Transparent pricing
CityMinutes scans every planning commission and city council in the United States — 3,142 counties, 50 states, weekly refresh — and extracts the four fields that predict where construction will happen before a permit exists.
| Feature | Starter$0 forever · 1 county | Teamfrom $399/mo · 3 counties | PopularGrowthfrom $1,999/mo · metro or statewide | Enterprisecustom · nationwide (3,142 counties) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Collection | ||||
| Coverage footprint | 1 county | 3 counties | Metro or statewide | Nationwide (3,142 counties) |
| 4-field wedge data | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Source link-back on every record | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Coverage | ||||
| Data refresh cadence | Weekly | Weekly | Daily | Near-real-time (24h) |
| Historical archive | 30 days | 1 year | 3 years | Full backfill |
| Delivery | ||||
| Alerts | Email + Slack | Email + Slack + Webhook | All + custom routing | |
| Export formats | PDF only | PDF + CSV | PDF + CSV + JSON | All formats (+ GeoJSON, Parquet) |
| API access | None | None | REST (10K req/day) | REST + GraphQL + webhook firehose |
| Integrations | None | Zapier | HubSpot + Salesforce | Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Procore, Yardi |
| Seats | 1 | 3 | 5 | Unlimited |
| Support | ||||
| Support channel | Email (3-day SLA) | Email (1-day SLA) | Email + chat (4-hr SLA) | Dedicated CSM + priority |
| Roadmap input | Not included | Not included | Quarterly call | Direct founder |
| SLAs | ||||
| Uptime SLA | None | 99% | 99.5% | 99.9% with credits |
| Custom MSA + DPA | Not included | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Get started | Start free | Start trial | Book demo | Contact sales |
$0/mo after trial
Solo land acquirers, independent developers, university planning students, journalists, and evaluators.
$399/mo (or $319/mo annual)
Small pre-construction BD teams, boutique multifamily developers, single-division land acquisition groups, and family offices scoping one metro.
$1,999/mo (or $1,599/mo annual)
Mid-market homebuilder divisions, commercial GCs running 3+ state territories, building product manufacturers with 5–15 reps, and regional PE land funds.
Custom — contact sales
Top-25 public homebuilders, BTR REITs, national commercial GCs, national building product manufacturers, PE land-banking funds, data center developers, and REIT asset-management teams.
Eyebrow: Transparent pricing. Nationwide coverage. No PBN shortcuts.
cityminutes.ai extracts the four fields that predict where construction will happen before it shows up on a permit: conditions of approval, community objections, hearing outcomes, and staff recommendations. Pick the coverage footprint that matches your pipeline. Pay for what you actually use.
Primary CTA: Start 14-day free trial (no credit card) Secondary CTA: Talk to sales →
Trust row: SSR-rendered, public-indexed content · SOC 2 Type II on the enterprise roadmap · Source link-back on every record · No PBN backlinks, ever
We built this page the way we wish every data vendor built theirs. Five commitments, in plain English.
Usage-based plus seat-based. Your bill scales on two axes: how many counties you monitor and how many teammates use the product. You shouldn't pay for nationwide coverage if your division operates in six Sunbelt metros, and you shouldn't pay a per-seat premium if your Land Acquisition group is two people who share a dashboard. Every tier bundles a coverage footprint and a seat count; you can add either one at any time without re-contracting.
Coverage tiers, not mystery-box packaging. The four tiers map cleanly to real-world footprints: single county for solo operators and students, 3-county bundles for submarket pre-con and boutique developers, metro or statewide for homebuilder divisions and mid-market GCs, and nationwide (3,142 counties) for enterprise land-acquisition platforms, national spec reps, and PE land funds. No hidden "pipeline credits." No "projects per month" gotchas.
Enterprise contracts are available at every level. If you want a 3-year multi-year lock, MSA redlines, indemnity caps, custom SLAs, or a Snowflake/BigQuery warehouse drop — we do that at Growth and Enterprise today and on request at Team.
We publish our pricing because we publish everything. Regrid says it out loud — "$80K/year starting for nationwide." Shovels.ai hides theirs behind a "contact sales" form. Dodge and ConstructConnect quote different numbers to different buyers. We'd rather tell you the starting price, show you what's in each tier, and earn your trial the honest way.
No PBN-backlink SEO tactics. Unlike one direct competitor whose entire public-web presence is tainted by a private-blog-network backlink footprint, we publish transparent pricing, transparent schemas, and transparent data lineage. Every record on our platform links back to the underlying public-source PDF.
Annual billing saves 20% on every paid tier. Numbers below are monthly price ranges; annual auto-discounts at checkout.
For: solo land acquirers, independent developers, university planning students, journalists, civic-tech researchers, and evaluators.
Included:
Trial length: 14 days at full Team-tier access, then auto-converts to Starter unless you upgrade. No credit card required.
Starting at: $0/mo after trial. CTA: Start free trial
For: small pre-construction BD teams at boutique GCs, 2–5-person boutique multifamily developers, single-division land acquisition groups, specialty contractors running a single-state territory, and family offices scoping one metro.
Included:
Starting at: $399/mo (monthly) or $319/mo on annual (20% off). CTA: Start free trial → upgrade in-app
For: mid-market homebuilder divisions (D.R. Horton regional, Lennar submarket), commercial GCs with $200M–$2B revenue running 3+ state territories, building product manufacturers with 5–15 specification reps, and regional PE land funds.
Included:
Starting at: $1,999/mo (monthly) or $1,599/mo on annual. CTA: Book a 30-minute demo
For: top-25 public homebuilders (D.R. Horton, Lennar, Pulte, NVR, KB Home), BTR REITs (Tricon, AMH, Invitation Homes), national commercial GCs (ENR Top 400), national building product manufacturers, PE land-banking funds, data center developers (DigitalBridge, QTS, Stack, Vantage), and REIT asset-management teams.
Included:
Starting at: Contact sales. Benchmarked against Regrid's public $80K/year nationwide floor.
CTA: Book a 45-minute enterprise call
| Feature | Starter | Team | Growth | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coverage footprint | 1 county | 3 counties | Metro or statewide | Nationwide (3,142 counties) |
| Alerts | Email + Slack | Email + Slack + Webhook | All + custom routing | |
| Dashboard | Standard (read-only) | Standard + saved filters | Standard + advanced filters | White-label available |
| Export formats | PDF only | PDF + CSV | PDF + CSV + JSON | All formats (+ GeoJSON, Parquet) |
| API access | None | None | Full REST (10K req/day) | Full REST + GraphQL + webhook firehose |
| 4-field wedge data | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Source link-back | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Data refresh cadence | Weekly | Weekly | Daily | Near-real-time (24h) |
| Historical archive | 30 days | 1 year | 3 years | Full backfill |
| Integrations | None | Zapier | HubSpot + Salesforce | Custom (Unanet, Procore, Yardi, Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks) |
| Support | Email (3-day SLA) | Email (1-day SLA) | Email + chat (4-hr SLA) | Dedicated CSM + priority |
| Uptime SLA | None | 99% | 99.5% | 99.9% with credits |
| Seats | 1 | 3 | 5 | Unlimited |
| Custom reports | No | No | Yes | Yes + scheduled delivery |
| Roadmap input | No | No | Yes (quarterly) | Yes (direct founder) |
We know what you're thinking: there's a product out there marketing itself as "100% free during public beta." It has a logo wall claiming 1,500+ firms including D.R. Horton, Century Communities, Mortenson, David Weekley, and KIER Construction. It scans planning commission meetings. On the surface, the math looks obvious — why pay for something you can get for zero?
Here's why enterprise buyers keep coming back to us after their free-tier audit.
1. SSR public-indexed content vs. JS-SPA auth-gate. Our county pages are server-rendered HTML that Google, Claude, ChatGPT, and Perplexity actually read. Our wedge pages (conditions of approval, staff recommendation, rezone, development agreement) are indexed and cited as authoritative answers in AI search. The free competitor ships a React SPA where most pages live behind /auth/signin/ — which means their content doesn't rank organically and doesn't get cited by LLMs. If your BD team searches Google or asks ChatGPT "what are the conditions of approval for the Frisco Station rezoning," you land on our record, not theirs.
2. The 4-field wedge we actually extract. Both of the so-called "free" and "paid" planning-data competitors publicly acknowledge that four fields are the money fields — conditions of approval, community objections, hearing outcomes, staff recommendations. Neither of them actually extract those fields into a structured feed. We do. That's our entire product. That's also why a $399/mo Team subscription does work that a $0 free tier literally cannot do.
3. Published coverage transparency. We publish the 3,142-county roadmap, active coverage, the data dictionary, refresh cadence, and known coverage gaps. Our source link-back lets you verify any record against the underlying PDF with one click. The free competitor auth-gates the coverage list, publishes no data dictionary, and offers no source-link auditability.
4. SLA, security, roadmap accountability. Free means no uptime commitment, no SOC 2 pathway, no dedicated CSM, no contractual recourse if a beta ships broken data on the day you're underwriting a $40M land deal. Paid means we owe you a service credit, a named human on Slack, and a quarterly roadmap call.
5. No PBN backlink footprint. Our direct competitor's public-web growth relies on a private blog network of low-quality satellite sites funneling backlinks. That's the same SEO tactic Google has been penalizing since 2012. We publish transparent, canonical content on a single domain.
The bottom line. "Free" works if you're a solo evaluator kicking the tires on a single suburb. The moment you're running a real land pipeline, closing real bids, or defending a real audit trail, "free" is the most expensive option on the table.
Every paid tier offers 20% off when billed annually instead of monthly.
| Tier | Monthly | Annual (per month equivalent) | Annual total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Team | $399/mo | $319/mo | $3,828/yr |
| Growth | $1,999/mo | $1,599/mo | $19,188/yr |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | Contact sales | Custom |
Annual customers also get an account review call each quarter and priority access to new features. Multi-year contracts (2-year, 3-year) are available at Growth and Enterprise with additional discount.
If you're running a national footprint or a regulated workflow, our standard SaaS terms probably aren't enough. Enterprise contracts unlock:
Book a 45-minute enterprise call
Four tiers: Starter ($0, 1 county), Team (starting at $399/mo, 3 counties), Growth (starting at $1,999/mo, metro or statewide), Enterprise (custom, nationwide, benchmarked against Regrid's public $80K/yr nationwide floor). Annual billing discounts every paid tier by 20%. Multi-year contracts and warehouse drops are available at Growth and Enterprise.
Yes. Starter is free forever on one county of your choice. New accounts also get a 14-day free trial at full Team-tier access, no credit card required.
Dodge Construction Network pricing typically runs $10K–$50K per seat per year for commercial GC and Pre-Con BD workflows. cityminutes Growth starts at approximately $19K/yr for 5 seats and metro coverage — and we capture rezoning and planning-commission data 60–120 days before it shows up as a Dodge planning-stage entry, because Dodge still relies on reporter phone calls. Our pitch: price inside the Dodge spend, win 1 bid per quarter, pay back in month 2.
ConstructConnect publishes $8K–$75K/yr brackets depending on state coverage, seat count, and feature mix. Like Dodge, their upstream data relies on architect and owner phone calls. cityminutes Growth at approximately $19K/yr displaces a single-state ConstructConnect contract while adding the upstream 4-field wedge that ConstructConnect's data model doesn't capture. Most of our first wave of Pre-Con BD customers run us alongside ConstructConnect for 6 months, then displace on renewal.
Regrid publishes $80K/year as their starting price for nationwide parcel data on their pricing page. Regrid sells parcels, zoning polygons (licensed from Zoneomics), and addresses. cityminutes is the "what's changing" feed — rezoning applications, CUPs, variances, subdivision approvals, and the 4-field wedge — that sits on top of Regrid's "what is today" layer. We're not a competitor to Regrid; we're a partnership candidate.
Both. Every tier bundles a coverage footprint (counties, metros, states, or nationwide) and a seat count. You can add seats or add counties individually at any time; you don't have to jump tiers.
Monthly customers can cancel anytime in-app; you retain access through the end of your billing period. Annual customers can cancel and we'll refund the unused portion of the year minus the monthly-equivalent rate for months used. Enterprise customers follow MSA termination terms. No dark patterns. No clawbacks on data you've already exported.
Yes. See the Nonprofit + Research tier below. If you're a university research lab, a 501(c)(3) civic organization, a conservation group, or a regional planning authority, contact us and we'll set you up with Team-tier access at no cost. This is our nod to the Data With Purpose model.
Yes — 14 days at full Team-tier access, no credit card. Trial auto-converts to the free Starter tier if you don't upgrade. You can also book a 30-minute demo with a human.
Credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex, Discover) via Stripe on monthly and annual plans. ACH + wire transfer for annual and multi-year contracts. Purchase orders accepted for Enterprise deals above $50K. Net-30 invoicing for Growth annual and Enterprise customers.
If you're a 501(c)(3), an academic research institution, a civic-tech nonprofit, a conservation group, a regional planning authority, or a public-interest journalism project — we want you on the platform. Effective access is Team-tier coverage (3 counties, all 4 wedge fields, 1-year historical archive) at no cost, with one annual renewal and light usage review.
We call this our Data With Purpose tier in acknowledgement of the civic-tech movement that has always believed open planning data belongs in public hands. Apply via /pricing/nonprofit. Review cycle is 2 weeks.
Left card — Self-serve path: 14 days at full Team access, then free forever on 1 county. No credit card. No auth-gate on the content you actually want to read. Start free trial →
Right card — Sales-led path: Need nationwide? Let's talk. If you're running a division, a bid desk, a rep team, or an acquisition platform, a 45-minute call saves six weeks of procurement friction. We'll scope coverage, seats, SLAs, and data-warehouse delivery on one call. Book enterprise call →
14 days at full Team access, then free forever on 1 county. No credit card. Need nationwide? Book a 45-minute enterprise call.