VERDICT
Worth it
Should I use Data.gov?
The home of the U.S. Government's open data - data.gov
· 21 hours ago
Use it whenever you need free U.S. federal data for research, journalism, or app prototyping. Skip it if you need guaranteed uptime, clean curated datasets, or non-U.S. sources.
Medium. Based on ~40 public sources; many review snippets were truncated.
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Open data
high
Datasets periodically removed under policy changes; archivists maintain backup lists.
medium
No uptime guarantee — the site went dark during the 2019 shutdown.
medium
Search and filtering frustrate users enough to spawn third-party tools.
medium
Dataset licenses are inconsistent; verify terms before commercial use.
Value for money: 5/5
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Starting price
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No known vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.
Users value the free breadth of federal data but consistently gripe about clunky search and fragile dataset links.
“Made a tool to make data.gov less painful to search”
“Data.gov is the go-to.”
“Data.gov Launches to Mixed Reviews”
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UK government equivalent for British public data.
Third-party scraper easing search and metadata pulls.
Based on ~40 public sources; many review snippets were truncated.
Free, authoritative U.S. federal data — worth using, but expect clunky search, inconsistent licenses, and vanishing datasets.
Based on ~40 public sources; many review snippets were truncated.
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