USAspending pricing: company hierarchy API
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33% complete: 1 of the 3 key fields we checkSee the 3 fields
$0.00per 1,000 companiesIn our company hierarchy API benchmark, USAspending scores 0.0 out of 100 on this plan.Half of the 54 plans we rank by price cost $28.00 per 1,000 companies or less. This plan and 10 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 companies of the 54 plans.GlobalEntity API's €59 monthly plan covers any number of companies in 54 countries only. GlobalEntity API's €59 monthly plan costs less up front than DanskCVRAPI's DKK 599 monthly plan.DiscoLike, Bigdata.com and Magellan Data are the best company hierarchy API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Free USAspending's only plan
Call:
GET / api/ v2/ recipient/ children/ {duns_ or_ uei}/ USAspending's only callAPI: Company hierarchy API USAspending's only API
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- 1 of the 3 key fields we check. Family tree.
- Nothing to pay. You get as many calls as you like.
- One call. You send
duns_toor_ uei GET /. You can also sendapi/ v2/ recipient/ children/ {duns_ or_ uei}/ year. The call returns the company's family tree. - Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
USAspending: company hierarchy API alternatives
USAspending alternatives: every company hierarchy API provider ranked
We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 companies.
| This planUSAspending, free | Bigdata.com, free | Magellan Data, free, 10,000 free credits, POST /v1/corporate_families | SEC API, free | Zephira, free trial, GET /kyb/{id}/group-structures/full | |
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| $ per 1,000 companies | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| Completeness | 33% | 100% | 67% | 67% | 67% |
| Billing | free | free | free | free | free |
| Pay | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Enough for | no limit | not published | 500 results, once | 100 calls, once | 3 calls |
| Freshness | unknown | stored | unknown | 1 minute | unknown |
| Who can get it | anyone | anyone at least 18 years old (an individual, or a business through its admin), self sign-up, no card required | anyone aged 18 or over with a valid business email address, one set of promotional credits per person per company | anyone, no credit card required | businesses and professionals, at least 18 and authorised to act for the organisation, no credit card required |
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.
- api.usaspending.gov
- api.usaspending.gov/docs/endpoints
- raw.githubusercontent.com/fedspendingtransparency/usaspending-api/master/usaspending_api/api_contracts/contracts/v2/recipient/children/duns_or_uei.md
- usaspending.gov/about?section=frequency-of-updates-to-prime-award-data-for-contracts-procurement
- usaspending.gov/db_info
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Company, not in the answer
- Parent, not in the answer
- Family tree
| Overall score | 0.0. We give it 0 overall because its Accuracy score is 0. |
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| Price score | 100 |
| Accuracy score | 0 |
| Cost to get started score | 100 |
| Bundle score | 0 |
| Performance score | 0. We could not measure how fast this provider answers a call, so we count it as 0. |
| $ per 1,000 companies | $0.00 |
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| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Aggregators | none |
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| Also pays for | nothing else |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | The USAspending API (Application Programming Interface) allows the public to access comprehensive U.S. government spending data. |
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| Full family tree | no |
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| Keep data | no limit |
| Use data | The data on this site is available to copy, adapt, redistribute, or otherwise use for non-commercial or for commercial purposes, subject to the Limitation on Permissible Use of Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. Data [...] By using this website you agree that you shall not use D&B Open Data without giving written attribution to the source of such data (i.e., D&B) and shall not access, use or disseminate D&B Open Data in bulk, (i.e., in amounts sufficient for use as an original source or as a substitute for the product and/or service being licensed hereunder). Except for data elements identified above as D&B Open Data, under no circumstances are you authorized to use any other D&B data for commercial, resale or marketing purposes (e.g., identifying, quantifying, segmenting and/or analyzing customers and prospective customers). Systematic access (electronic harvesting) or extraction of content from the website, including the use of "bots" or "spiders", is prohibited. |
| Pay | $0 |
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| Enough for | no limit |
| Batch | 1 |
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| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | duns_or_uei. Optional: year |
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| Method | GET |
| Path | /api/v2/recipient/children/{duns_or_uei}/ |
| Plan | Free |
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| Who can get it | anyone |
The 6 fields the plan's answer can hold
child recipient name, child recipient DUNS, child recipient UEI, child recipient ID, child recipient state or province, child recipient transaction amount