How OpenPlanning is funded
Public records should be free for the public. Citizens, registered users, and verified government staff get full data access at no cost.
Two paid tiers fund everything else. Professionals, attorneys, consultants, and real estate developers, pay for productivity tools that sit on top of the public data. Municipalities pay to bring their records into OpenPlanning as first-class data: automated ingestion, structured at the source, with a discovery surface their residents can actually use. Their subscription is what makes the records searchable for everyone else.
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.
For municipal, county, and state staff researching their own jurisdiction's records. Unmetered access and full research tools, scoped to your municipality.
Billed annually at $990/seat/year, or $119/month billed monthly. 14-day free trial. 5+ seats, talk to us.
Productivity tools that sit on top of the public data. For attorneys, consultants, and real estate developers tracking planning work across many jurisdictions.
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 share to social, driving real
participation in your hearings and meetings.
Includes automated ingestion of your records, structured
data at the source, research tools and the Word add-in for
your staff, 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 50,000 | $12,000 |
| 50,000 to 250,000 | $24,000 |
| 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 | Verified Gov | Professional | Municipality |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Limits | |||||
| Search rate | 60/hour, 200/day | 200/hour, 1000/day | unmetered | unmetered | unmetered |
| Pagination depth | first 5 pages | unlimited | unlimited | 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 | – | – | – | ✓ | – |
| Notifications | |||||
| Monthly Happenings digest (your town) | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Daily digest and project alerts | – | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cross-municipality watchlist and digest | – | – | – | ✓ | – |
| Research tools | |||||
| Faceted filters (status, date, type, applicant, citation) | – | – | ✓ your municipality | ✓ | ✓ |
| Search by citation (find decisions citing a code section) | – | – | ✓ your municipality | ✓ | ✓ |
| Search by party, applicant, or condition | – | – | ✓ your municipality | ✓ | ✓ |
| Analytics & AI | |||||
| Aggregations and commission ruling patterns | – | – | ✓ your municipality | ✓ | ✓ your municipality |
| Long-form AI summaries and structured condition extraction | – | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Workflow | |||||
| Saved searches and alerts | – | – | ✓ your municipality | ✓ | ✓ your municipality |
| Microsoft Word add-in | – | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| API access | – | – | – | ✓ | ✓ your municipality |