🔌 AFE Leaks API Access

Want to plug AFE Leaks’ industry-leading well cost data straight into your internal models, dashboards, or analytics platforms?

You're in the right place.

🧠 What the API Delivers

The AFE Leaks API gives you direct, programmatic access to:

  • ✅ Well-level capex data, both actuals and AFE-level, broken down by phase and component

  • Production data for comparison with spend

  • Well design, casing programs, well tests, surveys, source data links, and more


🔐 Who It’s For

  • Private equity investors benchmarking development costs

  • Operators, whether from a procurement or benchmarking perspective, comparing internal AFEs or Actuals vs regional competitors

  • Banks and credit shops tracking remaining inventory and program costs

  • Data vendors who want to license slices of the dataset


⚙️ How to Use It

You can hit the API using:

  • Python, R, Power BI, Excel and more

  • Your browser for quick queries

  • Pre-built Power BI dashboards we can provide

Example query for Haynesville wells in De Soto County:

https://api.afeleaks.com/api/cost-data?reservoir=Haynesville&county=De%20Soto

💸 Pricing

  • Depends on organization size/needs, and bulk user licenses are available at a discount. Message us or email at bd@afeleaks.com for more information, or for potential one-time downloads.

🔑 Authentication

Authentication is managed via a rotating API token updated hourly, available from our API login page.


📈 Built for Speed & Flexibility

  • Fast responses (our backend is tuned for 150M+ records)

  • Clean, RESTful JSON format

  • Designed for analysts, not IT people


🧪 Documentation?

More information on accessing the API can be found here.