Alabama Contractor License Lookup & List - GenConBd

Alabama Contractor License List and GenConBd License Lookup (businesses only)

Every licensed Alabama general contractor and subcontractor business, from the Alabama Licensing Board for General Contractors' (GenConBd) official license verification list. About 11,000 active contractor businesses: roughly 6,900 prime / general contractor licenses and 4,100 subcontractor licenses, covering building construction, electrical, mechanical, plumbing, HVAC, heavy and highway work, municipal and utility work and other specialties. Each row has the business name, license number, license kind, specialty, bid limit, expiration date, business phone, address, city, state and ZIP.

Sample output (real rows, a few of the columns):

businessName	licenseType	licenseNumber	trade	expirationDate	city
1ST CHOICE ELECTRICAL LLC	Prime contractor	53745	E: ELECTRICAL	2026-09-30	Birmingham
#1 SOUTHEAST PLUMBING LLC	Subcontractor	S-53030	SUBCONTRACTOR: PLUMBING	2027-05-31	Ozark
3M CONSTRUCTION SERVICES LLC	Prime contractor	61614	BC-S: REMODELING AND ALTERATION, H/RR-S: INDUSTRIAL	2027-07-31	Saraland
4 SEASONS HEATING AND AIR OF LANETT LLC	Subcontractor	S-49490	SUBCONTRACTOR: HEATING, VENTILATION, AND AIR CONDITIONING	2027-09-30	Lanett

Quick start: 3 ready-made searches

Press Try for free, open the JSON view of the input form, paste one of these and press Start. Results appear in the Output tab in seconds and export to Excel or CSV.

Every active electrical contractor licensed in Alabama (about 1,200 rows, so at most $3.60)

{"categories": ["electrical"], "maxResults": 2000}

Prime contractors in Birmingham, Mobile and Huntsville expiring by the end of 2026 (renewal prospecting, at most $6.00)

{"categories": ["prime"], "cities": ["Birmingham", "Mobile", "Huntsville"], "expiresTo": "2026-12-31", "maxResults": 2000}

Verify a list of Alabama contractor licenses

{"licenseNumbers": ["53745", "S-53030", "61614"]}

Free to try: Apify's free plan ($5/month in credit, no card needed) covers about 1,600 records a month. Price: $3.00 per 1,000 results.

No browser, no proxies, no login, no API key. The Actor downloads the board's official GenConLicenses.csv verification list, so a full run takes a few seconds.

Three ways to use it

1. Alabama contractor license lookup / verification. Paste license numbers into licenseNumbers to check specialty, bid limit, expiration and address for a whole subcontractor list in one run.
2. Full Alabama contractor list. Filter by category (prime, subcontractor, building, electrical, mechanical, heavy), city, ZIP or business name.
3. Renewal prospecting. Use expiresFrom / expiresTo to find licenses coming up for renewal. The official file does not include a first-issue date.

Categories

categories value	What it includes	About (Nov 2026)
prime	State general contractor / prime licenses (numeric license numbers)	~6,900
subcontractor	Subcontractor licenses (S- prefix)	~4,100
building	Building construction and remodeling specialties	~4,100
electrical	Electrical specialties	~1,200
mechanical	Mechanical, plumbing and HVAC specialties	~1,100
heavy	Heavy, highway, railroad, municipal and utility specialties	~2,600

A license can match more than one trade category (for example a prime license that is both building and electrical).

What you get

Field	Example
businessName	1ST CHOICE ELECTRICAL LLC
licenseNumber, licenseType, licenseKind	53745, Prime contractor, prime
trade, category, bidLimit	E: ELECTRICAL, electrical, $3,000,000
licenseStatus, isActive	Active, true
expirationDate, extensionDate	2026-09-30, or an extension date when the board has one
businessAddress, businessPhone	business address and phone of record, for registered entities
city, state, zipCode	Birmingham, AL, 35203
verifyUrl, sourceUrl, sourceAgency, retrievedAt	official verification list, CSV URL, agency, timestamp

Input

Field	What it does	Default
categories	prime, subcontractor, building, electrical, mechanical, heavy	all
licenseNumbers	Bulk lookup: only these licenses, any status	none
cities / zipCodes	Location filters	all
keywords	Business name or specialty contains	none
alabamaOnly	Skip out-of-state firms licensed in Alabama	false
expiresFrom / expiresTo	Expiration-date window (renewal prospecting)	none
activeOnly	Drop licenses the board marks inactive	true
includeContactDetails	Business address and phone	true
maxResults	Cap (you pay per result)	100

Who uses this

• Lumber yards, building-supply, electrical, plumbing and HVAC distributors prospecting Alabama contractor businesses.
• Insurance, surety and bonding agents, including renewal prospecting by expiration date.
• General contractors, property managers and home-service marketplaces verifying subcontractors in bulk.
• Construction software, estimating and payments companies selling to Alabama contractors.

Privacy by design

• Businesses only. Person-named sole proprietors are dropped. Trade names without a legal-entity designator (for example "CORDILL ELECTRIC") are kept, but the street address and phone are blanked. RUN_SUMMARY.droppedPersonName shows the count.
• No email addresses. The official verification list does not include email, and this Actor never outputs one.

Common questions

Is this data legal to use? Yes. The Alabama Licensing Board for General Contractors publishes this license verification list as a public CSV download on its official search site.

How fresh is it? Each run downloads the current official file. RUN_SUMMARY.file records the download size and last-modified header when the board sends one.

How do I check an Alabama contractor license? Paste the number into licenseNumbers, or part of the business name into keywords. Always confirm on the official GenConBd verification list (verifyUrl) before you hire.

Does Alabama require a contractor license? The Alabama Licensing Board for General Contractors licenses prime and subcontractor firms for commercial and other covered work. Residential home builders are licensed separately by the Alabama Home Builders Licensure Board and are not in this file.

How much does it cost? Free to try with Apify's free plan ($5/month credit, no credit card), which covers about 1,600 records a month. After that it is $3.00 per 1,000 results, plus a fraction of a cent per run.

Can I get expiring licenses automatically every week? Yes. Save your filters as a task and add a weekly Schedule with an expiresTo window. Send each batch to Google Sheets, Slack, email, Zapier, Make or n8n under Integrations.

Can I call it from code or an AI agent? Yes. Use the Apify API or the Python/JavaScript clients, or connect it to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor through the Apify MCP server.

Data: Alabama Licensing Board for General Contractors, official license verification list (GenConLicenses.csv). Not affiliated with or endorsed by the Board or the State of Alabama.

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