OpenSanctions

opensanctions.org

Provides an API to screen people and companies against international sanctions lists, watchlists and politically exposed persons data.

The OpenSanctions API uses api key authentication; has usage based pricing; offers a free tier (Free for non-commercial users; free API keys for journalists, activists and academics; free trial key for business emails; /entities and /statements endpoints are free). Verified 2026-07-08 with per-field source links.

Data & Enrichment Verified 2026-07-08 low confidence

Base URL

https://api.opensanctions.org

opensanctions.org ↗

Auth

api_key

opensanctions.org ↗

Free tier

Free for non-commercial users; free API keys for journalists, activists and academics; free trial key for business emails; /entities and /statements endpoints are free

opensanctions.org ↗

Pricing model

usage_based

opensanctions.org ↗

Pricing

Pay-as-you-go: /match 0.10 EUR × queries, /search 0.10 EUR, /reconcile 0.10 EUR × queries; /entities and /statements free; only successful (HTTP 200) calls billed; volume discounts from 20,000 requests/month

opensanctions.org ↗

Rate limits

not documented null

no source

OpenAPI spec

https://api.opensanctions.org/openapi.json

unevidenced

MCP server

The yente-client Python package provides an MCP server that lets LLM agents run screening queries

opensanctions.org ↗