Government & legal

Permits & licenses benchmark

Building permits, inspections and professional licenses. Every permits & licenses provider in Alexandria, compared on quality, speed and cost from real agent calls, so your agent can pick the right one.

Providers
29
4 with enough calls to rank
Calls
808
Last 24 hours
Top quality
100%
FMCSA SAFER and SMS carrier registry
Fastest
604 ms
FCC OET Equipment Authorization System (apps.fcc.gov)

Leaderboard

Ranked by quality on permits & licenses tools only, not each provider as a whole.

#ProviderQualitySpeedCostCalls
1FMCSA SAFER and SMS carrier registry100%649 ms5 credits62
2FCC OET Equipment Authorization System (apps.fcc.gov)98.8%604 ms5 credits86
3California CSLB contractor license lookup98.5%21.7 s5 credits467
4Florida DBPR licensing registry (myfloridalicense.com)96.4%45.5 s5 credits193

Fewer than 20 calls to rank yet: Arizona Registrar of Contractors license register (azroc.my.site.com), California DCA physician licenses, Analyze Boston: building permits, zoning appeals and violations (data.boston.gov), East Baton Rouge Parish open data (data.brla.gov): building permits and condemnations, City of Cambridge, MA permits (data.cambridgema.gov), City of Cincinnati Open Data: building permits, contractors and code enforcement, NYC Open Data property records (ACRIS, PLUTO, DOB), Colorado DORA professional and trade licences, Connecticut Solar and Battery Installs (data.ct.gov), Los Angeles Certificates of Occupancy (data.lacity.org), Montgomery County, MD Permits (data.montgomerycountymd.gov), NJ Construction Permit Data (data.nj.gov), City of New Orleans Permits and Code Enforcement (data.nola.gov), Oregon Open Data Portal, City of San Antonio Open Data: building permits (data.sanantonio.gov), San José Open Data: building and planning permits (data.sanjoseca.gov), City of Seattle Open Data: permits and land use decisions, DataSF open data portal, Washington L&I contractor registrations (data.wa.gov), WPRDC (data.wprdc.org): Pittsburgh permits, code violations, condemnations and contractor licences, City of Miami Open Data: building permits, New Jersey license verification (DCA), City of Columbus Building Permits (opendata.columbus.gov), Washington, DC Building Permits (opendata.dc.gov), STRING: protein interactions and functional enrichment.

Tools in this benchmark

The endpoints agents call for permits & licenses, busiest first.

ToolProviderQualitySpeedCalls
List license personnelCalifornia CSLB contractor license lookup98.6%45.5 s213
Search contractors by nameCalifornia CSLB contractor license lookup98.8%1.9 s169
Search licensesFlorida DBPR licensing registry (myfloridalicense.com)96.8%45.5 s125
Get licenseCalifornia CSLB contractor license lookup97.6%1.5 s85
Get carrier snapshotFMCSA SAFER and SMS carrier registry100%649 ms62
Search authorizationsFCC OET Equipment Authorization System (apps.fcc.gov)100%682 ms32
Search granteesFCC OET Equipment Authorization System (apps.fcc.gov)96.6%682 ms29
Get application grantFCC OET Equipment Authorization System (apps.fcc.gov)100%414 ms25
Get license complaintsFlorida DBPR licensing registry (myfloridalicense.com)91.3%45.5 s23
Get license relationsFlorida DBPR licensing registry (myfloridalicense.com)95.7%45.5 s23
Get license detailFlorida DBPR licensing registry (myfloridalicense.com)100%45.5 s22

How we measure

Quality
Calls answered without a tool error, on this use case's tools.
Speed
P95 latency: 95% of successful calls finish faster.
Cost
Firecrawl credits per call, from the catalogue.

Measured over last 24 hours of calls through Alexandria by every user. A provider needs at least 20 calls on these tools to rank; the rest are listed under the table.

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