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 organization-wide use.

$7,500/ year

Unlimited users in one organization

Everything in Sapling, plus Cedar Grove, the advanced data library, organizational context and Cedar calibration across the organization.

Request Tree access

Consultancies and partner organizations delivering analysis to someone else start at Sapling.

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 analysis2015 to present, 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 organizationIncludedIncluded

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, starting with Sapling. 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, with ten seats you can reassign as engagements change.

Tree serves larger consulting and partner organizations with unlimited organizational users, Cedar calibration and Cedar Grove.

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

Cedar Grove is the advanced data library: harmonized public data plus the proprietary datasets we build. It is useful without Cedar Impact, so you can buy it on its own for $2,500 a year with unlimited users, 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.

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.