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USAspending Review, Pricing, and Features
USAspending is the official U.S. federal spending open-data portal for awards, recipients, agencies, federal accounts, contracts, grants, loans, and other spending records. It helps investors and builders research government exposure and contractor trends, but it is not a securities dataset, ticker map, market-data feed, company fundamentals provider, or investment-advice tool.
Best for
- Investors and builders who need official U.S. federal award, agency, recipient, account, and contract/grant spending data for government-exposure research.
- Researchers who need 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
Free
Free
Key features
- Search tools across federal awards, recipients, agencies, federal 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.
- Tools for exploring top-down spending through Spending Explorer, agency profiles, and federal-account profiles before drilling into 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 support for data through award archives, custom award downloads, custom account downloads, Advanced Search exports, award profile downloads, and the full database download.
- Connections for prime-award and subaward records when researching contractor, grant, agency, or thematic government-spending exposure.
- UEI and other government identifiers such as PIID, FAIN, URI, and CAGE where applicable; do not expect clean ticker-first company mapping.
- 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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