---
title: "Data delivery service"
summary: "Commercial customers can make use of our extended data delivery service."
url: "https://www.opensanctions.org/docs/bulk/delivery-service/"
date_updated: "2026-08-20"
---

Our data delivery service provides the following advantages over our publicly-available data serving infrastructure:

- **Reliability**: In case of issues with the publicly-served data, whether technical, legal, or otherwise, we prioritize serving our licensed customers first.
- **Support**: When issues arise, we have better insight from our end to help debug any problems you may encounter.
- **Telemetry**: Understanding our customers' access patterns, clients, and dataset usage allows us to make better decisions about what work to prioritize.

Downloading data works [much the same as with our `publicly-served data offering`](/docs/bulk/updates/), with two key differences:

The *base domain* is `https://delivery.opensanctions.com` rather than `https://data.opensanctions.org`. When reading [the dataset metadata](/docs/metadata/), the URLs in the `resources` section will automatically point to the data delivery service.

A *data delivery token* is required. You'll receive this token from us as part of the customer onboarding process. Alternatively, if you have an email address on file with us, you can find the token in the [Data delivery service](/account/bulk/) section of your [customer portal](/account/). **Please treat this token as a secret credential**, and include it in the `Authorization` header: `Authorization: Token [yoursecret]`.

See the [yente documentation](https://yente.followthemoney.tech/delivery/) if you are running it [on-premise](/docs/on-premise/).

**Important considerations:**

- **Enable HTTP redirects** in your client. The data delivery service uses redirects to serve large files from our CDN.
- **Scope your auth headers** properly: Only send the Authorization header to `delivery.opensanctions.com`, not to any domains it redirects to. This is the default behavior for all HTTP clients we know about.