---
title: "OFAC entity candidate evidence"
method: POST
path: "/v1/research/ofac-entity-search"
tags: ["research"]
---

# OFAC entity candidate evidence

`POST /v1/research/ofac-entity-search`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://apiacre.com`
- URL: `https://apiacre.com/v1/research/ofac-entity-search`
- Auth: none required

Compare a business or organization name with separately named Entity records and aliases in the official OFAC SDN and Consolidated Non-SDN files, returning deterministic candidate scores, program tags, source hashes, and freshness evidence without issuing an allow or block verdict.

Price: **$0.02 USDC** via x402 exact payment on Base and Solana.

## Request body

- OfacEntitySearchInput
  - `entity_name` string, required: Organization or business name to compare with separately named OFAC Entity records
  - `minimum_score` integer: Minimum API Acre similarity score to return; this is not OFAC's interactive-search score
  - `max_results` integer: Maximum candidate records to return after deterministic ranking
  - `include_weak_aliases` boolean: Include aliases that OFAC labels weak and warns may create false positives

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- ServiceResponse
  - `request_id` string, required
  - `service` string, required
  - `version` string
  - `data` object, required
  - `meta` ServiceMeta, required
    - `duration_ms` integer, required
    - `cached` boolean
    - `sources` string[]
    - `warnings` string[]
    - `next_actions` ServiceNextAction[]
      - `service` string, required
      - `title` string, required
      - `reason` string, required
      - `method` 'POST'
      - `path` string, required
      - `price` string, required
      - `input_template` object, required
      - `use_output` string, required
      - `handoff_path` string, required
      - `checkout_path` string, required
      - `sample_path` string, nullable, required
      - `maximum_atomic_usdc` string, required
      - `handoff_payment_required` false
      - `executes_automatically` false
      - `authorization_required` boolean

## Other responses

- `402`: Payment Required. Decode PAYMENT-REQUIRED, satisfy the x402 requirement, and retry with PAYMENT-SIGNATURE.
- `422`: Validation Error

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