Pricing
No subscription. You pay for the work a run actually does, from a balance you top up when you choose. A month with no runs costs nothing.
Prior-art search
Free
Describe an invention, paste a patent number or drop a document. The search runs over our own database of 5,423,561 US and European publications, reads the strongest references end to end and ranks them on what each one was measured to disclose. No account needed.
Account
$35 to start
Registration is free and every new account starts with $35 of credit. Your searches are kept, you can star reports, be emailed when a long run finishes, and start the paid work below.
Third-party build
about $10 to $24
A claim-by-claim attack on a published application: it derives queries from the claims, reads at least 50 references in full, charts what each discloses against each claim with a quotation behind every cell, and builds the papers for a USPTO third-party submission (37 CFR 1.290) or EPO third-party observations (Art. 115 EPC). Priced by what it reads: about $0.33 per reference, plus the papers. The exact figure is on the report the moment it lands.
Reading more, outside sources
by what they use
Reading further references in full from a finished search, or asking the outside patent databases (Google Patents, the EPO, the USPTO, PQAI) alongside our own, is charged the same way, and shown on the run before you start it.
Credit
- Top up from $10 by card; credit does not expire.
- Turn on automatic top-up and a card on file refills the balance when it runs out, by the amount you choose.
- Every run is itemised on your balance page: tokens, model, metered calls, what it cost and what was charged.
- Granted credit has no cash value; credit you paid for is refundable while unspent.
Official fees at the patent offices are yours to pay when you file; IPtorch files nothing for you.