Data you can trust, on people you can’t
OpenSanctions helps investigators find leads, allows companies to manage risk and enables technologists to build data-driven products.
People and companies that matter
Persons of interest data provides the key that helps analysts find evidence of sanctions evasion, money laundering and other criminal activity.Clean and transparent data
Our open source data pipeline takes on the complex task of building a clean, de-duplicated, and well-understood dataset.Sources with global scope
We integrate data from 325 global sources, including official sanctions lists, data on politically exposed persons and entities of criminal interest.Use OpenSanctions to manage business risk
OpenSanctions is free for non-commercial users. Business and commercial users must either acquire a data license to use our high-quality dataset, or subscribe to our pay-as-you-go API service.
What we’ve been building RSS
Updates from OpenSanctions, including new features, technical deep dives, and analysis.
As the CIA closes The World Factbook, we’re opening our global map of political power
Tags: CIA, The World Factbook, PEP · Published:
We’re on a mission to track who runs the world — and to make political data more transparent.
Making the most of the OpenSanctions dataset browser
Tags: Sanctions, Programs, Metadata · Published:
The OpenSanctions data collection comprises over 320 data sources, ranging from the UN Security Council sanctions to the German police’s most wanted list. Here’s how to find out whether we cover the data source you’re looking for.
This was 2025 at OpenSanctions
Tags: Company, 2025 · Published:
Over the last year, we’ve grown our team to almost 15 members, discovered that Berlin co-working spaces can go insolvent (and in the process found a beautiful new place!), and spent a few days brainstorming in Prague. And our focus in 2025, as always, remained on our product.
OpenSanctions and Taktile partner to combine stronger data with smarter screening
Tags: Partnership, Risk management · Published:
We are now partnering with Taktile, an Agentic Decision Platform that helps financial institutions rapidly embed AI agents into their decision-making, transforming how they operate with unmatched safety and control.
Here’s everything that goes wrong when AI does text extraction (and how we’re still using it)
Tags: LLMs, Free text · Published:
From dropping middle names to hallucinating details that were never mentioned in the first place, mistakes are commonplace in Large Language Model (LLM) data extraction. Here’s how we’re embracing automation to extract entities and turn them into structured risk data (with a healthy dose of scepticism and human moderation).
Collections & datasets JSON
Collections are data distributions provided by OpenSanctions that combine entities from many sources based on a topic. Learn more...
Consolidated Sanctions
Consolidated list of sanctioned entities designated by different countries and international organisations. This can include military, trade and travel restrictions.
OpenSanctions Default
This distribution includes the data collected by OpenSanctions that meets quality standards and would be useful in a screening system or for investigative use.
Special interest collections contain selections of the data that are more specialised than the default collections.
| Name | Updates | Entities | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debarred Companies and Individuals | daily | 206,158 | ||
| Know-Your-Business (KYB) Datasets | monthly | 92,029,949 | ||
| Maritime-related sanctions | daily | 126,842 | ||
| Politically Exposed Persons Datasets | daily | 913,338 | ||
| Regulatory Watchlists | daily | 162,752 | ||
| Sanctioned Securities | daily | 394,296 | ||
| Warrants and Criminal Entities | daily | 255,864 | ||
