If you need US layoff-notice (WARN Act) data, these are your options as of 2026-09-07. Competitor prices were read off each provider's own public page on 2026-09-03; 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) | 9,443 notices · 39 states (2024–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 · archive) | WARN Watch: up to 25 employer terms + whole-state watches matched on every refresh, private alert page + RSS · full historical archive: 45,775 notices back to 1988 | Watches run on every daily refresh | $49/year watch · $199 one-time archive | Watch delivered as a private alert page + RSS; archive downloads instantly from the receipt — both automatic. |
| WARNTracker | Commercial WARN dashboard with alerts and historical data | Live subscription | Per its public pricing page (checked 2026-09-05): $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 2026-09-03): free tier 25 API calls/day × 25 records, last 30 days, 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 2026-09-03) | Free | Free email alerts on a named company — the one thing our watch charges for — and no account needed to browse. No bulk CSV or API is published, so it is a reading surface rather than a dataset. |
| 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. |
| 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 7 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 2026-09-07 ("last modified" is the newest change to any file in that dataset; "downloads" is HF's rolling 30-day count).
| Dataset | Last modified | As of 2026-09-07 | Downloads (30d) |
|---|---|---|---|
| APProjects/us-warn-act-layoffs-notices-daily (this dataset) | 2026-09-07 (rebuilt) | rebuilt every day | 80 |
| APProjects/us-warn-act-layoff-notice-period-days | 2026-09-07 | 0 days ago | 0 |
| APProjects/us-multi-state-employer-layoffs-warn-notices-by-state | 2026-09-07 | 0 days ago | 0 |
| retrainmap/us-warn-layoff-notices-sample | 2026-09-06 | 1 day ago | 0 |
| CanaryWhistle/us-warn-layoffs | 2026-08-03 | 35 days ago | 41 |
| teosv1/us-warn-act-layoff-notices | 2026-07-29 | 40 days ago | 36 |
| Workopia/us-warn-layoffs | 2026-06-16 | 83 days ago | 47 |
| Meo-Advisors/warn-layoff-atlas | 2026-05-30 | 100 days ago | 15 |
Journalists / researchers: the free tier here covers most needs (2024–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 (45,775 notices) is $199 one-time.
Yes. The WARN Feed free tier is a normalized, no-login dataset of 9,443 WARN notices across 39 states (2024–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 2026-09-03: 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 (45,775 notices) is $199 one-time.
Checked 2026-09-03, 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 once rather than monthly: the full 1988–present archive (45,775 notices) is $199 one time, and the free tier (9,443 notices, 39 states) needs no account at all. 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.
