Landlord Atlas Data License
There are two ways to hold the dataset. A state sample is free: one
state's full record from the current release, by request,
for testing and prototyping under the evaluation terms in the first section. A
commercial license delivers all 50 states and every release as it is
published (currently 1.60.0) for production use, under the
commercial licenses and prices in the second.
Evaluation terms
Version 1.2, September 29, 2026 · applies to dataset release 1.60.0 and later, until replaced by a newer license version. (Version 1.2 names the state sample as the evaluation copy; the permissions and conditions are unchanged from version 1.1.)
These terms govern every evaluation copy of the Landlord Atlas dataset: the
state sample, any larger evaluation copy we send you on
request, and the public manifest, changelog and schema files under /data/.
The license is granted by
Landlord Atlas LLC, a Michigan limited liability company ("Landlord
Atlas," "we," "us"). The statutes themselves are public law and
belong to no one; what this license covers is Landlord Atlas's original work: the selection,
field structure, summaries, verification dates, notes, and compilation. This is a
proprietary license, not an open or copyleft one, so that we can stand behind the data's
freshness and accuracy in ways open-licensed corpora cannot.
What you may do, free of charge (evaluation use)
- Evaluate. Use the copy to assess the dataset: load it, query it, test it against your own sources, and prototype integrations with your product or internal tools.
- Build proof-of-concept integrations. Wire the data into development, staging, or demo environments, including demos to your own team or prospective users.
- Quote and cite. Reproduce individual figures and summaries in analyses, articles, or product mockups, with attribution as below.
Conditions
- Attribution. Name Landlord Atlas and link to
landlordatlas.com(or the specific page a fact appears on) wherever the data is displayed. - Citations and dates travel with the data. Anywhere the data is shown to
an end user — including through an AI assistant or agent — present it as legal
information with its statute citations and verification dates intact, never as
legal advice or a recommendation to act. Keep the
_metablock (or an equivalent notice) with any record you pass downstream. - No warranty framing. Do not describe products built on this data as offering "guaranteed compliance" or equivalent.
What requires a commercial license
- Production use — serving the data, or answers derived from it, to customers or the public in a live product or service.
- Redistribution — republishing the dataset (or a substantial portion of it) as a dataset, API, file download, or competing data product, whether or not modified.
- Ongoing updates at scale — the change-alert feed and versioned update service for production systems.
Commercial licenses and prices
Two commercial tiers cover production use. Both include every release published during the term and the machine-readable changelog, and both carry the same information-not-advice posture and the same citation and date conditions as the evaluation terms.
| State sample | Production license | Custom license | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | $3,600 per year | From $7,500 per year |
| For | Anyone testing the data | One organization using the data in its own websites, products and internal tools | Organizations that need delivery built to their stack, their own vendor agreement, or reduced attribution |
| Data | One state's full record from the current release | All 50 states, the local rent-regulation records and the metro lookup; every release as it is published, from the licensed feed, with your license key | The same, delivered the way you specify (an API or MCP endpoint, a custom feed shape) |
| Use | Evaluate, prototype, quote and cite | Show the data and answers derived from it to your customers and the public, including through AI features, with citations and verified dates intact | The same, under your paper if you need it |
| Attribution | Landlord Atlas named and linked where the data appears | The same | Reduced attribution available |
| Support | None promised | Email, one business day | A named contact; a review of your existing state-law pages against the dataset at onboarding |
| Billing | Invoice, 12 months, full refund within 30 days of a first purchase | Invoice, net 30, ACH | |
| How to start | Request a sample | Email to order | Request a quote |
Production license
One organization may show the data, and answers derived from it, to its customers and the public on its own websites and in its own products, including through AI features, with statute citations and verified dates intact. $3,600 for 12 months, paid by invoice. A first purchase can be refunded in full within 30 days. The Commercial License Terms govern the purchase.
To order, email [email protected] with your organization's name and a billing contact. We reply with the invoice within one business day; your license key follows payment and unlocks the licensed feed.
Custom license
From $7,500 a year for organizations that need delivery built to their stack (an API or MCP endpoint, a custom feed shape), their own vendor agreement and security review, reduced attribution, or a review of their existing state-law pages against the dataset at onboarding. Email [email protected] with what you publish and how you want the data delivered; a written proposal follows within two business days.
What every tier excludes
Redistributing the dataset as a dataset, reselling it, serving it to third parties as an API, or building a competing data product from it.
Disclaimers
Landlord Atlas is not a law firm. The dataset provides general information about state landlord-tenant statutes for informational purposes only. It is not legal advice and is not a substitute for the advice of an attorney. Use of the data does not create an attorney-client relationship. The dataset is provided "as is," without warranty of any kind — express or implied, including accuracy, completeness, timeliness, merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose. Laws change between verification passes; every record carries the date it was last verified, and you are responsible for confirming against the cited statutes before relying on any figure. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Landlord Atlas is not liable for any damages arising from evaluation use of the dataset. The production license carries its own warranty and liability terms.
Termination and changes
We may update these terms with a new license version; the version that applied when you received a given copy of the dataset keeps governing that copy, including copies of the free export downloaded before it was withdrawn on September 29, 2026. We may end evaluation access for use that breaches these terms. Nothing here limits fair use or other rights you hold at law.
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