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FCC ID Equipment Authorization Database (FCCID.io mirror) vs FCC ID Search - Advanced Query Interface
Which communications equipment data providers data fits your job: FCC ID Equipment Authorization Database, or FCC ID Search - Advanced Query Interface. API, files, or your warehouse. Daily, weekly, or hourly.
FCC ID Equipment Authorization Database (FCCID.io mirror)
FCC ID Search - Advanced Query Interface
What each contains
They tie on 1 attribute. Pick by fit, not by loyalty.
| FCC ID Equipment Authorization Database | FCC ID Search - Advanced Query Interface | |
|---|---|---|
| Publisher | FCC / FCCID.io | FCC / FCCID.io |
| Role in the stack | Archive: the mirrored equipment authorization corpus laid out record by record | Front door: a unified query layer over the very same corpus |
| Query surface | Complete FCC ID, company name or model, plus a frequency-range catalog of 113 reference bands, an IMEI/TAC lookup, and country and date browsing | One query box accepting an FCC ID or product code, a company or model, and text matched inside filing documents |
| Record depth | Per-FCC-ID filing record: device details, rules parts, rated output power, exhibit listings with availability dates and file sizes, application information | Per-FCC-ID result row: product description, company, registered grantee, product code, latest filing date, matched-document count, declared bands |
| Radio detail | Declared bands plus rated output power in watts and FCC rules parts (15C, 15E) | Declared frequency bands only |
| Timeline fields | Application Dated and Date of Grant bracket every filing | Latest Filing date marking the most recent document per hit |
| Compliance detail | Test firm, FRN, short-term confidentiality flag and eleven exhibit categories | Matched Documents count with a per-hit table of matching documents by type and date |
| Documented fields | 13 fields, definitions verified | 9 fields, definitions verified |
| Formats delivered | Structured filing metadata with PDF exhibits attached | Result-page rows with linked filing documents |
| Corpus anchors | 76,774 active grantee registrations; one Apple grantee code holds 940 FCC IDs; no total FCC ID count is published anywhere | Indexes the same corpus; a live query for router matched 36 FCC IDs |
| Rubric rating | 9 out of 10 | 8 out of 10 |
| Best for | Whole-filing evidence: compliance columns, exhibits, corporate joins | Finding the filings when you start from anything but an identifier |
Where they're equivalent
More than the archive-versus-front-door split implies.
- They index the same corpus - every RF device authorized for the United States market, with the identical scale anchors: 76,774 active grantees, 940 IDs under one Apple code, no published total.
- Same geography: US-market devices, grantees in the United States, China, Italy, Latvia, the UK and beyond.
- Same window: filings from April 1998 current into August 2026.
- Same key: one FCC ID joins device, company, spectrum and documents on either side, so the pair hands off cleanly rather than merging messily.
- Both dictionaries are fully verified, every definition checked rather than inferred.
- Neither covers the other's specialty: result rows carry no output power, test firm, FRN or confidentiality columns; the archive offers no text-matched recall. A workflow wanting both buys both.
Fair questions
Is the FCC ID Equipment Authorization Database better than the FCC ID Search - Advanced Query Interface?
Different jobs on one corpus. The database is the archive: thirteen verified fields per filing, eleven exhibit types, rated output power, test firms, FRNs and confidentiality flags, organized against 76,774 active grantee registrations. The search interface is the front door: one query box resolving FCC IDs, product codes, companies, models and text inside filing documents. They score 9 and 8 out of 10.
Do the two field dictionaries overlap?
On the skeleton only: device identifier, company identity, declared frequency bands and a document trail. Everything distinctive sits outside that spine - output watts, test firm, FRN, confidentiality flag and dual grant-and-application dates belong to the database, while matched-document counts and full-text recall inside filings belong only to the interface.
Which record finds a device when all you have is a model number or a phrase?
The FCC ID Search - Advanced Query Interface. Its query box accepts an FCC ID, a product code such as 17101034, a company or model such as Apple, Continental or DNWDSE641T, and plain text matched inside filing documents - a live query for router returned 36 matching FCC IDs, each carrying company, registered grantee, latest filing date and declared bands.
Which record shows RF output power, test firms and confidentiality flags?
The FCC ID Equipment Authorization Database, exclusively. Each filing record carries rated OutputWatts - an iPod touch grant ranged 0.017 to 0.296 watts - the testing laboratory behind the measurements, the applicant's FRN, a short-term confidentiality flag, and rules parts such as 15C and 15E alongside the declared frequency range. The interface's result rows carry none of these columns.
Can I get both records from Datadory?
Yes - sample both, pick by fit, or take both in one feed. The search layer surfaces candidate filings from whatever you know; the archive layer supplies the whole record once a filing matters. Each arrives normalized to its documented field dictionary with sample rows attached for validation, delivered daily, weekly, or hourly - your call.