How much the US federal government pays Palantir

Source. Every number on this page is fetched live from the public USAspending.gov API on every page load — no build-step snapshot, no pre-fetched JSON, no cached value. USAspending publishes the federal procurement record under a public-domain license, mandated by the DATA Act. The page restricts the query to prime-contract award type codes (A, B, C, D — BPA Calls, Purchase Orders, Delivery Orders, and Definitive Contracts), excluding grants, cooperative agreements, loans, and direct payments.

Vendor-alias map. USAspending separates Palantir into multiple recipient entities. The page sums across the alias map below; if Palantir adds a new federal-contracting entity, this list is the place to extend it.

# /search/spending_by_category/recipient/  filters.recipient_search_text
recipient_search_text: [
  "PALANTIR USG",            # resolves to PALANTIR USG INC
  "PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES"    # resolves to PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC.
]
award_type_codes: ["A", "B", "C", "D"]   # prime contracts only

Classified contracts are not here. Black-budget and otherwise-classified contracts do not appear in USAspending. Public reporting suggests Palantir holds a non-trivial classified portfolio inside the intelligence community; the dollar value is not public, so the page does not estimate it. The headline counter and the trend chart are the public number; treat them as a known undercount of total federal spend with Palantir.

Subawards / flow-through are not here. If Palantir is a subcontractor on a prime's award (Carahsoft as the GSA reseller, or a systems integrator as the prime), USAspending records the dollars under the prime's recipient entity, not under Palantir's. USAspending's separate subaward dataset is noisy and incomplete; it is not joined into this page. Visitors who want a pure vendor-revenue cross-check should compare against the government-segment line on Palantir's 10-K Financials.

Foreign-government contracts are not here. US federal customers only. Palantir's UK NHS, Israel MoD, Ukraine MoD, and other foreign-government contracts will live on a future /orgs/palantir/customers/ page.

Named-program labels. The "Top contracts" table carries a named-program pill (e.g., MAVEN SMART SYSTEM or ICE INVESTIGATIVE CASE MANAGEMENT) above each award's official description, where the program name is publicly documented in a primary source (DoD press release, agency contract-award notification, GAO filing). The lookup is conservative — awards without a publicly-documented program name keep the boilerplate USAspending description and skip the pill.

Cross-reference for the company-side view. The Palantir Financials page shows the government / commercial revenue split as Palantir reports it in its 10-K. The annual government-segment line on that page should triangulate (within a meaningful margin) with the FY total here — the differences are explained by classified contracts, foreign-government contracts, timing (revenue recognition vs. obligation), and subaward flow-through.

Last alias-map verification: 2026-04-30. Build script: none — this page reads live from USAspending on every load.