Sanctions
The US Treasury OFAC Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list and Consolidated (non-SDN) list, merged into one record per OFAC entity: people, organizations, vessels and aircraft, with every alias and non-Latin spelling, ISO countries from addresses, nationality, citizenship and vessel flag, sanctions programs, and identifiers such as IMO and MMSI numbers, passports, national and tax IDs, SWIFT/BIC codes and digital currency addresses. Refreshed daily from OFAC's published exports, usually the evening (New York time) of the day OFAC acts. listed_on is the earliest date OFAC added the entity to one of these lists. OFAC drops delisted entries without a date, so an entity that leaves both lists stays here as removed, with removed_on the date OFAC's exports were first seen without it (status=removed or all returns them). Other jurisdictions' lists (UN, EU, UK) are not covered. A name match alone does not establish identity: confirm with the identifiers, dates and countries before acting on a match. Default order: id ascending. Results are limited to the entitled scope. Data is delivered from validated canonical batches; a connected dataset with nothing published for the key's markets yet returns 503. Access requires the operation capability on the API key.
/v1/sanctions- Required capability
- sanctions.read
- Data timing
- As published by the source
- Credits
- 5 credits per request.
Parameters
qstringoptional · query- Case-insensitive word match over names and aliases, in id order; no identity-match score is implied. A value that is empty or only whitespace returns 422.
countriesstringoptional · query- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes.
entity_typestringoptional · query- Entity type.
personorganizationvesselaircraft statusstringoptional · query- Defaults to active.
activeremovedall effective_datestringoptional · query- Effective date, defaults to the UTC date of as_of. Returns the latest eligible snapshot on or before this date; response retains its actual snapshot date.
as_ofstringoptional · query- Knowledge cutoff as a UTC date (YYYY-MM-DD): the response reflects what was known by the end of that day. Defaults to now; cannot be in the future. A date from before the dataset's knowledge history returns 422 point-in-time-unavailable naming the earliest one, which GET /v1/datasets lists as earliest_as_of.
known_fromstringoptional · query- First UTC date (YYYY-MM-DD, inclusive) on which a revision became known.
known_tostringoptional · query- Last UTC date (YYYY-MM-DD, inclusive) on which a revision became known; on or after known_from.
orderstringoptional · query- Direction on id; ties use ID ascending.
Default:ascdescasc limitintegeroptional · query- Maximum records per page.Default:
100 cursorstringoptional · query- Opaque cursor, expires after one hour; binds filters, order, resolved as_of, account/key and entitlement. Repeat the original query unchanged.
formatstringoptional · query- Response format. csv returns the data rows with a header row, for spreadsheet functions such as IMPORTDATA; nested fields become dotted columns and lists one JSON array cell, the next page cursor is returned in X-Next-Cursor and meta.errors in X-Meta-Errors. A result without rows is the header row alone, listing the documented fields of a row. Default json, or csv when format is omitted and the Accept header ranks text/csv above JSON; a format the Accept header does not admit returns 406 not-acceptable.
jsoncsv
Response fields
Returns data as an array of records. All example values are illustrative.
idstring- Record identifier, stable across revisions.
namestring- Listed name.
entity_typestring- Listed entity type.
personorganizationvesselaircraft aliasesarray- aliases
countriesarray- countries
programsarray- programs
identifiersarray- identifiers
listed_onstring · null- listed on
removed_onstring · null- removed on
statusstring- List membership status; a name match alone does not establish identity.
activeremoved
Response metadata
Responses include meta.timezone. Dataset responses include next_cursor; health and exports have their own metadata. Request tracing uses the X-Request-ID header.
When something goes wrong
An empty data: [] is a successful query with no matching records. Invalid symbols, permissions and malformed parameters produce an RFC 9457 problem with an actionable detail.
Plans
Requires sanctions.read. Access, recency and history depth come from the plan definitions the API enforces.
| Plan | Access | Recency | History |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Not included | — | — |
| Developer | Not included | — | — |
| Pro | Included | As published | 15 years |
| Commercial | Included | As published | Full history |
| Scale | Included | As published | Full history |
History is how far back a plan may request. How far records actually go for a symbol is history_from in dataset coverage. Nothing is real-time. Compare plans