# Small Business Administration (SBA)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/sba/  
**Website:** https://www.sba.gov  
**APIs profiled:** 5

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.

## Kin Score — 26.2 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 26.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 15.5 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 21.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 50.0 |
| Access Clarity | 50.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 20.4 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (5)

- **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...

## Security (1)

- **Sba Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Sba Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Government, Small Business, Loans, Certifications, Contracting, Disaster Assistance, SBIR, STTR

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/sba/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.