# data.pa.gov, free, With an application token: Company discovery API

> ALL active business registrations in the data to include: business corporations, nonprofit corporations, limited liability companies, limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, limited liability limited partnerships, business trusts, land banks, municipal and other authorities.

data.pa.gov's company discovery API on its With an application token plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. It returns 2 of the 13 key fields we check: Type and status, Headquarters.
You get as many pages as you like.
We haven't run data.pa.gov through [our company discovery API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt) yet.
Half of the 771 plans we rank by price cost $1.00 per 1,000 companies or less. This plan and 56 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 companies of the 771 plans.
[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-pa-gov/free-with-an-application-token
- [Company discovery API: 60+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
- Get it: https://dev.socrata.com/docs/app-tokens.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://data.pa.gov/resource/xvd7-5r2c.json`
- API key: with the plan, on https://dev.socrata.com/docs/app-tokens.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://dev.socrata.com/foundry/data.pa.gov/xvd7-5r2c?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Sold by: data.pa.gov (https://data.pa.gov?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-02

## In the answer

- Completeness: 15%
- Type and status: ✓
- 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: ALL active business registrations in the data to include: business corporations, nonprofit corporations, limited liability companies, limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, limited liability limited partnerships, business trusts, land banks, municipal and other authorities.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 month
- Countries: United States
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "Data sets available through data.pa.gov are offered free and without restriction. [...] While not required, when using data from data.pa.gov in your own work, we ask that proper credit be given."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- Enough for: no limit

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: $where on typeofbusinessregistration, shortcountyname, county_code, city, state, zip or creationdate. Optional: $limit, $offset, $order
- Method: GET
- Path: /resource/xvd7-5r2c.json

## About the plan

- Plan: With an application token
- Who can get it: anyone who registers an application token in a Socrata profile

## The 21 fields the plan's answer can hold

business name, filing number, address line 1, address line 2, city, state, ZIP code, type of business registration, creation date, governor or principal officer, officer last name, officer middle name, officer first name, county name, county code, latitude and longitude, county boundary, senatorial district, municipality boundary, house district, school district

## data.pa.gov's plans (2)

- [data.pa.gov, free, With an application token](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/data-pa-gov/free-with-an-application-token/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, 1 month
- [data.pa.gov, free, Without an application token](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/data-pa-gov/free-without-an-application-token/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, 1 month

## data.pa.gov's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /resource/xvd7-5r2c.json`: [data.pa.gov, free, With an application token](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/data-pa-gov/free-with-an-application-token/llms.txt)

## data.pa.gov's APIs (3)

- [data.pa.gov: business verification API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/data-pa-gov/free-with-an-application-token/llms.txt)
- [data.pa.gov: company discovery API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/data-pa-gov/free-with-an-application-token/llms.txt)
- [data.pa.gov: company enrichment API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/data-pa-gov/free-with-an-application-token/llms.txt)

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

- [AnVendor, free, POST /v1/scans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/anvendor/free-post-v1-scans/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, 30 days
- [AnyAPI, free trial key, POST /v1/run/company_search.ai_ark](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/anyapi/free-trial-key-post-v1-run-company-search-ai-ark/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 92% complete, 30 days
- [GetLeads, free, 1,000 credits, POST /api/v1/companies/search](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/getleads/free-1000-credits-post-api-v1-companies-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 46% complete, 1 month
- [Bloomberry, free API key, GET /accounts/tech.json](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/bloomberry/free-api-key-get-accounts-tech-json/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 54% complete, 14 days
- [data.lacity.org, free, Application token](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/data-lacity-org/free-application-token/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, 1 month

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-02.

- https://data.pa.gov/api/views/xvd7-5r2c.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://data.pa.gov/data-policy?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://data.pa.gov/resource/xvd7-5r2c.json?$limit=2
- https://dev.socrata.com/docs/app-tokens.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://dev.socrata.com/docs/queries/limit.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://dev.socrata.com/docs/queries/where.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://dev.socrata.com/docs/response-codes.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://dev.socrata.com/foundry/data.pa.gov/xvd7-5r2c?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing