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Data and validation APIs

From $6.00

per 1,000 contractor lookups; $14.85 on Starter

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Federal contract data

GovTribe at $1,900 a year for 1 seat: the core platform with AI and MCP, 5,000 AI credits, federal and state and local opportunities and pursuits

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Per-seat annual plans vs price per company

GovTribe sells federal opportunity and award research by the seat from $1,900 a year, and 1Lookup checks one company's federal contracts for $0.015 when it has any.

Looking for a GovTribe alternative? This page sets GovTribe pricing beside 1Lookup, with every GovTribe figure taken from its own published pages, checked October 2026.

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  • 7-day free trial on every plan
  • No contract and no minimum volume

  • 3

    Credits per company

    about $0.01 on Starter

  • 0

    Credits when no contract awards

    no awards, no charge

  • Up to 5

    Candidates listed for a vague name

    free, then run it again with the UEI

  • 3

    Federal fiscal years in the total

    FY2024 to FY2026, named in every answer

At a glance

Here is where 1Lookup wins against GovTribe, and where GovTribe still wins.

Both can tell you what a company has been awarded. GovTribe is a workspace for capture teams: federal and state and local opportunities, awards, vendors, pursuits and AI research, priced by the seat and by the year, with an MCP server for your own AI tools. 1Lookup answers one question per call from a company name or a UEI: whether the company holds federal contracts, how many dollars it was awarded over the last three federal fiscal years, how many awards that is, which agencies paid it and in which industries, billed from one shared credit balance only when the company has federal awards.

1Lookup logo1lookupWhere 1Lookup wins
  • A price per answer instead of a seat: one company's finished federal contract record in one call, with no annual term and no seat count to size
  • A name that fits several companies, a company with no contract dollars in the window, a name nobody holds and a source outage cost nothing, and a CSV with a company column returns one row per company
  • The right registration is chosen for you, with the parent company named and up to five candidates listed when the name is ambiguous
  • The same key and balance also pay for phone, email and IP validation, so a vendor or lead check is one API

What it costs

From $6.00

per 1,000 contractor lookups; $14.85 on Starter

GovTribe logoWhere GovTribe wins
  • A clear self-serve price and a risk-free start: the plans page prices seats online ('Choose your seats and subscribe online') and offers a 7 day trial with no credit card.
  • Awards, vendors and opportunities in one tool. Its profiles menu lists Vendors, Federal Agencies, Federal Contract Vehicles, NAICS Categories and PSC Categories, and its data menu lists Awards, Prime and Subcontractors, Forecasts and Federal Opportunities.
  • Built for AI tools: an MCP server with over 40 tools that 'search opportunities, awards, vendors, grants, and more' from Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot and Gemini, and a docs section written for agents.
  • Exports and integrations for a team: unlimited saved searches, supported Zapier and Unanet integrations, and standard exports of up to 3,000 records.

What it costs

GovTribe at $1,900 a year for 1 seat: the core platform with AI and MCP, 5,000 AI credits, federal and state and local opportunities and pursuits

Short answer

GovTribe is a government contracting research tool sold per seat per year: one seat is $1,900, falling to $1,200 at six or more, with 5,000 AI credits per seat that expire at the end of the year. 1Lookup's Federal Contractor Lookup returns one company's contract dollars, award count, agencies and industries for 3 credits, about $0.015 on Starter, only when it has federal awards.

What replaces what

Here is which 1Lookup product matches each GovTribe job.

GovTribe sells vendor and award research by the seat. This is the contract record of one company as a single API call on a shared credit balance, charged only when the company has federal contract dollars in the window.

Side by side

Both products are measured on the same criteria, using GovTribe's own published numbers.

Criteria1Lookup logo1lookupGovTribe logo
Contact-data coverageEmailPhoneIPEmailPhoneIP
Pricing model

Monthly plans with universal credits; core phone, email and IP lookups cost 1 credit, enrichment and intelligence products cost more

Annual subscriptions per seat.

GovTribe is $1,900 per seat per year for 1 seat, $1,600 for 2 to 3 seats, $1,400 for 4 to 5 and $1,200 for 6 or more; GovTribe Pro is $2,100, $1,800, $1,600 and $1,400 on the same seat bands. Enterprise is custom. Each plan includes AI credits that power GovTribe AI, the MCP server and automations: 5,000 per seat a year on GovTribe and 10,000 on Pro. More credits are sold separately, 9 cents each pay as you go or in bundles from 3,500 credits for $239 to 25,000 for $979.

Starting price

$99/mo for 20,000 credits.

At 3 credits each (Federal Contractor Lookup API), that is $14.85 per 1,000 contractor lookups on Starter, down to $6.00 on Enterprise.

GovTribe at $1,900 a year for 1 seat: the core platform with AI and MCP, 5,000 AI credits, federal and state and local opportunities and pursuits.

Free option

Free single lookups via the online tools at 1lookup.io/tools, no account required

None published

Free trial

7-day free trial on every plan: $5 of credits on Starter, $20 on Growth, Professional, and Enterprise, with no payment today

7 Day Free Trial, no credit card required; the MCP server page also offers 'Claim 2,000 Free Credits'.

Do credits expire?

Unused monthly credits roll over for 3 months; separately purchased credits last 1 year

Yes: 'Included credits expire at the end of that billing year; unused included credits do not roll over.'

At volume

This is what GovTribe charges at each volume it publishes.

VolumePricePer 1,000
1Lookup, every plan$99 to $1,999 a month$2.00 to $4.95
1 seat on GovTribe, 5,000 AI credits a year$1,900 a year-
3 seats on GovTribe, 15,000 AI credits a year$4,800 a year-
6 seats on GovTribe Pro at $1,400 each, 60,000 AI credits a year$8,400 a year-

GovTribe figures verified October 2026 against govtribe.com.

How you buy

This is how you buy from 1Lookup and from GovTribe.

1Lookup logo1lookup

  1. How it is sold

    Monthly plans with universal credits; core phone, email and IP lookups cost 1 credit, enrichment and intelligence products cost more

  2. What it starts at

    $99/mo for 20,000 credits

  3. How you try it

    7-day free trial on every plan: $5 of credits on Starter, $20 on Growth, Professional, and Enterprise, with no payment today

GovTribe logo

  1. How it is sold

    Annual subscriptions per seat

  2. What it starts at

    GovTribe at $1,900 a year for 1 seat: the core platform with AI and MCP, 5,000 AI credits, federal and state and local opportunities and pursuits

  3. How you try it

    7 Day Free Trial, no credit card required; the MCP server page also offers 'Claim 2,000 Free Credits'

A real result

This is what one 1Lookup result looks like.

  1. Send a name or a UEI

    POST a company name of 2 to 150 characters, or the 12-character UEI. A UEI wins when both are sent, and a malformed entry is refused with a clear error and costs nothing.

  2. We find the one company and read its awards

    We search the federal government's public spending database, choose the one registration that clearly fits, and total its contract awards over FY2024 to FY2026. If several companies fit, we list up to five and stop there.

  3. Get the record, flat and structured

    The dollars, award count, agencies and industries arrive in one JSON payload. A company with contract awards bills 3 credits, and every other answer bills nothing.

See the full product page
api.1lookup.ioFound: holds federal contracts

One call returns a company's federal contract record

Company
SAMPLE AEROSPACE SYSTEMS INC
UEI
SMPLE0000001
Record
Parent registration, TX
Window
FY2024 to FY2026
Contract dollars
$1,284,500,000
Contract awards
412
Largest agency
Department of Defense
Top industry
Aircraft Manufacturing
Small business
No
200 OK, 3 creditsShow
{
  "classification": {
    "found": true,
    "outcome": "found",
    "name": "SAMPLE AEROSPACE SYSTEMS INC",
    "uei": "SMPLE0000001",
    "window": "FY2024 to FY2026",
    "total_obligated_usd": 1284500000,
    "contract_count": 412,
    "top_agency": "Department of Defense",
    "top_industry": "Aircraft Manufacturing",
    "all_awards_all_time_usd": 3912000000
  },
  "insights": {
    "federal_contractor_result": {
      "top_agencies": [{ "name": "Department of Defense", "amount_usd": 1020000000 }],
      "top_naics": [{ "code": "336411", "amount_usd": 702400000 }],
      "data_source": "usaspending"
    }
  },
  "metadata": { "credits_used": 3 }
}

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The evidence

Here is the evidence behind every number on this page.

Here are GovTribe and 1Lookup side by side on the terms you check before you sign.

The terms that decide what a year actually costs, rather than what the first month does. “Not listed” means we could not verify it on either product’s published pages, not that the answer is nothing.

Term1LookupGovTribe
Minimum commitment

None. Monthly plans with no contract and no minimum volume; cancel any time

Billed annually in US dollars: 'GovTribe and GovTribe Pro are billed annually in US dollars. The seat count sets the annual rate for every seat on the subscription.'

Cost per extra seatNot listed

Per seat per year, falling with the number of seats: GovTribe $1,900 (1 seat), $1,600 (2 to 3), $1,400 (4 to 5), $1,200 (6 or more); GovTribe Pro $2,100, $1,800, $1,600, $1,400.

Going over your quotaNot listed

Extra AI credits are sold at 9 cents each pay as you go, or in bundles of 3,500 credits for $239, 8,500 for $449, 15,000 for $699 and 25,000 for $979.

API access

Included on every plan and during the free trial; there is no tier that unlocks it

An MCP server and Zapier are on both self-serve plans ('Core platform + AI/MCP').

Rate limit

200 requests per 10 seconds for each API key on standard lookups and 1,000 requests a minute for each key on number type, HLR and MNP, and each account can make up to 1,000 requests a minute in total across all its keys; higher limits are available on request

Not listed
Support

Starter: Email Support; Growth: Priority Email & Chat Support; Professional: Chat + Live Meeting; Enterprise: Dedicated CSM

Email support under 5 seats and full support and training at 5 or more seats; unlimited support and training on Enterprise.

This is the GovTribe fine print worth reading twice.

Published terms that change what GovTribe costs or what you can do with it. Each one links to the GovTribe page it was read on, because a claim about somebody else’s contract should be checkable in one click.

1Lookup

1Lookup homepage
Source: 1lookup.io homepage, captured August 2026

GovTribe

GovTribe homepage
Source: govtribe.com homepage, captured October 2026

GovTribe pricing and product facts verified against govtribe.com as of October 2026. Prices change, so confirm on the vendor’s site. 1Lookup numbers come from the live rate card.

Who it is for

Pick 1Lookup or stay with GovTribe depending on the job in front of you.

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Choose 1Lookup if

you want one company's federal contract record, with the total, the number of awards and the top agencies, as an API call priced per answer instead of a per-seat annual plan.

GovTribe logoGovTribe

Consider GovTribe instead if

you run a capture team that works in the tool every day: GovTribe puts opportunities, awards, vendors, pursuits and AI research in one place from $1,900 a year for one seat, and has an MCP server for your own AI tools.

Questions

People ask these questions before they switch from GovTribe.

What is GovTribe used for?

Finding and pursuing government work. Its menus list profiles for Vendors, Federal Agencies, Federal Contract Vehicles, NAICS Categories and PSC Categories, and data for Awards, Prime and Subcontractors, Forecasts and Federal Opportunities, with pursuits, saved searches and AI research on top.

How does GovTribe pricing work?

Checked October 2026: GovTribe is $1,900 per seat per year for 1 seat, $1,600 for 2 to 3 seats, $1,400 for 4 to 5 and $1,200 for 6 or more, and GovTribe Pro is $2,100, $1,800, $1,600 and $1,400 on the same bands, billed annually in US dollars. Each seat includes AI credits, 5,000 a year on GovTribe and 10,000 on Pro, and Enterprise is custom. More credits cost 9 cents each, or come in bundles from 3,500 for $239 to 25,000 for $979. No price per company lookup is printed.

How much does 1Lookup charge for a contractor check?

3 credits per company with federal awards, free when the company has no federal awards. On the Starter plan ($99 a month for 20,000 credits) a company is about $0.015, which covers 6,666 companies a month and is $14.85 per 1,000. At the Enterprise end of the rate card it is about $0.006. Twelve Starter months come to $1,188, against $1,900 for one GovTribe seat for a year, and the seat buys a workspace, where 1Lookup answers one question.

What does GovTribe return on a vendor, and what does 1Lookup return?

GovTribe puts a vendor beside its awards, contract vehicles and pursuits in a web workspace, so a person reads the profile and decides. 1Lookup returns a finished summary through an API instead: the contract dollars over the last three completed federal fiscal years with the window named, the number of contract awards, the top five agencies and the top five industries with their dollars, the parent, the state and whether the company is a small business.

Does GovTribe have an API, and how does that compare?

The pages read describe an MCP server with over 40 tools that search opportunities, awards, vendors, grants and more from Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot and Gemini, plus Zapier and exports, and their use draws on seats and AI credits. A standard export holds up to 3,000 records. 1Lookup is one POST per company with a company name or a UEI, and each answer is one finished record billed in credits, so there is no seat to buy for a script.

Do GovTribe credits expire?

Yes. GovTribe's plan guide says included credits expire at the end of the billing year and unused included credits do not roll over, and that AI, MCP and automation usage draws them down. Extra credits are sold separately.

Can I try GovTribe before paying?

Yes. The plans page offers a 7 day free trial with no credit card required, and its MCP server page offers 2,000 free credits. 1Lookup also starts with a 7-day free trial.

Which registration does 1Lookup pick when a company has several?

Federal records often hold the same business more than once: a parent, its children and look-alike names. 1Lookup takes the one that clearly leads, such as an exact name or an exact UEI. If several companies fit, it returns up to five of them with their UEI and state, so you can look again with the UEI, and it charges nothing for that answer. A repeat lookup of the same input by the same user within one day is answered from the cache at no charge.

Where does GovTribe beat 1Lookup?

On the work around the record. GovTribe covers opportunities, forecasts, pursuits, contract vehicles, state and local as well as federal, and AI research, in one place a whole team shares, with saved searches, Zapier and Unanet integrations. 1Lookup returns the contract totals of one company and does not search opportunities.

What is the best GovTribe alternative?

If you run a capture team that works in a tool every day, GovTribe is built for that, and HigherGov is the other annual-plan option. If you want one company's contract dollars, awards, agencies and industries as a single API call, 1Lookup's Federal Contractor Lookup bills 3 credits only when the company has federal awards, with no seat to buy.

Is GovTribe worth it in 2026?

If a team works in government opportunities every week, a seat is a small price against one contract won, and the trial costs nothing. If the only job is to check whether a company really holds federal contracts, compare the per-company price of 1Lookup with a seat you would buy for that one job.

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Look up a company's federal contract record by name or UEI.

Try 1Lookup free for 7 days and compare it with GovTribe on your own work.

3 credits for each company with federal awards, about $0.015 on Starter, on the same balance as phone, email and IP checks. Start with the 7-day free trial.

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