CertiHomescommutingcost.com
Enterprise

Hex maps and commute data, delivered at the scale you need.

Currently powering CertiHomes and selling stop-level flat files to Attom Data for $15K/yr (resold for $200K to Zillow, Redfin). Now opening the API for direct enterprise customers.

Why we win at the data layer

1,210
US transit agencies (GTFS-normalized)
932,057
H3 hex commute scores nationwide
49,806
EPA vehicle MPG (including EVs)
6,935
Toll facilities with EZPass + cash rates
400,706
Weekly energy price records from EIA
3,183
Parking & park-and-ride locations
Strategic fit

Why Esri, Google, HERE and MapQuest would buy this layer

Every one of them can route a trip. None of them prices the whole trip, from fuel for your car to the parking lot, the toll plaza and the train fare, across every way you could make it. That is the layer we built, and it is expensive to rebuild.

Esri

GIS for government & enterprise
They already own
ArcGIS, Network Analyst service areas, and the demographic layers planners and site-selection teams live in.
The gap
Service areas measure minutes. Fares, tolls, parking and fuel are cost attributes the customer has to source and maintain.
What CommutingCost adds
A ready-made national cost layer: the true dollar cost of reaching any hex by 9 modes, for housing affordability, transit equity and site-selection studies.

Google Maps

Consumer directions
They already own
The default directions app, live traffic, and Places.
The gap
Answers “how long”. The full cost of a commute (your car’s fuel, parking, every mode side by side, per year) is not part of the answer.
What CommutingCost adds
“What this commute costs you per year” next to the ETA, including Park & Ride and Kiss & Ride options that pick the right station.

HERE

Routing for OEMs & fleets
They already own
Routing engines and traffic data inside cars and fleet platforms.
The gap
Leaves cost math to the integrator: fuel by vehicle, parking, and transit fares across modes.
What CommutingCost adds
Vehicle-specific trip cost (gas vs EV) and multimodal alternatives for in-car and fleet total-cost-of-ownership features.

MapQuest

Consumer route planning
They already own
A long-standing route-planner audience built around road trips and driving directions.
The gap
Drive-centric. It does not compare driving against transit, Park & Ride or rideshare on cost.
What CommutingCost adds
A differentiated “cheapest way to get there” answer across every mode, and a relocation / home-search audience that is valuable to advertisers.

How we’re different

Map platforms are time-first: the answer is minutes, and cost is left to whoever integrates the API. We are cost-first: the answer is dollars, already computed, with time alongside.

Read the 2026 market landscape →
  1. 01
    Dollars, not just minutes
    Every route comes back priced: gas from the vehicle’s EPA MPG and weekly EIA prices, tolls by facility, parking by lot, and transit fares by zone.
  2. 02
    Real multimodal combinations
    Park & Ride, Kiss & Ride, Uber & Ride and Bike & Ride, with the station choice exposed and real OpenTripPlanner itineraries behind each leg.
  3. 03
    Precomputed, nationwide
    A national H3 hex grid of commute cost, delivered as a sub-second API or as Parquet/CSV flat files.
  4. 04
    Household view
    Weekly, monthly and annual cost, a family budget, and a home finder that solves for two commuters at once.
  5. 05
    Already in market
    Powering CertiHomes today, with stop-level data already flowing to Zillow and Redfin through Attom.

Why buy instead of build

The routing is the easy part. The moat is the cost data and the plumbing that keeps it current:

  • 1,210 US transit agencies, GTFS-normalized
  • 6,935 toll facilities with E-ZPass and cash rates
  • 49,806 EPA vehicle MPG records, EVs included
  • 400,706 weekly EIA energy price records
  • 3,183 parking and park-and-ride locations
  • 932,057 precomputed H3 hex commute scores

Plus a regional OpenTripPlanner fleet, recompute pipelines, and a buyer already in the data supply chain: our stop-level files reach Zillow and Redfin through Attom.

Drop-in replacement for

TravelTime API
~$30K+/yr
Isochrone + matrix
HERE Isoline API
$$$
Isochrone routing
Mapbox Isochrone
$$$
Travel-time polygons
Google Directions
$$$$
A→B routing (without our cost layers)
Inrix Drive Time
Enterprise
Hex-based commute viz
TransitMap
Enterprise
Transit accessibility

Delivery options

REST API
Pay-as-you-go or flat monthly. Full Swagger docs. SDK examples for Python, JS, Go.
Flat-file delivery
Parquet/CSV exports of hex commute matrices by metro, by mode. Daily / weekly / monthly refresh. S3 bucket or sFTP delivery.
On-prem / VPC deployment
Run the API + OTP cluster + cost database inside your infrastructure. We handle deployment, GTFS updates, and recompute pipelines.
White-label widget
Embeddable map + commute calculator for IDX websites. Customize colors, modes, units.