Why we need your support

Congress.wiki, WhiteHouse.wiki, and SCOTUS.wiki are free, independent, and ad-free. Running them costs about $347 a month, and without donations we may have to shut them down.

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$347

a month to run all three sites

Based on our September 2026 bills

$12

per day

Every day the sites stay online

our server bill in August

Paid by cloud credits that have run out

Where the money goes

Server and hosting costs are what we paid in September 2026. AI costs vary month to month, so we show a typical month. Open any card to see the line items.

$184.94

Database and servers

Amazon Web Services · September invoice

Stores every bill, vote, and record, and runs the servers, firewall, and network in front of it.

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Database: $56.88
API server: $34.33
Firewall and bot blocking: $22.41
Load balancer: $19.37
Content delivery network: $14.92
DNS, storage, monitoring, and security: $34.56
Sales tax: $2.47

$101.95

Website hosting

Vercel · September usage report

Builds and serves the pages you read on all three sites, everywhere in the country.

See the line items

Data sent to visitors: $30.16
Server computing: $23.26
Hosting plan: $19.57
Server memory: $10.25
Page cache updates: $7.30
Page requests: $4.84
Everything else: $6.57

$60.00

AI summaries and chat

AI providers · Typical month, approximate

Turns long legal documents into plain-English summaries and powers the AI chat assistant.

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Document summaries and AI chat: $60.00

Total per month$346.89

Why we might shut down

Until August 2026, promotional credits from Amazon Web Services paid our server bill. Those credits ran out, and September was the first month we paid the full cost of running the sites.

The sites are ad-free, so we rely on donations and AI subscriptions to pay these bills. If they don't cover the cost, we may have to take the sites offline.

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Thank you for helping keep Congress.wiki online.

Where the money goes

Server and hosting costs are what we paid in September 2026. AI costs vary month to month, so we show a typical month. Open any card to see the line items.

$184.94

Database and servers

Amazon Web Services · September invoice

Stores every bill, vote, and record, and runs the servers, firewall, and network in front of it.

See the line items

Database: $56.88
API server: $34.33
Firewall and bot blocking: $22.41
Load balancer: $19.37
Content delivery network: $14.92
DNS, storage, monitoring, and security: $34.56
Sales tax: $2.47

$101.95

Website hosting

Vercel · September usage report

Builds and serves the pages you read on all three sites, everywhere in the country.

See the line items

Data sent to visitors: $30.16
Server computing: $23.26
Hosting plan: $19.57
Server memory: $10.25
Page cache updates: $7.30
Page requests: $4.84
Everything else: $6.57

$60.00

AI summaries and chat

AI providers · Typical month, approximate

Turns long legal documents into plain-English summaries and powers the AI chat assistant.

See the line items

Document summaries and AI chat: $60.00

Total per month$346.89

Why we might shut down

Until August 2026, promotional credits from Amazon Web Services paid our server bill. Those credits ran out, and September was the first month we paid the full cost of running the sites.

The sites are ad-free, so we rely on donations and AI subscriptions to pay these bills. If they don't cover the cost, we may have to take the sites offline.