# data.detroitmi.gov, free: Company discovery API

> Business licenses issued by BSEED.

data.detroitmi.gov's Free plan for the company discovery API costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. We check each provider's docs for 13 fields. data.detroitmi.gov's docs list 1: Headquarters.
data.detroitmi.gov limits how many pages you get but gives no number.
We haven't run data.detroitmi.gov through [our company discovery API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt) yet.
We rank 1,178 plans for company discovery APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.50 or less per 1,000 companies. This plan and 173 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 companies of the 1,178 plans. [See the best free company discovery API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
[PeopleSearch.im's $5 pack](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/peoplesearch-im/5-pack/llms.txt) covers any number of companies. PeopleSearch.im's $5 pack costs less up front than StackScan's $189 monthly plan.
[GetProspect](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/getprospect/49-monthly/llms.txt), [Hunter](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/hunter/49-monthly-starter-post-discover/llms.txt) and [PeopleSearch.im](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/peoplesearch-im/5-pack/llms.txt) are the best company discovery API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/data-detroitmi-gov/free
- [Company discovery API: the best of 100+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
- Get it: https://data.detroitmi.gov/pages/about-detroit-open-data?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://services2.arcgis.com/qvkbeam7Wirps6zC/arcgis/rest/services/bseed_active_business_licenses/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=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Sold by: data.detroitmi.gov (https://data.detroitmi.gov?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-09

## In the answer

- Completeness: 8%
- Headquarters: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: no limit
- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Business licenses issued by BSEED.

## Data

- Countries: United States
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Terms of Use developed by the Department of Information Technology ("DoIT"), which its Disclaimer page points to: "Any user of the City of Detroit ("City" or "The City") data portal agrees to all of the following disclaimers and waives all claims against, and to hold harmless, the City of Detroit, its agents, appointees, elected officials, and employees with regard to any matter related to the use or the contents of the data portal." "Public data made available on the City of Detroit data portal is provided as a public service, on an "AS-IS" basis, and for informational purposes only." "The City of Detroit data portal and all public data contained on such portal shall be subject to Terms of Use developed by the Department of Information Technology ("DoIT")" "The City shall reserve the right to discontinue availability of content on the City of Detroit data portal at any time and for any reason." Its About page: "The portal offers access to standardized data that can be easily retrieved, combined, downloaded, sorted, searched, analyzed, redistributed and re-used by individuals, business, researchers, journalists, developers, and government [...]"

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: where, outFields, objectIds, time, having, returnDistinctValues, returnIdsOnly, returnCountOnly, orderByFields, groupByFieldsForStatistics, outStatistics, resultOffset, resultRecordCount, sqlFormat
- Method: GET
- Path: /arcgis/rest/services/bseed_active_business_licenses/FeatureServer/0/query

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 20 fields the plan's answer can hold

record ID, business name, address, license type, license category, expiration date, neighborhood, council district, ZIP code, street number, street prefix, street name, street type, parcel ID, address ID, longitude, latitude, object ID, X coordinate, Y coordinate

## data.detroitmi.gov's plans (1)

- [data.detroitmi.gov, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/data-detroitmi-gov/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 8% complete

## data.detroitmi.gov's calls (1)

- `GET /arcgis/rest/services/bseed_active_business_licenses/FeatureServer/0/query`: [data.detroitmi.gov, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/data-detroitmi-gov/free/llms.txt)

## data.detroitmi.gov's APIs (2)

- [data.detroitmi.gov: business verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-detroitmi-gov/free/llms.txt)
- [data.detroitmi.gov: company discovery API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/data-detroitmi-gov/free/llms.txt)

## data.detroitmi.gov: company discovery API alternatives

- [GetProspect, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/getprospect/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 62% complete, stored
- [Hunter, free, POST /discover](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/hunter/free-post-discover/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 54% complete, stored
- [PeopleSearch.im, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/peoplesearch-im/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete, stored
- [AnVendor, free, POST /v1/leads/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/anvendor/free-post-v1-leads-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, stored
- [data.cityofnewyork.us, free, Application token](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/data-cityofnewyork-us/free-application-token/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, 1 week

## 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.

- https://data.detroitmi.gov/api/search/v1/collections/dataset/items?q=business%20licenses%20current&limit=3&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://developers.arcgis.com/rest/services-reference/enterprise/query-feature-service-layer/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://services2.arcgis.com/qvkbeam7Wirps6zC/arcgis/rest/services/bseed_active_business_licenses/FeatureServer/0/query?where=1%3D1&outFields=*&resultRecordCount=2&f=json&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://services2.arcgis.com/qvkbeam7Wirps6zC/arcgis/rest/services/bseed_active_business_licenses/FeatureServer/0?f=json&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/content/items/05389654d3aa4516940ec6978745489b/data?f=json&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/content/items/2addfbf566464896b4aa032ac873549b?f=json&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/content/items/3d3439cc799c424aa009af63efdc7ab1/data?f=json&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/content/items/e055d4ab2ee440798e0682f3d9ce0ef0/data?f=json&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing