Straight answer: no major city or regional magazine publishes a public rate card we could retrieve and archive. Texas Monthly, the tier's best-documented seller, gates its kit behind a sales contact; our retrieval attempt on 31 July 2026 came back 403.[1] So this page prints no dollar figures. It tells you how the tier works and how to get its real numbers fast.
City books sell three things national glossies cannot: a geography that matches your trading area, an affluent local readership advertisers actually want, and page prices that fit inside a $10k-$50k quarter. The desk's buying logic: your budget buys presence here, frequency included, instead of a single orphan insertion in a national book. Frequency is what print response is built on.
Pick three city titles covering your market. Send each the Step 01 kit request. Run every rate that comes back through QuoteCheck and the CPM desk, then play the three cards against each other in Step 03. You now hold better data for your market than any national cost blog prints.
Adjacent tiers: local, national. The tier's worked exemplar: Texas Monthly. Seller detail: MNI.