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ConstructConnect is not really a permit product: it's commercial project and bid intelligence — planning-stage projects, plans and specs, bidder activity, takeoff tools — researched by a large team and sold per market and per seat. If that's your world, it's the incumbent for a reason. PermitBoards covers the other end: issued permits, residential and commercial, delivered daily to the trades that work them. Pricing verified on their own page, 2026-11-11.
| ConstructConnect | PermitBoards | |
|---|---|---|
| Price (verified 2026-11-11) | Project Intelligence Starter $129/mo, Professional $199/mo — per market, per seat, billed annually; Premium from $10,000/yr via sales | $79/mo flat per county + trade — no per-seat multiplier, month-to-month; founding cohort $49/mo for life |
| Data unit | Researcher-verified commercial projects, from planning stage, with documents | Issued building permits from official public feeds — the moment work becomes real and callable |
| Cadence & delivery | A database you search, with saved-search email updates on Professional | A daily digest pushed to you — nothing to log into or search |
| Proof before paying | Interactive preview with simulated sample projects; plan exploration with sales | Real records: open lookup, real sample report, 14-day live sample feed |
| Contract | Annual billing at the published tiers | Month-to-month; pause or cancel from any email |
| Scope | Preconstruction suite: takeoff, estimating, bid management (separate products) | Permit alerts only — deliberately; see the playbooks for turning them into jobs |
Daily and trade-filtered, $79 a month self-serve — $49 locked for the founding 50 — no annual contract, no sales call. If you need ConstructConnect's breadth, buy ConstructConnect. If you need your county's permits for your trade in your inbox every morning, that's the product on this page.
No — it's a narrower product on purpose. ConstructConnect sells breadth: more markets, more categories, more tooling. PermitBoards sells one thing done daily: the permits in your county that mean work for your trade, in your inbox, for a flat price.
planning-stage commercial projects, plans/specs/addenda, takeoff and estimating, and multi-market enterprise analytics. PermitBoards has none of that and isn't priced like it does.
Yes — the free permit lookup searches the live database, the sample report is a real one-day report, and the 14-day sample feed is the real product. No demo call is required for any of it.
Comparison prepared 2026-11-11 from ConstructConnect's own public pages. Sources: constructconnect.com/project-intelligence-learn-more (pricing fetched 2026-11-11). Takeoff-suite prices circulating on third-party sites were NOT on any ConstructConnect page we fetched and are not quoted here.. Prices are labeled verified only where we read them on the vendor's own page that day; anything else is marked unverified. If a fact here is wrong, email us and we will fix it with the source.
Start the paid plan when you're ready — $79 a month for one county and one trade, month-to-month, no sales call. Or start with a free 14-day sample feed: the real daily email, built from live permit records. If it doesn't show you work worth chasing, don't pay for it.
Start the paid plan — $79/mo Free 14-day sample See a sample alert first