Homedata API Pricing and Explore Credits: What You Buy (2026)

The current token allowances

The published plan table lists Free at 100 tokens per month, Starter at £49 for 4,500, Growth at £149 for 18,000, Pro at £349 for 70,000 and Scale at £699 for 250,000. It says plans reach the same endpoint catalogue, with different allowances and rate limits. Those figures were checked on 5 September 2026. A token allowance should not automatically be described as the same number of completed property reports: the cost of a workflow depends on the endpoints and their weights.

Explore credits are a different budget

The same pricing page explicitly separates API tokens from Explore reveal credits and currently lists both event and address reveals at £0.20. This supersedes an earlier description of a £1 address reveal. A reveal unlocks specified data in the Explore workflow; it does not create a human-reviewed buyer report. Before estimating cost, decide whether you need listing-event discovery, the identified address, or a series of API calls. Check whether a plan includes credits, how top-ups work and whether unused allowances carry forward.

Building a report includes more than fetching records

An API can provide valuable inputs without supplying the interpretation, layout, delivery and follow-up of a finished service. A developer evaluating Homedata should review the endpoint documentation, licensing, error responses, rate limits and the reliability required by their own application. This comparison does not test endpoint accuracy or promise that a particular licence permits every downstream use. If your goal is one buying decision rather than an application, a finished report may avoid work that an API deliberately leaves to its customer.

Data access and missing coverage

The public Homedata pricing FAQ identifies its current geographic scope and explains weighted endpoints. Read those limits against your intended properties. A catalogue-wide access promise is not a guarantee that every property has an EPC, a sale record or every risk layer. The same principle applies to our reports: a missing source is a gap, not a favourable finding. For consumer alternatives with an actual one-off report price, see MyPropertyScan, HomeBuyerCheck and Property Passport.

What a HouseCheckup report can establish

HouseCheckup combines the available official-source risk maps, property records and area context for a chosen address. A person reviews the report before it is emailed. A score using 6 factors is shown where sufficient data is available; missing checks are identified. Sold-price records are context, not a valuation. Planning designations are not a complete planning-application history. Ground and radon bands describe mapped areas rather than measurements of the building. Neither a postcode match nor a reassuring score proves that a property has no defects.

Our current purchase options are Lite £9.99 and Complete £24.99, paid once. We do not promise an automated valuation, title register, owner names, a contaminated-land liability opinion or a CON29M search. A physical survey and the legal searches requested by a solicitor serve different purposes. Check the illustrative sample and current offer and delivery terms before ordering.

Make the comparison on the same basis

Use the exact product name when checking a quote. A consumer report, recurring research account, professional data platform and formal environmental search are different purchases. Confirm the address, geographic coverage, records included and the date of any source before relying on a result. A feature absent from a public checklist is not proof that the provider cannot supply it. This page reports what we could verify publicly; it does not award a numerical quality score or reproduce unverified customer allegations.

For the broader buying decision, see our report comparison guide and the self-published HouseCheckup review. If you need something our report does not supply, use the relevant official service or professional rather than interpreting a lower price as equivalent coverage.