Construction Cost

Estimate total construction cost for a project.

Endpoint POST https://api.dryapi.dev/predict

Predicts project cost

Calibration 89%

MAPE 78.4%

MAE $3,946

R² 0.16

Latency 9ms

Cost 10 cr / call

Popularity rank #45

Pricing

Every plan includes all 17 APIs. This model costs 10 credits / call, so each plan buys the calls below.

Starter

2,000 calls / mo

100 req/min

Start with starter

Growth

15,000 calls / mo

500 req/min

Start with growth

Scale

80,000 calls / mo

2,500 req/min

Start with scale

Volume

300,000 calls / mo

8,000 req/min

Start with volume

Ultra

1,000,000 calls / mo

20,000 req/min

Start with ultra

Enterprise

Custom calls / mo

Unlimited

Start with enterprise

Calibration (coverage)

89%

Out-of-sample coverage verified on held-out data — a 89% interval really covers 89% of observations.

Data coverage

Geography US construction markets by region and project type.

Temporal Recent cost indexes, refreshed quarterly.

Limitations Pre-construction estimate only — final costs vary with labor markets and material volatility.

Quickstart

request — curl

curl -X POST https://api.dryapi.dev/predict \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $DRYAPI_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "construction/cost/v1",
    "features": {
      // one row per input column the model expects
    }
  }'

response

{
  "value": 3.2,
  "interval": [2.8, 3.6],
  "confidence_interval": { "lower": 2.8, "upper": 3.6, "coverage": 0.89 },
  "confidence": { "level": 0.89, "score": 0.84 },
  "top_factors": [
    { "feature": "sqft", "impact": 0.42 },
    { "feature": "zip", "impact": 0.31 },
    { "feature": "beds", "impact": 0.18 }
  ]
}