Spend Brake vs Clerkfield

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Spend Brake compared with Clerkfield
Detail	Spend Brake	Clerkfield
What it does	Hard dollar caps for every paid API your apps and agents call, enforced before the request leaves	Business verification and UCC lien search from official state records
Stage	Not given	Startup
Founded	Not given	2026
Based in	BG	US
Pricing model	Freemium	Free
Pricing	Free plan: $0, up to $50/month protected spend, 1 key, 1 provider, 10,000 requests/month, 20 agent sessions/month. Indie: $9/month, unlimited keys, 2 providers, 100,000 requests/month, 100 agent sessions/month. Team: $49/month, unlimited keys, 5 providers, 1,000,000 requests/month, 500 agent session	Free while in beta. Paid plans will be announced before launch.
Key features	Session keys for AI agents with independent budgets Support for Google Maps, Twilio, Mapbox, HERE, Tavily, Exa, Brave and SerpApi Self-hosted option with Docker Compose and offline license verification	Business verification with Pass, Review or Fail verdict UCC lien search by business name or lender Owner and officer verification against state records Full filing history and lapse dates REST API with authentication Coverage and source information on every result Web dashboard for manual searches MCP server integration for AI assistants
What makes it different	Atomic enforcement of all caps simultaneously so parallel requests cannot slip past together Provider keys never exposed to client applications, only revocable virtual keys	Searches official state records directly, never stale or guessed data Coverage in 15 states for business checks and 10 for lien search Built for MCA funders and merchant cash advance verification
Community votes	0	0
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)	3 +3 (up) since last check	Not checked yet no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	0	0
Citation Flow (Majestic)	0	0
Referring domains (Majestic)	0	0

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