If you need US layoff-notice (WARN Act) data, these are your options as of 2026-09-25. Competitor prices were read off each provider's own public page on 2026-09-16; our own numbers are generated live by the pipeline that builds this site, so this comparison updates daily instead of rotting.
| Source | What you get | Freshness | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| State labor department portals | The official source: each state publishes its own WARN notice list (HTML tables, PDFs, Excel files — every state a different format) | Varies by state | Free | Authoritative, but ~50 separate sites with no shared schema, no combined download, and patchy history. |
| US Department of Labor | WARN Act guidance and links to state rapid-response contacts | — | Free | The federal DOL does not publish a consolidated national WARN notice database; data lives with the states. |
| WARN Feed — free tier (this site, GitHub) | 61,431 notices · 48 states (1988–present), one normalized CSV/JSON schema, per-state / weekly / monthly / yearly / per-employer pages, RSS | Committed daily, no delay | Free — no login, CC BY 4.0 | Complete and current; what it cannot do is watch your own list for you. |
| WARN Feed — paid (WARN Watch) | WARN Watch: up to 500 employer terms + whole-state watches matched on every refresh, private alert page + RSS. The data itself (61,431 notices back to 1988) is in the free tier | Watches run on every daily refresh | $49/year watch (the archive is free) | Watch delivered as a private alert page + RSS, automatically; the archive is a free download. |
| WARNTracker | Commercial WARN dashboard with alerts and historical data | Live subscription | Per its public pricing page (checked 2026-09-16): $250/mo subscription (weekly email of every new notice, 17 columns, 46 states and D.C.); $2,000 one-time historical CSV; $2,050 bundle then $250/mo. No free tier | Polished UI and alerting; the incumbent for teams that want a hosted dashboard. |
| WARN Firehose | Six labor/distress datasets (85,000+ WARN notices plus H-1B/LCA, DOL, SEC filings, bankruptcies) behind a dashboard and REST API | Daily (free tier is 7-day delayed) | Per its public pricing page (checked 2026-09-16): free tier 25 API calls/day × 25 records, 90 days of history, 7-day delayed · Starter $49/mo · Professional $199/mo (full history, alerts, watchlist) · Investor $499/mo · enterprise from $9,500/yr | The most complete WARN archive of anyone here and the only one that bundles visa, SEC and bankruptcy data — buy it if you want one API for all of those. Its free tier is capped and delayed, and exports stop at 500 records per call, so it is not a bulk-CSV source. |
| LayoffAlert.org | Free public tracker of state WARN filings with per-company email alerts | Daily, 49 states reporting (checked 2026-09-16) | Free | A free email per new filing on ONE named company, no account needed to browse; its page says multiple companies or a whole state means contacting them (checked 2026-09-07). No bulk CSV or API is published, so it is a reading surface rather than a dataset. Our Watch is the self-serve version of the multi-company / whole-state request (500 terms, any states, a private RSS feed you point Slack/Discord/Teams at) — but it does not send email. |
| Intellizence | Enterprise layoff & downsizing signals API (WARN filings plus news sources), also sold via data marketplaces | Near real-time | Enterprise — pricing on request | Broadest signal coverage (beyond WARN filings); built for enterprise data teams. |
| warn-scraper (Big Local News, Stanford) | Open-source Python CLI that scrapes state WARN sites; hosted downloads on biglocalnews.org require a free account | When you run it | Free (DIY / login for hosted downloads) | Excellent journalism tooling and the upstream scraper library this dataset is built on; you operate the scraper and normalization yourself. Raw per-state output, not a single normalized file. |
| layoffdata.com (WARN Database) | Searchable WARN database, 83,000+ notices, all 50 states and territories (Arkansas and Wyoming unavailable by state law), plus a REST API and bulk CSV | Its own site says WARN data is "manually pulled and vetted on a weekly basis" (checked 2026-09-05); some states are flagged Delayed | Browsing free; API and bulk CSV "require an active subscription" — no price is published on its pricing page | The largest WARN archive with genuine 50-state reach, and worth asking for a quote if you need every state. Two honest differences from this dataset: its refresh is weekly and human, ours is daily and automated, and its bulk file is behind a subscription while ours is a public CSV you can download right now. |
| tppflow (MCP server) | Remote MCP server searching 5,950 WARN notices in 5 states (CA, TX, NY, IL, NC) by state, employer and date | Not stated | Not stated in its registry listing (checked 2026-09-16) | One-click remote endpoint for agents; a fraction of the states and notices here, and no bulk file. |
| retrainmap (Apify MCP) | Apify actor exposed as an MCP server: WARN notices for 3 states (CA, IL, NY), normalised from agency files | When the actor runs | Apify usage pricing; not stated in its registry listing (checked 2026-09-16) | Three states, agent-facing only; no archive download. |
| FDE Lessons + WARN Feed (MCP server) | Remote MCP server whose paid tool returns current WARN filings for 3 states (CA, TX, NJ) — 308 filings in a 120-day window per its own free preview tool | Daily (free preview rows are aged 45+ days) | Per-query machine payment (MPP over Stripe), no account; price per call not stated in the listing (checked 2026-09-16) | Sells freshness by the query to prospecting agents; three states and a four-month window, no history, no bulk file — here the current rows are free and the archive goes back to 1988. |
| Layoffs.fyi | Curated tracker of tech-industry layoffs compiled from news reports and submissions | As news breaks | Free | Tech sector only, and tracks reported layoffs rather than official WARN filings — a complement, not a WARN database. |
Hugging Face lists 78 other US WARN layoff datasets. All are free and worth a look; the one thing to check before you pick is the date each was last modified, because WARN portals amend and re-issue notices continuously. Figures below come from the Hugging Face API on 2026-09-25 ("last modified" is the newest change to any file in that dataset; "downloads" is HF's rolling 30-day count).
Journalists / researchers: the free tier here covers most needs (1988–present, normalized, citable, CC BY); for deeper custom scraping, Big Local News' warn-scraper is the gold-standard DIY tool. Recruiters and sales-intelligence teams who only care about certain employers or states: WARN Watch ($49/year) checks your list on every refresh and gives you a private alert page + RSS. Analysts who need decades of history: the full 1988–present archive (61,431 notices) is free — same CSV, same schema, rebuilt every morning.
Yes. The WARN Feed free tier is a normalized, no-login dataset of 61,431 WARN notices across 48 states (1988–present), published as CSV and JSON on GitHub with daily commits, under CC BY 4.0. It carries no delay: rows are published on the refresh that first sees them.
No. The WARN Act is administered state-by-state: each state labor department publishes its own notice list in its own format, and the US DOL links out to those state pages rather than hosting a consolidated database.
Checked 2026-09-16: WARNTracker's public pricing lists a $250/month subscription and a $2,000 one-time historical CSV; Intellizence sells an enterprise layoff-signals API with pricing on request. WARN Feed's per-customer WARN Watch is $49/year and its full 1988–present archive (61,431 notices) is free.
Checked 2026-09-16, the paid options are priced per month: WARN Firehose charges $199/month for full history (its $49/month tier gives one year), WARNTracker lists $250/month or a $2,000 one-time CSV, and Intellizence is enterprise-quoted. WARN Feed sells the same kind of thing free: since 2026-09-07 the full 1988–present archive (61,431 notices, 48 states) is the free tier, needs no account at all, and is rebuilt every morning. If you also want H-1B, SEC and bankruptcy data through one API, Firehose is the better buy and we would tell you so.
States post notices on their own schedules — some daily, some weekly. This pipeline re-scrapes every state source multiple times a day and publishes every new row on the refresh that first sees it — no hold.
