Lodestone as a Tracers alternative.
Tracers sells into collections, legal support and process serving — the same buyers we serve. If you are weighing the two, the differences are in the commercial terms and in how each platform treats permissible purpose, not in the underlying files.
Same category, same wholesale sources.
Skip tracing data comes from a short list of wholesalers, and both platforms draw on that pool. We are not claiming a proprietary file that finds debtors nobody else can find. Test it: run a sample of your own portfolio through both and compare hit rates on subjects you already know the answer to.
Batch you can price in advance, and a per-search purpose record.
Batch priced per row, at your published tier
Upload a CSV and get the same file back with results appended — your columns untouched, plus search ID, status, confidence and cost per row. Every row is priced at the same published rate as a single search at your volume tier. You can calculate the cost of a 4,000-row portfolio before you upload it. See batch processing and the rate card.
Five dollars a month and no seat licence
Collections volume is seasonal. A monthly minimum means paying in January for searches you ran in November. We do not have one. Seats are free, so the collectors actually working the accounts each get their own login and their own line in the audit trail.
Purpose recorded per search
Every search carries its own permissible-purpose code and matter reference. For a collections shop this is the difference between asserting that your searches were proper and being able to show it, account by account, on the day a regulator or a consumer attorney asks.
Blocked attempts are recorded too, and never billed. A log that only contains the searches that succeeded is not much of a log.
Bank and brokerage location is not offered
Deposit and securities account location is not available here at any price, and no product code returns it. If your recovery workflow depends on account location from the same vendor, we are not that vendor — engage a licensed investigative agency for it directly.
Reasons to stay where you are.
If you already have a negotiated volume agreement in place and your per-search economics are good, published rates may not beat what you have. Compare the actual numbers rather than the list price.
Integrations matter too. If your collections software already talks to your current provider, that plumbing has value. Everything here is available over REST, but rebuilding an integration is real work, and you should count it.
Run a portfolio through both.
A comparison costs $5 plus only the rows you actually run.