Alternatives
A Searchland alternative for developer teams
Searchland is a strong site-sourcing product for property teams. PlanWire is the lighter API-first option when you need planning applications, decisions, source links and webhooks inside your own product.
Developers use PlanWire when they need live planning data without maintaining council-source integrations, with UPRN where available for property-dataset joins.
Why people look for a Searchland alternative
Searchland is built around site sourcing, ownership, title reports, mapping and property-professional workflows. Its published Standard plan starts from £195 per licence per month when paid annually, with a 12-month minimum term. That can be the right fit for land teams, but it is often more product than an API buyer needs.
PlanWire is narrower and more direct: a documented planning applications API, instant key, free sandbox, public pricing, source links, decision outcomes, spatial search and signed webhook delivery.
PlanWire compared with Searchland
| PlanWire | Searchland | |
|---|---|---|
| Best fit | Products, CRMs, alert systems and data workflows | Property teams sourcing and assessing sites |
| Getting access | Instant self-serve key | Get-started form and sales-led plans |
| Free evaluation | Free sandbox, 25 calls/day | No public free API sandbox advertised |
| Published entry price | £49/month + VAT Developer; £199/month + VAT Production | Standard from £195/month when paid annually |
| Planning API docs | Public REST docs and OpenAPI | Public docs and MCP messaging |
| Webhooks | HMAC-signed webhooks for production workflows | Not positioned as the main Standard-plan workflow |
| Coverage | 375 monitored source records across 382 official UK LPAs, 18.3M applications | UK planning and site-sourcing datasets |
Searchland pricing note checked against its public pricing page on 31 August 2026.
Which one you should pick
Choose Searchland if your team wants a full site-sourcing workspace with title reports, land and property layers, and a map-first workflow for acquisitions.
Choose PlanWire if you are building your own product, alert workflow, CRM enrichment or data pipeline and want planning records as normalized JSON with source links and webhooks.
Try the API before buying anything
A free PlanWire key takes about thirty seconds and needs no card. If the API shape suits you, Developer is £49/month + VAT and Production is £199/month + VAT.
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