# Plans and data access

> One shared explanation of what free and paid accounts receive.

## Free is one release cycle behind

A free account is useful by design. Continuous sources are delayed by seven days, while quarterly sources expose the previous complete reporting period and earlier. Paid organizations receive current data and deep analytics under **$500/month beta pricing**.

These rows come from the same source-class catalog used by the query layer. A gated tool call returns visible data plus a short explanation; it is not treated as an authentication failure.

Free accounts can keep up to **25 active follows** with daily or weekly delivery. In comment analytics, current overview aggregates can include comments whose underlying text is still inside the seven-day free delay; gated responses label that freshness difference explicitly.

| Data | Free | Paid |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Comments and press releases — Continuously updated public comments and agency announcements. | Available after a 7-day delay | Current data |
| Legislative events — Bill milestones, votes, hearings, and committee or roster changes. | Available after a 7-day delay | Current data |
| Legislative public records — Bill actions, roll calls, rosters, terms, and sponsored bills. | Included | Included |
| Federal award events — New and materially updated USAspending contract and assistance events. | Available after a 7-day delay | Current data |
| Federal award history — Historical award records attached to organizations. | Included | Included |
| Lobbying disclosures — LDA filings, activities, clients, and registrants. | Previous complete reporting period and earlier | Includes the latest reporting period |
| Political giving — FEC committee totals and quarterly employer rollups. | Previous complete reporting period and earlier | Includes the latest reporting period |
| Federal grants — Current and forecasted federal grant opportunities. | Not included | Included |
| Deep comment analytics — Campaigns, issues, position maps, and filtered corpus analysis. | Current overview aggregates; underlying comments after a 7-day delay | Full analysis |

> **The tool registry controls availability**
>
> This matrix describes access policy. The generated [tool reference](https://www.governmentcontext.com/docs/tools) lists the data types that are actually registered today. New data waves appear in the docs when M4 adds them to the registry.

MCP endpoint: https://mcp.governmentcontext.com

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Source: https://www.governmentcontext.com/docs/plans
Every Government Context docs page is available as Markdown: add `.md` to its URL.
Index of the docs, the guides, and every MCP tool: https://www.governmentcontext.com/llms.txt