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USAspending Review, Pricing, and Features
USAspending
USAspending.gov is the U.S. government's free source for federal awards, contracts, grants, loans, recipients, agencies, spending categories, maps, downloads, and APIs. It can add contract and government-demand context to company research, but it is not market data or a valuation service.
Best for
- Investors and builders needing official U.S. federal award, agency, recipient, account, and contract/grant spending data for government-exposure research.
- Researchers working with the official USAspending open-data source and a no-authorization API.
- Market maps and thematic research workflows that need to connect public companies, contractors, industries, and agencies to federal spending trends.
Watch out
- USAspending tracks federal obligations, outlays, awards, and recipients, not stock prices, security identifiers, or company fundamentals.
- USAspending refreshes daily, but underlying systems publish on different schedules and some award data can lag.
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Pricing
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Key features
- Search federal awards, recipients, agencies, accounts, contracts, grants, loans, direct payments, insurance, and other assistance records.
- Advanced Search filters such as award type, date, place of performance, NAICS, PSC, Assistance Listing, agency, recipient, and disaster-emergency funding codes.
- Explore spending through Spending Explorer, agency profiles, and federal-account profiles before opening awards and recipients.
- The public REST API V2 with JSON responses for award and account workflows; current endpoint docs say authorization is not required.
- Download award archives, filtered awards, account data, search results, award profiles, and database files.
- Connections for prime-award and subaward records when researching contractor, grant, agency, or thematic government-spending exposure.
- Use government identifiers such as UEI, PIID, FAIN, URI, and CAGE. Ticker mapping is not provided.
- Reporting cadence: USAspending refreshes daily, but source systems publish on different schedules and some records can lag.
- Data Lab stories and public methodology documentation to understand federal spending structure, definitions, and known publication limits.
- USAspending is official public-sector spending data, not market prices, security identifiers, broker execution, financial statements, or normalized public-company fundamentals.
FAQ
Is USAspending free?
USAspending is free to use. Visit the vendor site for the latest limits and onboarding details.
Who is USAspending best for?
It suits beginner, intermediate, and advanced users.
What platforms and connections does USAspending support?
You can use USAspending on Web. USAspending offers an API (REST) with None authentication.
Which markets does USAspending cover?
USAspending covers North America. Examples include US. It tracks Other.
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