PlanTrack is a planning-alert service that tracks 300+ council portals and follows named applications through every status change, from £29/mo plus £5 per council or £149/mo for national coverage, after a 1-week trial. SiteLens does a related but different job: it classifies every new UK application by trade, project type and estimated value band, with a free-forever tier and a flat £39/mo (£29/mo billed annually) for unlimited views. This page helps you pick the right one. PlanTrack is in pre-launch at the time of writing, so treat the prices below as its advertised launch pricing.
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SiteLens has a free-forever tier with no card required and unlimited application views across all 380+ live councils, then Pro is £39/mo, or £29/mo billed annually, for the contacts, more alerts and analytics. PlanTrack offers a 1-week trial (with 3 councils) and then bills £29/mo plus £5 for every council you add, or £149/mo for national coverage, so monitoring 20 councils on PlanTrack is £129/mo before you reach the unlimited tier.
SiteLens reads every new application and tags it by trade, project type and an estimated value band, then writes a plain-English project brief so you can triage leads in seconds. PlanTrack lets you filter alerts by keyword, development type, trade and application scale, and its PlanScan companion analyses drawings and schedules, but it does not assign an estimated project value band or write a brief for every application.
SiteLens sends a daily email filtered to your trade and patch, with map-based search and a saved-leads pipeline, across every council by default at no extra cost. PlanTrack sends instant, daily or weekly alerts by email, dashboard or push for the specific councils you pay for, which is excellent granular tracking but scales in price as your coverage grows.
Feature-for-feature, based on publicly available information.
| Feature | SiteLens | PlanTrack |
|---|---|---|
| Core function | Classify and surface every new planning application as a lead | Monitor chosen councils and track named applications through their lifecycle |
| Built for | Subcontractors, material suppliers, specialist trades and small developers | Builders, developers, architects, tradespeople and property investors monitoring planning activity |
| Public, transparent pricing | ||
| Free forever tier | Yes, £0 with no card | No, 1-week trial only (3 councils) |
| Starting price | £0, then £39/mo (£29/mo billed annually) | £29/mo + £5 per council, or £149/mo unlimited (VAT not stated) |
| Per-council metering | No, all 380+ councils included on every paid plan | Yes, £5 per council until the £149/mo unlimited tier |
| Track a named application through its lifecycle | Watch + decision/status alerts | Yes, paste a reference and follow every status change |
| AI classification by trade and project type | No (keyword and trade filters only) | |
| Plain-English search (natural language) | ||
| Estimated project value band | ||
| Plain-English project brief per application | ||
| Daily email alerts filtered to your trade and area | Yes (instant, daily or weekly, per council you pay for) | |
| Map-based search | No (council-portal-linked records) | |
| Contract terms | Monthly or annual, cancel anytime | Month-to-month, no exit fees |
Some teams will run both. SiteLens is the discovery and triage layer: it classifies every new application by trade, project type and value band so you spot the work worth chasing across all 380+ councils. PlanTrack is then the tracking layer for the handful of councils or specific applications you care about most, following each one through committee, conditions and decision with instant push alerts and shared office dashboards. SiteLens finds the lead, and PlanTrack watches it to completion.
PlanTrack is £29/mo base plus £5 per council you monitor, or £149/mo for unlimited national coverage of all 300+ councils. It includes unlimited users and projects, with a 1-week free trial (3 councils included) and month-to-month billing with no exit fees. PlanScan AI subscribers get a reduced £19/mo base. Prices are from plantrack.uk. PlanTrack is in pre-launch at the time of writing and its page does not state whether prices include VAT.
PlanTrack monitors the councils you choose and tracks named applications through their lifecycle, priced per council. SiteLens classifies every new UK application by trade, project type and estimated value band with a plain-English brief, across all 380+ councils on one flat plan. PlanTrack is for tracking, and SiteLens is for finding and triaging leads.
Yes. SiteLens has a free-forever tier at £0 with no card required, and it already gives unlimited application views. Pro is £39/mo, or £29/mo billed annually, and adds the contacts behind each scheme, more alerts and analytics. PlanTrack offers a 1-week trial rather than a permanent free tier.
SiteLens watches status changes on the applications you save, with decision and status alerts and a competitor watch, so you hear when a scheme is approved, refused or withdrawn. PlanTrack goes deeper on per-application tracking: paste in a reference and it follows the whole lifecycle through every committee hearing, document upload and decision notice, with a dashboard the whole office can share at one price and no per-seat fees. If that committee-level detail on named applications is your job, PlanTrack is purpose-built for it.
PlanTrack is also the better fit if you only need a few councils and value its PlanScan AI companion for drawing analysis, schedule extraction and measurement on the documents it picks up. For a tight geographic patch, £29/mo plus a couple of councils is cheap, and the per-council model means you pay only for the areas you actually work in.
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