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Five UK services watch planning applications and get letters to the applicants, and they charge in five different shapes: a monthly block of letters, an access fee with the posting left to you, a year paid up front, a package of credits, and a flat rate that never moves. Each page below takes one of them, says what that shape costs a builder, and prices the same month here. Their figures were read off their own published pricing pages on 9 October 2026 and are linked so you can check; ours come out of the system that bills.

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What a month of 100 letters costs, Just Granted against every service we compareJust GrantedJust Granted: £123£123PlanPostPlanPost: £134.60£134.60BuildAlertBuildAlert: £200£200TradeMailerTradeMailer: £285£285Serac Tech + printSerac Tech + print: £327£327BuildscoutBuildscout: £349£349
What a month of 100 letters costs. Ours is Measured — it comes out of the code that takes the payment. Every other figure is Declared, read off that company's own published pricing page on 9 October 2026. Serac Tech publish an access fee and no print price at all, so their bar is that fee plus the cheapest published rate of a print-and-post service — that addition is our arithmetic and not a price they quote.
  • Looking for a PlanPost alternative? PlanPost and Just Granted charge within a few pounds of each other at most volumes. What differs is the bundle: theirs sizes your month in advance and ours does not.
  • Looking for a Serac Tech alternative? Serac Tech's cheapest published plan is £239 a month and it does not include printing or posting anything. Here is what a month of letters costs on each service, and what each one leaves you to do yourself.
  • Looking for a TradeMailer alternative? TradeMailer's smallest published package is 40 letters for £120. This page prices the same month when you pay for the letters you actually send.
  • Looking for a Buildscout alternative? Buildscout's plans are billed for a year up front unless you are an FMB or FCA member, and the cheapest year is £2,998 plus VAT. This page prices a month of letters on each. Not in search — Their price was last read 56 days ago
  • Looking for a BuildAlert alternative? Every BuildAlert tier works out at exactly £2.00 a letter, whichever one you are on. This page prices the same letters here, where sending more changes what one costs.

The rules we wrote these to

Comparing your prices with a named competitor's is lawful in the United Kingdom and it is regulated. The comparison has to be between products meeting the same need, it has to be objective and verifiable, it must not mislead, and it must not denigrate anybody. So:

  • Only services that print and post the letters for you get a page. Buying a list and posting the letters yourself is a different product, priced differently, and that route is set out in what planning leads cost, where it belongs.
  • Every competitor figure is taken at whichever of their tiers is cheapest at that volume, which is the reading most favourable to them and is what a competent buyer would do anyway.
  • Every page says what the other service does well, in the terms of their own published pages, and says what the comparison leaves out.
  • Every price is dated and linked. A competitor's price is true of their page on the day we read it, and no longer than that.
  • Where we think something is true of a competitor and cannot show you where to check it, we ask the question instead of making the claim. Terms, notice periods and what their software lets you change yourself are the usual cases, and they are worth asking about before you sign anything.

If you find a figure here that is out of date or wrong, tell us and we will fix it. We would rather be corrected than be inaccurate about somebody else's business.

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