Pricing

Five tiers. One published price each. No "talk to sales" until the work earns it.

Most legal-vertical data buyers are quoted on a phone call after a four week procurement cycle. We publish prices because buyers asked us to. The first four tiers below are self-serve up to invoice. The fifth is fully managed and the only one where pricing scales with what we build.

Sandbox

Free 30-day evaluation token. For prospects validating fit before signing.

$0 /30 days
no card · no auto-convert
Request a token
Includes
  • 1,000 API calls / day
  • Full schema access
  • Synthetic dataset · 200 firms · 1,800 jobs
  • 30-day token · expires automatically
  • Sample webhook payloads
  • Synthetic data only
  • No webhooks live
  • No support SLA
Read-only

Daily-refresh REST access. The standard entry tier for editorial desks and research analysts.

$2,995 /mo
Start a read-only contract
Includes
  • 10,000 API calls / month
  • Full /v1/jobs, /firms Live · /lateral-moves Roadmap
  • /partner-departures Roadmap · /practice-areas, /markets Live
  • Daily refresh · 04:00 UTC
  • 1 production API key
  • Audit log · 90 days retained
  • CSV / JSON exports
  • No real-time push
MOST CHOSEN
Real-time webhooks

Push delivery the moment a record changes. The default tier for desks that act on the data.

$5,995 /mo
Start a 14-day pilot
Everything in Read-only, plus
  • Unlimited calls · burst 300/min
  • HMAC-signed outbound POSTs
  • 16-attempt retry curve over 3 days
  • 24h dual-active secret rotation
  • 90-day delivery replay endpoint
  • Up to 5 webhook endpoints
  • 5 production API keys
  • IP allowlist per key
Bulk & co-branded

Quarterly snapshot plus an optional analytical brief published under your masthead.

$15K /quarter
12-month minimum · $60K/yr
Brief us on the deliverable
Everything in Real-time, plus
  • Quarterly snapshot · CSV / JSON / Parquet
  • Co-branded analytical brief option
  • White-label benchmarking deliverable
  • Custom field selection per snapshot
  • Embeddable interactive charts · signed URLs
  • SAML SSO included
  • NET 30 / NET 60 invoicing
  • Dedicated solutions engineer
Custom Build

Fully managed. Custom taxonomy, bespoke coverage, SLA-backed delivery. 2-3 year terms standard.

$50-250K /yr
scoped per engagement
Brief us on your portfolio
Everything in Bulk, plus
  • Customization sprints · planned quarterly
  • Dedicated CSM · weekly cadence
  • Custom taxonomy extensions
  • Bespoke firm, practice, market coverage
  • SLA-backed uptime & refresh windows
  • Procurement-aligned MSA / DPA
  • Custom data residency
  • Quarterly business reviews
Who fits where

Tier fit by buyer type and procurement window.

Best fittypical buyer Procurement windowcontract close, observed
Read-only · $2,995/mo Editorial research desks, executive search research analysts, junior analysts inside strategy consultancies 4 to 12 weeks
Real-time · $5,995/mo Litigation finance underwriting, AmLaw business development and competitive intelligence, real-time newsroom feeds 3 to 16 weeks
Bulk · $15K/qtr Strategy consultancy white papers, legal media co-published indices, banking law-firm-group surveys 4 to 10 weeks
Custom Build · $50-250K Insurance underwriting integrations, top-tier AmLaw firms with internal data teams, large litigation finance funds 12 to 36 weeks
Payback math

One placed partner pays for the year.

live · changes update instantly
550500
508005,000
542160
$80$220$600
RECOMMENDED TIER

Real-time webhooks · $5,995 / mo

Analyst hours saved · annualized
504 hours
about 13 work-weeks
Annualized hard-cost savings
$110,880
at blended $220/hr
Annualized ROI
1.5x
payback in 7.8 months
Headcount math is the floor. Most desks do not buy us for analyst hours, they buy us because the data drives revenue. Place one lateral partner per quarter from a feed event (lateral-move feed is on the roadmap) and the webhook tier pays back in six weeks. Win one consultancy engagement off a co-branded benchmark and the bulk tier pays back twice over.
How does it compare

Versus the alternatives buyers are quoted today.

placement.solutions api.placement.solutions General B2B contact databases $40-165K/yr Research seat licenses $400-600/seat/mo Static editorial PDFs $5-50K/yr Custom consultancy retainers $200-500K/yr
Public REST API YES · OpenAPI 3.1 YES NO NO Sometimes
Real-time webhooks YES · signed Generic NO NO NO
Daily refresh 04:00 UTC Weekly · generic Editorial · ad hoc Quarterly Manual cadence
Legal-vertical fidelity Native · 47 sub-practices Generic B2B High High High · bespoke
Source-chain audit trail YES · per record NO Article-level NO On request
Confidence scoring Three tiers · published Generic Editorial Editorial Opaque
Transparent pricing $0 · $2,995 · $5,995 · $15K · custom Tiered "Contact us" Per report "Contact us"
Procurement window typical 3-16 weeks 8-16 weeks 2-4 weeks 1-2 weeks 12-36 weeks
  1. Comparison categories reflect publicly disclosed pricing bands across the structured legal-data, general B2B contact, and research-seat market segments as of April 2026.
  2. Procurement windows are observed close timelines from buyer side, not internal sales cycle.
  3. Custom Build is scoped per engagement at $50K to $250K per year. The $200K to $500K per year column refers to traditional consultancy retainers we replace, not our pricing.
  4. We update this page when category capabilities materially change. See changelog.
Common questions

Eight things buyers ask before signing.

How does pricing scale as we grow?
Tiers are flat. Read-only is $2,995/mo no matter how many records you query inside the 10,000-call cap. The webhook tier is unlimited inside a 300/min burst. The bulk tier is fixed at $15K/quarter regardless of snapshot size. Custom Build is the only tier where price is scoped to the work. We do not meter rows, fields, or alerts. If you outgrow a tier we tell you, we do not silently bill the next one.
What counts as an API call?
One HTTP request to any /v1 endpoint, regardless of response size. A single call returning 500 paginated records counts as one. A list endpoint that pages through 10,000 records counts as 100 calls at the default page size. Webhook deliveries do not count against your API budget. Replay calls do.
Can we upgrade mid-month?
Yes. Read-only to webhook is one click in your dashboard, prorated to the day. Webhook to bulk is a 24-hour DocuSign turnaround because of the SSO and invoicing terms. Custom Build is always a separate engagement and runs alongside whatever tier you are already on.
What is the data refresh cadence?
The full index refreshes daily at 04:00 UTC. The jobs and firms datasets are live today. A movement layer (confirmed lateral moves and partner departures) is on the roadmap; when live it will push by webhook within 90 seconds of confirmation. Confidence-upgrade events fire when an existing record crosses a tier threshold, typically within a 24-hour signal cycle.
Do you offer pilots?
Yes. Sandbox is free for 30 days against a synthetic dataset. Webhook tier ships with a 14-day production pilot on real data, against a written acceptance criterion you set up front. We have closed every pilot we have run because the criteria are agreed before code is written, not after.
Do you offer multi-year discounts?
Annual contracts get 16-17 percent off list. Two-year contracts get a further 8 percent locked at year one pricing. Three-year contracts on the bulk and custom tiers convert to a fixed-price MSA with annual scope reviews. Discounts do not stack with referral or co-marketing credit.
What is included in the Custom Build tier?
Everything in Bulk plus customization sprints, dedicated CSM, custom taxonomy extensions, bespoke firm or practice or market coverage, SLA-backed uptime and refresh windows, procurement-aligned MSA and DPA, custom data residency, and quarterly business reviews. Two to three year terms are standard. Statement of work is scoped on a discovery call, not a phone tree.
Are the co-branded snapshot and white-label benchmarking deliverables API features?
No. Those are managed-service deliverables included with the Bulk tier and Custom Build. The co-branded analytical brief, white-label benchmarking deck, embeddable interactive charts, and signed presentation URLs are produced by the placement.solutions analyst team on a quarterly cadence. They sit alongside the API surface, not on it. Buyers use the API for daily integration and the brief for board-room and client-facing distribution. Custom embeds and bespoke chart libraries can be scoped into a Custom Build engagement.
Does the sandbox tier require a sales call?
No. Sandbox keys are self-serve from the dashboard. Sign in, open the dashboard, click create key, pick the sandbox prefix. The token expires 30 days from issue and hits a synthetic dataset of 200 firms and 1,800 jobs. The 1,000 calls per day cap is per token, not per account. Email hunter@placement.solutions if you need a longer evaluation window than 30 days.
How is invoicing handled?
Read-only and webhook tiers bill monthly to a card or ACH on the first of the month. Annual contracts invoice once on contract date with NET 30. Bulk and Custom Build invoice quarterly with NET 30 or NET 60 depending on procurement requirements. We accept POs from Fortune 500 finance teams. We do not accept crypto.

Ready when your procurement is.

Sandbox token in one business hour. Production contract on your timeline. Custom Build scoped on a discovery call.

Start with sandbox Email hunter@placement.solutions

For implementation specifics see the API reference. For sourcing and confidence-scoring details see the methodology. To see how design partners are using the data see our customers.