Daily Contractor Leads vs Construction Monitor

Both start from public building permit records. Construction Monitor sells permit data broadly. Daily Contractor Leads sends a local contractor only the permits that mean work for their trade, in their ZIP codes. Here is the honest difference.

	Daily Contractor Leads	Construction Monitor
What you get	The new building permits that mean work for your trade, in your ZIP codes, in one email every morning.	Building permit data and construction leads, sold by market and by permit type (residential, commercial, solar, pools).
Coverage	Miami-Dade County and the City of Miami.	3,000+ jurisdictions in all 50 states, including a Miami market.
Price	$99/month. First list free.	Per market and permit type: $31 to $1,281 a month, or $62 to $1,250 a month for all permits in one market. Their team has also quoted $187 a month or $1,495 a year for smaller regions.
How it arrives	One email every morning, filtered to your trade and ZIP codes.	Daily data updates, weekly editions, a search tool, and API or FTP access.
Built for	Local contractors who want the job before competitors know it exists.	Suppliers, subcontractors, general contractors, lenders and market researchers.

Construction Monitor is the better pick when

You sell into many markets or states.

You want commercial projects or 30+ years of permit history.

You want permit data piped into your CRM by API or FTP.

Daily Contractor Leads is the better pick when

You work in Miami-Dade and want only the jobs for your trade.

You want leads in your inbox, not a database to search.

You want the address, owner, permit value and lot size on every lead.

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Sources, read 2026-11-07: Construction Monitor: single family permit data; Shovels: Shovels vs. Construction Monitor (prices as of Sept 2026; Shovels is a competitor); Interview with Kim Lamas of Construction Monitor. Prices change; check Construction Monitor's site for today's numbers.