Pricing
The reference is free. So are the checklists.
Every fee and requirement on PermitBase is cited to the official source that published it, and all of it is free — including project checklists. There is no per-project charge and no subscription tier for the permit data. The one paid product is Property Access, which searches permit history by street address.
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Every jurisdiction, every permit type, every fee — source-cited
Browse jurisdictionsProject checklists — describe the work, get every permit it triggers
Build a checklistBuilding activity data by state and city
View building activityStatic JSON API + MCP server for AI agents
View API & MCP docsProperty Access
$99/mo
or $990/yr
- 91,143 permit records across 37 Utah jurisdictions
- Search by street address, permit type, or date range
- Permit type on 98% of records, status on 79%, issued date on 75%
- Project valuation where the jurisdiction publishes it — 28% of records
- Delivered as a JSON API; your key appears on /account after checkout
Why builders choose PermitBase
Save hours
Stop searching dozens of municipal websites for one fee schedule.
Source-cited
Every requirement links back to its official source document.
Multi-state coverage
Live in 8 states and expanding.
Why is the checklist free?
Everything PermitBase publishes is free: source-cited requirements, fees, and codes for every covered jurisdiction, building-activity data by state and city, and a JSON API and MCP server for AI agents. That free reference answers “what does my jurisdiction require” one permit type at a time. The project checklist answers it for your whole project at once — describe the work, get back every permit it triggers, every document, every fee, assembled from the exact same verified records. It is free too. No fact sits behind a paywall, and neither does the tool that assembles them.
It's live — nothing to buy
Describe your project on the checklist tool and get the full checklist back. Create an account to save it and come back to it later — there is no charge for a checklist, for a city, or for a project.
Looking up a specific property?
Property Access covers 91,143 building-permit records across 37 Utah jurisdictions, searchable by street address through a JSON API. Not the whole country — the covered list is on the product page. $99/mo or $990/yr. See Property Access.
Need the whole dataset?
Bulk delivery, a change-feed, an SLA, and commercial redistribution rights are planned for proptech companies, lenders, insurers, and permit expediters — licensing isn't open yet. Join the waitlist on data licensing.
The free reference isn't going anywhere
PermitBase's moat is data depth and source-cited accuracy, not software — every jurisdiction, permit type, and fee stays free and public regardless of what we ship on top. Browse all covered jurisdictions or read more about how we verify data.