What Hail Tracking Software Actually Costs in 2026 (Every Published Price)

Pricing in this category is a mess, and not by accident.

Two vendors publish clear numbers. One publishes nothing at all. One prices by the report rather than the month. One sells territory by the state and then sells you contact data separately. Comparing them requires converting four different pricing models into the same unit, which is exactly as tedious as it sounds and is the reason most roofers end up buying whatever the guy at the trade show was selling.

So here is every number the vendors put on their own sites, checked in August 2026, with the sources linked. We sell one of these products. Everything below about a competitor is their published figure, not our estimate, and where a company does not publish we say so instead of guessing.

The short answer

That table hides the thing that actually decides your bill, so read the next section before you use it.

The four pricing models, and why they are not comparable

1. Territory pricing. You buy a geographic scope — one state, three states, the country — and get unlimited use inside it. Interactive Hail Maps invented this shape in roofing and it is the one we adopted. It is the most honest model for a canvassing business, because it prices the thing that actually varies between a local roofer and a storm chaser.

2. Report pricing. You buy credits for per-property hail reports. HailStrike's tiers are built this way: the maps are unlimited and the reports are the budget. HailTrace's only published prices are also per-report — $40, $150, $1,000 depending on how much human work goes into it. This model suits adjusters and litigation support far better than it suits a crew knocking doors.

3. Seat pricing. Per user, per month. Nobody in hail mapping prices purely this way, which is fortunate, because storm work scales violently — you hire six canvassers for three weeks and then you do not. Watch for it as a component of a quote, though.

4. Quote-only. No published number. HailTrace's entire paid range works like this.

The trap is comparing a per-year territory price against a per-month report price against a quote. $999 a year sounds enormous next to $79 a month until you divide it out ($83 a month), and $149 a month sounds cheap next to $1,999 a year until you multiply it up ($1,788 a year). Convert everything to the same unit before you form an opinion.

Every published price, vendor by vendor

Interactive Hail Maps (Hail Recon) — $999 to $1,999 a year

The clearest published pricing in the category. Their pricing page lists:

• $999/yr — single state
• $1,499/yr — three states
• $1,999/yr — nationwide

Payable up front or split into monthly payments. Hail Recon, the mobile app, comes with the subscription rather than costing extra.

The add-on that moves the number: bulk homeowner contact data is a separate $799 a year per state. If you want the map and the contact list for two states, you are at $999 plus $1,598, not $999.

What you get for it: history back to January 2011, frame-by-frame radar replay back to June 2015, meteorologist-analyzed radar, and knock tracking in the app. That archive is the deepest published in the category and it is a real product.

HailStrike — $149 or $249 a month

Priced by report allowance rather than territory:

• Premium Plus+, $149/mo — unlimited hail maps, 1 full OneSite report, 5 free subusers
• Ultimate, $249/mo — unlimited maps, 4 full reports, 10 lite reports a day, 300 monitored addresses, claim management
• Litigation, $2,500/yr — 480 full reports, 1,200 lite reports, 480 basic reports

Storm search runs back to 2011 across all tiers.

The thing to notice: the maps are unlimited at every rung and the reports are what you are actually buying. If you do not pull per-property reports, you are paying for a budget you will not spend. If you pull them constantly — adjusting work, restoration, litigation support — this is the most direct pricing in the category.

HailTrace — not published

Their plans page lists four tiers (Free, Maps Only, Maps & Data, Enterprise) and every paid one is a contact-us or request-a-demo button. There is no subscription figure anywhere on the site.

What they do publish is per-report:

• $40 — weather history report
• $150 — meteorologist-reviewed report
• $1,000 — meteorologist-certified forensic report

That last one is not overpriced. A certified forensic report is written to be defensible under cross-examination, and no automated radar product substitutes for one. If you are in litigation, buy it.

A warning about the internet. Several roofing blogs quote a specific HailTrace monthly price. That number appears nowhere on HailTrace's own site, and we have never been able to source it. Do not budget from it, and be careful about the rest of an article that publishes it.

RadarScope — $9.99, plus optional Pro tiers

The app is a $9.99 one-time purchase. Pro Tier One is $9.99 a year; Pro Tier Two is $14.99 a month or $99.99 a year and adds longer radar loops, lightning and forecast models.

It is the best value in weather software and it is not a hail canvassing tool. It shows you raw NEXRAD radar in real time. It will not hand a canvasser a swath polygon, search history by address, or remember which doors got knocked. Buy it alongside something, never instead of something.

HailMate — $79 to $499 a month

Ours, priced by territory, published, month-to-month:

• Starter, $79/mo — one whole state, 1 user, 3 years of hail history
• Crew, $149/mo — three states, up to 3 users, full archive, texting and calling
• Team, $299/mo — nationwide, up to 10 users, supplements, measurements, QuickBooks
• Company, $499/mo — nationwide, unlimited users

Prepaying a year is ten months' price rather than twelve. The difference from everything above it on this page is that the CRM is inside the subscription rather than beside it — jobs, estimates, e-signature, claims, supplements and invoicing are not a second vendor. Full detail on the hail maps themselves.

The cost nobody puts on the pricing page

Here is the line item that dwarfs everything above, and no map vendor will mention it: a hail map stops at the door.

A swath tells your rep which street to work. Then somebody says yes, and the map has nothing further to offer. The contingency agreement, the photos, the claim, the adjuster meeting, the supplement, the invoice and the final check all live somewhere else — which means a second subscription, a second login, and a human retyping the storm date from one system into the other.

That gap costs money in three ways, in ascending order of expense:

The second bill. A roofing CRM is its own subscription, and for most storm crews it is larger than the map. Whatever you are quoted for hail data, the honest total is that number plus your CRM. We compare the main options in the roofing CRM comparison.

The retyped date. A wrong date of loss is one of the more common reasons a legitimate claim comes back denied or partially paid. Every handoff between two systems is a chance to introduce one.

The evidence that never arrives. The swath that proved the storm is the strongest thing you have when a carrier disputes causation — and in a two-system setup it sits in a map app the adjuster never sees. Your supplement letter cites nothing.

What to actually budget

Three worked examples, using only published figures. Every competitor number here is annualized from their own pricing page.

An owner-operator working one state. Interactive Hail Maps is $999/yr for the map alone. HailStrike's entry rung is $1,788/yr. HailMate Starter is $588/yr with the CRM included. In all three cases, add your CRM subscription to the first two and not to the third.

A three-person crew working three states. Interactive Hail Maps is $1,499/yr for the maps — genuinely cheaper than our $1,788/yr Crew plan on maps alone. Once you add the CRM that IHM does not sell at any price, the comparison inverts. This is the honest shape of the trade: if you already have a CRM you love and only want maps, a dedicated map vendor may well be cheaper.

A ten-person storm team chasing nationwide. Interactive Hail Maps nationwide is $1,999/yr, plus $799/yr per state if you want contact data, plus a CRM with ten seats. HailMate Team is $3,588/yr all in. Which is cheaper depends entirely on what your CRM costs per seat, which is the calculation the map vendors would rather you did not run.

What moves a quote-only number

If you are going into a sales call without a published price to anchor against, it helps to know which levers the quote actually sits on. In this category there are five, and they are broadly the same everywhere:

Coverage area. The biggest one by far. One state, a region, or nationwide is the primary axis every vendor prices on, whether or not they say so. Know exactly which states you work before the call, and do not buy the country because you might chase a storm to Kansas one day.

Seats. Ask what a seat costs and whether there is a distinction between a full user and a view-only or subuser account. HailStrike, for example, publishes five free subusers on its tiers. A vendor that charges full freight per canvasser is a very different bill in a busy August.

Contract length. Annual commitments are normal here and are often where the discount lives. They are also where the regret lives if the season is quiet. If a monthly option exists, find out what it costs before you accept the annual.

Report volume. If any part of the product is per-property reports, your usage is the price. Estimate honestly — most roofers overestimate how many they will pull, and then pay for a Litigation tier they use like a Premium one.

Who you are. Franchise networks, manufacturer programs and large dealers frequently have negotiated rates. HailStrike publishes a CertainTeed-specific page, for instance. If you belong to a program, ask before you take the retail quote.

The single most useful thing you can do on a quote-only call is ask for the total first-year invoice, in writing, including every add-on and every seat you expect to need in your busiest month. Not the tier price. Vendors answer that question honestly when it is asked plainly, and it is the only number that compares to anything.

Is any of it worth it? Run the arithmetic yourself

We are not going to tell you how many jobs a hail map produces, because nobody honestly can — it depends on your market, your crew, your close rate and how many other trucks are parked on the same street. Anyone quoting you a leads-per-month figure is guessing.

What you can do is run the break-even, which is simple arithmetic and takes a minute.

Take your average gross profit on a single roof. Divide the annual cost of the subscription by that number. That is how many extra jobs the tool has to produce in a year to pay for itself.

For a $588-a-year subscription and a typical storm-restoration margin, that break-even is usually a fraction of one job. For a $1,999-a-year map plus a $799 contact-data add-on plus a CRM, it is meaningfully more than one. Neither number tells you whether the tool works. Both tell you how much has to go right before it stops being a cost.

Then ask the second question, which matters more: what does the tool replace? A map that lets you cancel a separate canvassing app, or a CRM, or a photo tool, is not really costing you its sticker price. A map that adds a subscription to a stack you are already paying for is costing you all of it and then some. That is the whole reason the total-cost-of-ownership line above matters more than the monthly figure.

Seven questions to ask before you sign anything

Particularly on a quote-only call, where the number you hear is the number they think you will pay.

1. What is the total annual cost including every add-on? Not the tier price. The invoice.
2. Is contact data, report credits, or storm alerting extra? In at least two of these products, at least one of those is.
3. How many seats, and what does the next one cost? Ask this before a storm, not during one.
4. Is it month-to-month or an annual commitment? An annual contract signed in a dry year is a long year.
5. What happens to my data if I leave? Especially the canvassing pins.
6. How deep is the archive, and do I actually need that depth? Fifteen years is compelling in a demo and irrelevant for canvassing this season. Be honest with yourself.
7. What is the second subscription this requires? If the answer is "it integrates with JobNimbus," you have just learned the real price.

The short version

Hail data itself is not expensive to produce — it is public NOAA radar, and every vendor in this article is processing the same national feed. What you are paying for is territory, archive depth, human review, report credits, and whether anything happens after the knock.

Sorted by what you are actually buying:

• Cheapest way to see a storm: RadarScope, ten dollars, and it will not run your season.
• Cheapest real canvassing map: the entry rungs — $79/mo here, $999/yr for a state from Interactive Hail Maps.
• Best archive: Interactive Hail Maps, back to 2011.
• Best for per-property reports: HailStrike, priced explicitly on them.
• Best for court: HailTrace's certified forensic report at $1,000, and it is worth it when you need it.
• Cheapest total cost of ownership: whichever option does not require a second subscription behind it.

If you want the full side-by-side rather than just the money, we wrote an honest comparison of all five. If you want to understand what you are paying for before you compare prices, start with how to read a hail map and how accurate hail maps actually are.

And if you just need to know whether hail hit one address, the hail tracker does that for nothing, with no account and no card. That part genuinely is free, and it always will be.