Repped API vs Cicero

Cicero (by Melissa) is the established elected-officials API, and for some teams it's the right tool. This is an honest comparison — including the rows where Cicero wins — so you can pick in five minutes instead of five sales calls.

	Repped API	Cicero
250,000 lookups	$599 / month, month-to-month	~$2,748 / year (annual commitment)
Entry price	Free 1k/mo · $79/mo for 10k	Credit packs / annual plans
Contract	None — cancel any month	Typically annual
US federal + state officials	Yes — 7,900+ indexed	Yes
US local officials (mayors)	Yes — verified, 5,500+ municipalities, 50 states	Partial local coverage
Per-field provenance (source + verified-at)	Yes — on every response	No
OCD division IDs	Yes	Yes
International districts	No — US only	Yes (multi-country)
Enterprise SLAs / dedicated support	Not yet — solo-built, email support	Yes
Self-serve key in under a minute	Yes	Sales/registration flow

Cicero details are from public pricing/documentation as of July 2026 — verify current terms with them; if anything here is out of date, tell us and we'll fix it.

When Cicero is the better choice

You need districts outside the United States.
You need contractual SLAs and an enterprise support relationship.
Your data pipeline already depends on Melissa's address-hygiene stack.

When Repped wins

You pay monthly for what you use. High-volume months (election season) without a year-long commitment — 250k/month costs less than a quarter of the equivalent annual spend elsewhere.
You need local officials. Verified mayors across 5,500+ municipalities, with the verification method published openly — read how it works.
You want to audit the data. Every field ships with provenance: where it came from, whether it's verified, and when it was last checked.
You're replacing Google Civic. Same OCD division IDs — the migration guide maps every field.

Try it against your own address list

The free tier (1,000 lookups/month) is enough to benchmark accuracy on your real data before you spend a dollar.

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