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  • Sign in to services and tools with your MuckRock account
  • Join and create organizations to collaborate with others
  • Create and file public records requests with MuckRock Requests
  • Search documents and create projects with DocumentCloud

Subscribe to a Premium plan for advanced features and discounts

Premium for professionals

  • Includes 20 requests per month on MuckRock
  • Embargo requests for up to 30 days after completion
  • Search your private notes on DocumentCloud
  • Includes 2,000 AI Credits per month on DocumentCloud for advanced OCR and premium Add-Ons

Premium for organizations

  • Share resources with unlimited members
  • Includes 50 requests per month on MuckRock
  • Permanently embargo requests
  • Includes 5,000 AI Credits per month on DocumentCloud for advanced OCR and premium Add-Ons

Multiply your newsroom’s investigative impact with a Sunlight Research Desk Membership

Through generous philanthropic support, non-profit newsrooms receive subsidized pricing. Standard pricing reflects our full cost of service.

Essential

Ideal for small to medium local newsrooms with big goals.

  • 50 hours of research team time for your projects
  • One investigative training session of your choice, delivered to your team on your schedule
  • Monthly workshops and investigative office hours
  • Real-time research support from Sunlight experts
  • Premium MuckRock account, including 50 free public records requests each month and credits for DocumentCloud AI tools
  • Investigative consult call with Sunlight researchers for real-time collaboration

Enhanced

Ideal for medium to large teams tackling ambitious projects.

  • 100 hours of research team time for your projects
  • One investigative training session of your choice, delivered to your team on your schedule
  • Monthly workshops and investigative office hours
  • Real-time research support from Sunlight experts
  • Premium MuckRock account, including 50 free public records requests each month and credits for DocumentCloud AI tools
  • Two investigative consult calls with Sunlight researchers for real-time collaboration

Enterprise

Ideal for large newsrooms, collaboratives, complex, long-term project assistance, tailored investigative training needs.

  • Our Sunlight research experts will work with your organization to develop a plan that best supports your investigative and accountability reporting goals.

Verified newsrooms, journalists, researchers and educators have access to additional reporting and publishing tools

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    • Upload to DocumentCloud
    • Publish and embed documents