# Market research reports: where to get one and what it costs

You can buy a market research report directly from the publisher's website, usually by card, or get much of the same information free from government statistics and your public library. Single reports are priced per licence, and the list prices we read on 22 October 2026 ran from $800 for a 10 to 20 page IBISWorld Spotlight to $5,850 for a single-user licence on a Research and Markets title. Most of the full reports we priced cost $2,850 to $4,995 for one user. The free routes are the US Census Bureau's business statistics, BLS, BEA and SEC filings, and the business databases that many public libraries license for card holders.

## Single-report list prices from the main publishers

Every price below was read on the publisher's or seller's own page on 22 October 2026. These are prices for one report, not subscriptions, and they differ by title, so each row names the report we priced.

| Publisher | Report priced | What you get | List price | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IBISWorld | Any US Industry Research Report; any US Industry Spotlight | A full US industry profile; or a Spotlight of 10 to 20 pages of data, charts and tables | $2,850 per report; $800 per Spotlight | [IBISWorld help: cost of one report](https://help.ibisworld.com/en/articles/8119074-how-much-does-it-cost-to-purchase-one-report) |
| Freedonia Group | Pet Boarding & Daycare: United States (Freedonia Focus) | A US market report with forecasts to 2029 | $900; $1,200 for a global site licence | [Freedonia Focus listing](https://www.freedoniagroup.com/freedonia-focus/pet-boarding-daycare-united-states) |
| Euromonitor International | Laundry Care in the US (March 2026) | One country report, PDF with Excel data | $1,195 | [Euromonitor report page](https://www.euromonitor.com/laundry-care-in-the-us/report) |
| Mintel | UK Ready Meals; US Pet Food | Consumer market reports built on Mintel's own research | $2,995 and $4,995, before tax | [UK Ready Meals](https://store.mintel.com/report/uk-ready-meals-market-report), [US Pet Food](https://store.mintel.com/report/us-pet-food-market-report) |
| Grand View Research | Self-Storage Market (120 pages, updated September 2026) | Global report; licences for 1 user, up to 5 users, or the whole company | $4,950 individual; $5,950 team; $7,950 enterprise | [Grand View licence page](https://www.grandviewresearch.com/checkout/select-license/self-storage-market-report) |
| MarketsandMarkets | Water Soluble Films (210 pages, August 2024) | Global report, single user or corporate licence | $4,950 single user; $8,150 corporate | [MarketsandMarkets report page](https://www.marketsandmarkets.com/Market-Reports/water-soluble-film-market-31753669.html) |
| Research and Markets (reseller) | Coin-Operated Laundries, Global Strategic Business Report (Market Glass, 175 pages) | Global report with a US section | $5,850 single user; $11,115 for 1 to 10 users; $17,550 enterprise | [Research and Markets listing](https://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/6069495/coin-operated-laundries-global-strategic) |
| Research and Markets (reseller) | Coin-operated Laundries Market, Global Forecast 2026-2032 (360iResearch, 185 pages) | Global report, PDF, Excel and online access | $3,939 for 1 to 5 users, $3,545 on an offer that runs to 1 January 2027; $5,959 enterprise | [Research and Markets listing](https://www.researchandmarkets.com/report/coin-operated-laundry) |

The price depends more on these than on the topic.

- **The licence.** The same Grand View report is $4,950 for one reader and $7,950 for the whole company. If the report will go into a client deck or be shared across a team, a single-user licence may not cover it.
- **The format.** Narrower products like an IBISWorld Spotlight ($800) or a Freedonia Focus report ($900) cost a fraction of a full study.
- **The reseller.** Research and Markets sells other publishers' reports, sometimes on time-limited discounts. Its "laundromat" tag listed 43 titles on 22 October 2026, from several publishers, at different prices for overlapping topics. The publisher's name is on each listing.

Buying is quick for most of these. Euromonitor's [contact page](https://www.euromonitor.com/contact-us) says reports bought online by card are "available for download immediately". If you need a database seat rather than one report, our page on [research subscription costs](/alternatives/research-subscription-costs) compares IBISWorld, Statista, Mintel, Gartner, PitchBook and others.

## Free primary sources that most reports are built on

A paid report on a US industry usually leans on public tables you can open yourself. The agency collected the data, and each table states its definition, year and method.

- **[Economic Census](https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/economic-census.html).** The Census Bureau calls it "the official five-year measure of businesses in the United States". It gives receipts, establishments, payroll and employment by industry code, nationally and by state, metro area and county. The 2022 results are the latest.
- **[County Business Patterns](https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp.html).** An annual series of establishments, employment and payroll by industry for businesses with paid employees, down to county level. The latest year is 2023. It has no revenue, so pair it with the Economic Census.
- **[Nonemployer Statistics](https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/nonemployer-statistics.html).** Counts and receipts for businesses with no employees, which the Economic Census leaves out. For laundromats they are 47% of businesses, per our [market size guide](/guides/how-to-calculate-market-size).
- **[Annual Business Survey](https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/abs.html).** Run by the Census Bureau with the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics. It covers business owner demographics, research and development, and innovation.
- **[BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages](https://www.bls.gov/cew/).** Employment and wages by industry for counties, metro areas, states and the nation, covering more than 95% of US jobs, updated every quarter.
- **[BEA GDP by industry](https://www.bea.gov/data/gdp/gdp-industry).** Value added, compensation and operating surplus by industry, released quarterly. The latest release was 30 September 2026.
- **[SBA Office of Advocacy State Profiles](https://advocacy.sba.gov/2025/06/30/2025-small-business-profiles-for-the-states-territories-and-nation/).** Annual state-by-state summaries of small business activity, published 30 June 2025 for the 2025 edition.
- **[SEC EDGAR full-text search](https://www.sec.gov/edgar/search/).** Searches the full text of electronic filings since 2001. A public company's 10-K describes its market, its competitors and often its own estimate of market share, and the financial statements are audited.
- **[FRED](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/).** The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis's database of economic time series, with charts and downloads.
- **Trade associations.** Many publish member surveys, operating benchmarks or industry fact sheets. Quality varies: check the sample size and whether the figure is the association's own survey or a number it repeats from someone else.

Publishers also give a lot away. Most report pages print the headline market size, forecast, growth rate and segments, and many offer a free sample: Grand View's self-storage page prints its 2025 estimate and a sample download. That is often enough to decide whether the paid report is worth reading.

## Free access through public and university libraries

Many public libraries license business databases for card holders, on terms that differ by library and by database. Examples read on 22 October 2026:

- **Lancaster Public Library** (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) lists IBISWorld as ["In library use only"](https://lancasterpubliclibrary.org/business-databases-internal-access/). Card holders at home can email a request for a specific industry report with their card number, and the library sends it digitally. The same page lists Statista and SimplyAnalytics.
- **Charleston County Public Library** offers [Gale Business: Insights](https://www.ccpl.org/gale-business-insights), with company and industry profiles, SWOT and market share reports, "inside a library branch or from home" with a library card.
- **Fort Bend County Libraries** offers [Data Axle Reference Solutions](https://www.fortbendlibraries.gov/online-resources/reference-solutions-data-axle), the business and consumer directory formerly called ReferenceUSA, from outside the library with a card number and PIN. It is a list-building tool for sales and site research rather than a written report.

Search your own library's database list for "business" or "industry", and ask at the reference desk which database covers your industry.

University business libraries hold the largest collections, but their licences usually cover students and staff. In a 2017 Association of Research Libraries survey, one library said its licences let community users in on campus but only ["for educational purposes, not for business purposes"](https://publications.arl.org/Campus-wide-Entrepreneurship-SPEC-Kit-355/48). If you are researching for a business, ask whether commercial use is allowed before you rely on it. A Small Business Development Center is the other free route; our [subscription costs page](/alternatives/research-subscription-costs) covers what SBDCs offer.

## How to judge a report before paying for it

Most of what you need to judge a report is on its free page: the market definition, the base year, the growth arithmetic, and whether the headline matches primary data. Our guide on [how to check a market research report](/guides/how-to-check-a-market-research-report) runs those checks on one real $4,750 report against Census and SEC data. If two publishers give very different sizes for the same market, [why market size reports disagree](/guides/why-market-size-reports-disagree) shows why, with eight estimates for one market. For figures you found on Statista, [is Statista reliable](/guides/is-statista-reliable) traces 13 of them to their originals.

In short: write down the definition and base year before comparing two figures, compound the growth rate yourself, and search the exact number in quotes to see whether it is one estimate copied many times.

## Building your own report from primary data

For a US industry with its own industry code, you can often build the core of a market report from the Census tables above. Our [market size guide](/guides/how-to-calculate-market-size) does this for US laundromats (NAICS 812310). It adds 2022 Economic Census receipts for laundromats with employees, about $5.50 billion, to Nonemployer Statistics receipts for those without, about $0.90 billion, for a total of about $6.40 billion. It then checks that against a bottom-up estimate from households without a washer, and narrows it to one metro area. The Market Glass report on Research and Markets values the US coin-operated laundries market at [$5.5 billion in 2025](https://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/6069495/coin-operated-laundries-global-strategic). The two use different definitions and years, so they cannot be compared directly, but the Census build shows what the industry itself reported, for free. If you are weighing a laundromat purchase, [is a laundromat a good investment](/guides/is-a-laundromat-a-good-investment) checks the common claims against Census and BLS data.

What you cannot build from public data: consumer survey results like Mintel's, private-company revenue, and forecasts. A publisher's forecast is a model, and you can only check whether its arithmetic and starting point hold.

## The options compared by cost and time

| Route | Cost | Time to an answer | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher's free page and sample | $0 | Minutes | Deciding whether a report is worth buying |
| Government tables (Census, BLS, BEA, EDGAR) | $0 | An afternoon to a few days, depending on the industry | Market size, establishment counts, wages, public competitors |
| Public library database | $0 with a card | A trip to the library, or a request by email | IBISWorld, Gale or Data Axle content where your library licenses it |
| Single paid report | $800 to $5,850 for one user (list prices above) | Download on purchase, for card sales | A named source a lender or client will accept; consumer research you cannot collect yourself |
| Database subscription | Quoted by sales for most vendors | Ongoing | Weekly use across many industries |
| Hyperresearch report | $9 Light or $49 Deep per run | About 30 to 40 minutes (Light) or 3 to 5 hours (Deep), targets | A cited report assembled from public sources, with the sources kept |

## Where an AI research report fits

[Hyperresearch](/pricing) produces a cited research report from one question, priced per run: $9 for a Light run (about 20 to 50 sources and 2,500 to 4,000 words) and $49 for a Deep run (about 150 to 200 sources across 3 to 5 research chapters). Source counts and run times are targets, not guarantees. Every cited claim is checked against the source it cites, and every source is kept in a searchable workspace so you can open the page behind each number.

It reads what is publicly readable: government statistics, company websites, SEC filings, open-access papers and public trade press. It does not read paywalled publisher reports or subscription databases such as IBISWorld, Mintel, Euromonitor, Crunchbase or PitchBook, and it never logs in anywhere. So it does not replace a Mintel consumer survey or a report your lender requires by name. What it does is the assembly work in the section above: finding the Census tables, filings and trade sources and citing each figure. Finished runs are on the [samples page](/samples).

## Sources

All pages were read on 2026-10-22.

- IBISWorld, [How much does it cost to purchase one report](https://help.ibisworld.com/en/articles/8119074-how-much-does-it-cost-to-purchase-one-report).
- Freedonia Group, [Pet Boarding & Daycare: United States](https://www.freedoniagroup.com/freedonia-focus/pet-boarding-daycare-united-states).
- Euromonitor International, [Laundry Care in the US](https://www.euromonitor.com/laundry-care-in-the-us/report) (March 2026) and [Contact us](https://www.euromonitor.com/contact-us).
- Mintel store, [UK Ready Meals](https://store.mintel.com/report/uk-ready-meals-market-report) and [US Pet Food](https://store.mintel.com/report/us-pet-food-market-report).
- Grand View Research, [Self-Storage Market report](https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/self-storage-market-report) (updated September 2026) and its [licence page](https://www.grandviewresearch.com/checkout/select-license/self-storage-market-report).
- MarketsandMarkets, [Water Soluble Films Market](https://www.marketsandmarkets.com/Market-Reports/water-soluble-film-market-31753669.html) (August 2024).
- Research and Markets, [Coin-Operated Laundries, Global Strategic Business Report](https://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/6069495/coin-operated-laundries-global-strategic) (October 2026) and [Coin-operated Laundries Market, Global Forecast 2026-2032](https://www.researchandmarkets.com/report/coin-operated-laundry) (September 2026).
- US Census Bureau: [Economic Census](https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/economic-census.html), [County Business Patterns](https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp.html), [Nonemployer Statistics](https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/nonemployer-statistics.html), [Annual Business Survey](https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/abs.html).
- US Bureau of Labor Statistics, [Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages](https://www.bls.gov/cew/).
- US Bureau of Economic Analysis, [GDP by industry](https://www.bea.gov/data/gdp/gdp-industry).
- SBA Office of Advocacy, [2025 Small Business Profiles](https://advocacy.sba.gov/2025/06/30/2025-small-business-profiles-for-the-states-territories-and-nation/).
- US Securities and Exchange Commission, [EDGAR full-text search](https://www.sec.gov/edgar/search/).
- Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, [FRED](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/).
- Lancaster Public Library, [Business databases](https://lancasterpubliclibrary.org/business-databases-internal-access/); Charleston County Public Library, [Gale Business: Insights](https://www.ccpl.org/gale-business-insights); Fort Bend County Libraries, [Reference Solutions by Data Axle](https://www.fortbendlibraries.gov/online-resources/reference-solutions-data-axle).
- Association of Research Libraries, [SPEC Kit 355: Campus-wide Entrepreneurship](https://publications.arl.org/Campus-wide-Entrepreneurship-SPEC-Kit-355/48) (July 2017).