DeclassDB Pro
Search live declassified records free — no account, no card. Upgrade to lift the preview caps: full result sets, every source, PDF export, AI Analyze, and the cross-source entity graph.
Preview
A real taste of the live data — no sign-up, no card.
- ✓ Live search: CIA CREST, FBI Vault, State Dept FOIA
- ✓ Local AI via Ollama (unlimited)
- ✓ Full FOIA Guide + Request Builder
- ✓ CSV / JSON export · Offline PWA
- • 5 results per source
- • 10 searches per hour
- ✗ No pagination — top results only
- ✗ No PDF export, AI Analyze, or entity graph
- ✗ No NSA / NARA sources
Pro
For journalists, OSINT practitioners, and weekly researchers.
- ✓ Everything in Preview — no caps
- + Full result sets + pagination (not just the top 5)
- + Unlimited searches — no hourly limit
- + PDF export, AI Analyze & the entity graph
- + NSA Declassification + NARA sources
- + Bulk PDF download queue (25 at a time, 500/day)
- + Unlimited catalog & collections
- + Advanced search filters + saved-search alerts
- + Cloud AI (BYOK — ChatGPT / Claude / Grok) + custom endpoint
- + NAS / LAN storage sync
- + API access (1,000 requests/month)
Researcher
For academics, think tanks, law firms, and investigative teams.
- ✓ Everything in Pro
- + Unlimited downloads (no daily cap, no batch limit)
- + Full-text PDF search across CREST (309,708 documents · 1.05M pages)
- + Citation export — BibTeX & RIS
- + API at 10,000 req/month + webhook notifications for new docs
- + Priority email support
- + Institutional invoicing available
Discounts available
List price is above — but we discount for the right fit. Tell us your use case and we'll work something out:
- Use-case alignment — academic researchers (
.edu), journalists with a masthead affiliation, 501(c)(3) nonprofits, and small newsrooms under a revenue threshold. Verifiable affiliation earns a real discount. - Volume & multi-seat — three or more seats, annual prepay, or a multi-year commitment get standard volume pricing.
- Reference customers — happy to be quoted, do a short case study, or take a reference call? That earns our steepest discount.
Institutional invoicing available. Tell us the tier, your affiliation/use case, and seat count.
How the free Preview works
No account, no card — just open Search and go. The Preview runs the real, live search and shows the top 5 results per source, up to 10 searches an hour (the counter resets each hour). When you’re ready for everything — full result sets, pagination, every source, PDF export, AI Analyze and the entity graph — paste a Pro or Researcher key in the bar above the search box and the caps lift instantly. No reload, nothing stored on our servers.
Compare tiers
| Feature | Preview | Pro | Researcher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agency sources | CIA · FBI · State | + NSA · NARA | + NSA · NARA |
| Results per source | 5 | All | All |
| Searches per hour | 10 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Pagination | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| PDF export | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI Analyze (summaries) | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cross-source entity graph | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cloud AI (bring your own key) | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Downloads per day | 10 | 500 | Unlimited |
| Full-text CREST PDF search | — | — | ✓ |
| Citation export (BibTeX / RIS) | — | — | ✓ |
| API access | — | 1,000 / mo | 10,000 / mo + webhooks |
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Our principles
DeclassDB
FOIA search is fragmented and keyword-only. DeclassDB unifies seven federal archives — CIA CREST, FBI Vault, NSA, State, NARA, DoD, NSArchive — and adds AI semantic search, so you can find what you mean, not just what you typed.
AI semantic search
Find by meaning across 309,708 CREST documents (1.05M pages, full-text). The embedding model runs in your browser — no cloud round-trip. Pro & Researcher.
One query, every agency
Unified, blended, de-duplicated across seven federal sources. CIA / FBI / State always free; NSA / NARA / DoD / NSArchive unlocked on Pro.
Privacy-first by design
Vectors, AI summaries, and entity extraction all run on your device. No cloud, no search logs, no third-party trackers. Air-gappable for federal use.