How OpenPlanning is funded
Public records should be free for the public. Citizens and registered users get full data access at no cost.
One paid tier funds everything else. Municipalities pay to bring their records into OpenPlanning as first-class data: automated ingestion, structured at the source, with a civic discovery platform their residents can actually use. Their subscription is what makes the records searchable for everyone else, and includes everything their staff needs to do their best work.
We publish our prices because govtech shouldn't run on sales calls. If your town or organization can't afford a tier, tell us. We have a path for you.
Search public planning records right now. No account, no waiting.
A monthly digest of your town's planning activity in your inbox, plus everything in Anonymous with higher rate limits.
Flat institutional pricing, unlimited staff seats. Population-based, see pricing details.
Turn your planning records into a civic engagement platform.
Residents follow the issues they care about, get notified
when things change, and drive real participation in your
hearings and meetings.
Unlimited staff seats include full research access across all
OpenPlanning jurisdictions. Your planners can search precedent,
track cross-jurisdictional patterns, and find every decision
citing a code section anywhere we have data.
Includes automated ingestion of your records, structured data
at the source, the Word add-in for drafting staff reports, and
integration support.
Your subscription funds free public access for every resident.
Municipality pricing by population
| Population | Annual price |
|---|---|
| Under 10,000 | $6,000 |
| 10,000 to 25,000 | $12,000 |
| 25,000 to 75,000 | $24,000 |
| 75,000 to 250,000 | $48,000 |
| 250,000+, counties, state agencies | Custom, talk to us |
Population figures from the most recent US Census Bureau estimate. All Municipality plans include unlimited staff seats, automated ingestion, and integration support.
Founding Municipality program: first ten partner municipalities receive 50% off year one, a co-branded launch announcement, and direct input on the product roadmap. Talk to us.
Compare features
Data access stays free. Tools that sit on top of the data are paid.
| Feature | Anonymous | Civic | Municipality |
|---|---|---|---|
| Limits | |||
| Search rate | 60/hour, 200/day | 200/hour, 1,000/day | unmetered |
| Pagination depth | first 5 pages | unlimited | unlimited |
| Data access | |||
| Full-text search of public planning records | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Entity pages with full history and references | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Linked zoning code citations and citation graph traversal | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Document mirror and source attribution | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Short document captions (1-2 sentence summaries) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cross-municipality search | – | – | ✓ staff seats |
| Notifications | |||
| Monthly Happenings digest (your town) | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Daily digest and project alerts | – | – | ✓ |
| Cross-municipality watchlist and digest | – | – | ✓ staff seats |
| Research tools | |||
| Faceted filters (status, date, type, applicant, citation) | – | – | ✓ |
| Search by citation (find decisions citing a code section) | – | – | ✓ |
| Search by party, applicant, or condition | – | – | ✓ |
| Analytics & AI | |||
| Aggregations and commission ruling patterns | – | – | ✓ all jurisdictions |
| Long-form AI summaries and structured condition extraction | – | – | ✓ |
| Workflow | |||
| Saved searches and alerts | – | – | ✓ |
| Microsoft Word add-in | – | – | ✓ |
| API access | – | – | ✓ your municipality |