pricing
Volume pricing, not enterprise gatekeeping
Environmental screening shouldn't cost $250–500 per report. We're priced at roughly 15% above marginal data cost — a volume model, not a per-seat SaaS tax.
Full environmental screening for one parcel. All layers, all regulations, all citations. PDF + JSON.
- ›All 14+ federal layers + state stacks for TX and NY
- ›Full regulatory citations (statute, rule, agency URL)
- ›Permit path + typical timeline per regulation
- ›PDF + structured JSON export
- ›7-day re-run credit if data sources update
Programmatic access at near-cost. Volume play, not a margin play. Built for products, underwriters, and AI agents.
- ›REST + MCP endpoints
- ›Structured JSON responses
- ›Regulation-as-layer schema — every rule is a typed object
- ›Webhooks on regulation changes
- ›60 req/min live · 10 req/min test
- ›MCP server at mcp.tierralens.co
Local environmental intel earns API credits. Like a bug bounty for regulatory data.
- ›Submit local ordinances we haven't indexed
- ›Verify regulation changes in your jurisdiction
- ›Earn API credits at roughly 10× the equivalent $35 report value
- ›Attribution on the regulation record
- ›Community leaderboard (coming)
How we got to $35
Federal data feeds are free. State portals are mostly free or low-cost. The expensive part is ingestion, normalization, and keeping regulation text current when statutes drop.
At 15% margin on marginal cost, $35 covers the compute, the monitoring, a small allocation to the human review queue, and a thin operating buffer. We'd rather run hot at high volume than charge enterprise rates at low volume.
Enterprise terms (SSO, SLA, custom states) are available — email hello at tierralens.co. We don't publish that pricing because it depends on what you need, but we won't pretend it's transformative when it isn't.
What API pricing looks like at volume
Because the API is priced at cost + 15%, per-parcel cost falls as volume rises — the compute and data amortize across more screens. Three representative shapes, to anchor procurement math:
| Stack | Monthly volume | ~ Cost / parcel | ~ Monthly total | Typical use case |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TX-only | 1,000 parcels | ~$0.40 | ~$400 | Small siting team running pre-acquisition screens |
| NY-only | 10,000 parcels | ~$0.18 | ~$1,800 | Developer scanning across TX & NY continuously |
| TX + NY dev | 100,000 parcels | ~$0.08 | ~$8,000 | Platform building environmental scoring into their product |
* Indicative numbers — actual cost varies with layer mix and state stack. Final pricing is confirmed at provisioning.