I want to know what a body paid for an item, and whether that is expensive
It is the only one that compares that price against other purchases of the same item and tells you if it is out of line.
Comparison
Who else is watching the Uruguayan State
Nine platforms publishing data about the Uruguayan State, compared with the source and date behind every figure. Ours included — which is why it opens with a disclosure.
Verified on 2026-08-12
We are an interested party
We wrote this comparison and we are in the table. Treat what it says about the other platforms as verifiable — every figure has its source and date — and what it says about ours as what it is: our own opinion about our own work. That is why the conlatuya entry lists the most limitations, and why for several needs the recommendation points somewhere else.
What do you need?
The shortcut. For several of these questions the right answer is not this site, and the link goes straight to where it is.
I want to cross-check a company against customs, asset declarations and court files
It is the only one with those 68 tables together in a single search.
I want to quickly grasp a scandalous spending case
GastosUy writes up and illustrates each case, with a link to the official purchase. We do not do that.
I want to know how much a ministry was allocated and how much it executed
Portal de Transparencia Presupuestaria (OPP)
Budget and execution are in no procurement platform, ours included.
I want the official record, no intermediaries
It is the source. If anything differs from us, ARCE prevails.
Nobody publishes the data I am looking for
QueSabes.uy helps you file the formal freedom-of-information request.
I want to build my own tool
Catálogo Nacional de Datos Abiertos
Raw material with an open API. And if you would rather start from something built, our code and API are public too.
The table
It compares only what is comparable: us and the citizen platforms. Government sites are the source everyone draws from, not competitors — they are below, as entries.
What is compared How you get in | Open | Free with limits | Free with limits | Open |
What is compared Per-contract record The individual contract, not just the total | ||||
What is compared Own analysis Detects, compares or curates; not just a data mirror | ||||
What is compared Free data download | ||||
What is compared Public API | ||||
What is compared Open source | ||||
What is compared Alerts | ||||
What is compared Beyond procurement |
A half-filled circle means the answer is “partly”, and each platform’s entry explains why.
Us
This is what this site does, and what it does not.
Con la tuya, contribuyente
Open
Every state contract, with its price put to the test.
Our own entry. Read it with that in mind.
- Who runs it
- Independent, non-profit and open-source project: the repository is public on GitHub.
- What it covers
- Public procurement (ARCE OCDS feed) since 2002, plus our own cross-references: RUPE, the MIEM industrial registry, JUTEP non-filers, consumer-protection sanctions and who governed each body.
- What it costs
- Free, no signup, no paid tier.
- 2.183.440contractsour own /api/dashboard/metrics
- 42.967suppliersour own /api/dashboard/metrics
- 397public bodiesour own /api/dashboard/metrics
- 6.287price anomalies detectedour own /api/dashboard/metrics
What it is best at Following a specific contract, supplier or public body, and checking whether a price is out of line with what the same item cost in other purchases.
What it does not do
- Procurement only. The budget, its execution and public salaries are not here: for those you need OPP and ONSC.
- Everything comes from the OCDS feed. What a body does not publish there does not exist here: losing bidders, for instance, are absent from the feed and we only reconstruct them by parsing award minutes in PDF, one by one.
- We do not curate: we show 2.18 million contracts and flag the odd ones, but we do not write up the case or give it a face. GastosUy is better at that.
- We are a small project and not an official source. If there is a discrepancy, what ARCE publishes prevails.
Sources: conlatuya.checkleaked.ccgithub.comconlatuya.checkleaked.cc
Citizen platforms
Projects independent from the State. These are who we actually compare against.
Control Ciudadano
Free with limits
A suite of citizen-oversight apps: spending, homicides, robberies, plates and vehicle taxes.
- Who runs it
- Verbatim from the site: “Created by PhD en Lógica (@PhDenLogica). Built by citizens for citizens.”
- What it covers
- GastosUy (annotated public spending), AlertaHomicidios (lethal-violence observatory), AlertaRobos (collaborative map), ChapasUy and PatentesUy (vehicles, SUCIVE). LeyesUy and seven more are listed as upcoming.
- What it costs
- Free (Ciudadano tier). Supporters: U$S 5, 10, 25 or 100 per month, plus a one-off “Pasaporte Narco” at U$S 10,000.
- 277spending items published in GastosUytheir own /api/gastos/stats endpoint
- $U 52,1 Mtotallingtheir own /api/gastos/stats endpoint
What it is best at Grasping a striking spending case at a glance — each one is written up, illustrated and linked to the official purchase — and for everything that is not procurement: homicides, robberies and vehicles.
What it does not do
- GastosUy is an editorial selection, not a corpus: its own stats endpoint returns 277 published items totalling 52.1 million pesos. It is not for looking up an arbitrary contract, and does not claim to be.
- CSV download is paid. Verbatim: “Exporting data in CSV format is a tool exclusive to our Supporters” (Representante, Ilustre or Pasaporte Narco tiers).
- Open source only in part: ChapasUy publishes its repository, the rest of the suite does not.
Sources: controlciudadano.uycontrolciudadano.uycontrolciudadano.uygithub.com
datospublicos.uy
Free with limits
A single search engine across 68 tables of Uruguayan public data.
- Who runs it
- The site does not state who operates it.
- What it covers
- The broadest of them all. Sources listed in its own footer: SICE/ARCE, RUPE, SENACLAFT, JUTEP, Customs, Parliament, Official Gazette, OPP and ONSC. It covers tenders, awards, asset declarations, court files, campaign donors, elections and state employment links.
- What it costs
- Free: $0, limited to 5 searches per day. Pro: $990 per month (the site does not label the currency).The site does not say in which currency.
- 68data tablestheir home page
- 1.449.675awardstheir home page
- 639.480tenderstheir home page
- 19.972.536customs operationstheir home page
What it is best at Cross-checking a company or a person against registries that have nothing to do with each other: customs, asset declarations, court files, campaign donations and parliament, all in one search.
What it does not do
- The free tier allows 5 searches per day. It is the hardest barrier in this table for occasional citizen use.
- Everything resembling analysis — historical prices, winner history, bidder estimates, CSV and PDF export — sits behind the Pro tier.
- It publishes neither an API nor code, and its robots.txt explicitly blocks /api/ and AI crawlers.
- It prints the price as “$990” without saying in which currency.
DATA Uruguay
Open
The country’s longest-running civic-tech organization.
- Who runs it
- Non-profit civil association. It runs AbreLatam and the Open Government Network.
- What it covers
- Not a spending search engine: it builds tools. QueSabes.uy (freedom-of-information requests), UruguayLeaks.uy (leak channel), ATuServicio.uy (health providers), Apelatrón, PorMiBarrio.uy.
- What it costs
- Free.
What it is best at Formally requesting data the State does not publish (QueSabes.uy) or safely delivering a document (UruguayLeaks.uy). It is the next step when open data runs out.
What it does not do
- It has no procurement or spending tool: its strength is the right of access, not spending analysis.
- Several projects are listed as inactive on their own site, among them “Declaraciones Juradas Abiertas” and PorMiBarrio.uy.
The State
The source. Everything the platforms above show, ours included, comes from here.
Compras Estatales (ARCE)
Official
The source. This is where the data everyone else reprocesses comes from.
- Who runs it
- State Procurement Regulatory Agency (ARCE).
- What it covers
- Open calls, awards, RUPE (supplier registry), annual purchasing plan and virtual store. It also publishes the OCDS open-data feed.
- What it costs
- Free.
What it is best at Officially confirming anything you saw elsewhere, and bidding on a call. It is the record, not the interpretation.
What it does not do
- Built for the transaction, not for analysis: it does not compare prices across purchases, flags nothing unusual and historical browsing is awkward.
- The OCDS feed omits things the site itself shows in HTML: the tender document, taxes in the total and who else bid.
Sources: comprasestatales.gub.uygub.uy
Observatorio de Compras Públicas
Official
The official reading of the public procurement market, in aggregates.
- Who runs it
- ARCE.
- What it covers
- Awarded amounts by body down to executing unit, RUPE evolution (domestic vs. foreign suppliers) and preference regimes.
- What it costs
- Free.
What it is best at Citing an aggregate figure with official backing: how much each body weighs in the awarded total, or how much spending goes to foreign suppliers.
What it does not do
- It stops at the aggregate: it does not drill down to the individual contract or supplier.
Catálogo Nacional de Datos Abiertos
Official
The repository behind almost every cross-reference in this table.
- Who runs it
- AGESIC.
- What it covers
- Open data from public bodies, academia, civil society and companies. This is where the consumer-protection sanctions, the JUTEP non-filers and the ARCE article catalogue used by this site live.
- What it costs
- Free.
- 2.691datasetstheir CKAN API (package_search)
- 72publishing organizationstheir CKAN API (organization_list)
What it is best at Finding the raw material. If you want to build something of your own, start here: it has an open CKAN API and direct downloads.
What it does not do
- It is a repository, not a tool: files come raw, with inconsistent encodings and separators, and nobody cross-references them for you.
Portal de Transparencia Presupuestaria (OPP)
Official
The budget and its execution — precisely what the rest of this table is missing.
- Who runs it
- Office of Planning and Budget (OPP).
- What it covers
- Budget and execution by agency, programme, funding source and spending object, in the international Open Fiscal Data Package standard. It takes part in the World Bank BOOST initiative.
- What it costs
- Free.
What it is best at The question no procurement platform can answer: how much that body was allocated, and how much it actually spent.
What it does not do
- It returns 403 to any automated request, so we could not verify its coverage or figures as we did for the rest of the table (tested 2026-08-12). You have to open it in a browser.
JUTEP y Transparencia Pública
Official
Sworn declarations of assets and income, plus passive transparency.
- Who runs it
- Board of Transparency and Public Ethics (JUTEP) and the gub.uy portal.
- What it covers
- Publication of asset declarations by senators, representatives, ministers and deputy ministers (art. 12 bis of law 17,060), the list of non-filers, and each body’s passive-transparency section.
- What it costs
- Free.
What it is best at Checking an official’s declared assets, or whether they failed to declare at all.
What it does not do
- Only some of those obliged are published: the law covers many more than appear. And declarations come as PDFs, one by one.
How it is done elsewhere
They are not in the table — they do not compete for the same data — but they set the ceiling for what public data can do.
¿Dónde van mis impuestos? (Civio)
Spain
The state budget, explained and navigable. Civio also litigates for access to information.
Querido Diário
Brazil
Turns the official gazettes of hundreds of municipalities into searchable data. The equivalent here would be doing it with the Diario Oficial and the 19 departments.
Portal da Transparência
Brazil
The region’s most complete official portal: spending, agreements, sanctions and even government corporate cards.
Presupuesto Abierto
Argentina
Budget and execution in near-real time, with downloadable open data.
QuiénEsQuién.Wiki
Mexico
Companies, contracts and people connected in a graph: the corporate-ownership cross-reference we lack.
Open Contracting Partnership
Global
The people behind the OCDS standard — the format Uruguay publishes its procurement in, and what feeds this site.
How this was put together
- Every figure about a third party comes from its own site or its own public endpoint, and the URL is in the entry. None was estimated.
- Prices are shown exactly as each site publishes them, with their currency and unconverted. What is unlabelled is marked as unlabelled, not guessed.
- Everything was verified on 12 August 2026. Platforms change: if something is stale or wrong, it gets corrected — write to us.
- There is no commercial agreement, advertising or relationship of any kind with any of the platforms listed.