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Claritas Tapestry Segmentation Social Explorer
Vendor Claritas, LLC Esri Social Explorer, Inc.
Pricing model Quote only Quote only Free tier + paid plans
Free tier No No Yes
Deployment Cloud Cloud, Self-hosted Cloud
Open source No No No
Best for Marketing, media and retail teams needing packaged consumer-lifestyle segments rather than raw census data. Retail site-selection and marketing teams already working inside ArcGIS who need neighborhood-level lifestyle segments. Researchers, journalists and analysts who want to map and export census/public data without a custom data pipeline.
Pricing

Licensed data/segmentation sold under custom contracts; no public pricing.

Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.

Sold as a data layer within ArcGIS products/subscriptions; pricing is not published.

Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.

Free trial available; individual and enterprise/institutional subscriptions are sold through sales, with no public price list.

Checked on the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026: no prices are published. Expect to be quoted.

Features
  • PRIZM household/neighborhood lifestyle segmentation
  • P$YCLE financial-behavior segmentation
  • CultureCode multicultural audience segmentation
  • ConneXions consumer-connection insights
  • Thousands of syndicated audience definitions
  • Demographic and behavioral attribute licensing for marketing systems
  • 60 lifestyle segments grouped into 12 LifeMode summary groups
  • Coverage of every U.S. neighborhood
  • Wealth, socioeconomic-status and housing-affordability indexes
  • Map-based visualization of segment distribution and change over time
  • Delivered inside ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Business Analyst
  • Site-selection and trade-area profiling workflows
  • Interactive thematic mapping of census and public data
  • Historical U.S. census data back to 1790
  • 500,000+ variables across demographics, crime, health, housing and politics
  • Natural-language querying via Data Navigator
  • Cross-geography and cross-time comparison tools
  • Data export to Excel, CSV, PDF, SAS and SPSS

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