OFAC Sanctions Search - SDN and Consolidated Lists

Search official U.S. Treasury OFAC sanctions data by primary name, alias, sanctions program, entity type, and country. The Actor joins OFAC's primary, alternate-name, address, and comments files into one flat record per listed party.

No API key, login, browser automation, or website scraping is required.

What data can I extract?

• SDN or consolidated non-SDN list membership and OFAC UID
• Primary names and alternate names
• Entity type and sanctions programs
• Addresses, cities, countries, and postal codes
• Individual titles and remarks
• Vessel call signs, types, tonnage, flag, and owner
• The exact primary or alias name that matched
• Official source URL and total match count

Input example

{
  "name": "GAZPROM",
  "match_mode": "contains",
  "list_scope": "all",
  "include_aliases": true,
  "max_items": 10
}

At least one of name, program, country, or entity_type must be supplied. max_items is always a hard output ceiling.

Output example

{
  "list_type": "SDN",
  "uid": "11233",
  "primary_name": "GAZPROM NEFT",
  "entity_type": "entity",
  "programs": "RUSSIA-EO14024",
  "aliases": "GAZPROMNEFT | GAZPROM NEFT PJSC",
  "countries": "Russia",
  "matched_name": "GAZPROM NEFT",
  "match_basis": "primary_name",
  "source_url": "https://ofac.treasury.gov/sanctions-list-service"
}

Common use cases

• Sanctions-data research and list-change investigation
• Vendor, customer, and counterparty review workflows
• Entity-resolution and alias research
• Compliance-data enrichment and quality assurance
• Investigative journalism and academic research

Use with AI agents and MCP

The flat joined schema lets an agent compare names and aliases, summarize list context, or route possible matches for human review without reconstructing OFAC's relational CSV exports.

Pricing and cost control

Output is billed per result at $0.005 per result (about $5.00 per 1,000 results), plus a $0.0005 Actor-start charge billed once per gigabyte of memory at run start. Use max_items to cap both output volume and charges. The price shown on the Apify Store listing is authoritative.

Reliability

Each run downloads the current official list exports, retries temporary transport and service failures, joins related rows by OFAC UID, validates the filters, and fails visibly on upstream errors. It does not silently substitute cached or third-party sanctions data.

Limitations and responsible use

• This is literal case-insensitive matching, not fuzzy identity resolution.
• A match is not a compliance decision, and no match is not clearance.
• Transliteration, spelling, date of birth, ownership, and other context can be essential to identification.
• OFAC controls source coverage, corrections, and update timing.
• Always verify possible matches using OFAC's current search tools and qualified compliance procedures.

Turn this into a sanctions-data refresh

1. Save a narrowly scoped Task for the names, programs, countries, or entity types you need to review.
2. Schedule periodic refreshes appropriate to your compliance process.
3. Add an ACTOR.RUN.SUCCEEDED Task webhook or integration and route resource.defaultDatasetId to a human-review queue; never treat a literal name match as automatic clearance or rejection.

Related fleet tools: GLEIF LEI Search supplies legal-entity identifiers and relationships, SEC EDGAR Filings Search supplies US public-company disclosures, and Company Registry Search covers UK, French, and global registry records.

FAQ

Does this search alternate names?

Yes. Leave include_aliases enabled to test the name query against OFAC alternate names and receive the matched alias in the output.

Are the SDN and non-SDN lists both included?

Yes by default. Use list_scope to restrict the run to SDN or consolidated non-SDN records.

Can this clear a person or company for a transaction?

No. It is a data-retrieval tool and does not replace identity resolution, ownership analysis, legal advice, or a sanctions-compliance program.