Filed · Taken apart · Rebuilt · Shown

The price was always public.
Nobody opened it.

One actuary and seven AI machines downloaded 48,170 rate filings, took 32,196 of them apart — and rebuilt the prices to the cent. Every price shows the filing it came from.

48,170rate filings downloaded
374.8Mnumbers extracted from them
64brands priced — pet, travel, auto
44,557real quote pages captured to check the math

Counted from our own records, updated hourly · Sep 29, 05:47 KST

Every price is free to see. We don't sell insurance.

Rate filings are taken apart into tables, run through a calculator and turned into a price for pets, travel and cars
Filedevery rate filing, collectedTaken apartevery document, parsedRebuiltthe math, reversed to the centShownevery price, with its source

Rate alerts

Know before your premium changes.

Insurers must file rate changes with your state before they charge them. We read every filing and email you when one affects you.

No spam. One email per filing that affects you. Unsubscribe anytime.

Checked, not estimated

We prove the math against real prices.

A formula is only worth something if it reproduces what the insurer actually charges. So we test every one against prices it never saw.

93.1%of 726,477 pet price options land within 0.2% of the real price · 13 brands
±1¢Travel Guard, on held-out prices never used to build the formula · 38 states
1.1Mreal travel insurance prices collected and checked · 205 plans · 51 states
23auto insurers rebuilt in California and Texas — checked against each state's own published prices

Counted from our own records · updated hourly · Sep 29, 05:47 KST. Nothing projected.

How it works

From a state filing to your price.

1

Read the filing

Before charging anyone, an insurer files its rates with your state. They're public record.

2

Rebuild the formula

Base rate, age, breed, area, deductible — every factor, in the order the insurer applies it.

3

Check it

We run it against real prices it never saw. If it doesn't match, it doesn't go live.

4

Show the source

Every price carries the filing number it came from. You can open the original.

California auto

Same driver. Same car. Same street. 3× apart.

Across 4,976 driver profiles in California's own premium survey, the highest insurer's price is typically about three times the lowest. We rebuilt each insurer's price from its filed rate manual — and matched the state's numbers to the dollar.

3.02×

median gap between the highest and lowest of 8+ insurers for the same profile. In 97.8% of profiles, prices differ by at least 2×.

Source: California Department of Insurance 2026 premium survey, 270 areas. Profiles counted where at least 8 insurers are reproduced within $1.

What a quote page won't tell you

The lowest price today isn't the lowest later.

Same dog, same coverage, three or more insurers: in more than half the cases, the insurer with the lowest price at age 1 no longer has it at age 10.

53%

of 1,749 comparable cases change leader between age 1 and age 10. The median gap at age 10 is about $52 a month.

New-policy prices from 9 insurers' filings; renewal pricing may differ.

$52
$146.62
Most statesNew York

One travel plan · age 45 · $3,000 trip · 10 days · France.

Your state matters

Same plan. Same trip. Nearly 3× the price.

The plan didn't change — the state filing did. We price every plan with the filing for your state, not a national average.

How we work

One actuary. A fleet of AI.
Seven ordinary computers.

No data-entry team, no offshore office. One credentialed actuary directs AI that finds, reads, rebuilds and checks every filing, around the clock. Here is the line every price goes through — and who does each step.

1

Find

Search SERFF, state by state, for every pet, travel and auto rate filing.

338,272filings found in the indexMachines 2–6
2

Download

Pull the rate manuals, actuarial memos and forms behind each one.

48,170rate filings downloadedMachines 2–6
3

Take apart

Parse every PDF and spreadsheet into tables, factors and rules.

374.8Mnumbers extractedMachine 1
4

Rebuild

Turn the tables back into each insurer's pricing formula, step by step.

64brands with a working formulaMachine 1 + the actuary
5

Check

Test each formula against real quotes it was not built from.

44,557real quote pages capturedMachine 7 captures · 1 checks
6

Serve

Run the formulas on our server. Your browser only ever sees the final price.

51states and D.C. pricedMachine 1 + cloud
7

Watch

Re-read the filing index for rate changes; email the people they affect.

819insurers whose filings we holdMachines 2–6 → 1
Inner loop · 4 ⇄ 5 — rebuild, check, fix, repeat, until the formula reproduces held-out quotes within 3 cents. A state goes live only after that.
Outer loop · 7 → 1 — when an insurer files a new rate, the machines find it, download it, take it apart and send it back through the inner loop.
1 actuarySangmin Kwon, ASA — decides what to rebuild and signs off every formula.
Machine 1The calculating desk: takes filings apart, rebuilds and checks formulas, serves prices.
Machines 2–6Five ordinary PCs that find and download filings around the clock.
Machine 7A MacBook that captures quotes from insurers' public quote pages for the check.
One person at a desk; documents rise from surrounding computers into a unicorn constellation
1person. Sangmin Kwon, ASA — 25 years in insurance.
5 daysfrom “download everything” on Sept 24 to prices reproduced to the cent.
48,170rate filings downloaded since Sept 19 — every one logged with where and when it came from.
See the progress, day by day

For insurers

Know what competitors filed — and what it does to price.

Rate changes, factor by factor, rebuilt into prices you can compare against your own.

  • Rate-change alertsNew filings in your lines and states, summarized
  • Competitor price gridsFiled rates turned into comparable prices
  • Filing-to-price reconciliationEvery cell tied to its SERFF number
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“The pricing is already public. It just takes an actuary to read it — and software to read all of it.”
Sangmin Kwon, ASA · Founder · Associate of the Society of Actuaries · 25 years in insurance

Questions

Do you sell insurance?

No. K.Actuary is not an insurance agency, broker or insurer. We show prices rebuilt from public filings; when you're ready, you buy directly from the insurer.

Where do the prices come from?

From the rate filings insurers submit to state insurance regulators, most of them through the SERFF system. Each price on our site shows the filing number it came from.

How accurate are they?

We test every formula against real prices it was not built from. For pet insurance, 94.3% of 528,183 price options land within 0.2% of the real price. Where a formula doesn't match, we say so and hold the price back.

Will my price be exactly this?

It can differ. Insurers may apply underwriting, discounts or fees outside the filing, and filings change. Treat our number as the filed price, and confirm with the insurer.

Do you need my email or phone number?

Not to see prices — every price is free to see without contact details. We ask for an email address only if you sign up for rate alerts; then we keep your email, state and the lines you picked, and write when a filing affects you. Unsubscribe anytime.

How do you make money?

Comparing prices is free for you. We plan to offer data services to insurers. If we ever receive compensation that could affect what you see, we will disclose it on our Disclosures page.

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