EagleView is unusual in this category for publishing a full per-report rate card, and it is worth saying that plainly before criticising anything: most measurement and estimating vendors make you ask. You can read EagleView’s prices at nine in the evening without talking to anybody.
What the card does not publish is the one variable you control. Every price sits inside a volume tier, and the tiers themselves are not priced. This page reads the whole card, works out what the tier spread is worth in real money, and then asks the question the card cannot: how many of those reports needed pulling at all.
Disclosure: Scout Data is our product. We do not produce measurement reports and do not compete with EagleView — we sit upstream of the decision to order one.
The published card
Construction reports, the everyday roofing product, are priced by residential size band and by tier:
| Construction report | Bronze | Silver | Gold |
|---|---|---|---|
| Residential — small, 20 sq | $32.75 | $27.50 | $24.25 |
| Residential — medium, 40 sq | $60 | $54.75 | $49 |
| Residential — large, 40+ sq | $87 | $81.25 | $75.50 |
| Commercial | $89.50 | $84.25 | $79 |
The rest of the residential catalogue, as advertised:
| Report | Residential price |
|---|---|
| Gutter | $13.75, flat across tiers |
| Bid Perfect | $18, flat across tiers |
| Walls | $40, flat across tiers |
| Walls, Windows & Doors | $78 Bronze / $72.25 Silver / $67.50 Gold |
| Full House | $105 Bronze / $98 Silver / $91 Gold |
Platinum is listed as call for pricing across every category, and commercial variants of the smaller products are priced separately — gutter at $23.25 and Bid Perfect at $49.
Every figure above is what EagleView publicly advertised on its own pricing page at the time of writing, and rate cards move. Confirm current pricing, tier eligibility and available products with the vendor directly.
Two axes, and only one of them is published
The first axis is the roof, and you do not control it. Small, medium and large are 20 squares, 40 squares and over 40. On the Construction card that is a $32.75 to $87 range at Bronze — the same product, on the same tier, at nearly triple the price depending on what is standing at the address. If your market skews to larger homes, your blended report cost is structurally higher than a competitor’s in a neighbouring county and no negotiation changes it.
The second axis is the tier, and you do. Bronze to Gold on a small residential report is $32.75 down to $24.25 — $8.50, or 26%. On a medium roof it is $11, on a large one $11.50. Call it roughly a quarter off the everyday product for moving two tiers.
Put volume against that spread. A crew pulling 40 small-to-medium reports a month at Bronze is spending somewhere around $1,850 a month; the same 40 at Gold is nearer $1,465. That is about $4,600 a year for a conversation with a sales representative, which is a good return on an hour. The catch is that the tiers are volume-based and the qualification threshold is not published — so the only way to find out whether you already qualify is to ask, and the only way to find out what it takes is to ask that too.
The prepayment question
The page also describes prepayment plans at Silver, Gold and Platinum, monthly or yearly, framed as savings if you can forecast how many reports you intend to order. That framing is exact and worth reading literally: the discount is compensation for forecasting risk you are agreeing to carry.
Prepayment is a good trade for a retail roofer with steady seasonal volume and a bad one for a storm-chasing operation whose report count swings by a factor of five between a quiet month and the four weeks after a hail event. Before committing, look at your last eighteen months of report volume by month rather than your annual total. If the monthly line is spiky, buy on the tier and leave the prepayment alone.
Three questions the card cannot answer
- What volume qualifies for each tier, on what measurement window? Trailing twelve months, trailing quarter, or committed forward volume — these behave very differently for a seasonal business.
- Does buying through an integration partner or distributor beat buying direct at your volume? The page names that as a route to reduced pricing, which means there are two paths to the same report and they may not price the same.
- What happens to unused prepaid reports at the end of a term? Roll forward, expire, or convert — this is the single line that decides whether prepayment was a discount or a loan.
The multiplier that outranks the tier
Moving from Bronze to Gold cuts your everyday report price by about a quarter. Ordering a quarter fewer reports does the same thing, costs nothing, and also gives back the estimator hours those reports consumed. Most roofing companies can do both, and only ever attempt the first.
The arithmetic is your own: monthly report spend divided by jobs those reports produced. That is your true measurement cost per sale, and for most retail crews it is several multiples of the sticker price, because the majority of reports are ordered on homes that were never going to sign — the roof was six years old, the street took no hail, or the owner replaced it last spring and nobody checked.
The public record is unusually good on that last point. Roofing permits are filed per property, so the interval between two permits on the same parcel is an observed replacement cycle — across 12.9 million residential roofing permits we measured a national median of 14 years. A house three years past a recorded roofing permit is not a bid; it is a report you should not buy.
Where Scout Data fits
List Builder is the filter in front of the estimating budget: hail and wind footprints mapped within hours, more than a million new permits a week, roof age and ownership changes, resolved into addresses worth an estimator’s time with owner-matched, DNC-scrubbed phones attached. Scout puts the same list in front of canvassers as territories on a map.
You still need a measurement vendor to price the job, and for a lot of claim work that vendor is EagleView. For the alternatives and the carrier-acceptance caveat, see EagleView alternatives; for the on-site capture branch of the category, see HOVER alternatives. And if the pipeline rather than the report price is the real constraint, storm damage leads is the better starting point.
Frequently asked questions
How much does an EagleView roof report cost?
It depends on two things: the size band of the roof and the volume tier you buy on. As publicly advertised at the time of writing, a residential Construction report on a small roof runs $32.75 at Bronze, $27.50 at Silver and $24.25 at Gold. A medium roof is $60 / $54.75 / $49, and a large one $87 / $81.25 / $75.50. Platinum is listed as call for pricing.
What are the Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum tiers?
They are volume-based discount tiers rather than product plans. The pricing page states you may qualify for reduced pricing through an integration partner or distributor, or based on purchase volume, and directs you to a sales representative to access Silver, Gold and Platinum pricing. It also describes prepayment plans at those tiers, monthly or yearly, if you can forecast your report volume. What it does not publish is what any tier costs to enter.
Is there a cheaper alternative to EagleView?
Several, at different trade-offs — a self-measure subscription, a low-cost per-report vendor, or on-site photo capture. The comparison is in EagleView alternatives. The honest caveat is that carrier and adjuster acceptance varies on claim work, so confirm with the carriers you actually deal with before standardising on a cheaper report.