Statute Scope vs BillTrack50
BillTrack50 is a bill and regulation tracking service with a free search tier and paid tracking priced by state, with unlimited users on paid plans. Statute Scope sends you an alert and a brief built from the text as soon as an hour after a matching bill or proposed federal rule is filed, and on Bureau and Desk our staff write up the week's most important matches.
From $150 a month · your whole team, no per-seat fees · cancel any time
Side by side
| Feature | Statute Scope | BillTrack50 |
|---|---|---|
| What an alert gives you | A one-page brief, bottom line first: what the bill is and where it stands, how it works, which of your concerns it touches, who it could affect and who to contact. Built by our own rules from the text, not AI, so the same bill always gives the same brief | "Daily email alerts", with "AI-powered summaries & tracking tools" |
| How fast | As soon as an hour after we detect a filing, and within four hours, around the clock | "Daily email alerts"; no timing commitment published on the pages we read |
| Coverage | All 50 state legislatures, the DC Council, Congress and proposed federal rules on regulations.gov | Legislation in each state and Congress, and state and federal regulations, each bought separately |
| Price | Published: Watch $150, Bureau $200 and Desk $325 and Agency (unlimited criteria) $650 a month, or ten times that a year; 14 days free by card | Published: legislation "$1,000 per State or Congress" or "$5,000 All States and Congress" a year ($84 or $420 a month); regulations priced the same again |
| Who can use it | One subscription covers everyone on your work email domain; no per-seat fees | "Unlimited users", inside or outside your organization |
| AI | No AI writes your briefs or summaries: each brief is built by fixed rules from the bill's own text, so it can be audited, and staff summaries, an add-on on any plan, are written by people (on any plan, $125 a month for each summary a month, 1 to 5) | "AI-powered summaries & tracking tools" on paid plans; "AI-powered research tools" on the free tier |
| Contract | Monthly or yearly; cancel any time | A full year, paid yearly or monthly; "it isn't possible to subscribe for just a few months" |
| Nonprofit pricing | Nonprofit and solidarity rates | "We don't offer special pricing for certain organizations" |
| Free trial | 14 days by card, with a staff summary each week, one per email domain | "30-day free trial of all our paid products. No credit card required." |
Where BillTrack50 is stronger
- A longer trial with no card, and a free search tier.
- Unlimited users, including people outside your organization, plus scorecards, embeddable tools and custom reports.
- Lower prices if you follow one or two states: $1,000 a year each.
Which to choose
Choose BillTrack50 if
you want to search and track bills yourself, share them with outside partners, or publish scorecards and widgets on your own site.
Choose Statute Scope if
you want to be told within hours, not the next day, with a brief built from the text, monthly summaries written by people if you add them, and your discount as a nonprofit or trans-led group.
Sources
Checked October 24, 2026. What we say about BillTrack50 comes from its own public pages; where it doesn't publish something, we say so. Spotted something out of date? Email us and we'll correct it.