Money FlowsDatasetNewAdded 2026-11-13

CFPB Consumer Complaint Database (API and bulk CSV)

United States consumer complaints about financial companies, updated as complaints are published, as a JSON search API and a bulk zipped CSV

Freeauth: noneCustom✓ verified Nov 13, 2026

Free?: FreeFree keyless API and bulk CSV.
Sign-up?: None neededCall it straight away
Commercial use?: Read the termsProvider's own terms, not a standard licence

The fine print

License note: The CFPB complaints page says all complaint data it publishes is freely available for anyone to use, analyze and build on. No numbered licence is named, so Custom. Records include company names and the consumer's state and ZIP code. Signal Lab links only.
Required attribution: Not stated; credit the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database as the source.

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// Overview

CFPB Consumer Complaint Database (API and bulk CSV)

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Consumer Complaint Database publishes complaints about consumer financial products and services that it has sent to companies, through a keyless search API and a bulk CSV download. Records carry fields such as product, sub-product, issue, company, company response, state, ZIP code and date received.

Coverage

United States consumer complaints about financial companies, updated as complaints are published, as a JSON search API and a bulk zipped CSV.

Good for

#money-flows#consumer-finance#complaints#united-states#api#csv

Verdict

A consumer-harm and company-risk signal for banks, lenders, debt collectors and credit bureaus, alongside fdic-bankfind-suite. Licence: Custom: the CFPB complaints page says "All complaint data we publish is freely available for anyone to use, analyze, and build on." No numbered licence is named. Records name the company and give the consumer's state and ZIP code; this is not a people-lookup, and complaints are not verified findings against a company. Rate limits: Not stated. Signal Lab links only.

// Limits

Free limits & license

Price	Free
Auth	none
Free tier	Free keyless API and bulk CSV.
Rate limit	Not stated.
License	Custom (see note)
License note	The CFPB complaints page says all complaint data it publishes is freely available for anyone to use, analyze and build on. No numbered licence is named, so Custom. Records include company names and the consumer's state and ZIP code. Signal Lab links only.
Last verified	Nov 13, 2026

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// Full record · catalog.json

name: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database (API and bulk CSV)
slug: cfpb-consumer-complaint-database
category: Money Flows
domain: Money Flows
type: Dataset
sitePageUrl: https://signal-lab.qdt.ai/datasets/cfpb-consumer-complaint-database
providerUrl: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-research/consumer-complaints/
badge: Free
auth: none
freeTierLimits: Free keyless API and bulk CSV.
rateLimits: Not stated.
docsUrl: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-research/consumer-complaints/
coverage: United States consumer complaints about financial companies, updated as complaints are published, as a JSON search API and a bulk zipped CSV.
lastVerified: 2026-11-13
evidenceUrls: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-research/consumer-complaints/
https://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-research/consumer-complaints/search/api/v1/?size=1
https://cfpb.github.io/api/ccdb/api.html
https://files.consumerfinance.gov/ccdb/complaints.csv.zip
tasks: money-flows
consumer-finance
complaints
united-states
api
csv
license: Custom
licenseUrl: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-research/consumer-complaints/
licenseNote: The CFPB complaints page says all complaint data it publishes is freely available for anyone to use, analyze and build on. No numbered licence is named, so Custom. Records include company names and the consumer's state and ZIP code. Signal Lab links only.
attribution: Not stated; credit the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database as the source.

// The same record over MCP

Request · get_entry

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_entry",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "cfpb-consumer-complaint-database"
    }
  }
}

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