# FDIC BankFind, free, API key: Local business search API

> Returns locations/branches of financial institutions.

FDIC BankFind's API key plan for the local business search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 places. We check each provider's docs for 8 fields. FDIC BankFind's docs list 2: Address, Coordinates.
FDIC BankFind limits how many pages you get but gives no number.
We ran FDIC BankFind in [our local business search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt). We didn't score any FDIC BankFind plan.
We rank 342 plans for local business search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.397 or less per 1,000 places. This plan and 13 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 places of the 342 plans. [See the best free local business search API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
[LeadSwift's $24.99 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/leadswift/24-99-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of places. LeadSwift's $24.99 monthly plan costs less up front than SerpData's $200 pack.
[LocationIQ](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/locationiq/100-monthly/llms.txt), [HERE](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/here/pay-as-you-go-base-plan-0-to-5000-requests-a-month/llms.txt) and [Foursquare](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/foursquare/pay-as-you-go-0-to-500-calls/llms.txt) are the best local business search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/fdic-bankfind/free-api-key
- [Local business search API: the best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-local-business-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://api.fdic.gov/banks/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.fdic.gov/banks/locations`
- API key: with the plan, on https://api.fdic.gov/banks/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://api.fdic.gov/banks/docs/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing#/Structure/searchLocations
- Sold by: FDIC BankFind (https://banks.data.fdic.gov?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 25%
- Address: ✓
- Coordinates: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 places: $0.00
- Per: page of 10,000
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Returns locations/branches of financial institutions.

## Data

- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: filters, fields, sort_by, sort_order, limit, offset
- Method: GET
- Path: /locations

## About the plan

- Plan: API key
- Who can get it: anyone who requests an API key on the FDIC Information and Support Center form

## The 27 fields the plan's answer can hold

FDIC certificate number, institution name, office name, branch number, FDIC unique number, main office flag, street address, city, county, state, state code, ZIP code, state and county number, latitude, longitude, service type, established date, institution class, minority depository institution status, core based statistical area name, core based statistical area number, combined statistical area name, combined statistical area number, metropolitan division name, metropolitan division number, run date, total results

## FDIC BankFind's plans (2)

- [FDIC BankFind, free, API key](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/fdic-bankfind/free-api-key/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 25% complete
- [FDIC BankFind, free, No API key](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/fdic-bankfind/free-no-api-key/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 25% complete

## FDIC BankFind's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /locations`: [FDIC BankFind, free, API key](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/fdic-bankfind/free-api-key/llms.txt)

## FDIC BankFind's APIs (3)

- [FDIC BankFind: business verification API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/fdic-bankfind/free-api-key/llms.txt)
- [FDIC BankFind: company discovery API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/fdic-bankfind/free-api-key/llms.txt)
- [FDIC BankFind: local business search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/fdic-bankfind/free-api-key/llms.txt)

## FDIC BankFind: local business search API alternatives

- [LocationIQ, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/locationiq/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 38% complete
- [HERE, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/here/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 75% complete, 24 hours
- [Foursquare, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/foursquare/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 63% complete
- [CityBotMagic, free preview, GET /api/v1/us/{state}/{city}.json](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/citybotmagic/free-preview-get-api-v1-us-state-city-json/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, stored
- [Discava, free](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/discava/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 25% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-08.

- https://api.fdic.gov/banks/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://api.fdic.gov/banks/docs/institution_properties.yaml?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://api.fdic.gov/banks/docs/location_properties.yaml?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://api.fdic.gov/banks/docs/swagger.yaml?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://ask.fdic.gov/fdicinformationandsupportcenter/s/fdicdirform?app=BankAPI&utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing
- https://www.fdic.gov/about/website-policies?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=local-business-search-api-pricing