Every plan includes the full code, spec, and amendment library. Add unlimited Code AI with Advisor. Start with a free 14-day trial.
or $33/mo billed annually — save $72/yr
The produced library: permit fee tables without a meter, assemblies in full, diagram tooling, calculators and exports.
Try Free for 14 DaysIncludes:
or $49/mo billed annually — save $120/yr
Everything in Reference, plus unlimited Code AI with citations, cross-state compare, and projects.
Try Free for 14 DaysEverything in Reference, plus:
Teams: from $69/seat — contact us. Shared projects, admin roles and per-seat billing.
30-day money-back guarantee — if it is not doing the job, email us in the first 30 days and we refund it.
Not ready? A free account reads every DOT specification, opens 3 permit fee schedules a month, and gets a cited Code AI answer every day.
UpCodes’ $39 plan includes 3 AI questions. Ever.
Our free account includes a cited answer every day.
From their published pricing page, checked 27 August 2026. Full comparison →
Every Code AI answer cites the verified section it came from, with a verification date — don’t trust a percentage, click the citation. Our benchmark, questions published first →
| Feature | Free account | Reference | Advisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| State DOT specification text (49 states) | Full | Full | Full |
| Permit headline answer + provenance | |||
| Permit fee tables | 3 schedules/month | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Code AI | 1 cited answer/day | 5 cited answers/day | Unlimited |
| Assemblies — verified summaries | |||
| Assemblies — layers, alternates, cross-refs, export | |||
| Guide diagrams | |||
| Diagram tooling, annotation and export | |||
| Code Library (9,494 sections) | Read | Full | Full |
| Calculators | Metered | Unlimited + export | Unlimited + export |
| Revision and amendment alerts | |||
| Cross-state DOT compare | |||
| Projects and checklists | View only | Partial | Full |
| Project document Q&A | |||
| Export (PDF/CSV) | |||
| Support | — | Email priority |
Model Code (ICC) is our deepest coverage: 5,202 searchable sections across the IBC, IRC, NEC, IECC and more as adopted, out of 9,494 sections in total. Every state has an adopted-codes guide, and we are expanding full section text state by state. All 50 state DOT spec libraries are included; full-text specification search currently covers 50 of those states.
All paid plans include a free 14-day trial with no credit card required. You get full access to all plan features during the trial period.
Yes. You can cancel your subscription at any time from your account settings. Your access continues through the end of your billing period.
Prices are shown monthly by default because that is what most people pay. Annual billing takes Reference from $39/mo to $33/mo — $72 less a year — and Advisor from $59/mo to $49/mo, $120 less a year. Annual means a 12-month term.
Yes. Code AI questions are private by default and are never used to train models — ours or anyone else's. We store your questions so you can find your answers again and so the daily allowance can be counted; we do not sell them, and we never share them with the manufacturers whose products appear elsewhere on the site.
30-day money-back guarantee. Email support@buildspec.codes within 30 days of paying and we refund it — no form, no retention call. Cancelling is one page in your account. It asks you one question about why — that answer goes to the person who builds this — and depending on your answer it may show you one cheaper plan, which one click declines.
Team plans are per seat, from $69/seat. You choose the seat count at checkout, the per-seat total is shown before you confirm, and the team owner invites and removes members from the account dashboard. Contact us and we will set it up.
Every AI answer runs a retrieval pass over the corpus plus a large-model call, which has a real per-question cost. Pricing it into Advisor keeps Reference affordable for people who only want the produced library, and keeps unlimited answers sustainable for the people who use them all day. Reference includes 5 cited answers a day, and a free account includes one a day — every day, not three for the life of the account.
Every answer cites the verified section it came from, with a verification date — don't trust a percentage, click the citation. We are running a 45-question benchmark graded by an independent licensed professional, with the questions pre-registered and the full transcripts published, misses included. Until it is graded we are not publishing an accuracy number, because a number nobody measured is worth less than a citation you can open.
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Try Free for 14 DaysThe 14-day trial runs on a free account and takes no card. Paid plans are billed in advance through Stripe and are charged when you complete checkout — a paid plan does not start with an additional free period.
30-day money-back guarantee. Email support@buildspec.codes within 30 days of a payment and we refund it in full. There is no form and no retention call — at most one optional plan option on the way out, and one click past it. Switching plans does not shorten or reset the 30 days.
After 30 days you can still cancel at any time from your account. Cancelling stops future renewals and your access continues to the end of the billing period you have already paid for; we do not automatically prorate a partial period beyond the guarantee window.
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