> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://ploti.ai/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Coverage areas and pricing

> How coverage areas work, what each county costs, the credits it includes, and how billing changes when you add or remove counties

Your coverage areas are the US counties you choose to work in, and Ploti is priced per county. Your first county is free for as long as you keep it and needs no card. Counties 2 to 5 are $50 a month each, and the price falls to $20 each past 100. Every official record Ploti holds for those counties, such as parcels, zoning and permits, is open to your whole team. Each paid county also includes monthly credits, Ploti's unit for paid work such as collecting new data.

## What a county gets you

When you add a county, Ploti's data agents, the AI software that does the collecting, start building its parcels, zoning, permits and more from the official sources. They keep them current as each source publishes. Some data is there on day one, often because another team already covers the county. The rest fills in over time. If you need something specific sooner, ask for it in a [research request](https://ploti.ai/docs/research/overview.md).

Each county also comes with its state's agency data and every national source Ploti reads, such as FEMA, USGS, Census, EPA and HUD.

Data Ploti builds for a county becomes part of that county's data for every team that covers it. Nobody sees who asked for it.

## Choose your counties

Pick counties when you sign up, and change them later in **Data Atlas**, on the **Coverage** tab, with **Edit coverage areas**.

* Your first county is free. Each county after it is billed from the day you add it, prorated to your next bill.
* A removed county stays until your next bill.
* A county no other paying team covers yet is free for its first month.

## Price per county

Each county is priced by its place in your count:

| Counties | Each, per month |
| - | - |
| 1 | Free |
| 2 to 5 | \$50 |
| 6 to 25 | \$40 |
| 26 to 100 | \$30 |
| 101 and up | \$20 |

So 5 counties are $200 a month and 25 are $1,000. Yearly billing is ten months' price for twelve: two months free. Whole states are priced per state; [contact sales](https://www.ploti.ai/contact). The [pricing page](https://www.ploti.ai/pricing) has a calculator.

Teammates are unlimited.

## Credits

Data requests and the map agent's work draw on credits, which everyone in the workspace shares.

* A new workspace gets 25 starter credits once. They don't refill.
* Paid counties include credits every month: 20 each for counties 2 to 5, then 10 each. The free county includes none.
* Your first research request is free: the datasets it builds use no credits.
* A new dataset Ploti collects for you costs 3 credits, held when its data request is filed, charged when it is delivered, and returned if it can't be sourced.
* The map agent uses credits as it works.
* Asking Ploti from your own assistant, such as Claude or ChatGPT, uses no credits.

You can buy more credits under **Settings**, **Billing**, in packs: 50 credits for $50, 120 for $100 (save 20%) or 250 for \$200 (save 25%). Bought credits never expire.

## Older per-user plans

Workspaces that signed up on a per-user plan before coverage pricing keep it; **Settings**, **Billing** shows yours. New workspaces are priced per county.


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