Check a general contractor's licence in Florida by number or by business name and get one normalized JSON record back, sourced from the Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR). The Department of Business and Professional Regulation extract holds 68,581 records under these classifications as of 2026-08-05.
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CGC — Certified General Contractor 38,847 recordsCBC — Certified Building Contractor 19,676 recordsCRC — Certified Residential Contractor 8,539 recordsRG — Registered General Contractor 420 recordsRB — Registered Building Contractor 427 recordsRR — Registered Residential Contractor 672 recordsA record's classifications array carries these codes, so you can tell a
licence that covers the work from one that merely exists.
curl "https://contractor-license-verification2.p.rapidapi.com/v1/licenses/FL/CGCA12417" \
-H "X-RapidAPI-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
-H "X-RapidAPI-Host: contractor-license-verification2.p.rapidapi.com"CGCA12417 is a real FL licence (BAKER, JOHN W) in this trade, so that call works as written.
Florida splits this three ways by scope, not by trade: general (unlimited), building (up to three storeys), residential (up to two). It splits again by reach — a Certified licence works statewide, a Registered one only where the holder has local competency, so a valid RG licence can still be the wrong licence for the county the job is in.
Full coverage detail, including the caveats that apply to every Florida lookup, is on the Florida page.
The API is on RapidAPI with a free tier: Contractor License Verification. It is also on the Apify Store: Contractor License Lookup & Verification. Full schema at /docs.