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SEC API pricing and alternatives: company discovery API, GET /sector/{sector}

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15% complete: 2 of the 13 key fields we checkSee the 13 fields
$0.00per 1,000 companiesWe rank 546 plans by price. Coresignal's $49 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 companies: as little as $0.0000038. Coresignal's $49 monthly plan covers up to 12,960,000 pages a month at no extra cost. Each page holds 1,000 companies.PeopleSearch.im's $5 pack covers any number of companies. PeopleSearch.im's $5 pack costs less to start than Coresignal's $49 monthly plan.GetProspect, Hunter and Skrapp are the best company discovery API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of SEC API's 6 plans
Call: GET /sector/{sector} one of SEC API's 3 calls for this API
API: Company discovery API one of SEC API's 5 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 1 day old. You get companies from SEC API's database.
  • 2 of the 13 key fields we check. Industry, Locations.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 requests once, enough for 100 pages. Calls stop once your requests run out.
  • One call. You send sector to GET /sector/{sector}. The call returns the matching companies.
  • Who can get it: anyone, no credit card required. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

SEC API: company discovery API alternatives

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 planSEC API, free, GET /sector/{sector}Findymail, free trial, POST /api/intellimatch/search, Search leadsSerpKite, freeSerpBase, freeSumble, free, POST /v9/organizations, Organizations
$ per 1,000 companies$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness15%31%23%38%46%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0
Enough for100 pages, oncenot published1,000 pages a month250 pages500 results a month
Freshness1 daylivelivelive1 day
Who can get itanyone, no credit card requiredanyone 18 or overanyone at least 18 and able to form a binding contract, with a verified email address (disposable email addresses are blocked)anyoneanyone 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')

Every company discovery API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-28.

  1. sec-api.io
  2. sec-api.io/docs/mapping-api
  3. sec-api.io/docs/mapping-api/list-companies-by-sector
  4. sec-api.io/policies/terms-of-service
  5. sec-api.io/pricing

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
  • 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, not in the answer
  • Locations
  • Funding, not in the answer
  • Revenue and budgets, not in the answer
  • Parents, not in the answer
  • Phones, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 companies$0.00
Perpage, size not stated
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Most per searchno limit
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchThe Mapping API resolves a ticker symbol, CIK, CUSIP or company name to a set of standardized company details.
Data
Freshness1 day
Keep datano limit
Use data"Customers enrolled in the free \"Start\" Subscription may only use the Services for personal, non-commercial purposes and may not display or distribute Provider Data to third parties in any manner." "Customer will not, and will not allow third parties under its control to: (i) copy, modify, create a derivative work of, reverse engineer, decompile, translate, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to extract any or all of the source code of the Services [...], [...] (iii) resell or distribute any or all of the Services separately from any integrated Application, (iv) create multiple Applications or Accounts to simulate or act as a single Application or Account (respectively) or otherwise access the Services in a manner intended to avoid incurring Fees or exceed usage quotas [...]" "If Customer distributes Provider Data, Customer must state that the data was provided by Provider and provide a hyperlink to https://sec-api.io." "Customer may not publicly disclose, directly or through a third party, the results of any comparative or compatibility testing, benchmarking, or evaluation (each, a \"Test\") of the Services, unless the disclosure includes all information necessary for Provider or a third party to replicate the Test and includes the right to use the information necessary to replicate the Test. [...]" Pricing page, Usage: Personal & Startups "Personal. For startups: business internal.", Business Internal Use "Business internal only.", Enterprise & Institutions "Business internal + redistribution and reselling."
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 requests
Enough for100 pages, once
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendsector
MethodGET
Path/sector/{sector}
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone, no credit card required
The 17 fields the plan's answer can hold

name, ticker, CIK, CUSIP, exchange, delisted, security category, sector, industry, SIC code, SIC sector, SIC industry, Fama-French sector, Fama-French industry, currency, location, ID

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