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Pricing

One price for the whole desk.

Every plan includes everyone it covers and every feature listed. Newsroom and Newsroom Pro come with a free 15-day trial, no setup fee and no card needed to start.

Newsroom

For a politics desk or a single show.

$4,990 a year$416 a month, billed yearly · save $998

$499 a monthbilled monthly, cancel any time

5 people included

More people
6–10 $490 each a year $49 each a month
11–25 $390 each a year $39 each a month
26+ $290 each a year $29 each a month
  • Every member profile, committee, bill and vote
  • Campaign money and lobbying
  • Financial disclosures, stock trades, net worth and travel
  • Stock Tracker and trade signals
  • Office spending and earmarks
  • Watchlists, alerts, notes and CSV exports
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For the whole newsroom

Newsroom Pro

For a whole newsroom, a network or a data team.

$14,900 a year$1,242 a month, billed yearly · save $2,980

$1,490 a monthbilled monthly, cancel any time

25 people included

More people
26–50 $390 each a year $39 each a month
51–100 $290 each a year $29 each a month
101+ $190 each a year $19 each a month
  • Everything in Newsroom
  • The research assistant: plain-English questions, cited answers
  • The subscriber API for your own tools and graphics
  • Priority help setting up your team
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Enterprise

For station groups, newspaper chains and networks with many newsrooms.

$25,000 a year$2,083 a month, billed yearly · save $5,000

$2,500 a monthbilled monthly, cancel any time

50 people included

More people
51–100 $290 each a year $29 each a month
101+ $190 each a year $19 each a month
  • Everything in Newsroom Pro
  • A workspace for each newsroom, with shared billing
  • Annual contract and invoicing
  • Onboarding for every team
  • Private label available: Hilltrace under your own name
Tell us about your group

Annual contract, invoiced. We'll set it up with you.

Add-ons

Private label with Enterprise

Hilltrace under your own name, for your own staff: your newsroom's name, logo and colors, your own web address and your own email sender.

  • Your name, logo and colors on every screen
  • Your own web address, e.g. research.yournewsroom.com
  • Sign-in and alert emails from your own address
  • No Hilltrace name in screens or emails
  • Source links and the federal disclosure notice stay on every page
  • For your own staff; showing it to readers on your site is quoted separately

$10,000 a year

$1,000 a month

plus $5,000 once to set up

Ask about Private label

Each plan's price covers the people shown. For more, each extra person costs the rate of the break they fall in, so the more people you add, the less each one costs.

Pricing questions

What happens after the free trial?

Choose a plan and pay by card from your newsroom's Billing page, or ask us for an annual invoice. If you don't, access pauses after the trial's last day and everything your team made is kept.

Can we pay by invoice?

Yes. Many newsrooms prefer an annual invoice. Tell us and we'll send a quote; your access continues while it's arranged.

Who counts as a person?

Each person who signs in. Your admin adds and removes people under Team at any time, and a seat freed by someone leaving can go to someone new.

How do the price breaks work?

The plan's price covers the people it includes. Each person after that costs the rate for the break they fall in: on Newsroom, for example, people 6 to 10 cost one rate and people 11 to 25 a lower one. Enter your team size above to see the total.

Can we change plans or cancel?

Yes. Card subscriptions can be changed or cancelled from Billing; you keep access until the end of the period you've paid for.

What is Private label?

On Enterprise, Hilltrace can carry your own name: your logo and colors, your own web address and your own email sender, with no Hilltrace name on screen. It's for your own staff. The links to each government record and the federal disclosure notice stay on every page, because they protect you as well as us. Showing it to readers on your own site is quoted separately.

Do independent, local and nonprofit newsrooms pay less?

Ask us. We want Hilltrace in local newsrooms as much as national ones.

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