Product profile
OpenSanctions Data and API
A structured entity-data collection and API covering sanctions, politically exposed persons, and related financial-crime topics, with bulk JSON, CSV, and other export formats for integration.
Product research reviewed
Research notes
What the public record shows
- Overview
- A structured entity-data collection and API covering sanctions, politically exposed persons, and related financial-crime topics, with bulk JSON, CSV, and other export formats for integration.
- OpenSanctions profile context
- OpenSanctions publishes structured sanctions, politically exposed person, and other financial-crime datasets. It provides bulk data in multiple formats and a hosted API for matching and accessing entity records.
- Primary use cases
- Supplying sanctions and PEP data to internal screening, matching, investigation, data-pipeline, and batch-processing workflows.
- Target customers
- Not publicly disclosed
- Data coverage
- The consolidated sanctions collection combines sanctions sources from countries and international organisations; the separate PEP collection combines public-office data from multiple sources.
- Deployment
- Not publicly disclosed
- Integrations
- OpenSanctions documents a hosted API and bulk data exports in structured JSON, simplified CSV, and other formats.
- Implementation
- Not publicly disclosed
- Pricing approach
- Not publicly disclosed
- Documented strengths
- Not publicly disclosed
- Limitations and considerations
- Not publicly disclosed
Evidence matrix
Capabilities
The table covers every canonical capability in the product's listed categories.Unverified means the reviewed public sources did not confirm the capability; it does not mean the capability is absent. “Not supported” is used only for a directly sourced, explicit limitation.
| Category | Capability | Evidence state | Source note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Screening & Risk-Intelligence Data | Sanctions list dataStructured sanctions data across major regimes. | Supported | The consolidated sanctions collection combines designated entities from major national and international sanctions sources, including UN, US, EU, and UK sources.Official evidence ↗ |
| Screening & Risk-Intelligence Data | PEP dataMaintained PEP/RCA/HIO datasets. | Partial | OpenSanctions publishes a maintained PEP collection and models related entities such as relatives and close associates, but the reviewed public pages do not explicitly document HIO coverage as a separate facet.Official evidence ↗ |
| Screening & Risk-Intelligence Data | Adverse media dataStructured negative-news data with citations. | Unverified | No supporting public documentation was identified in the reviewed sources. |
| Screening & Risk-Intelligence Data | Ownership & control dataCorporate ownership graphs for sanctioned-ownership analysis. | Unverified | No supporting public documentation was identified in the reviewed sources. |
| Screening & Risk-Intelligence Data | API & file deliveryData available by API and bulk file. | Supported | OpenSanctions explicitly provides both API access and bulk structured downloads, including JSON and CSV formats.Official evidence ↗ |
| Screening & Risk-Intelligence Data | Update latencyDocumented time from list change to data availability. | Partial | OpenSanctions documents fixed processing schedules and daily bulk-file replacement, but does not state a guaranteed elapsed time from each source-list change to availability.Official evidence ↗ |