Constructionline alternative

Constructionline Marketplace is £599 a year. SiteLens starts free, then £39 a month.

Constructionline: Marketplace alone is £599 a year. Compliance memberships, which include Marketplace, are priced by turnover band: Bronze on the lowest band is £399 a year (£349 if you already hold a valid SSIP), plus a £99 one-off joining fee. Its terms say fees exclude VAT, renew yearly and are non-refundable.
SiteLens: £39 a month, or £29 a month billed annually, with no contract and a free plan to start. A full year of Pro paid monthly, £468, costs less than Marketplace alone.

Checked 21 October 2026.

Every new application across 380+ UK councils, sorted by the trades it needs, with Companies House checks on the firms you want to chase and public tenders near each site. Built for subcontractors and suppliers who want planning leads without an annual membership.

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Which should you choose?

Choose SiteLens if you are a subcontractor or supplier who wants new planning applications in your area sorted by your trade, with Companies House checks on the firms you want to chase and public tenders near each site: free to start, then £39 a month, or £29 a month billed annually, with no annual term.

Choose Constructionline if buyers ask you to be pre-qualified, or you want to price work packages that main contractors post to its Marketplace, on an annual membership.

What SiteLens does better

Sorted by your trade

22 works tags, from groundworks to renewables, mark the trades each planning application needs, so a cladding contractor’s alert holds cladding work. Search in plain English and save it as a daily or weekly alert.

Who is behind it, checked

Companies House numbers are matched to applicants, agents and contractors on every plan. Pro names the firms, opens their directors and accounts, and adds the agent’s published email and phone, the named project team and 15 contact lookups a month.

Size up a scheme first

Estimated value bands that name their basis, 24 constraint flags, EPC ratings and public tenders within 10 km of the site, on every plan. You can judge a scheme before you pick up the phone.

SiteLens vs Constructionline Marketplace, feature by feature

Each Constructionline entry comes from its own website unless the cell says otherwise. Checked 21 October 2026.

Feature	SiteLens	Constructionline
Price	£39/mo, or £29/mo billed annually	Marketplace alone £599 a year; compliance tiers £349 to £8,749 a year by turnover band, plus a £99 to £499 joining fee, ex VAT
Try before you pay	Free plan with no time limit, plus 7 days of Pro, no card	Free Associate membership, without Marketplace; a demo on request
Contract	Monthly or annual, no minimum term, cancel any time	12 months, renewing yearly unless you give 30 days’ written notice; fees non-refundable
Sign-up	Self-serve, under 2 minutes	Online sign-up, invoiced yearly; or book a demo
Users	Pro for one; Team for up to 5 at £99/mo, or £79/mo billed annually	Extra users can be added to an account
Planning applications	Every new application across 380+ UK councils, collected every night	Planning Leads from 400+ UK planning authorities
Work packages from main contractors	No. SiteLens is built from public records	Direct Tenders and Early Access from more than 230 main contractors, plus researcher-verified private projects
Tenders and contract awards	Near each site and in alerts, plus public contracts ending in the next 12 months	Tenders from Contracts Finder, Find a Tender and TED, exclusive private tenders and verified contract awards
Automatic classification	Project type, stage, building type and a plain-English brief	18 project categories in Market Intelligence
Trade tags	22 works tags, from groundworks to renewables	CPV codes and work categories; searches now map to CPV codes
Project values	Estimated value bands, each naming its basis	Filter by project value
Contact details	Agent’s published email and phone, the named project team and 15 lookups a month (Pro)	Main contractors, estimators, project managers and developers, on exclusive leads and in Market Intelligence
Company data	One page per firm: its applications, decision record and who it works with (Pro)	A competitor analysis feature in Market Intelligence
Companies House match	Yes, on every plan (directors, accounts and charges on Pro)	Not mentioned on its Marketplace pages
Alerts on new applications	Daily or weekly email by trade, area and keyword; hourly on Team	Daily or weekly email alerts on saved searches, with several sources in one
Decision alerts	On every plan, including free	Not mentioned on its Marketplace pages
Maps and site data	Map search; 24 planning constraint flags, six drawn on the map; EPC and a street-level imagery link; history at the address on Pro	A map view, and radius search from 10 to 100 miles
Pipeline and exports	Built-in leads pipeline; CSV with HubSpot and Salesforce columns (Pro)	Track: manage responses and project status, with deadline reminders
Market analytics	Approval rates, decision times and volumes by council (Pro)	Industry performance benchmarks in Market Intelligence
Pre-qualification and accreditation	No. SiteLens does not pre-qualify or accredit suppliers	Bronze to Platinum, with SSIP included; the Common Assessment Standard at Gold and Platinum
Profile seen by buyers	No. SiteLens does not list you to buyers	A searchable profile, seen by what it calls tens of thousands of buyers

See your own patch before you decide.

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When you should still pick Constructionline

If buyers ask for pre-qualification, Constructionline is built for it. Its paid tiers include an SSIP, Gold meets the Common Assessment Standard and adds Building Safety Act assessments, and it says tens of thousands of buyers use it to find suppliers. Its Marketplace adds work packages posted by more than 230 main contractors, private projects its researchers verify with contractor and estimator contacts, Marketplace Live events, and planning leads from 400+ authorities, all on one board.

If what you want is the planning work in your patch, sorted by your trade, with Companies House checks on the firms behind it and public tenders near each site, you do not need an annual membership for it. That is SiteLens Pro at £39 a month, or £29 a month billed annually, with no contract.

Sorted by trade, that means the redevelopments and replacement dwellings in your patch for a demolition contractor, and the portal frames and industrial units for a steel fabricator.

Can you use both?

Yes. Constructionline keeps you pre-qualified and in front of buyers, with tenders and posted work packages. SiteLens adds planning applications sorted by your trade, with Companies House checks on the firms you want to chase, so you can reach a developer or main contractor on a scheme in your patch before it reaches a tender board.

Frequently asked

How much does Constructionline cost?

Marketplace on its own is £599 a year. Compliance memberships include Marketplace and are priced by turnover band: Bronze on the lowest band is £399 a year, or £349 if you already hold a valid SSIP, plus a £99 one-off joining fee. Prices exclude VAT, and memberships renew yearly unless you give 30 days’ written notice.

Is SiteLens a Constructionline alternative?

For finding work, yes. SiteLens covers new planning applications across 380+ UK councils, sorted by your trade, with public tenders near each site and Companies House checks on the firms. It does not pre-qualify you, so if a buyer needs that, you still need Constructionline or a scheme like it.

What is the difference between Constructionline Marketplace and SiteLens?

Marketplace brings public tenders, planning leads and work packages posted by main contractors into one board, filtered by location, value, CPV code and work category. SiteLens tags each new planning application with the trades it needs and maps it with 24 constraint flags, with Companies House checks on firms and your matches emailed each morning.

Does Constructionline have a free option?

Its Associate membership is free, as a try-before-you-buy, but Associates must upgrade to a paid plan to use Marketplace. SiteLens has a free plan with no time limit and no card, with unlimited searches and application views, and a 7-day Pro trial you start yourself.

See it before you pay a penny.

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