# data.wprdc.org, free: Company discovery API

> Current and historical business licenses for the City of Pittsburgh ranging from entertainment to contract workers.

data.wprdc.org'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.wprdc.org's docs list 4: Industry, Employees, Headquarters, Phones.
data.wprdc.org limits how many pages you get but gives no number.
We haven't run data.wprdc.org through [our company discovery API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt) yet.
We rank 1,165 plans for company discovery APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.525 or less per 1,000 companies. This plan and 170 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 companies of the 1,165 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-wprdc-org/free
- [Company discovery API: the best of 100+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-company-discovery-api.txt)
- Get it: https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/business-contractors-trades?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://data.wprdc.org/api/3/action/datastore_search`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://data.wprdc.org/api/3/action/help_show?name=datastore_search&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- Sold by: data.wprdc.org (https://data.wprdc.org?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-09

## In the answer

- Completeness: 31%
- Industry: ✓
- Employees: ✓
- Headquarters: ✓
- Phones: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 companies: $0.00
- Per: page of 32,000
- 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: Current and historical business licenses for the City of Pittsburgh ranging from entertainment to contract workers.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 week
- Countries: United States
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Creative Commons CCZero, the dataset's licence, and the Data Use Agreement: "UCSUR hereby grants User permission to access and use the Data from the WPRDC pursuant to the license terms, restrictions, or designations placed upon the Data by the Data owner and depositor. This grant shall not include permission to use Non-Public Information which is inadvertently deposited in the WPRDC." The licence: "[...] for any purpose whatsoever, including without limitation commercial, advertising or promotional purposes (the "Waiver") [...] No trademark or patent rights held by Affirmer are waived, abandoned, surrendered, licensed or otherwise affected by this document."

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: resource_id "e88c10d5-541d-417f-aef6-25cc5637aeb1". Optional: filters, q, full_text, distinct, plain, language, limit, offset, fields, sort, include_total, records_format, include_next_page
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/3/action/datastore_search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 31 fields the plan's answer can hold

record ID, license number, license type name, NAICS code, business name, license state, initial issue date, most recent issue date, effective date, expiration date, parcel number, street address, email address, primary phone number, insurance expiration date, number of buildings, number of employees, number of large signs, number of small signs, total number of signs, number of handicap spaces, number of non-leased public spaces, number of revenue-generating spaces, total number of spaces, number of jukeboxes, number of gambling machines, number of rooms, number of seats, number of pool tables, number of units, total results

## data.wprdc.org's plans (1)

- [data.wprdc.org, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/data-wprdc-org/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 31% complete, 1 week

## data.wprdc.org's calls (1)

- `GET /api/3/action/datastore_search`: [data.wprdc.org, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/data-wprdc-org/free/llms.txt)

## data.wprdc.org's APIs (2)

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

## data.wprdc.org: company discovery API alternatives

- [Loopster, free](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/loopster/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 23% complete, 1 day
- [Findymail, free trial, POST /api/intellimatch/search, Search leads](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/findymail/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 31% complete, live
- [Sumble, free, POST /v9/organizations, Organizations](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/sumble/free-post-v9-organizations-organizations/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 54% complete, 1 day
- [Lusha, free, POST /v3/companies/prospecting, Prospecting Companies](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/lusha/free-post-v3-companies-prospecting-prospecting-companies/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 31% 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://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://data.wprdc.org/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=e88c10d5-541d-417f-aef6-25cc5637aeb1&limit=2&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://data.wprdc.org/api/3/action/datastore_search?resource_id=e88c10d5-541d-417f-aef6-25cc5637aeb1&limit=40000&fields=_id&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://data.wprdc.org/api/3/action/help_show?name=datastore_search&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://data.wprdc.org/api/3/action/package_search?q=business%20license&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing
- https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/business-contractors-trades?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=company-discovery-api-pricing