USAspending API — federal contracts & grants (no key)

Search U.S. federal spending — contracts, grants, loans and direct payments — behind a clean HTTP API (and MCP tool), from the official USAspending.gov. Find awards by keyword (a company, program or agency), filter by award type and time period, and list the top-tier federal agencies by budget. Great for govcon research, lead generation, compliance and agents. No API key. Pay per query.

• 💰 Awards — search federal awards by keyword: award id, recipient, amount, awarding agency, type and start date.
• 🏛️ Agencies — top-tier federal agencies with budget authority and obligated amounts.
• 🔧 Filters — award type (contracts/grants/loans/…), fiscal year or a custom date range.
• 🇺🇸 Official & keyless — straight from USAspending.gov, the government's spending transparency portal.
• 💵 Pay per query · no key.

The use case it was built for

Who's winning federal contracts? Pull the biggest awards for a company, track grants in a program, or size an agency's budget — for sales intelligence (govcon lead-gen), journalism, research and compliance. Clean, typed rows straight from the source.

Sample output (awards, keyword "NASA")

{
  "ok": true, "keywords": ["NASA"], "awardType": "contracts", "count": 1,
  "awards": [
    { "awardId": "NNM07AB03C", "recipient": "THE BOEING COMPANY", "amount": 10517828993,
      "awardingAgency": "National Aeronautics and Space Administration",
      "awardType": "…", "startDate": "…" }
  ]
}

How to use

• HTTP API (Standby): POST or GET /awards, /agencies. GET / returns help. Example: GET /awards?keyword=Pfizer&awardType=grants&fiscalYear=2023.
• Normal run: pass { operation, keyword, awardType, ... }; results land in the dataset + key-value store.
• MCP tool: expose it to your agent via Apify's MCP server.

Input

• operation — awards · agencies.
• keyword — company/program/agency to search. awardType — contracts/grants/loans/direct_payments/idvs/all.
• fiscalYear or start/end — time filter. limit — cap rows.

Pricing

Per query from $0.006 (down to $0.002 on higher tiers). One call = one query (returns many awards or agencies at once).

Related Actors

• SEC EDGAR API — company filings and financials.
• US Treasury Data — national debt, FX and interest rates.

FAQ

Do I need a key? No — USAspending.gov is keyless.

Which award types? Contracts, grants, loans, direct payments, IDVs — or all at once.

How current? USAspending is updated regularly from agency reporting.

Notes & limits

Data from USAspending.gov. Award search is sorted by amount (largest first); use fiscal year or a date range to focus. Up to 100 awards per call.