1e13724-284d-478c-b8bc-ef042aa5b70b". Optional: q, filters, full_text, distinct, plain, language, limit, offset, fields, sort, include_total, total_estimation_threshold, records_format |
|---|---|
| Method | GET |
| Path | /api/3/action/datastore_search |
| Plan | No API key |
|---|---|
| Who can get it | anyone |
The 14 fields the plan's answer can hold
business name, DBA name, street address, city, state, ZIP code, license status, license category, license description, license added date, day phone, property ID, latitude and longitude, total results