Thomson Reuters publishes a CLEAR rate card. It is just not on the pricing page. The plans and pricing page, read on 25 September 2026, groups its plans under law enforcement, government agencies and corporations, and answers the cost question for every tier with the same four words: “Price varies by plan features”. Meanwhile the CLEAR Services Schedule A — the rate schedule Thomson Reuters links from its own order forms, footer-dated 1 February 2026 — lists dozens of line items with dollar figures against them, including a Person Search at $5.25 and a public-record Phone Search at $2.65.
So this is an unusual pricing page to write, because for once the numbers exist. What they do not do is answer the question most buyers think they are asking. Below: what the schedule actually prices, what signed contracts look like, and why a dialing floor should read all of it as evidence about the customer rather than as a quote.
Disclosure: Scout Data is our product and we sell homeowner phone files to call centers. CLEAR is an investigation platform sold largely to institutions, so we do not compete with it directly. Treat that entry as a maker’s pitch and the rest as our honest read of published documents. We did not open an account or request a quote.
The published per-search rates
| Schedule A line item | Published rate | What it is, for a dialing floor |
|---|---|---|
| Person Search | $5.25 per search | Identity lookup on one named subject |
| Phone Search — Public Record Phones | $2.65 per search | The line closest to what a dialing floor is buying |
| Phone Search — Real Time Reverse Phone Gateway | $2.65 per search | Live carrier-side lookup rather than a stored record |
| Contact Report | $10.50 per report | A compiled contact card, not a row |
| Person Report | $15.75 per report | Full subject report |
| Real Property Individual Reports | $5.25 per report | One property, one report — not a market |
| Batch Services — Person Search | $.04–$5.00 per result and/or input | The bulk lane, quoted as a range rather than a rate |
Rates are quoted verbatim from the CLEAR Services Schedule A for commercial subscribers, footer-dated 1 February 2026 and retrieved 25 September 2026. Schedule A states that it “may change upon at least 30 days written or online notice”. Confirm current pricing with the vendor, and with our sales team for Scout Data.
Read the schedule’s own framing before the figures. It says that where a subscriber is “ordering a fixed rate plan, the Monthly Enhanced CLEAR Charges appear on the Order Form and the rates set forth below are pro forma rates that apply to the transactional value of Subscriber’s Enhanced CLEAR usage”. In other words these are list rates used to meter you against a negotiated monthly commitment — not the price you pay per query on a flat plan, and not a menu you can order from without a contract. The same page adds that “any users of Enhanced CLEAR Services must be credentialed prior to accessing.”
The ceiling written into the flat plan
Fixed-rate plans in this product carry a usage ceiling, and it is specific. The Thomson Reuters order form terms state that if “the transactional value of your CLEAR fixed rate usage exceeds your then-current Monthly Charges by more than 10 times in any month (or by 20 times in any month for Enterprise Law Enforcement subscribers), we may limit access to live gateways and request that the parties enter into good faith renegotiation or terminate upon 10 days written notice.” Transactional value is calculated at the Schedule A rates above.
That clause is the most useful sentence in the whole contract for anyone thinking about volume. A flat monthly fee is not unlimited; it is capped at ten times its own value measured in list rates. Batch has its own version — exceed the annual fixed-rate batch allotment and Thomson Reuters may “limit your access to your fixed rate batch subscription for the remainder of the then-current 12 month period, during which time you will continue to be billed your Monthly Charges.”
What a signed CLEAR contract looks like
Two public-sector documents show the shape end to end. A Tulsa County, Oklahoma order form for the Sheriff’s Department, order ID Q-08340123, signed 24 June 2024, lists CLEAR Proflex at $2,068.41 in monthly charges on a 12-month minimum term, against a bundle whose detail page shows 300 seats of CLEAR for Law Enforcement Plus and six seats of CLEAR Criminal Justice Arrest Gateway PRO. It renews automatically in 12-month terms, with at least 60 days’ notice of a price change and 30 days’ written notice to cancel. An attachment to a Jefferson County, Texas commissioners’ court agenda for 14 December 2021 prices CLEAR Government Investigations Advanced at $129.50 per month for a single user across a 36-month agreement, with a stated 3% annual increase to $133.38 and $137.38.
Both figures come from contract documents published by the counties themselves, dated as shown. They are public-sector agreements for law enforcement and government packages, they are one and four years old respectively, and a commercial buyer should expect neither the same tiers nor the same prices. They are quoted here because they are the only CLEAR prices in public, not because they predict a quote.
Credentialing comes before price, and it includes a visit
Thomson Reuters gates CLEAR access twice over, and both gates are documented. The product page states that “access to these tools is limited to authorized, vetted professionals”. The order form adds that because of “the regulated or private nature of some data in our information products such as credit header data, motor vehicle data, driver license data and voter registration data, you may need to complete a credentialing process which will include certifying what your legally permissible use of the data will be.”
The Account Validation and Certification form attached to the Tulsa County order makes that concrete. An applicant selects a permissible use under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act — options such as complying with a legal requirement, effecting a transaction the consumer requested, supporting an authorised investigation, preventing fraud, or use by a law enforcement agency — and, separately, under the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act. Neither list contains anything resembling outbound sales prospecting; the closest DPPA entry is worded for debt recovery. The form then states that the information “will be reviewed by our internal credentialing team and, if required, an onsite inspection will be conducted by Thomson Reuters authorized third party”, lasting “approximately 30 minutes”, during which the inspector “will take a few photos of the premises, internal and external”. Law enforcement and federal and state government agencies are exempt from the inspection. A commercial call center is not.
That is the real answer to “how much does CLEAR cost” for a home-services floor: the first cost is a credentialing process that a marketing use case is unlikely to clear, and the timeline is measured in weeks. The same access-before-price sequence, at the neighbouring platforms, is in Accurint pricing and idiCORE pricing.
What the Schedule A rate becomes on a real file
Suppose the credentialing went your way and you were metered at list rates. A public-record Phone Search is $2.65, so ten thousand lookups is $26,500 before anyone dials — and that is the price of the submissions, not of the reachable people. Apply a resolution rate to get the figure that matters. On 18,309 single-family Texas parcels Scout Data measured on 18 August 2026, 79.7% yielded the owner named on title and 54.6% yielded that owner with a live mobile. At that yield, $2.65 a search is $4.85 per contact you can actually ring.
Then apply the connect rate, because that is what turns contacts into conversations. Across 74,913 first dials on three 25,000-record homeowner files a Bay Area solar floor ran between 31 August and 18 September 2026, 4.55% of dials reached an agent on the first pass. Cost per dialable contact is the number that survives all the way to cost per appointment, and it is the only one worth carrying into a vendor comparison. The skip tracing cost calculator does the division, and homeowner data cost per record keeps the resolution rate in the denominator where it belongs.
Where Scout Data fits
Scout Data is not an investigation platform and does not compete with CLEAR on its own ground: for fraud, risk and investigative work inside a vetted institution, a per-search meter on restricted data is the right instrument. Scout Data answers the other question — which homeowners to call, and how to reach them, at list volume. List Builder builds audiences from live property signals and ships them with phones matched by name to the owner on title, scrubbed against the federal do-not-call registry before delivery, with dead numbers replaced. Because it carries no permissible-use gated data it is sold without a credentialing review, an onsite inspection or a twelve-month minimum, and it is priced per record rather than per search. The same graph is available per record through the API. The argument for which product a floor should actually buy is in Thomson Reuters CLEAR alternatives.
Match and connect figures are Scout Data’s own, each quoted with its sample and window and listed on our benchmarks page. CLEAR rates, contract terms and credentialing language are quotations from Thomson Reuters’ published pricing page, its CLEAR Services Schedule A dated 1 February 2026, and order-form documents published by Tulsa County, Oklahoma and Jefferson County, Texas, all retrieved 25 September 2026.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Thomson Reuters CLEAR cost?
Thomson Reuters prints no dollar figure on the CLEAR plans and pricing page — every tier reads “Price varies by plan features” — but it does publish a per-search rate schedule in its contract documents. The CLEAR Services Schedule A for commercial subscribers, footer-dated 1 February 2026 and retrieved 25 September 2026, lists a Person Search at $5.25 per search, a Phone Search against public-record phones at $2.65 per search, a Contact Report at $10.50 and a Person Report at $15.75. Those are the pro forma rates used to meter usage; the monthly charge on a fixed-rate plan is negotiated separately.
Is there a minimum contract for CLEAR?
Yes. The CLEAR plans and pricing page states: “Our minimum contract term is one year, although longer contracts are offered”, read 25 September 2026. A signed Thomson Reuters order form published by Tulsa County, Oklahoma and dated 24 June 2024 shows the mechanics: a 12-month minimum term, automatic renewal in 12-month terms, at least 60 days’ notice of any change in monthly charges, and 30 days’ written notice to cancel a renewal.
Can I buy CLEAR for a solar or roofing call center?
Not on the strength of a credit card, and probably not at all for bulk marketing. Thomson Reuters states that “access to these tools is limited to authorized, vetted professionals”, and its Account Validation and Certification form requires an applicant to select a permissible use under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act — lists on which outbound sales prospecting does not appear. The same form states that a commercial applicant is subject to an onsite inspection by a Thomson Reuters authorised third party, waived only for law enforcement and government agencies.
What do government agencies actually pay for CLEAR?
Public procurement records are the one place CLEAR prices appear in public. An attachment to a Jefferson County, Texas commissioners’ court agenda for 14 December 2021 lists CLEAR Government Investigations Advanced at $129.50 per month for one user in year one of a 36-month agreement, rising 3% a year to $133.38 and $137.38. A Tulsa County, Oklahoma order form dated 24 June 2024 lists CLEAR Proflex at $2,068.41 in monthly charges against a bundle that includes 300 seats of CLEAR for Law Enforcement Plus. Both are public-sector agreements and neither is a commercial rate card.