FiscalNote Pricing in 2026: What It Actually Costs (Public Records)
By OmniLegislation Data Desk
Published August 17, 2026 · Updated August 19, 2026
FiscalNote does not publish its pricing. Federal procurement records do. Across 253 disclosed federal awards on USAspending.gov, single-year FiscalNote subscriptions have ranged from $12,000 to $616,019, the median award is $32,697 (annualizing near $27,000), and one multi-year Commerce Department deployment totaled $9.1 million over four and a half years. Procurement data platform Vendr reports a median FiscalNote contract of $24,226, with a range of $19,385 to $63,188.
That is the short answer. The rest of this page shows the receipts, explains what moves a quote up or down, and lists the questions worth asking in the demo.
Why it matters: quote-only pricing puts the information advantage on the vendor's side of the table. Public records move some of it back to yours.
What public records show
The federal government publishes what it pays contractors. These are actual disclosed FiscalNote awards from USAspending.gov, selected to show the spread from smallest to largest:
| Agency | Period | Amount | Record |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA | Mar 2023 to Mar 2024 | $12,000 | View award |
| Interior Dept, Office of Inspector General | Aug 2024 to Aug 2025 | $19,487 | View award |
| Export-Import Bank | Mar 2026 to Mar 2027 | $32,875 | View award |
| NASA (state and local regulatory tracking) | Feb 2024 to Feb 2025 | $45,000 | View award |
| Treasury Dept, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency | Oct 2025 to Sep 2026 | $79,236 | View award |
| NASA | Nov 2025 to Oct 2026 | $92,649 | View award |
| State Department | May 2025 to Apr 2026 | $616,019 | View award |
| Commerce Dept, Office of the Secretary | Mar 2019 to Sep 2023 | $9,061,842 total (about $2.0M per year) | View award |
Across the full population of 253 disclosed awards, the median is $32,697, and typical single-year awards cluster in the $25,000 to $35,000 range.
Two honest caveats. Federal contracts skew large: agencies often buy more seats, more modules, and more service than a trade association or lobbying firm would. And disclosed awards are a sample, not a price list. Treat these numbers as the observable range, not a quote.
Why there is no price list
FiscalNote is a modular enterprise platform, and the quote is assembled from variables:
Jurisdictions. Federal only, states, municipal coverage through PolicyNote (which markets more than 12,000 municipalities and 4,000 school districts), or international. More geography, higher price.
Seats. Per-user licensing is standard in enterprise software, and team size moves the number.
Modules. Core tracking, advocacy (VoterVoice), stakeholder management, analyst services, and data products are separately priced components.
Service level. Some contracts include analyst support and custom reporting. That is real value, and real cost.
Negotiation timing. Like most enterprise vendors, end-of-quarter flexibility is a known phenomenon. Renewal quotes can also move, in either direction, depending on usage and alternatives on the table.
None of this is unusual for enterprise software. It just means the sticker question has no single answer, which is why the demo questions below matter more than any number on this page. Even FiscalNote's newest PolicyNote plans page lists three tiers, and all three say "Request Pricing."
Questions to ask in the demo
- What is the all-in first-year cost, including onboarding or implementation fees, for our exact seat count and jurisdictions?
- What does the same configuration cost at renewal? Is there a cap, and will you put it in writing?
- Which modules are included in this quote, and what does removing the ones we will not use save?
- What is the contract term, and what happens to our data on exit?
- If we only need legislative and regulatory intelligence, what does the tracking-only configuration cost?
That last question is the one most buyers never ask, and it is the one that reveals whether you are shopping for a bundle or an intelligence product.
If you are pricing alternatives
If the answer to question five is still a five-figure number, the focused end of the market is worth an hour of your time. Three tools publish their prices: OmniLegislation ($149/month single state, $249/month all 50 states plus federal, covering legislation and court decisions plus Federal Register regulations with growing state agency coverage), BillTrack50 ($1,000/year single state, $5,000/year all states plus Congress), and Plural ($59/month Essential, $5,000/year Professional). Our full comparison of 8 FiscalNote alternatives is here.
Methodology and corrections
Figures on this page come from USAspending.gov federal award records (253 disclosed FiscalNote awards retrieved August 2026) and procurement data platforms, with archive snapshots saved for each cited award. This page reports disclosed public-record amounts; it does not claim to state FiscalNote's current rate card, which is not public. If you are from FiscalNote and believe anything here is inaccurate or outdated, email us and we will verify and correct it promptly.
Last verified: August 17, 2026.