Pricing
Common Elements has two ladders, and an organization can sit on both. Data and the API are live and sell today. The paid organization plans are drafted and not priced yet, so they are shown here without prices and without a checkout.
Organization plans
Building on the data instead of running an association? The Data and API ladder is a separate subscription, further down this page, and you can hold both. Jump to it.
Free is the only organization plan that exists as a real, active product today, and the things that make the network work are in it permanently. Account creation, following, claiming your association's record, and basic directory participation are free and stay free. A board member proving they sit on their own board makes the record better for everyone, so charging for it would be charging someone to do us a favor.
What free covers:
- Unlimited posts, RFPs, and proposals across the Common Area forum, the RFP Hub, the vendor directory, messaging, and the people and organizations directory.
- Claiming and running your association's record, following the organizations you care about, and basic directory participation.
- Vendor verification with credential-backed badges: licensed manager, contractor license, attorney bar admission, insurance license.
- Multi-organization context for managers and counsel who serve many associations.
- The public tools: statute reference, calculators, the document analyzer, get-quotes matching, and a free association website with member documents, calendar, and notices.
Above free sit four commercial tiers for the firms that serve associations: management companies, vendors, and professional practices. They are drafted in the plan catalog and reviewable, and they are not priced. Nothing below can be bought, and no organization can be billed for one.
Pro
A solo licensed manager, an independent professional, or a one-truck vendor firm.
Draft shape, still open to change
- Commercial organization profile
- Market analytics
- 10 RFP responses
- Up to 3 team members
Business
A management company with a growing portfolio, or an established vendor firm with a team.
Draft shape, still open to change
- Company analytics
- Insurance intelligence
- 50 RFP responses
- Up to 10 team members
Scale
A regional firm running many associations, or a large vendor covering several markets.
Draft shape, still open to change
- Legal history intelligence
- Unlimited RFP responses
- Priority lead routing eligibility
- Up to 50 team members
Enterprise
A national firm, a carrier, or a lender who needs terms, procurement, and a negotiated bundle.
Draft shape, still open to change
- Negotiated API and export capacity
- Full available history
- Negotiated team size
- Team administration and role management
None of these four is on sale. They are drafted in the plan catalog so the benefits can be reviewed before a price is set, and no organization can be billed for one. When they are priced we will say so here first, and free participation stays free either way.
Data and API
Running or serving an association rather than building on the data? The organization plans are a separate thing, higher up this page, and the free tier there is real. Jump to it.
One subscription covers both the data app at data.commonelements.com and the Developer API. Every paid plan includes a commercial-use license: the right to use the data inside your own product, workflow, or service. Annual billing is ten months for twelve.
Free
Evaluate the corpus and build against the API before you commit to anything.
- API requests
- 250
- Rows per query
- 50
- Change history
- 30 days
- Data dictionary
Builder
The entry commercial plan. Every field carries its source, its date, and the record it came from.
- API requests
- 10,000
- Rows per query
- 1,000
- Change history
- 180 days
- Commercial-use license
- Field-level provenance
- Source freshness
- Data dictionary
- Faceted export
- The full association record
Growth
For teams shipping on the data. Bulk export, alerts, and insurance depth on top of everything in Builder.
- API requests
- 50,000
- Rows per query
- 5,000
- Change history
- 365 days
- Commercial-use license
- Field-level provenance
- Source freshness
- Data dictionary
- Faceted export
- Bulk dataset export
- Alerts and webhooks
- The full association record
Scale
Production volume plus the legal layer: history, counsel of record, and a written SLA.
- API requests
- 250,000
- Rows per query
- 25,000
- Change history
- 1,095 days
- Commercial-use license
- Field-level provenance
- Source freshness
- Data dictionary
- Faceted export
- Bulk dataset export
- Alerts and webhooks
- Uptime and support SLA
- The full association record
Enterprise
Custom volume, the largest caps, and a bespoke agreement covering redistribution.
- API requests
- Unmetered
- Rows per query
- 100,000
- Change history
- 3,650 days
- Commercial-use license
- Field-level provenance
- Source freshness
- Data dictionary
- Faceted export
- Bulk dataset export
- Alerts and webhooks
- Uptime and support SLA
- The full association record
What you are actually buying
The corpus is assembled from public records. What makes it usable is not the row count, it is that every field can be traced: which source it came from, when it was observed, and how recently that source was refreshed. That is what separates a defensible input to underwriting or due diligence from a list of names, and it is where the plans divide.
Landing next, on the Growth and Scale plans: insurance depth, legal history, litigation counsel. These are not billed for until they ship, and they are not counted in the plans above.
Academy
CE Academy is priced separately and it is not a subscription. Continuing education, prelicensing, and exam prep are bought one course at a time, as one-time purchases, with no renewal date and nothing recurring attached. The catalog lives at academy.commonelements.com, and courses open state by state as they clear approval.
How price changes work
- Your price is your price. A subscription stays on the price it was bought at. If we raise a plan, existing subscribers stay where they are unless they choose to move, and the limits recorded against a retired plan can only ever be revised upward.
- At least 30 days of notice. We will not change the amount you are billed without telling you first, in writing, with the new amount and the date it starts.
- A cancel link in the notice itself. Every price-change notice carries a one-click cancellation link. No sign-in, no phone call, no support ticket.
- No surprise bills. We will not auto-charge an account that has not explicitly opted into a paid plan, and the free tier is durable rather than a teaser.
- No pay-to-rank in the directory. Vendor verification is credential-backed. Organic rankings are never for sale. Labeled sponsored slots appear in a clearly marked area, separate from organic results.
Questions
If none of these fits, say so. Volume, a bespoke field set, redistribution rights, and what an organization plan should cost are all things we will talk about. Get in touch.