Understanding Your Usage Limits

Deal Run tracks two types of usage against your subscription plan: deals per month and investors per deal. Skip tracing is free on every plan -- there are no per-trace fees, no credit packs, and no separate skip trace limits. Understanding exactly what counts against your limits, when they reset, and how to make the most of your allocation helps you get maximum value from your subscription. This guide covers every detail of how usage tracking works.

Plan overview

Deal Run offers four active tiers:

• Free -- $0, no credit card required. You can browse sample deals on the marketplace, but you cannot create deals or search for investors. This tier is designed for exploring the platform before committing.
• Trial -- 14 days, credit card required. You get 1 deal and up to 100 investors for that deal. This is enough to test the full workflow end-to-end on a real property before choosing a paid plan.
• Pro -- $99/mo. 15 deals per month and up to 250 investors per deal. Built for solo wholesalers working one or two markets.
• Pro+ -- $199/mo. 50 deals per month and up to 500 investors per deal. Built for active wholesalers or small teams covering multiple markets.
• Teams -- Coming soon. Join the waitlist on the pricing page to be notified when team plans are available.

What is metered

Deal Run meters two things that consume external API resources:

• Deals per month -- each new deal you create counts toward your monthly allocation
• Investors per deal -- each deal search returns up to your plan's investor cap

Skip tracing is free on every plan. There are no per-trace costs, no credit packs, and no separate monthly skip trace limits. The only natural cap on tracing is your investors-per-deal limit -- you can trace every investor your search returns at no additional cost.

Everything else in Deal Run is also unmetered. You can run unlimited comp analyses, build unlimited marketing pages, manage an unlimited buyer list, and export unlimited CSV files regardless of which plan you are on. The comp analysis system, deal tracking board, marketing page builder, and buyer list CRM do not count against any limits.

What counts as a deal

A deal is consumed each time you create a new deal in Deal Run. Each deal represents a property you are marketing for disposition. Creating the deal itself counts against your monthly limit -- once the deal exists, everything you do with it (searching for investors, skip tracing, building a marketing page, sending blasts) is included.

Here is what does count against your deals-per-month limit:

• Creating a new deal for a property address

Here is what does not count against any limit:

• Viewing or editing an existing deal
• Running investor searches on a deal you already created
• Filtering or sorting search results on the client side (e.g., toggling between landlords and flippers, sorting by Investor Score, filtering by price range)
• Viewing an investor's profile or portfolio details from your search results
• Switching between map view and list view
• Exporting search results to CSV
• Adding investors from search results to your buyer list
• Skip tracing investors from your results (free on every plan)
• Running comp analyses, building marketing pages, or managing your buyer list

Limits by plan

Skip tracing -- free, no separate limit

Skip tracing is included free on every Deal Run plan. When you click "Skip Trace" on an investor in your search results or buyer list, Deal Run queries a skip tracing service to retrieve their phone number(s), email address(es), and associated name. There are no per-trace fees, no credit packs to purchase, and no separate skip trace limit. The only natural cap is your investors-per-deal limit -- you can trace every investor your search returns.

Deal Run also automatically verifies the contact information it finds. On the Pro plan, email addresses are verified for deliverability. On Pro+ plans, both email and phone numbers are verified, including mobile/landline detection and DNC/TCPA screening.

The cache effect

Once you trace an investor, their contact information is stored in your account permanently. If that same investor appears in a future search for a different property, their phone number and email will already be populated -- no additional lookup needed.

Over time, this cache effect becomes increasingly powerful. After six months of using Deal Run, you may have 1,000+ investors already traced in your database. When you run a search in a market you have been active in, a significant percentage of the returned investors may already have cached contact information.

Monthly reset date

Your deals-per-month limit resets on your subscription anniversary date, not the first of the month. If you subscribed on March 15th, your limit resets on the 15th of every month.

You can see your exact reset date on your Account page under the Subscription section. It is displayed as "Resets on [date]" next to your usage bar.

Usage dashboard

Your current usage is always visible on your Account page in the Usage section. You will see:

• Deals: A progress bar showing deals created vs. your monthly limit (e.g., "8 of 15 deals used" on Pro, or "23 of 50 deals used" on Pro+).
• Reset date: The date when your monthly allocation resets.
• Billing period: The start and end dates of your current billing cycle.

You can also see a quick usage summary from any page by checking the sidebar (desktop) or the Account tab (mobile), which shows a compact version of your remaining deals.

Warning notifications

Deal Run notifies you as you approach your deals-per-month limit so you are never caught off guard:

• 80% threshold: When you have used 80% of your monthly deals, you will see a yellow warning badge on the Account tab and a banner when creating a new deal. The banner tells you exactly how many deals you have remaining.
• 100% threshold: When you have used your entire monthly allocation, the warning badge turns red. The new deal page displays a clear message explaining that you have reached your limit for the current billing period, with an option to upgrade your plan for more capacity.

These notifications appear in-app only -- we do not send email notifications for usage warnings, because most users check their dashboard regularly enough to stay aware of their consumption.

What happens when you hit your limit

Deal limit reached

When you have used all of your monthly deals, you can no longer create new deals. You will see a message explaining that your deal limit has been reached for the current billing period.

However, you can still:

• Work on deals you have already created (search for investors, run comps, build marketing pages)
• View results from searches you have already run
• Filter, sort, and explore existing search results
• Skip trace investors from existing results (free, always available)
• Add investors to your buyer list from existing results
• Export existing results to CSV
• Use every other feature in Deal Run (comps, repairs, marketing pages, blasting, etc.)

Your options when you hit the deal limit are to wait for your monthly reset, or to upgrade to a higher plan (upgrades are instant and prorated).

Tips for managing your usage efficiently

• Be specific with your searches. Narrowing your search radius (e.g., 2 miles instead of 5 miles) returns more relevant investors. Since investor searches are unlimited within each deal, you can experiment with different filters without worrying about consuming additional usage.
• Trace liberally. Skip tracing is free on every plan, so there is no reason to be conservative with traces. Trace every promising investor from your results -- the cost is built into your subscription.
• Let the cache work for you. If you work in the same markets repeatedly, many investors will already be in your trace cache from previous searches. Their contact information will auto-populate in future search results.
• Use your buyer list. Once you have traced and contacted an investor, add them to your buyer list with tags for their market, property preferences, and budget. Next time you have a deal in that market, check your buyer list first -- you may already have matching buyers without needing to run a new deal search.

If you consistently find yourself hitting your deal limit before your reset date, that is a signal to upgrade your plan. An upgrade is prorated and takes effect immediately, so you do not have to wait until your next billing cycle to get more capacity.