01 · Product name
CLEAR
Thomson Reuters' contracted public-records workspace for investigations.
Published by Thomson Reuters.
In short
CLEAR is Thomson Reuters' public-records investigation workspace. The pricing page opened on 16 Oct 2026 lists law-enforcement, government, and corporate plans and says the price varies by features. It does not print a dollar amount. The minimum contract on that page is one year, with enterprise access or a per-investigator price, plus add-ons that cost extra. Thomson Reuters says it is not a consumer reporting agency and that the file is not an FCRA consumer report. A hit is a lead, not an identification.
Product pricing strategy
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Premium
Quote the CLEAR plans page, not a memory of a seat price. On 16 Oct 2026 every named plan said the price varies by features. No dollar figure was printed. Enterprise pricing is unfettered access for a department. Per-investigator pricing is for a smaller unit. The page says the minimum contract is one year and that some add-ons cost extra. Ask Thomson Reuters for the quote, and keep the plan name with the date.
Utility and features
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The CLEAR product page describes one workspace for public and proprietary records, used for law-enforcement investigations, government work, child-support location, and corporate due diligence. The pricing page splits the offer. Law enforcement can buy CLEAR for Law Enforcement or Law Enforcement Plus. Government plans are Investigations Basic, Investigations Advanced, and Government Fraud. Corporate plans repeat Basic and Advanced and add Enhanced Due Diligence. Every one of those cards says the price varies by plan features. Extra modules named on the page include real-time incarceration and arrest records, license-plate recognition, alerting, batch search, Risk Inform, and ID Confirm.
- Plans, not a public rate card. Law enforcement, government, and corporate cards all say the price varies. No dollar amount is on the page.
- A one-year minimum. The pricing FAQ says the shortest contract is one year, with longer terms available.
- Not an FCRA consumer report. Thomson Reuters prints that limit on the pricing page and names the decisions the data must not drive.
The same page explains two ways to pay: enterprise access for a department, or per-investigator pricing for a small unit. It says there is a monthly fixed commitment and that the minimum contract is one year. Add-ons can cost more. Sales is the path. The phone number printed on the product page is 888-728-7677. The pricing page also prints the FCRA limit: Thomson Reuters is not a consumer reporting agency, and the data may not be used to decide credit, insurance, employment, government benefits, or housing.
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Read the plans page and name the card, such as Law Enforcement Plus or Investigations Advanced, before you ask for a quote.
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Ask which add-ons are in the price. The page says some of them cost extra.
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Keep the FCRA limit with any row you export. The pricing page says this is not a consumer report.
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Open the underlying record before you treat a linked person or address as the subject.
Caveats
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A CLEAR address, phone, or associate is a record the vendor linked. The product page talks about entity resolution and confidence scores. A score is not proof that two rows are the same person. Partial data is the problem the page says the product tries to bridge, which is also how a namesake gets into a report.
The pricing page forbids FCRA uses, including credit, insurance, employment, benefits, and housing. Do not brief a CLEAR row as a consumer report. License-plate and incarceration add-ons are separate from the base plan. This listing did not open a CLEAR login, so it does not describe the search form.
Potential use cases
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- Before a budget meeting, open the CLEAR plans page and name the card. The families on that page are Law Enforcement, Law Enforcement Plus, Investigations Basic, Investigations Advanced, Government Fraud, and Enhanced Due Diligence. On 16 Oct 2026 every card said the price varies by features. Put that sentence in the request. Ask whether the quote is enterprise access for a department or a per-investigator price, and which add-on is billed extra.
- An exported address is about to be briefed as the subject's home. Leave it as a linked record. The product page describes entity resolution and a confidence score. That score is Thomson Reuters' ranking of rows it joined, including partial data. Open the filing or document the row points at. If two people share the name, keep both rows and say the link is unresolved.
- A colleague wants the export in a hiring packet or a housing file. The pricing page says Thomson Reuters is not a consumer reporting agency. It names employment, credit, insurance, government benefits, and housing as uses that are out. Refuse the packet and attach the sentence from the plans page. A one-year minimum contract does not lift that limit.
Hard cases
The case where the first result is easy to over-read.
A confidence score is briefed as identity
The product page says the workspace bridges partial records. That is also how a namesake gets into the file. Write the score down as the vendor's number, then list the fields that matched and the fields that did not. If nobody opened the underlying record, say that in the note. Real-time incarceration and license-plate modules are add-ons on the plans page. Do not describe a plate read the quote does not include.
Questions
Is CLEAR free?
No. The plans page says the price varies and that the minimum contract is one year. It does not print a dollar amount or a public free tier.
Can CLEAR be used for a hiring decision?
The pricing page says no. Thomson Reuters says the service is not a consumer report and may not be used for employment, credit, insurance, benefits, or housing.
Citations
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Titled sources. These public pages are what the quotes on this listing come from.
Product
CLEAR product page
https://legal.thomsonreuters.com/en/products/clearPricing
CLEAR plans and pricing
https://legal.thomsonreuters.com/en/products/clear-investigation-software/plans-pricing