Free vs. paid: the architecture

InfraSure has two distinct layers that compose. The open data foundation (free) is the asset spine — every U.S. utility-scale generator and active queue project, structured and cross-referenced. The InfraSure platform (paid SaaS) is the analytical layer above — forward-looking risk, generation, and financial modeling, organized into three workflows. This page names the architecture explicitly so the rest of the docs reads cleanly.

The architecture, named

              ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
              │  INFRASURE PLATFORM  (paid SaaS · request demo) │
              │                                                 │
              │  Forward-looking, hyperlocal, asset-specific,   │
              │  coherent across decision contexts.             │
              │                                                 │
              │  Three workflows:                               │
              │    Evaluate · Manage · Mitigate                 │
              └─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
                                  │
                                  │  builds on
                                  ▼
              ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
              │  OPEN DATA FOUNDATION  (free · this site)       │
              │                                                 │
              │  Every U.S. utility-scale generator + active    │
              │  queue project. One asset spine, cross-         │
              │  referenced from EIA, USPVDB, USWTDB, GEM,      │
              │  Wikidata, and 10+ other federal/open sources.  │
              └─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

What lives where

A practical map of which capability lives on which layer. If you find yourself asking "does InfraSure do X?", this table usually answers it.

Why the split is honest

The open data is open because the underlying sources are open — EIA, USPVDB, USWTDB, GEM, Wikidata, and others publish their data freely. Anyone can fetch the raw files. What InfraSure adds on the free side is the integration: one canonical asset identity across 20+ upstream sources, entity resolution so the same plant has the same name everywhere, and a clean API surface.

The InfraSure platform sits above that foundation. Its value is the analytical layer — physics-based generation models calibrated on hourly weather data, probabilistic scenario engines, hazard decomposition, weather-to-cashflow coherence across decision contexts. The substance that takes years to build, that point tools can't produce coherently across the insurer / lender / equity views.

We don't gate the open data. We don't pretend the analytical layer is free. Both layers are designed to be useful independently — and substantially more useful together.

See also

• The InfraSure analytical layer — overview of the paid platform.
• Open data: Explore — start point for the free side.
• Request a demo — for the analytical-layer walkthrough.