Rank #4
SEC EDGAR / data.sec.gov
The free source of truth for submissions, original filing packages and XBRL facts—with the engineering burden left to you.
01 / Positioning
The authoritative public source layer, not a managed parsing, normalization or AI-retrieval product.
02 / Capabilities
Official interfaces
- — Submission histories and filer metadata
- — Company Facts and XBRL frames
- — Original filing archives, attachments and bulk ZIP files
Discovery & timeliness
- — Official full-text search over more than 20 years
- — Latest Filings, RSS and professional Public Dissemination Service
Builder responsibilities
- — Entity mapping, retries, caching and backfills
- — HTML/SGML parsing, section detection and XBRL normalization
- — Keyword/vector indexes, chunking, reranking and citations
03 / Strengths
- ✓ Official source
- ✓ Original filings
- ✓ Submissions
- ✓ Company Facts
- ✓ Bulk archives
Limitations
- — Raw and heterogeneous documents
- — 10 requests/second Fair Access ceiling
- — Parsing, normalization, search, caching and AI retrieval remain your job
Pricing and provider claims
Free; no API key. Fair Access policies apply.
SEC states JSON structures update throughout the day and bulk ZIPs are generated nightly.
Automated access is limited to 10 requests per second per user under current guidance.
Choose it when
- Canonical source and verification
- Owned data lakes
- Low-volume direct integrations
Provider alternatives
sec-api.io: Choose when managed ingestion and parsing save engineering time.Datamule: Choose for lower-level bulk and real-time building blocks.Editorial information, not investment or legal advice. Verify current coverage, pricing and licensing before procurement.
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