The 2026 market range
Across the consultants who publish their pricing, a single-family residential Title 24 compliance report runs about $165 to $325 for a home under 3,000 ft². ADUs typically come in slightly cheaper (about $235–$275). Anything labeled "rush" — typically defined as 24 to 48 hours — adds about $95 on the slower end of the market and is usually not available without a phone call to confirm capacity.
Most consultants quote off the plans rather than publish a flat rate, so the effective price you'll pay is harder to predict than the headline range suggests — bedroom count, square footage, climate zone, and scope all shift the final number.
What actually drives the price
The cost of running a Title 24 compliance analysis varies less than the market range suggests. Most of the spread comes from operational overhead, not technical work:
- Plan-extraction time
- How long the consultant has to spend reading your PDF and re-typing the inputs into compliance software. The biggest single line item in a manual workflow.
- Quote-and-revision overhead
- Email back-and-forth, scope clarifications, change requests. Compounds when the consultant requires a phone intake before they'll start.
- Software + registry fees
- The state-approved CHEERS registry charges a per-CF1R fee that any consultant has to pay through to the homeowner.
- Designer-signature coordination
- Routing the CF1R to the responsible designer for signature, chasing reminders, and re-issuing if the signature email gets lost.
- Plan-check correction support
- If the AHJ kicks back the CF1R with corrections, who handles the response — and what they charge per round.
Why our price is flat $200
Our flow is automated end-to-end:
- Plan extraction is run by an LLM the moment your PDF lands, not by a consultant the next business day.
- Pricing is published — you see $200 at checkout, every project, regardless of scope or square footage.
- Checkout is online via Stripe — no quote call, no email loop, no PDF signature on a proposal.
- CHEERS registration and designer-signature routing are included in the $200.
- Plan-check correction support is included — if the AHJ returns Title 24 comments, the plan-check response flow is built into the project dashboard at no additional charge for the correction analysis.
What about turnaround?
Most California consultants quote 1–5 business days standard, with "rush" 24-hour options at a $95 add-on (so the effective rush price runs $260–$340). Our 24-hour turnaround is the standard, and it's measured in calendar hours, not business days — uploads on Friday afternoon are documentation-ready by Saturday afternoon, no add-on, no phone call required.
Final delivery depends on how quickly the responsible designer signs the CF1R that CHEERS emails to them — that part's between CHEERS and your designer regardless of who runs the analysis.
What's included in the $200
- Signed CF1R (Certificate of Compliance — Residential), permit-ready PDF.
- Three compliance design options to choose from — Prescriptive, 2x4 Performance, 2x6 Enhanced.
- Required PV sizing per the state's prescriptive table when your scope triggers it — newly-constructed dwellings and detached ADUs get a kW value on the CF1R; additions, alterations, and attached ADUs are exempt under §150.2(a) and the CF1R reflects that.
- Climate-zone resolution from your project ZIP.
- CHEERS registration of the CF1R.
- Designer-signature routing (we email your responsible designer through CHEERS).
- Plan-check correction analysis if your AHJ returns Title 24 comments.
Refund policy
All sales are final. The flow is intentionally built so you see exactly what we extracted from your plans before Stripe is involved — upload, classify, sign in, analyze, and confirm the project details. Once payment is captured at checkout the $200 fee is non-refundable. We may grant refunds at our sole discretion in cases of clear billing errors or other exceptional circumstances; see the Terms of Service for the full policy.
Your first project is free through design selection
Project 1 walks all the way to picking a compliance design without paying. You see the three option cards and pick one before Stripe is involved — so you know exactly what you're getting for $200 before you spend anything. From project 2 onward, payment runs at the start of the design selection step.