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The SEC Filings Coverage endpoints enumerate what the SEC datasets cover: which tickers and CIKs have filings, which form types are supported, and which item codes exist per form type. All four are free — they cost no credits — so coverage can be checked before spending anything.
Plan: Free and above · Credits: free (not metered)

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What You Can Use the Filings Coverage Endpoints For

Check whether a company is covered before querying it. Validate a form type or an item code against the supported list rather than guessing one. Build a local universe of covered CIKs. Distinguish “not covered” from “covered but nothing found”, which is the difference between a data gap and a real answer.

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The Four Filings Coverage Endpoints

The covered tickers endpoint lists every ticker in the filings index. The covered CIKs endpoint lists every CIK in it, zero-padded to ten characters. The form types endpoint lists the SEC form types the filings index supports. The item types endpoint lists the item codes available per form type, for use with SEC Filing Items. Two further free endpoints cover the company-facts dataset specifically: its own covered-tickers and covered-CIKs lists. See Company Facts.

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Why CIK Formatting Differs Here

CIKs on these endpoints are zero-padded ten-character strings, for example 0000320193. The SEC Filings Index returns cik as an integer instead. Both refer to the same identifier; only the representation differs, and the filings index is the exception.

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Filings Coverage Sources

The lists are derived from the filings index itself, which comes from SEC EDGAR. They describe what FocusAlpha holds, not what EDGAR contains.

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Query the Filings Coverage Endpoints

None of these endpoints takes a parameter. Each returns a resource naming the dataset and an array of values. Because they cost no credits, they are safe to call on every deployment or as a startup check. See also SEC Filings Index to query the filings themselves, SEC Filing Items for the item codes these endpoints enumerate, Company Facts for its own coverage endpoints, and Coverage and Freshness for how coverage is reported on every other dataset.