Market leaderboard

Ranked NAICS markets by size, competition, or small-business set-aside leverage. These are the leaderboards behind the Market Pulse pages. Free with any key.

Path parameter

• board (path): one of biggest (largest markets by obligated dollars), most_open (most competitors), most_locked (most concentrated), least_crowded (fewest competitors), or setaside_<family> where <family> is one of total_small_business, 8a, sdvosb, wosb, hubzone, veteran, native (e.g. setaside_8a). An unknown board returns 400 with the valid list.

Parameters

• limit: Results per page. Default 100; maximum 100 on the free trial and 1,000 on paid plans. Over the maximum returns 402.

Response

A ranked list of NAICS markets for the chosen board, each with its code, description, obligated size, competitor count, and set-aside share.

Errors

• 400: unknown board.
• 503: the market index is transiently rebuilding; retry shortly.

Example

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  "https://govconapi.com/api/v1/naics/leaderboard/biggest?limit=10"

As of 2026-07-10, GET /api/v1/naics/leaderboard/biggest leads with commercial and institutional building construction (about $56B) and aircraft manufacturing (about $51B).