Sex offender search
$0.15
per search, not per record
- All 58 US registries in one call, scored and source-cited
- $0.11 per search past 2,000 a month, automatically
- 25 free searches to start, no card
- No platform fee, no seats, no contract
Pricing · pay as you go
Sex offender API, criminal search API and background check API pricing: the best value in offender screening — by far.
Pay per search, not per record: $0.15 a search, $0.11 past 2,000 a month. Start with 25 free searches, no card and no sales call. No contract, no platform fee, no seats, no minimum on the search API.
- 25 free searches
- No contract
- 58 US registries in one call
Example monthmetered, charged at month end
| Line | Units | Rate | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Registry + criminal searches | 2,000 | $0.15 | $300.00 |
| Searches past 2,000 | 3,000 | $0.11 | $330.00 |
| Live sources verified | 50 | $0.02 | $1.00 |
| Verification reports (PDF) | 100 | $0.02 | $2.00 |
| Person monitors | 12 | $3 / mo | $36.00 |
| Platform fee · seats · minimum | — | — | $0.00 |
Total5,000 searches · ≈ $0.134 / search
$669.00Every product on one account, one key and one bill
Criminal search
$0.15
per search, same as a registry search
- Jail, prison, court, warrant and federal records
- The same $0.11 graduated rate past 2,000 a month
- The same account and key, no second contract
- Each search in a batch counts as one call
Map API
$2
per 1,000 map requests
- $0.035 per record opened
- Routes: 1 map request per started mile of corridor, plus 1 per 10 stops
- $300 monthly minimum, applied toward usage
- Clusters and pins never charged per person
Monitoring
$3
per person, per month
- $10 per area per month for an address and radius
- Registry data or criminal records, by name and date of birth
- No setup fee, no contract
- Cancel any monitor whenever you like
FCRA
Quoted
per partner, by volume and purposes
- For tenant screening and hiring decisions
- One order covers a sex offender search, a criminal search or both
- Consent and disclosure, the check, dispute handling and adverse action
- Under a written FCRA agreement
Enterprise
Custom
volume, compliance and net terms
- Custom rates below the published tiers
- Net-30 / net-60 invoicing
- A signed BAA for regulated workloads
- Team workspaces and priority support
Already have an account? Add a payment method and the same key keeps working. Usage is metered and charged at month end.
Per call, not per report: background check API pricing on the registry, criminal and FCRA APIs. Every price on one table, nothing on the bill you did not use.
Background check pricing comes in three shapes: a price per finished report, a subscription with a minimum, or a metered price per API call. This one is per call, and nothing in a month you run none. A per-report price buys a finished consumer report and the regulated process around it; a per-call price buys a public-records lookup for your own software. How the models compare is on the background check API page, and volume maths on background check API pricing.
What you runPriceBilled
Registry search58 US registries, scored, cited$0.15per call; $0.11 past 2,000 a month
Criminal searchjail, prison, court, warrant, federal$0.15per call, same tiers, same key
BatchPOST /v1/batch or a CSV in the dashboard$0.15per search in the batch, at the graduated rate
Records on a location-only searchradius, city, county, ZIP or state with no name$0.03per record past 10,000 a month; the call itself is $0.15
Verification report (PDF)POST /v1/report, within 7 days of a search$0.02per document
Live sourcere-verification at the registries you name+$0.02per completed source, $2.00 ceiling per search; a failed check is not billed
Live evidence (PDF)the registry’s own page, printed as shown+$0.25per completed registry document, $5.00 ceiling per search, on top of the live search’s normal charges; a document that does not complete is not billed
Person monitorname and date of birth, registry or criminal$3per person per month
Location monitoraddress and radius$10per area per month
Map requestsone answer for one map view$2per 1,000 map requests; $0.035 per record opened; $300 monthly minimum applied toward usage. Routes: 1 map request per started mile of corridor, plus 1 per 10 stops
FCRA ordersconsent, check, dispute, adverse actionContactquoted per partner under FCRA Partner Access
Cost calculator
Edit any number- 2,000 × $0.15
- $300.00
- 3,000 × $0.11
- $330.00
- 50 live sources × $0.02
- $1.00
- 100 PDFs × $0.02
- $2.00
- 12 person monitors × $3
- $36.00
- Platform fee, seats, minimum
- $0.00
Month$669.00
≈ $0.134 per search all in. The same searches at a legacy platform's published tiers would carry a platform fee and seat licences on top.
Start free ›Sex offender API and criminal search API pricing by volume: base calls only, $0.15 each and then $0.11 past 2,000 a month.
| Calls a month | Cost | Per call |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | $150 | $0.1500 |
| 5,000 | $630 | $0.1260 |
| 20,000 | $2,280 | $0.1140 |
| 100,000 | $11,080 | $0.1108 |
$0.15 for each of the first 2,000 calls in a calendar month, $0.11 for every call after. Enterprise rates sit below these. Background check API pricing by volume ›
Background check API pricing with no platform fee, no seats and no minimum.
Legacy screening platformOffenderSearch
Platform feeLegacyMonthly or annual, before the first checkOffenderSearchNone
SeatsLegacyPer-user licencesOffenderSearchNone. Add teammates freely
Monthly minimumLegacyCommitted volumeOffenderSearchNone on the search API
ContractLegacyAnnual, with a renewal clauseOffenderSearchNone to start. Net terms on enterprise
Free trialLegacyA sales call, then a demo tenantOffenderSearch25 searches on the full API, no card
Price per checkLegacyPer finished reportOffenderSearch$0.15 per call, $0.11 past 2,000
Sex offender API usage extras — on top of the per-call rate. Chosen per request, never a tier and never a setting on your key.
Live verification
+$0.02 / source · $2.00 ceilingOmit it and a search runs in Regular mode, the continuously updated answer at the base rate. Send a live block and the API re-verifies the named jurisdictions in real time, at $0.02 per completed source, capped at $2.00 per search. A live check that fails is not billed, and a check of more than two sources runs asynchronously.
Async and webhooks ›Verification report (PDF)
+$0.02 / documentA separate API call, POST /v1/report, that any key can make. Pass the searchId of a search you already ran within 7 days for a branded, timestamped PDF of every match and field, with a source citation on every record.
API documentation ›Live evidence (PDF)
+$0.25 / registry document · $5.00 ceilingFor compliance-heavy flows that must keep what the registry itself displayed: a separate host prints each named registry’s own results page to PDF at the moment of the live check, behind a cover sheet with the query, the time and a content hash. The search is billed as a normal live search; each registry document that completes adds $0.25, and one that does not complete is not billed.
Live evidence ›All rates are metered defaults; an admin can override any rate (base, volume, live per-source, per-PDF) per customer, and enterprise customers can negotiate custom pricing. See background check API pricing worked out by volume.
Sex offender Map API — two rates and a monthly minimum. Separate from per-call search. Clusters and pins are never charged per person.
$2per 1,000 map requests
$0.035per record opened
$300monthly minimum, applied toward usage, search included
$0.002per route unit: 1 per started mile of corridor, plus 1 per 10 stops
Worked months
| Month | Map requests | Records opened | Search calls | Usage | Billed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trial period with the minimum waived | 12,000 | 600 | 0 | $45.00 | $45.00 |
| Light month | 40,000 | 2,000 | 0 | $150.00 | $300.00 |
| Map plus search | 40,000 | 2,000 | 1,000 | $300.00 | $300.00 |
| Exactly at the minimum | 115,000 | 2,000 | 0 | $300.00 | $300.00 |
| Above the minimum | 400,000 | 20,000 | 0 | $1,500.00 | $1,500.00 |
A map request is one answer for one map view. It costs the same whether the view holds three people or three hundred. A record open is the complete record behind one marker. Opening the same marker again is free. A new map request returns new marker ids, so opening that person from the new result is a new charge. Clusters and pins are never charged per person. A view that has not changed (HTTP 304), the status route and test mode are free.
Routes: 1 map request per started mile of corridor, plus 1 per 10 stops. A route answer gives exact counts per leg and per stop, with pins and distances but no names. The full record behind a pin is opened, and billed, one at a time. Volume accounts can be given their own per-record rate.
How the map works, with a live demo: the sex offender map API page. Bus stops and walking routes: the sex offender route API.
Turning it on charges the minimum that day
Any paying business account can turn the Map API on. Turning it on charges the $300 minimum that day, and it covers the rest of that calendar month. From the next month the minimum is settled on the month-end invoice: you pay your usage, or the minimum if usage is lower. Turn it off at any time and the map routes stop within seconds. A minimum already paid is not refunded, and turning it back on in the same month costs nothing more.
The minimum counts toward search usage
A floor on the month’s whole bill, not a fee on top. It covers 150,000 map requests on its own. The $300 monthly minimum is applied toward everything the account uses that month, search included. A month with $110 of usage is billed $300; a month with $1,100 is billed $1,100. Test mode returns made-up people in the real response shape. Add sandbox=true to any map request. It needs no plan and is never charged.
Sex offender monitoring pricing: recurring monitors — a monthly subscription
$3per person · per month
Watch one person by name and date of birth across registry data or criminal records. A criminal and a registry monitor on the same name are billed separately.
$10per area · per month
Watch an address and a radius across registry data. No setup fee, no contract; cancel any monitor whenever you like.
Manage monitors in the dashboard Notifications section or via POST /v1/monitors. Monitoring is not a consumer report and must not be used for FCRA-governed hiring, tenancy, or credit decisions — those run through FCRA Partner Access. How monitoring works › · Monitoring API ›
FCRA background check pricing for tenant and hiring decisions — contact us for pricing
FCRA workflows are built for tenant screening and hiring decisions. They run through FCRA Partner Access for background check companies and screening platforms under a written FCRA agreement. One FCRA order covers a sex offender search, a criminal search or both: consent and disclosure, the check, dispute handling and adverse action. Pricing is quoted per partner based on volume and purposes, so the per-call rates above do not apply.
Enterprise background check API pricing: screening at volume, or with procurement in the room?
Enterprise plans add custom volume rates below the published tiers, custom net terms, a signed BAA for regulated data, team workspaces with per-workspace access control, and priority support. Same API, same key model, with terms built around how your organization actually buys.
Self-serveEnterprise / BAA
Per-call rateSelf-serve$0.15 → $0.11Enterprise / BAACustom, below the published tiers
PaymentSelf-serveCard or ACH, month endEnterprise / BAANet-30 / net-60 invoicing
BAASelf-serveSigned in the dashboard under ComplianceEnterprise / BAAScoped to your use case and volume
WorkspacesSelf-serveOne account, teammates added freelyEnterprise / BAATeam workspaces, per-workspace access control
SupportSelf-serveEmail support at support@offendersearch.appEnterprise / BAAPriority support, security review answered in writing
SecuritySelf-serveTrust & security pageEnterprise / BAAEnterprise-grade security, questionnaires answered
What do I get for free?
Twenty-five searches against the live national dataset — all 58 US registries, every state, DC and the territories — with no card and no sales call. Trial searches include a name (first or last) and return up to 50 records each. Everything else is identical to a paid key: the same schema, the same match scoring, the same per-source provenance. You are not evaluating a sandbox.
Why is this the best value?
Because the price you see is the price you pay. $0.15 a call, dropping to $0.11 past 2,000 a month, with no setup fee, no per-seat license, no monthly minimum on the search API and no annual contract — and a genuinely free trial that is the full API, not a crippled sample. A single call searches all 58 US registries and returns scored, source-cited results, so you are not paying a platform fee for a feature you then have to assemble yourself.
Why does the trial need a name in the query?
Because the trial is for looking someone up, not for downloading the database. A name is what every real evaluation has and what a bulk extractor does not want to be limited to. Searching by age, city, ZIP or state alone is available the moment a payment method is on file.
What happens when the trial runs out?
Your key keeps working the moment you add a payment method — the same key, the same code, no migration. Until then calls return a 402 telling you exactly that. Nothing is deleted and nothing expires.
How does the per-call pricing work?
Every API call is $0.15. Once you pass 2,000 calls in a calendar month, every additional call that month is billed at the graduated rate of $0.11. A Regular search is billed at that base rate. Live re-verification adds $0.02 per completed source, capped at $2.00 per search, and each verification PDF adds $0.02.
Are searches by location billed differently?
Only a search with no name in it. A search that includes a first or last name is billed per call and nothing else, however many records it returns. A location-only search — a radius, city, county, ZIP or state with no name — is the same $0.15 per call and includes 10,000 records a calendar month; beyond that, each record it returns is $0.03. Location-only results come back in pages of up to 500 records, and an account that reaches 45,000 location-only records in a month has those searches paused until it contacts us about volume access. Name searches keep working throughout.
Does Criminal Search cost extra?
No. One price covers both products. A criminal search is billed exactly like a registry search — the same $0.15 per call, the same $0.11 graduated rate past 2,000 calls a month, the same $0.02 per completed live source under the same $2.00 ceiling, and each row of a batch billed as one call. It runs on the same account and the same key rather than a separate credential or a second contract, so adding it needs no migration and no new commercial agreement.
What does the Map API cost, and is there a minimum?
$2.00 per 1,000 map requests and $0.035 per record opened, with a $300 monthly minimum applied toward usage. Any paying business account can turn the Map API on. Turning it on charges the $300 minimum that day, and it covers the rest of that calendar month. The $300 monthly minimum is applied toward everything the account uses that month, search included. A month with $110 of usage is billed $300; a month with $1,100 is billed $1,100. The search API on its own has no monthly minimum.
How is a batch of searches billed?
Per search, not per request. A batch (POST /v1/batch) is one HTTP request but contains many searches, and each search in it is billed as one search — a batch of 100 = 100 metered calls, each at the graduated per-call rate. A batch runs in Regular mode against the continuously-updated corpus, so there is no per-source live charge; live re-verification is not offered in a batch.
What does an Enterprise plan add?
Custom volume pricing below the published rates, custom net terms (net-30, net-60 or another cadence), a signed BAA for regulated workloads, team workspaces with per-workspace access control, and priority support. If you are screening at volume or have procurement and compliance requirements, talk to sales and we will build terms around them.
When am I charged?
Usage is metered and charged at the end of each month by default. Enterprise customers can request custom net terms (net-30, net-60, or any cadence) — contact sales.
Background check API comparisons: further reading. Independent comparisons of the tools in this category, including where other vendors are the better answer.
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