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Comparison

Federal Register vs regulations.gov

Pick Federal Register when

  • Compliance teams tracking federal rules
  • Lawyers and policy analysts
  • Regulated industries (health, finance, aviation)
  • Developers needing government rule data

When Federal Register is not a fit

  • Small businesses wanting plain-English rule summaries
  • Teams wanting alerts or dashboards out of the box
  • Casual readers expecting a news digest
  • Anyone unwilling to build scrapers for monitoring

Sources

  1. Federal Register homefederalregister.gov
    official
  2. Public Inspection: Documents Currently on Public Inspectionfederalregister.gov
    official
  3. FederalRegister.gov API Case Studyfederalregister.gov
    official
  4. 1 CFR § 11.2 - Federal Registerlaw.cornell.edu
    official
  5. New Federal Register Publishing Rate, June 2025gpo.gov
    official
  6. GPO Completes Digitizing All Issues of the Federal Registergpo.gov
    news
  7. Federal Register collection on govinfo.govgovinfo.gov
    official
  8. Learn About the Rulemaking Processregulations.gov
    official
  9. Federal Register Scraper on Apifyapify.com
    news
  10. Reddit r/PublicPolicy thread on accessibilityreddit.com
    review
  11. federalregister.govfederalregister.gov
    review