Pricing
One ladder of levels: Free, Pro, Business, Scale and Enterprise. Data and the API are a separate product line with their own prices, and an organization can hold both.
Platform plans
Account creation, following, claiming your association's record, and basic directory participation are free and stay free. Boards and associations never pay. The paid levels are for the businesses that serve associations, and the persona is your organization type, never a separate plan.
Free
$0 a month
Everyone: boards, homeowners, managers, and any business trying us out.
- Claim and run your organization's profile and directory listing
- Business verification badge
- RFP alerts and responding to RFPs
- The forum, messaging, statutes and public tools
Pro
$79 a month
or $790 a year (2 months free)
One business: a vendor firm, attorney, insurer, CPA or engineer.
- No monthly proposal limit
- Profile analytics: views, search appearances and clicks
- Territory insight for your service area
- Early access to new business tools
Opening soon. Not on sale yet.
Business
$199 a month
or $1,990 a year (2 months free)
A management company with fewer than about 25 associations, or a multi-location vendor.
- Everything in Pro
- Company analytics across your portfolio (coming soon)
- Team administration and roles (coming soon)
Opening soon. Not on sale yet.
Scale
$499 a month
or $4,990 a year (2 months free)
A management company with 25 to 150 associations, or a regional vendor.
- Everything in Business
- Larger team and market allowances (coming soon)
- Deeper history and legal intelligence (coming soon)
Opening soon. Not on sale yet.
Enterprise: from $10,000 a year
For 150 or more associations, carriers, lenders and data licensees. Negotiated terms, invoicing and procurement.
Data and the API are their own product line: Builder $99, Growth $249, Scale $599 a month. A Data plan adds the platform profile and analytics at its level, and you can hold both. Jump to it.
Become a Founding Vendor
$49 a month for the first 50 businesses, locked for your first 24 months, then Pro at $79 a month.
Renews monthly until you cancel. After the locked period it continues at the Pro price unless you cancel. Cancel any time from your billing page.
Limited to the first 50 businesses.
Founding Vendor badge
A permanent badge on your profile and directory card. It stays even if you change plans later.
Founding rate, locked
$49 a month, locked for your first 24 months, then Pro at $79 a month.
No monthly proposal limit
Free business accounts can submit 3 proposals a month. Bids an association invites you to never count.
Profile analytics
How many people view your profile each day, how often you appear in directory searches and RFP match lists, and quote and contact clicks.
Territory insight
Associations in your service area by type and size, new RFPs in your trades there, and the deadlines coming up.
Early access to new business tools
New tools for service businesses reach Founding Vendors first.
A say in the roadmap
A direct line to the team building Common Elements for service businesses.
Verification reviewed first
Coming soonYour business verification goes to the front of the review queue.
Richer profile
Coming soonMore photos, projects and case studies on your profile.
Featured placement eligibility
Coming soonEligible for featured spots that match the search: category, service area, verification and quality. Never a paid ranking.
Your profile, verification and directory listing stay free. Founding Vendor adds to them; it never buys a higher ranking.
1,000+ boards, managers, homeowners and service pros use Common Elements.
Free to set up. Founding Vendor is then one step on your business’s billing page.
Run a business that serves associations? Claiming your listing is free. See how associations hire businesses.
Data and API
Running or serving an association rather than building on the data? The platform plans are a separate line, 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.
Included on every plan, including Free
- Field-level provenanceEvery field carries the source it came from, the date it was observed, and a link back to the originating public record.
- Source freshnessRefresh cadence, last successful run, and staleness state for each of the public-record sources behind the corpus.
- Data dictionaryA field-by-field dictionary generated from the same registry that produces the export, with type, definition, source, and populated share.
- Faceted exportExport exactly what is on screen. Facets, column selection, and row order all carry into the CSV or XLSX. Every plan can export; how many rows one export holds depends on the plan.
Free
Evaluate the corpus and build against the API before you commit to anything.
- API requests
- 250
- Rows per query
- 50
- Change history
- Last 30 days
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
- Last 6 months
- Commercial-use license
- 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
- Last 12 months
- Commercial-use license
- The full association record
- Bulk dataset export
- Alerts and webhooks
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
- Full history
- Commercial-use license
- The full association record
- Bulk dataset export
- Alerts and webhooks
- Uptime and support SLA
Enterprise
Custom volume, the largest caps, and a bespoke agreement covering redistribution.
- API requests
- Unmetered
- Rows per query
- 100,000
- Change history
- Full history
- Commercial-use license
- The full association record
- Bulk dataset export
- Alerts and webhooks
- Uptime and support SLA
Change tracking began in summer 2026 and history grows every day. Scale and Enterprise keep all of it; Free, Builder and Growth see a rolling window of the most recent changes.
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 traceability is on every plan, Free included, because an input you cannot check is not worth evaluating.
The plans divide on volume and use: rows per query and per export, how far back the change history reaches, API requests a month, the commercial-use license, the full association record, and from Growth up, bulk export and alert webhooks.
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 Enterprise terms are all things we will talk about. Get in touch.