About Strainline
A price comparison site for California cannabis, built to answer one question honestly: where is this cheapest right now?
What Strainline is
Strainline aggregates live menus from 533 licensed dispensaries across 15 California regions and ranks every product cheapest first. It is independent: not a dispensary, not a delivery service, and not an ad network for either. Start from the coverage map or the California hub.
How ranking works
Ranked results are computed from four inputs. This is the complete list:
- Price per unit
price_per_unit - Quality tier
tier - Package weight
weight_g - Cultivation method
cultivation_method
Nothing else touches the order. No dispensary or brand can pay for position, and commercial relationships are kept out of consumer ranking code by an architectural firewall, not a policy memo. Sponsored placements, if shown, are always labeled and never mixed into ranked results.
Where the prices come from
Prices are collected from dispensaries’ public online menus on a rolling schedule and stored as a time series, so pages can show real price movement instead of a single snapshot. Every price page states when its data was last updated. Menus change through the day, so verify availability and final price on the dispensary’s site before you buy. Cannabis is legal for adults 21+ in California; Strainline sells nothing and requires no account.
Use the data
Journalists and researchers are welcome to cite Strainline price data with attribution and a link. Each region has a dated price report (for example Santa Cruz prices), and any region’s cheapest products can be embedded on your own site with the free widget. For corrections, data questions, or anything else: hello@strainline.app.