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Formations Feed vs OpenSOSData

Both sell new U.S. business formations as CSV. Formations Feed emails a daily file, from $149 per state a month, with phone and email appended where available.[1][2] OpenSOSData sells new-formation and status-change lists by the record, at $2.50 per 1,000 with a $25 minimum, once or on a schedule. It also runs a per-lookup API.[3][4] Pick Formations Feed for a daily lead list. Pick OpenSOSData for one-off pulls, status changes, or an API.

Vendor facts from each vendor's own public pages, read 2026-10-16. Sources are listed below.

Formations Feed vs OpenSOSData, side by side
Formations FeedOpenSOSDataRecordwire
ModelDaily CSV of new business formations by email; S3 or SFTP by arrangement. Its REST API is planned, not live.[1][2][5]Secretary of State lookup API, live or cached, plus bulk lookups and CSV datasets.[4][6][3]Change feed plus lookup. Each new state file is compared with the last, and every difference is stored as a dated event. REST API, MCP server, and webhooks.[7]
U.S. state coverageAll 50 states and D.C. listed; it confirms which feeds are available before activation.[8]Claims 53: all 50 states, D.C., Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Its states page lists 51.[4][9]12 states. Florida, New York, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Connecticut, and Oregon from official bulk files and open data. Massachusetts, Idaho, Wyoming, and Missouri from the state's public search, new formations only. Delaware from a licensed data partner, new formations only.[10]
FreshnessDaily.[1]Live scrape on demand, with a median of 58 seconds; cached results otherwise. Its pages give the cache window as 7 days and as 30 days.[11][4][12]As often as each state publishes: daily in Florida, New York, Colorado, and Oregon, monthly in Pennsylvania, weekly in Virginia, nightly in Connecticut, every 3 hours in Massachusetts and Missouri, every 6 hours in Idaho, continuously in Wyoming, and several times a day in Delaware.[10]
Change events and historyNew formations only.[1][2]Recent filing history per lookup. Weekly monitors on cached plans; new-formation and status-change lists sold as CSV.[13][6][3]Six event types: formed, renamed, status, address, registered agent, officers. Full change events in the seven file states; new formations only in the other five. Virginia and Florida include state-published history.[14][10]
WebhooksPlanned.[2]Yes, for bulk jobs and for monitors.[13][6]Yes. Signed webhooks per subscription, filtered by state, event type, or up to 10,000 company IDs.[7]
MCP serverNo registry-data MCP. Its llms.txt lists a website Q&A agent.[15]An npm package, @opensosdata/mcp-server; not mentioned on its site.[16]Yes. Remote server at api.recordwirehq.com/mcp: five read tools and three for webhook subscriptions, one bearer key.[17]
OfficersIn the sample record, not on every filing.[1]Where available, plus registered agent.[4]Where the state publishes them: Florida, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Wyoming; partly in New York, Virginia, Oregon. None in Colorado, Idaho, Missouri.[10]
Published pricing$149 per state a month for the feed, $249 with API; all states $4,000 or $6,500 a month. 2-day free trial.[2]Pay as you go: live lookups $0.10 down to $0.0314, cached $0.01 down to $0.00314. Cached plans $100 to $1,000 a month. 10 free lookups.[4][11]$100 a month for one state, $200 for any three, $500 for all. No free trial.[18]

Who Formations Feed fits

You want new businesses in your inbox every day, with contact details appended where available, and a 2-day free trial to test it.[1][2]

Who OpenSOSData fits

You want a one-time or periodic list, filtered by state, entity type, and formation window, or a list of entities whose status changed. Its datasets page names monthly and quarterly refreshes. You can also look up any company through its API.[3][4]

Where Recordwire fits

Both deliver lists as CSV files.[1][3] Recordwire sends every formation, and in its seven file states every later change, as dated events through REST, webhooks, and MCP. It covers twelve states, fewer than either vendor.[14][10][7]

Compare each with Recordwire: Formations Feed vs Recordwire and OpenSOSData vs Recordwire.

Questions

Which one is cheaper for new formations?

It depends on volume. OpenSOSData charges $2.50 per 1,000 records, falling to $1.20 at 20 million, with a $25 minimum; recurring feeds get 50% off quarterly and 80% off monthly.[3] Formations Feed is a flat $149 per state a month, or $4,000 a month for all states.[2]

How often do they deliver?

Formations Feed delivers daily.[1] OpenSOSData delivers once or on a schedule; its datasets page names monthly and quarterly refreshes and does not mention daily.[3]

Which one has an API?

OpenSOSData, for company lookups, with webhooks for bulk jobs and monitors.[13][6] Formations Feed’s API is planned.[5]

Do they include contact details?

Formations Feed appends phone and email where available.[1] OpenSOSData lists the registered agent, addresses, status, and officers where available.[4]

Do they have MCP servers?

OpenSOSData has an npm package, @opensosdata/mcp-server, that its site does not mention.[16] Formations Feed has no registry-data MCP.[15]

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Sources

  1. Formations Feed home page. https://formationsfeed.com/. Accessed 2026-10-16.
  2. Formations Feed pricing. https://formationsfeed.com/pricing/. Accessed 2026-10-16.
  3. OpenSOSData datasets. https://opensosdata.com/datasets/. Accessed 2026-10-16.
  4. OpenSOSData home page. https://opensosdata.com/. Accessed 2026-10-16.
  5. Formations Feed: customer API status. https://formationsfeed.com/docs/. Accessed 2026-10-16.
  6. OpenSOSData llms.txt. https://opensosdata.com/llms.txt. Accessed 2026-10-16.
  7. Recordwire API docs. https://recordwirehq.com/docs. Accessed 2026-10-16.
  8. Formations Feed states. https://formationsfeed.com/states/. Accessed 2026-10-16.
  9. OpenSOSData state coverage. https://opensosdata.com/states/. Accessed 2026-10-16.
  10. Recordwire coverage by state. https://recordwirehq.com/states. Accessed 2026-10-16.
  11. OpenSOSData docs. https://opensosdata.com/docs/. Accessed 2026-10-16.
  12. OpenSOSData changelog. https://opensosdata.com/docs/changelog.html. Accessed 2026-10-16.
  13. OpenSOSData OpenAPI spec. https://opensosdata.com/openapi.yaml. Accessed 2026-10-16.
  14. Recordwire change events. https://recordwirehq.com/change-events. Accessed 2026-10-16.
  15. Formations Feed llms.txt. https://formationsfeed.com/llms.txt. Accessed 2026-10-16.
  16. @opensosdata/mcp-server on npm. https://www.npmjs.com/package/@opensosdata/mcp-server. Accessed 2026-10-16.
  17. Recordwire MCP server. https://recordwirehq.com/mcp. Accessed 2026-10-16.
  18. Recordwire pricing. https://recordwirehq.com/#pricing. Accessed 2026-10-16.

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