SEC EDGAR is free and holds every filing, and 1Lookup labels a company's last 12 months of 8-Ks in plain words for $0.010 when it filed one.

Reading what companies file with the SEC. A company's page lists its filings by type with the documents behind each row, the full-text search covers electronic filings since 2001, Latest Filings lists filings as they are submitted, and the data.sec.gov APIs return a filer's submissions history as JSON. The access page says EDGAR started in 1994/1995.

It is free. The access page says anyone can access and download EDGAR information for free, and the data.sec.gov APIs 'do not require any authentication or API keys'. No plan, quota or charge is printed. Automated access has a current maximum of 10 requests a second, and requests should declare a user agent. Checked October 2026.

2 credits per company with an 8-K, free when no 8-K was filed in the last 12 months. On the Starter plan ($99 a month for 20,000 credits) a company is about $0.010, which covers 10,000 companies a month and is $9.90 per 1,000. At the Enterprise end of the rate card it is about $0.004. SEC EDGAR is the cheaper bill: it is free, against $99 for a Starter month.

A company's EDGAR page lists each 8-K with its filing date, a description such as 'Current report, items 2.02 and 9.01' and links to the documents. The meaning of a number such as 5.02 or 2.05 is for the reader to know. 1Lookup reads the same filing list and returns each filing with its item numbers turned into plain labels (5.02 as an executive or director departure or appointment, 2.05 as exit or restructuring costs, often layoffs), one of eight categories, a headline, a high-signal flag on twelve kinds of item, counts for the whole window and a link to the filing on the SEC's site.

Not on the pages checked. A company page filters by filing type, a 'prior to' date and an ownership option, and the full-text search filters by word or phrase, company, filing types, a filed date range and location. An item number is not one of those filters. 1Lookup returns every 8-K of the window with its items, and flags the filings that carry a high-signal item such as a bankruptcy, a restatement, an auditor change, a delisting notice or an executive departure.

On price, breadth and depth. It is free, and it holds every form of every filer, not only the 8-Ks of one company: the full text of filings since 2001, real-time and daily listings by form type, and filing history back to 1994/1995. 1Lookup reads the item numbers a filing carries, not what the filing says, looks back 12 months by default (30 to 730 days in the API), and covers one company per lookup.

The data.sec.gov submissions files are updated throughout the day as submissions are disseminated, and the EDGAR indexes are updated nightly from about 10:00 p.m. ET. 1Lookup reads the same submissions file when you look a company up. A repeat lookup of the same company by the same user within one day comes from the cache at no charge, and bypass_cache: true reads it again.

Yes, in a stricter way. An exact ticker always wins, a CIK number is exact, and a name must contain every word. A name that fits several companies is not guessed at: the candidates come back with their tickers and CIK numbers at no charge, so you can send the one you mean. EDGAR's company search lists matches for you to open.

If you want the filings for free and can read item numbers, or you want to search what filings say, EDGAR is the source and nothing beats it on price. If you want a company's last year of 8-Ks as labeled events with the important ones flagged, from a ticker, a name or a CIK number, with bulk CSV files and one balance that also pays for phone, email and IP checks, 1Lookup's 8-K Event Lookup bills 2 credits only when the company filed an 8-K.

If you read filings, search their text or can work with item numbers and a request limit of 10 a second, yes, and it costs nothing. The access page also says the SEC offers no technical support for developing or debugging scripted processes. If you want the list of events for many companies without writing the parsing, compare the per-company price of 1Lookup.