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Pricing for evidence you can cite.
Compass turns technology coverage into sourced signals, dashboards, and briefing-ready reports — so you can see what's gaining attention, what's fading, what's connected, and why.
Every paid subscription runs on the same evidence-backed measurement layer. Choose based on whether you need the app or the API, one seat or a team, and how much reporting, watching and exporting you do.
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Not sure which fits? Pick the one that sounds like you.
I just want to check whether Compass covers my topic
Free lookup →I need one sourced briefing on a single topic
$19 report →I track topics and produce briefs regularly
My team needs one shared workspace
I need the measurements as JSON, in my own system
One-time purchase · not a subscription
$19
A single briefing-ready report
1 full report · your topic & date range
Pick the topic and the date range; the report generates right after payment — what the coverage is made of, what changed, how it's framed, and every cited source. Yours to keep and cite. No subscription, no recurring charge. It's the exact report Pro generates — Pro just includes 10 of them every month (plus alerts and 15 months of history).
Why history is the valuable part. A baseline isn't just old articles — it's coverage measured the same way, against the same corpus, month after month. That's five quarters on record — a full year plus the current one — so every read can measure this quarter against the same quarter last year. Compass already holds that rolling history; your subscription unlocks it immediately and keeps including each new month as the shared corpus accrues.
Free
$0
See what any topic's coverage is made of right now — and cite it.
- The full instrument — coverage composition, claim stage, and framing — on any topic
- Scoped to the last 30 days of coverage
- Full single-topic reports — $19 each, on any topic and date range you choose
- "State of X" landscape briefings — read the public ones free
- Watch 2 topics, plus 2 alerts fired by a change in the measurement
- 1 custom lens — a hand-picked topic set you can reuse across the instrument
- 5 Ask questions a day
- The Overnight page, plus your own since-your-last-visit brief
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Pro
$59 /mo
Walk into any briefing with a measured answer and the sources behind it.
Everything in Free, plus:
What you're measuring
- Coverage composition — story type, claim stage, and framing — on any topic
- The full 15-month history window on any topic — a year of coverage plus this quarter, for true year-over-year
- 10 single-topic reports/month included — need more, extra reports are $19 each
- 2 State of X reports/month — turn any Lens or custom topic set into a sourced landscape briefing: coverage leaders, who's gaining or cooling, concentration, coverage clusters, editorial mix, and what to watch next
- 15 custom lenses — hand-picked topic sets you reuse across the instrument
- 50 Ask questions a day
- The full Overnight page — look up any topic's day, every day, and filter everything
How it reaches you
- Watch 25 topics, plus 25 alerts — fired by a change in the measurement, not a keyword match
- PDF (and text) export of charts & data — 50 per month
- Single seat
Plus
$199 /mo
Give a team one shared workspace, so everyone briefs from the same record.
Everything in Pro, plus:
What you're measuring
- Everything in Pro's measurement layer, shared across the team
- 40 single-topic reports/month included, shared across seats — extra reports are $19 each
- 10 State of X reports/month, shared across seats — turn any Lens or custom topic set into a sourced landscape briefing: coverage leaders, who's gaining or cooling, concentration, coverage clusters, editorial mix, and what to watch next
- 50 custom lenses — hand-picked topic sets you reuse across the instrument
- 200 Ask questions a day
How it reaches you
- Watch 100 topics, plus 100 alerts — fired by a change in the measurement, not a keyword match
- Unlimited PDF (and text) export of charts & data
- 3 seats — one shared workspace
- Signal Feed API included — the same feed sold standalone
For developers
Signal Feed (API)
$59 /mo
Same price as Pro — a different product: a machine feed, not a dashboard. It includes the free-tier dashboard view (last 30 days); Plus is the plan that adds the full dashboards alongside the API.
Put Compass measurements into your own app, model, or pipeline.
Not a stream of pages — a stream of measurements. Coverage endpoints deliver stories already classified by story type, claim stage, and framing; every signal is scored against the topic's own history. The interpretation layer is done before it reaches your pipeline.
- Classified events — story type, claim stage, framing, per entity
- Baselined — each signal carries its normal, so your system can tell unusual from loud
- Source-linked — every measurement resolves to the dated articles behind it
- Ingest-ready JSON — movers, emerging, connections, per-entity
- No dashboards or generated reports included — pair it with a free account, or choose Plus to get both
All recurring plans are billed monthly — cancel anytime. (The one-time report is a single charge, not a subscription.) Annual billing is coming soon.
Tiered by what you do with Compass — never by the quality of the data. Every paid plan sees every measurement and every evidence drill-down. What scales is capacity: saved relationship maps, armed alerts, export volume, run history, seats, and API access.
What Compass reads, and how it measures →
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What does Compass actually measure?
How much the tech press is writing about a topic, which direction the coverage is moving, which companies and technologies get covered alongside it, and — crucially — what kind of stories the coverage is made of and how far the claims have actually progressed. Every number drills to the real headlines behind it.
Is this financial or investment advice?
No. Compass reports measurements over a technology-news corpus — never predictions, verdicts, or buy/sell signals. It tells you what the press is saying and how it's saying it; the judgment stays yours.
What's the $19 report?
A one-off, sourced brief on a single topic — coverage trend, framing split, what the coverage is made of over time, and every cited source — with no subscription. You pick the topic and the date range, pay once, and the report generates right away; it's saved to your account and doesn't expire. A low-commitment way to see the instrument do real work.
What's a "State of X" report — and how is it different from a single-topic report?
A single-topic report tells you how the press is covering one company, product, model or technology. State of X measures the landscape around a whole question: choose a Compass Lens or your own saved topic set, and the report shows where attention sits across the set, which topics are gaining or cooling, whether coverage is concentrating or spreading out, which subjects are unusually likely to be covered together, what editorial patterns define the field, and what to watch next. Every measurement is drawn from the same dated Compass corpus and opens back to its source evidence — coverage share is not market share, and movement is not a prediction. It's a separate monthly allotment from the single-topic reports: Pro includes 2 a month, Plus 10, and a Free account can read the public samples.
Do you have an API?
Yes — two ways. Signal Feed (API) ($59/mo) is the standalone, API-only plan: a scoped, programmatic JSON feed for developers who want to pull the coverage measurements into their own app, model, or pipeline (no dashboard). It runs alongside a free account. Plus ($199/mo) includes the production-scale API alongside the full UI and team seats — so if you want dashboards and the API, that's one plan, not two. The endpoints and a sample response are public — see the API docs at /compass/api.
Can I switch plans later?
Yes, from Account → Billing. Upgrades take effect immediately — you pay only the prorated difference for the rest of the month, and your billing date doesn't move. Downgrades start at your next renewal, so you keep everything you've already paid for until then.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. Pro, Plus and Signal Feed (API) are month-to-month and cancel anytime from Account → Billing — one button and one confirmation, on our own site.
What's the Overnight?
The daily side of the instrument. Every morning, /compass/overnight shows what moved in technology coverage yesterday — day-level surges, firsts and returns, and the week's risers — counted overnight, cited and dated. It's public. Signed-in users also get a since-your-last-visit brief on their home page, and Pro and Plus can look up any topic's day, every day, and filter everything. Day-level counts are early and noisy; verdicts stay monthly.
What happens to the open topics if I never pay?
Nothing — they stay free forever, no card, no trial clock, and they carry the full 15-month record: we chose those subjects, not how much of the instrument you get. A free account also lets you look up any topic with the last 30 days of coverage and watch 2 topics, and any topic's full report is $19, one-time; Pro is what includes 10 reports a month, the full 15 months of history, and scale.
Do I need to talk to sales?
No. Compass is entirely self-serve — pick a plan, pay by card, and you're in. (Teams larger than three seats can reach out for a custom arrangement.)
Account availability varies by region — Compass accounts, free and paid, aren't offered in the EU/EEA, the UK, Türkiye, or mainland China. Every public page stays open everywhere.
Where the Services are offered →
Billed monthly. Cancel anytime. Paid plans renew automatically until cancelled;
cancellation stops future billing and access continues through the current billing period. Card handling by
Stripe. Compass measures press-coverage composition — no investment, legal, or business advice. See the
Subscription & Refund Terms,
API Terms, and Terms of Service.
Source: Enginerds Compass — measurements over a longitudinal technology corpus.
Measurements only; not investment advice. © Enginerds.