Planning Pipe alternative

Everything Planning Pipe gives you — plus the map, the AI, and the analytics, for the same price.

SiteLens and Planning Pipe start at roughly the same monthly price. SiteLens is the one with the interactive UK map, AI-classified applications, and council-level analytics included as standard.

Same price, more product

Both platforms start at roughly £29/mo for the daily UK planning feed. SiteLens adds an interactive map, AI classification on every application, and council-level analytics at no extra cost.

Free forever tier

You can sign up to SiteLens, set up a saved search, and receive 20 application views and a weekly alert without ever entering a card. Try before you buy — no trial expiry, no credit card.

Visual-first search

See projects on a map of the UK, filtered by category, value and proximity. Planning Pipe is list-first; SiteLens is map-first — the difference matters when you’re qualifying projects by region.

SiteLens vs Planning Pipe

Feature-for-feature, based on publicly available information.

FeatureSiteLensPlanning Pipe
Starting price£29/mo~£29/mo
Free tier available
Daily UK planning feed
Email alerts
CSV export
Interactive map search
AI classification (every app)
Estimated project value
Category classification
Council-level analytics
Spatial constraint overlays
Self-serve sign-up

When you should still pick Planning Pipe

If you’ve been using Planning Pipe for years, your search workflows are set up the way you like them, and the list-first interface is how your team works — switching has a real cost, and we’re not going to pretend otherwise.

What SiteLens is built on the bet that, for newer subscribers, a map-first view and AI classification make the difference between scrolling through 200 applications a day and knowing which 10 are worth opening. Sign up for the free tier and spend ten minutes comparing the two — we’ll back our corner on that.

See it before you pay a penny.

Free forever tier. No credit card. No sales call.