Pricing

Complete economic analysis with transparent annual pricing.

Every paid plan runs the same regionalized input-output model with unlimited analyses and every supported U.S. geography. Higher plans add collaboration, organizational memory and scale. No per-analysis fees or geography add-ons.

Plans start at $1,000 a year, and every price is on this page.

Seed

Evaluate Lumecon before paying.

$0/ year

1 user

Request free Seed access during the private beta. Once admitted, bring your documents, work with Cedar, build an analysis and see direct effects. Full results unlock on a paid plan.

Request Seed access

Sprout

For an individual analyst.

$1,000/ year

1 user

Cedar Impact in full, with Cedar, unlimited analyses and every supported U.S. geography.

Request Sprout access

Tree

Client work

For a whole organization.

$7,500/ year

Unlimited users in one organization

Everything in Sapling, plus Cedar Grove, the evidence base for your organization’s economy, organizational context and Cedar calibration across the organization.

Request Tree access

Client work is licensed at two levels: Sapling for a consultancy working within ten seats, reassigned as engagements change, and Tree for one past ten. An organization-wide license — a university, bank, CDFI or agency — is Tree, where seats are unlimited across the organization.

Compare all plansEvery capability, side by side
CapabilitySeedSproutSaplingTree
Annual price$0 / year$1,000$2,500$7,500
Users11Up to 10Unlimited users in one organization
Cedar ImpactUnlimited projects and analyses on the full economic modelSameSameSame
ResultsDirect effects, on the real results page. Indirect, induced and total unlock on any paid plan.Complete: direct, indirect, induced and total impact, with tax impactsSameSame
ExportsNot includedWorkbook (XLSX), CSV tables and printable summarySameSame
U.S. geographiesEvery supported geography, with no add-onsSameSameSame
Historical analysis2009 to 2025, where the underlying data support itSameSameSame
CedarIncludedIncludedIncluded for every collaboratorIncluded, with organizational context and calibration
Cedar CommonsNot includedNot includedIncluded. Shared projects, project notes, data collection and outside collaborators.Included across the organization.
Cedar GroveSold separately, $2,500Sold separately, $2,500Sold separately, $2,500Included. Harmonized public data and Lumecon’s proprietary datasets.
Client workEvaluation onlyYour own organizationIncluded, up to 10 seatsIncluded, unlimited seats

Every paid plan includes Cedar Impact in full, on the same data foundation; Seed shows your direct effects. Prices include taxes and fees. Learn what Cedar does.

Questions about plans and billing.

How is Lumecon priced?

Lumecon uses flat annual plans rather than charging separately for each analysis or supported geography. The surrounding work still matters: integrating data, regionalizing the model, documenting assumptions and maintaining the workflow.

The same underlying model and data foundation run on every paid plan. Our public methodology explains how analyses are built.

Does every paid plan use the same economic model?

Yes. Every paid plan runs the same Lumecon economic model on the same data foundation. Higher plans add collaboration, organizational data capabilities and scale.

Why don’t complicated analyses cost more?

Lumecon prices access by plan rather than by analysis complexity. Supported geographies, years, projects and scenarios do not create separate fees.

Why are your prices public?

Because you should be able to tell whether software fits your budget without sitting through a sales process. We also spend less selling the platform and more improving it, which is why the price sits on this page instead of behind a call.

Can I actually try Lumecon before paying?

Yes. Request Seed access during the private beta. When your place is ready, you can bring your documents, work with Cedar, build an analysis end to end and see direct effects on the real results page. Indirect, induced and total impact, and exports, unlock on a paid plan.

Access opens in waves. There is no credit card or obligation.

Can I use Lumecon for client work?

Yes, at two levels, and the only question is how many of you there are.

Sapling is the consultancy that fits inside ten seats. Cedar Commons doubles as a client intake and project workspace: invite clients and collaborators to supply what an analysis needs, keep the project data together and manage the work in one place, and reassign the ten seats as engagements change.

Tree is the consultancy past ten. Seats are unlimited across the firm, and it adds Cedar calibration and Cedar Grove — the same license an institution takes.

What is Cedar Grove, and why is it sold separately?

Cedar Grove is the living evidence base for your organization’s economy: maintained public data, Lumecon collections and the records you govern, with every finding connected to its source, geography, method, vintage and limits. It is useful without Cedar Impact, so you can license it on its own for $2,500 a year per organization with unlimited teammates, and it comes with Tree.

Couldn’t an economist just buy multipliers and do this themselves?

Yes. Experienced economists can perform many of these calculations themselves, and the arithmetic is rarely the hardest part.

Lumecon handles the surrounding data engineering, regionalization, validation, documentation, maintenance and workflow, so economists spend more time exercising economic judgment.

Do you license Lumecon to universities, banks and CDFIs?

Yes, and it is Tree — the same organization-wide license every other Tree customer takes, not a separate license type. A university, a bank, a CDFI or a public agency is past ten people before it begins, so counting seats is theoretical — Tree makes them unlimited across the organization and adds Cedar Grove and Cedar calibration.

One group inside an organization is a different purchase from the organization itself. A single faculty member or analyst is a Sprout; a department, research group or lending team that needs shared projects is a Sapling. Tree is for when the license belongs to the organization rather than to the people currently using it.

Can an individual researcher or faculty member buy Lumecon?

Yes. Sprout is priced so an individual analyst, faculty member or researcher can subscribe without an institutional procurement process. When a department or research group needs shared projects, Sapling adds Cedar Commons.

What happens when Lumecon improves?

When we improve a feature included in your plan, that improvement remains part of the plan. New capabilities may be associated with particular plans.

The pricing page will identify which capabilities are included in each plan.

Do multi-year or prepaid commitments cost less?

Contact us to discuss multi-year or prepaid terms. Any approved discount and the price that applies will be stated before purchase.

Renewal, cancellation and notice terms will be stated in your order form or subscription agreement.