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 /, Licensing Board 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
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- 2 of the 13 fields on our checklist. Headquarters, Locations.
- 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 "04dc653b-1789-4374-9669-b07df7233344". 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.
| This plandata.boston.gov, free, No API key, GET /api/3/action/datastore_search, Licensing Board Licenses | GetProspect, free | Hunter, free, POST /discover | PeopleSearch.im, free | AnVendor, free, POST /v1/leads/search | Creditsafe, free | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 companies | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| Completeness | 15% | 62% | 54% | 38% | 23% | 8% |
| Billing | free | free | free | free | free | free |
| Pay | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Enough for | not published | no limit | 2,160,000 pages a month | no limit | no limit | not published |
| Freshness | unknown | stored | stored | stored | stored | unknown |
| Who can get it | anyone | anyone 16 or over | anyone 18 or over | new accounts | anyone 18 or over, for their own internal business purposes | anyone with a business email |
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=04dc653b-1789-4374-9669-b07df7233344&limit=2
- data.boston.gov/api/3/action/package_search?q=business%20license&rows=10
- data.boston.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=licensing-board-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
- 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 |
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| Most per search | no limit |
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| Also pays for | nothing else |
| $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | The Licensing Board issues a variety of licenses under MGL Chapter 138 and Chapter 140 including Billiards, Bowling, Common Victualler (Food Service), Alcoholic Beverages, Innholder, and Dormitories/Lodging houses. This dataset lists all licenses that are currently active. |
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| Countries | United States |
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| 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 |
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| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | resource_id "04dc653b-1789-4374-9669-b07df7233344". 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 |
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| Who can get it | anyone |
The 27 fields the plan's answer can hold
license number, historical license number, license status, license category, license type, issue date, expiration date, business name, DBA name, comments, location comments, opening time, closing time, patrons out time, capacity, premises description, applicant, manager, day phone, evening phone, street address, city, state, ZIP code, GPS X coordinate, GPS Y coordinate, total results