Clear packages. Real outcomes. No surprises.
Every plan spells out who it's for, how many seats it covers, the case-load it's sized for, and what your team actually gets — not just a feature list.
You're paying for a seat — one named investigator — not per credit and not per case. Add seats as your team grows.
Each seat ships with a yearly credit pool for OCR, transcription, and AI runs. 1 credit ≈ 1 minute of processing — top up anytime.
Storage, search, tagging, sharing, and court-ready discovery exports are unlimited on every plan. Credits only burn when AI/ingest runs.
One price for the year, billed annually by invoice or card. Need more processing? Buy extra credits anytime — they never expire.
Try it free. No card required.
For investigators and small legal teams.
For agencies and prosecutor offices.
Runs on your own hardware. One-time setup from $50,000.
Everything Lantern offers, every plan, on one page.
First line is credits — your runtime budget for ingestion and AI reports. Every row below is a feature you either get, or don't, at that tier. No fine print, no "call us" features.
| Feature | Free | Professional | Enterprise | Enterprise On-Prem |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plan basics | ||||
Included credits per year (runtime for AI + ingest) | 5 credits one-time on signup | 100 / user / yr · buy more anytime | 300 / user / yr · buy more anytime | Unlimited · runs on your hardware |
Best for | Trying Lantern on a single file or case | Solo investigators, small legal teams, pilots | Agencies, DA offices, fusion centers | Federal, defense, IC programs |
Named seats | 1 user | 1–10 users | 10–250 users (volume disc. >50) | Unlimited |
Case / page volume | 1 case · 5 credits | ~25 cases · ~5M pages / mo | ~250 cases · ~50M pages / mo | Unlimited — scales with hardware |
Deployment | Instant access | Same-day access | Dedicated tenant in 5 business days | On-prem in 30–60 days |
Support SLA | Community docs + help center | Email · next business day | Priority · 4-hr response · named CS | 24/7 · 1-hr critical · on-site option |
Training | Self-serve onboarding library | Self-serve + 1 live kickoff | Quarterly live + role certifications | Annual on-site + admin certification |
Contract | No contract, no card | Annual plan, one price for the year | Annual plan, one price for the year | Annual + one-time deployment fee |
| Investigation capabilities | ||||
AI Investigation Assistant (ask, summarize, recommend next steps) | — | |||
Natural-language search across all ingested evidence | — | |||
OCR & document processing — PDFs, scans, faxes, handwriting | — | |||
Audio & video transcription with speaker separation | — | |||
Entity extraction — people, places, phones, accounts, vehicles | — | |||
Relationship mapping & link analysis | — | |||
Auto-generated case timelines | — | |||
AI case summaries & next-step recommendations | — | |||
Warrant return parsing & normalization | — | |||
Social-media & provider data ingestion | — | |||
| Cases & collaboration | ||||
Unlimited cases | — | |||
Tagging, bookmarks & shared case notes | ||||
Court-ready exports (PDF / CSV / discovery packets) | ||||
Team administration | — | — | ||
Advanced analytics & workload dashboards | — | — | ||
Cross-case search & multi-team pooling | — | — | ||
| Security, identity & governance | ||||
Encrypted at rest & in transit (AES-256, TLS 1.3) | ||||
Standard cloud hosting in US data centers | — | |||
SSO — Okta, Entra ID, Google Workspace | — | Add-on | ||
Role-Based Access Control + custom permission sets | — | — | ||
Full audit logs (every search, export, access) | — | — | ||
Customer-managed encryption keys (BYOK) | — | — | ||
CJIS, FedRAMP & SOC 2 — coming soon | — | — | ||
Legal hold, retention & chain-of-custody enforcement | — | — | ||
Dedicated single-tenant environment | — | — | ||
On-prem deployment | — | — | — | |
Active Directory / LDAP / PIV-CAC integration | — | — | — | |
STIG alignment & hardware sizing assistance | — | — | — | |
| Integration & success | ||||
REST & GraphQL API access for systems of record | — | — | ||
Pre-built connectors (RMS, CMS, eDiscovery) | — | — | ||
Customer Success contact | Self-serve | Shared queue | Named CS contact | Dedicated CSM |
Field-engineer-led deployment | — | — | — | |
Hours of human work, replaced by minutes of compute.
You're not renting an idle server. You're paying for the heavy lifting — ingesting evidence, running OCR, transcribing audio, extracting entities, building timelines, and generating AI reports. When you're not processing, you're not burning credits.
One credit is a unit of compute time used to ingest a file, run OCR, transcribe audio, extract entities, or generate an AI report. No processing = no credits spent.
Heavy work is metered against the actual page count, audio minutes, or record count — so a 50-page case costs ~50× less to process than a 2,500-page case.
Searching, viewing, reviewing, tagging, sharing, and exporting court-ready packets never consume credits. Only the AI/ingestion runtime does.
Real per-unit cost of the work Lantern does for you.
| Task | Credit cost | What that means |
|---|---|---|
| OCR a scanned document page | ~1 credit / 200 pages | fully indexed, searchable, with entity tags |
| Transcribe recorded audio or video | ~1 credit / minute of media | with speaker separation and timestamps |
| Extract entities from a document | ~1 credit / 500 entities | people, accounts, phones, vehicles, locations |
| Build a timeline from a record set | ~3 credits / 1,000 records | cached for the case, instant re-runs |
| Generate an AI case summary | ~1 credit / long-form report | narrative, key findings & recommended next steps |
| Ask the Investigation Assistant a question | Included — sub-credit metering | grounded in your case evidence, with citations |
| Reconcile a warrant / provider return | ~8 credits / return | normalized & merged into the entity graph |
| Export a court-ready discovery packet | Free | exports never consume credits |
Common case workloads translated into paralegal/analyst hours versus Lantern processing.
- Review 1M pages of discovery (OCR + entity extraction)~1,200 paralegal hours @ $65/hr ≈ $78,000Fully indexed & searchable, overnight~5,000 credits · ~1 credit per 200 pages
- Transcribe 200 hours of recorded interviews~800 hours typed by hand ≈ $40,000Speaker-separated transcripts, same day~12,000 credits · ~1 credit per minute of audio
- Rebuild a full case timeline from 50k records~3 weeks for a 2-analyst pod ≈ $24,000Overnight run, with recommended next steps~150 credits · ~3 credits per 1k records
- Reconcile 10 warrant returns into one entity graph~2 weeks of senior analyst time ≈ $12,000Hours, with AI-suggested leads~80 credits · ~8 credits per return
- Run the AI Investigation Assistant for a weekNot feasible — it's net-new capabilityAsk anything across the full case file~35 credits · sub-credit per question
Pay only for the heavy lifting.
Every plan includes a yearly pool of processing credits, and you can buy more anytime. 1 credit = 1 minute of AI processing — used only when Lantern is actively ingesting evidence or running AI.
One credit covers roughly one minute of AI processing across OCR, transcription, embeddings, entity extraction, and LLM synthesis.
- Metered transparently per job in your account
- Search, viewing & case work never consume credits
- Included credits last the full plan year; purchased credits never expire
Shared across your team. Admins can view burn-down, set per-team caps, and alert thresholds.
- OCR & document processing~1 credit / 200 pages
- Audio & video transcription~1 credit / minute of media
- Entity extraction & enrichment~1 credit / 500 entities
- Vector indexing & embeddings~1 credit / 10k chunks
- Timeline & relationship synthesis~1 credit / case rebuild
- LLM summaries & deep analysis~1 credit / long-form report
Burst capacity, on demand.
Big production drop? Trial coming up? Buy additional credit packs anytime from the billing page. Volume tiers earn lower per-credit pricing and never expire while your subscription is active.
Cover a single rush job or trial-week burst.
Buy packThe standard pack for an active investigation.
Buy packSustain a multi-case unit through a quarter.
Buy packDeploy across an entire bureau or task force.
Buy packCustom enterprise top-ups (10k+ credits) and committed annual pools available — contact sales.
Reduce investigation review time from weeks to hours.
- Analyst manually opens 12,000 PDFs
- Names cross-referenced in spreadsheets
- Timeline assembled by hand
- 6–8 weeks to brief prosecutor
- Evidence ingested & indexed overnight
- Entities resolved automatically
- Timeline generated on demand
- Hours to brief prosecutor
Common questions from procurement and security teams.
Transform evidence into intelligence.
Search, analyze, summarize, and connect evidence with AI-powered investigative workflows — deployed where your data already lives.