Yes. You can sign up for a free API key to test our endpoints and documentation. The Free tier includes 4,000 API results/month and access to all data.

It depends on your volume and how you'll use the data.

• Just exploring or evaluating? → Free
• Individual developer or small team running in production? → Self-Serve
• Larger organization, custom credit allowance, or dedicated support? → Enterprise

Yes. The full API documentation – including endpoints, fields, data types, and example responses – is available.

Each result returned by the API counts toward your total. For example, a bill search returning 7 bills uses 7 results; a bill search returning 500 pieces of legislation uses 500 results. Multiple calls add up – for example, searching a bill, then pulling its votes, then its events returns 3 separate results. 

Sign up for the free API key or Self-Serve tier, and you'll receive a key right away. For Enterprise plans, talk to Sales – they'll provision your key as part of the contract.

‘All data’ refers to comprehensive access of our API endpoints. This ensures your AI agents (via our MCP) or internal systems have a full, unified view of the policy landscape without data silos. Specifically, this includes:

• Legislative & Regulatory Data: Full access to search and track bills, votes, and regulations across the U.S. Congress, all 50 states, and more than 100 global countries, including real-time legislative event tracking and bill analytics.
• CQ Data: Authoritative congressional intelligence including searchable transcripts (available within 60 minutes), committee testimonies, hearing records, newsmaker events, and presidential remarks.
• Stakeholder Intelligence: Our expansive database of global policy influencers, government officials, and staffers, as well as district matching tools (address/ZIP to official) and committee membership data.
• PolicyNote App Data: Seamless integration with your organization’s existing PolicyNote platform workflows, allowing you to programmatically access your custom Issues, Labels, Action Types, and organizational actions.
• Local Government Intelligence: Monitor 12,000+ municipalities and 4,000+ school districts and access full records or specific agenda snippets using 600+ expert topics. Use FIPS codes and population data to map results, and track school board actions to surface pre-RFP leads and local policy shifts.

60 requests per minute at standard rate limits (applied to Free and Self-Serve tiers). Each request returns up to 500 results unless otherwise noted in the API documentation; larger result sets require pagination via continuation tokens. Enterprise buyers can negotiate custom rate limits for high-volume or time-sensitive use cases.

The Free and Self-Serve tiers are month-to-month – no annual contract required. Enterprise plans are negotiated with Sales and can include annual or custom terms.