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Pricing · draft for review · all figures are proposals

Pay for the head start, not the headlines.

Start on a card in minutes, or sign a one to five year contract and re-up by the day, week or month when a story breaks. Every price below is a starting point we can quote against.

Annual saves about 17%

How far each plan can see

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What each plan includes

Every plan draws on the same events. What changes is how fresh they are, how far back you can look, how fast you hear about them, and how much a person or a machine can pull.

FreeDeskDesk ProDesk ArchiveWire APIEnterprise and Vault
Freshness30 days oldReal timeReal timeReal timeReal timeReal time, priority lane
Look backEverything since 20193 weeks in full, then the Free view to 20196 months in full, then the Free view to 2019Everything since 20191 yearEverything, delivered
AlertsNone5 instant alerts by push or email, plus hourly digestsUnlimited instant: push, SMS, Slack, webhookInstantWebhooksInstant, any channel
What you seePlace, category, status, head start and source trail with names hiddenPlus headlines and named sourcesPlus trust scoresPlus backtests on all historyFull event recordsFull records and raw open social
Ops view and Ask the mapMap onlyOps viewBothBothn/aBoth
APINoneNone50,000 events a month250,000 events a month1M events a monthContracted volume
ExportNoneScreen onlyCSV, 5,000 rows a dayCSV, 20,000 rows a dayThrough API limitsBulk files
Sign inGoogle, Microsoft, Apple, passkey (Bitwarden, 1Password and others), or emailAdds SAML or OIDC SSO, SCIM, PIV and CAC
BillingNoneCardCardCard or invoiceCard or invoiceContract, PO, wire
Contracts

Build a multi-year data contract

Pick the coverage, the term and the way you want to pay. The ticket on the right prices it as you go and shows what a re-up costs at each cadence. Re-ups keep the contract rate for the whole term.

Buyer
Coverage
Source depth
Analyst seats25
History archive
Delivery
Pricing model
Term
Billing
Annual price change
Re-up cadence you expect to use
Monthly re-up · contract rate

Grow for a quarter

Add a region, a block of seats or more events for a month at a time. Priced at your contract rate with no premium, and you can make it permanent at renewal.

Weekly re-up · about 1.5x per day

Cover a developing story

An election, a strike or a storm track. Turn on a week of extra coverage or raw open social, then let it lapse. No change to your contract.

Daily re-up · about 2.4x per day

Surge for a crisis

Full depth across every region for 24 hours, priced up front. Set auto re-up with a spending cap so the feed stays on through a weekend without a call.

Lead-time guarantee. If the median head start across your coverage drops under 10 minutes for a full quarter, we credit 10% of that quarter's fee. Price lock. Re-ups and added seats use the contract rate for the life of the contract. Unused credits on the committed-credits model roll over for one quarter.

Vault · private delivery

Take the whole archive. Search it on your own machines.

For national labs, universities and governments that don't want analysts typing questions into Google, Bing or anyone's search box, ours included. You receive the full corpus and a local index. Every query runs inside your walls, so there is no search history anywhere else to subpoena, leak or profile.

Cloud share

Into your own bucket

We write signed Parquet and JSONL into a bucket in your account on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or a sovereign cloud region. You read it with your own credentials.

Hourly or daily deltas · from $6,000 a year
Direct mirror

SFTP or rsync pull

Pull from a dedicated PriorWire host with SSH keys and an IP allowlist. No CDN, no third-party analytics, nothing indexed by search engines.

Delta every 15 minutes · from $12,000 a year
Physical media

Encrypted drives

Full load on FIPS 140-3 self-encrypting drives by bonded courier, then weekly or daily delta drives. Keys travel separately. Built for networks with no internet link.

Weekly or daily drives · from $48,000 a year
Offline appliance

PriorWire Local

The full archive, the search index and the console in one container image or rack server. Ask the map works offline. Updates arrive as signed bundles by any of the routes here.

Runs fully offline · from $90,000 a year
Warehouse share

Snowflake or Databricks

A private share into your own warehouse account for teams that already work there. Query costs and logs stay on your side.

Daily refresh · from $6,000 a year
Identical bundles

Downloads that reveal nothing

Everyone on a Vault tier gets the same full files, each copy with its own invisible fingerprint. Since nobody pulls a topic or a country, our delivery logs say nothing about what you are watching.

Included with every Vault plan

What PriorWire can see

  • That your organization holds a Vault contract
  • Which bundle files were delivered, and when
  • Your delivery endpoint or shipping address
  • Contract, invoices and the people who signed them

What PriorWire never sees

  • Any search, filter or question your analysts run
  • Which countries, companies or topics you look at
  • Who inside your organization reads what
  • Anything about your network once a file lands
# Pull last night's delta and check it before import
rsync -e "ssh -i ~/.ssh/pw_vault" \
  vault@vault.priorwire.com:/tier-a/2026-11-11/ ./inbox/
pw-verify ./inbox/manifest.json   # ed25519 + SHA-256
✓ 214 files · 18.6 GB · signed by PriorWire release key 7F3A
pw-local import ./inbox         # updates the offline index
// manifest.json (excerpt, sample)
{
  "bundle": "tier-a/2026-11-11",
  "kind": "delta",
  "events": 4182209,
  "from": "2026-11-10T00:00:00Z",
  "to":   "2026-11-11T00:00:00Z",
  "formats": ["parquet", "jsonl"],
  "sha256": "9c1e…a77f",
  "sig": "ed25519:MEUCIQ…"
}

Procurement. Multi-year contracts, purchase orders, wire transfer, or an authorized reseller for agencies that buy through one. Invoices describe the purchase as a data subscription. Academic. Universities can share one license across a campus or a research consortium, and members sign in through InCommon or eduGAIN. Screening. We check every buyer and end user against sanctions and export-control lists before delivery, and we don't sell into embargoed countries.

On every plan

Nobody walks off with the archive

The archive is the product, so the API and the app are built to serve what a plan pays for and nothing more. These limits apply to every key and every login, including contract customers. The only way to hold the full archive is a signed Vault contract with a named organization.

Window-locked queries

A key can only reach the freshness and look-back its plan allows. Older pages return nothing, however the request is phrased.

Volume caps per key and per org

Monthly event allowances, per-minute rate limits and a ceiling on rows per query. Extra keys share the org's cap, so splitting across accounts gains nothing.

No deep paging

Results stop after 10,000 rows per query. Cursors expire after 15 minutes, and walking the whole timeline page by page is blocked.

Sweep detection

Requests that march through time, grid squares or ID ranges get flagged and slowed, then held for review. Normal use never gets close.

Fingerprinted copies

Every account's data carries invisible marks and a few planted canary events unique to that account. A leaked copy points straight back to the key that pulled it.

Locked-down keys

Short-lived tokens, optional IP allowlists, mutual TLS on the Wire, and instant revocation. The console renders in pages and has no bulk download.

LimitFreeDeskDesk ProDesk ArchiveWire APIEnterprise
API events a month0050,000250,0001,000,000Contracted
Requests a minuten/an/a3060300Contracted
Rows per query2001,0005,00010,00010,00010,000
Export a day005,000 rows20,000 rowsAPI onlyBulk via Vault

License. Every plan forbids resale, redistribution and training models for others on PriorWire data. Contracts add audit rights. Proposed limits, to be tuned once we see real usage.

Questions

Before you sign

Short answers to what procurement teams ask first.

Can we sign in with Google, our own SSO, or a password manager?

Yes. Individuals can use Google, Microsoft, Apple, an email link, or a passkey saved in Bitwarden, 1Password, iCloud Keychain, Google Password Manager or a hardware key. Teams on a contract connect their identity provider over SAML or OIDC (Okta, Entra ID, Google Workspace, Ping, JumpCloud) and can manage members with SCIM. Government users can sign in with a PIV or CAC card.

What is the difference between the pricing models?

A flat license is one price for agreed coverage with no metering. Committed credits means you prepay a yearly amount, draw it down as you use data, and get bonus credits for longer terms. Seats plus usage has a lower base and bills events above your allowance each month. A site or national license covers every user in the organization with no seat count.

Can we download everything through the API?

No, on any plan. The API serves your plan's window within its caps. Bulk history comes only through a Vault contract, delivered as fingerprinted files to a named organization.

What do free users get?

A free account sees every event since 2019, once it is 30 days old. Each one shows where it happened, the category, whether it was confirmed, and our receipt: how many minutes before the first headline we flagged it, and the trail of sources that got us there, by tier and channel with names hidden. You can check our record on any event you like, and nothing in it is recent enough for a paying customer to still act on.

What happens if we stop re-upping?

The extra coverage ends at the close of the day, week or month you paid for. Your base contract keeps running, and anything you already downloaded is yours to keep under the license.

Can we keep the data after the contract ends?

Vault customers keep perpetual rights to everything delivered during the term for internal use. Desk and Wire customers can export their alerts and saved views.

Is there a trial?

Desk and Desk Pro have a 14 day trial with no card. Contract buyers get a 30 day evaluation on a sample of the archive, delivered the same way the real data will be.

Account · sample account

Northgate Research Lab

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Contract PW-2026-0142

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Term elapsed14 of 36 months

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