Pricing
Three ways to use Fonteum
Start with the demo key. Upgrade when you need production rate limits, MCP support, or custom datasets.
Demo
Freepk_dx_sample
Anyone evaluating Fonteum
- 100 requests / hour
- All read endpoints
- Provenance contract on every response
- Community support (GitHub issues)
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Developer
$99/ mo
Solo builders and prototypes
- 10,000 requests / mo
- All read endpoints + batch endpoints
- JSON + JSON-LD responses
- 24h response SLA on email support
- Webhooks: 1 endpoint
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TeamRecommended
$999/ mo
Startups in production
- 250,000 requests / mo
- All endpoints including write / batch
- MCP server support
- 5 webhook endpoints
- 8h response SLA + priority email
- Snapshot history access (rolling 24 months)
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Pilot / Custom
Contactvolume + procurement
Enterprises and procurement teams
- Volume pricing
- Custom datasets (HRSA, BLS, BEA, plus optional dataset onboarding)
- Signed enterprise terms (DPA, BAA on request)
- Dedicated Slack channel
- Quarterly methodology reviews
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Pricing shown is directional and may change before launch. The demo key is free and always will be. Educational and investigative-journalism use is free with attribution — see the FAQ.
Build vs buy
What you pay for, dimension by dimension
| Dimension | Fonteum | Do it yourself |
|---|---|---|
| Source ingestion | Maintained across 22 federal source families | Build + monitor each pull yourself |
| Refresh cadence | SLA-backed, within 24–48h of release | Manual re-pull on each upstream change |
| Field provenance | 14-tuple contract on every field | Tracked by hand, if at all |
| Snapshot history | Rolling 24 months (Team) | Whatever you remembered to archive |
| Identity resolution | NPI ↔ CCN ↔ PECOS cross-joins | Reconcile keys per dataset yourself |
| FHIR R4 output | US Core profiles + bulk $export | Map every resource by hand |
| MCP / agent access | Hosted MCP server (Team+) | Build + host your own tool surface |
| Attestation | Signed snapshot digests, public chain | No integrity trail |
| Methodology | Versioned, published per dataset | Lives in your team's heads |
| Support SLA | 8h priority email (Team) | Your on-call rotation |
| Time to first result | Minutes with pk_dx_sample | Weeks of pipeline engineering |
| Total cost of ownership | A predictable monthly line item | Engineer-months + ongoing upkeep |
The full 12-dimension procurement brief — with the downloadable PDF and JSON twin — lives at /compare.
Questions
Pricing questions
- What's the demo key for?
- pk_dx_sample is a shared, read-only key you can use without signing up. It is rate-limited to 100 requests an hour across all callers, so it is built for evaluation and quickstarts — not production traffic. Every response carries the same provenance contract you get on a paid tier, so you can judge the data quality before you commit.
- Can I self-host?
- The federal source data is public domain (US Government Works), and our ingestion methodology is documented on the methodology pages, so you are free to rebuild the pipeline yourself. What you pay Fonteum for is the maintained snapshots, the per-field provenance graph, the FHIR + MCP surfaces, and the refresh SLA. Pilot customers can arrange a private mirror under signed enterprise terms.
- What's your refund policy?
- Monthly plans can be cancelled at any time and stop renewing at the end of the current billing period; we do not pro-rate partial months. If a billing error is ours, we correct it in full. Annual and pilot agreements follow the terms in the signed contract.
- Do you offer educational or research discounts?
- Yes. Access is free for accredited universities and for investigative-journalism use, in both cases with attribution. Researchers can request a key through the researcher signup flow; newsroom and academic teams can email us and we will set you up under the free research tier.
- How is rate-limiting handled?
- Limits are enforced per key on a rolling window — per-hour on the demo key, per-month on Developer and Team. Every response returns the remaining quota in its headers so your client can back off cleanly, and a 429 includes a retry-after hint. Bursting above your tier returns 429 rather than silently dropping requests.
- What's included in a pilot?
- A pilot is a scoped engagement for enterprise and procurement teams: volume pricing, custom dataset onboarding (including HRSA, BLS, and BEA enrichment), signed enterprise terms with a DPA and a BAA on request, a dedicated Slack channel, and quarterly methodology reviews. Pilots start with a short intake call to scope datasets and delivery.
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