Small Business Administration (SBA)

The U.S. Small Business Administration provides REST APIs for accessing SBA loan data including 7(a) and 504 loan programs, SBIR/STTR award data, business licensing and size standards, disaster loan application processing, government contracting opportunities, and small business certification programs including HUBZone, 8(a), WOSB, and SDVOSB.

Small Business Administration (SBA) is listed with 5 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Government, Small Business, Loans, Certification, and Contracting.

The Small Business Administration (SBA) catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

Small Business Administration (SBA)’s developer surface includes engineering blog, documentation, pricing, and 11 more developer resources.

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19.2/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 1/100 human only Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 66/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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Government Small Business Loans Certification ContractingDisaster AssistanceSBIRSTTR

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Composite quality — 19.2/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 3.1 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 2.0 / 17

Access Clarity 3.1 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.3 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 6.1 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.6 / 15

Agent readiness — 1/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
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Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes

12 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 14.7 — up to +21.3 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 11.9 — up to +17.6 composite points
Access Clarity scores 18.4 — up to +16.3 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Consumer Lending Licensing (UK, US, Canada credit licence registers)	builds-on	17.2 (thin)	-	-
US Federal API Programs (api.data.gov, Login.gov, GSA MAS, FedRAMP)	builds-on	17.2 (thin)	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

APIs 5

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

SBA.gov Content API

A microservice API providing search access to SBA.gov content including lenders, articles, documents, and personnel. The lenders endpoint constructs queries to the AWS CloudSear...

Capital Access Financial System (CAFS) Loan Origination API

API for SBA lenders and partners to originate, service, and manage SBA 7(a) loans. Supports loan origination, status checking, compliance validation, servicing, 1502 reporting, ...

PPP Loan Forgiveness API

API enabling SBA-approved lenders to submit, track, and manage PPP (Paycheck Protection Program) loan forgiveness requests. Supports submission, re-submission, status lookup, do...

SBIR/STTR Awards and Solicitations API

Public API providing access to SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) and STTR (Small Business Technology Transfer) award and solicitation data. Returns award details includi...

SBA Open Data API

CKAN-based open data API providing access to SBA datasets including small business size standards by NAICS code, 7(a) and 504 loan data reports (FOIA), and other SBA program dat...

Small Business Administration (SBA) API pricing

Not yet checked against Small Business Administration (SBA)'s own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-06-13; confirm before you rely on a figure.

Plan	Price
Public Open Access	—
SBA Content API Access	—
Lender / Partner Integration (CAFS)	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Sba Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Sba Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Sba Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Sba Context

11 classes · 37 properties

JSON-LD

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Sba Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrg

GitHubOrg

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

StatusPage

StatusPage

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

Pricing

Pricing

FinOps

FinOps

Company 5

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

aid: sba
name: Small Business Administration (SBA)
description: The U.S. Small Business Administration provides REST APIs for accessing SBA loan data including 7(a) and 504
  loan programs, SBIR/STTR award data, business licensing and size standards, disaster loan application processing, government
  contracting opportunities, and small business certification programs including HUBZone, 8(a), WOSB, and SDVOSB.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  license_evidence:
    not_product:
    - ussba/sba-gov-content-api
  open_source: unknown
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: low
  source:
  - pricing
  - repository-not-product
  generated: '2026-09-25'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/sba.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sba/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-10-06'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
type: Index
tags:
- Government
- Small Business
- Loans
- Certification
- Contracting
- Disaster Assistance
- SBIR
- STTR
tags_raw:
- Government
- Small Business
- Loans
- Certifications
- Contracting
- Disaster Assistance
- SBIR
- STTR
apis:
- aid: sba:sba-gov-content-api
  name: SBA.gov Content API
  description: A microservice API providing search access to SBA.gov content including lenders, articles, documents, and personnel.
    The lenders endpoint constructs queries to the AWS CloudSearch domain for lenders.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://developer.sba.gov/markdown_apis/sbagov-content.html
  baseURL: https://api.sba.gov
  tags:
  - Content
  - Search
  - Lenders
  - Documents
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.sba.gov/markdown_apis/sbagov-content.html
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/USSBA/sba-gov-content-api
- aid: sba:cafs-loan-origination-api
  name: Capital Access Financial System (CAFS) Loan Origination API
  description: API for SBA lenders and partners to originate, service, and manage SBA 7(a) loans. Supports loan origination,
    status checking, compliance validation, servicing, 1502 reporting, and partner information management through the ETRAN
    and ELEND systems.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://catweb.sba.gov/apidocs/apidetail.cfm
  baseURL: https://catran.sba.gov
  tags:
  - Loans
  - 7(a)
  - Origination
  - Servicing
  - Lenders
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://catweb.sba.gov/apidocs/apidetail.cfm
- aid: sba:ppp-loan-forgiveness-api
  name: PPP Loan Forgiveness API
  description: API enabling SBA-approved lenders to submit, track, and manage PPP (Paycheck Protection Program) loan forgiveness
    requests. Supports submission, re-submission, status lookup, document upload, loan validation, and direct forgiveness
    workflows.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://ussbaforgiveness.github.io/
  baseURL: https://forgiveness.sba.gov
  tags:
  - PPP
  - Loan Forgiveness
  - COVID-19
  - Paycheck Protection
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ussbaforgiveness.github.io/
- aid: sba:sbir-sttr-api
  name: SBIR/STTR Awards and Solicitations API
  description: Public API providing access to SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) and STTR (Small Business Technology
    Transfer) award and solicitation data. Returns award details including firm name, agency, phase, program, award amount,
    and research keywords. Supports filtering by agency, year, company, and research institution.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.sbir.gov/api
  baseURL: https://api.www.sbir.gov
  tags:
  - SBIR
  - STTR
  - Innovation
  - Research
  - Awards
  - Solicitations
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.sbir.gov/api
- aid: sba:sba-open-data-api
  name: SBA Open Data API
  description: CKAN-based open data API providing access to SBA datasets including small business size standards by NAICS
    code, 7(a) and 504 loan data reports (FOIA), and other SBA program data available in JSON and other formats.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://data.sba.gov/en/dataset/?res_format=API
  baseURL: https://data.sba.gov
  tags:
  - Open Data
  - Size Standards
  - Loan Data
  - FOIA
  - NAICS
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.sba.gov/en/dataset/?res_format=API
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/sba-plans-pricing.yml
- url: https://www.sba.gov/sba-newsroom/
  type: Blog
- url: https://www.sba.gov/feed/
  type: BlogRSS
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/sba-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.sba.gov
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.sba.gov/about/
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/USSBA
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/us-small-business-administration
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.sba.gov/blog
- type: Pricing
  url: plans/sba-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/sba-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/sba-finops.yml
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/SBAgov
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://www.sba.gov/about-sba/open-government/about-sbagov-website
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Small Business Administration (SBA) API — frequently asked questions

Does Small Business Administration (SBA) have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 5 APIs from Small Business Administration (SBA), including SBA.gov Content API, Capital Access Financial System (CAFS) Loan Origination API and PPP Loan Forgiveness API, and 2 more.

How much does the Small Business Administration (SBA) API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Small Business Administration (SBA), with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Small Business Administration (SBA) API ready for AI agents?

Small Business Administration (SBA) has a Kin Score of 19.2 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 0.6 (human-only), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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