Pricing
Finding and scoring grants is free forever. Writing them is what you pay for, and it costs less per application here than anywhere we can find.
What free actually includes
Not a trial. No card.
- Winnability scoring on every federal, foundation and corporate grant
- The eligibility check, including what is closed to you
- Award-history receipts — who won each program before, and for how much
- Foundation matching from IRS 990-PF filings
- Deadline tracking, email alerts and the calendar subscription
- One full AI application draft — no card
- 5 searches a month, 1 client organization
The plans
| Plan | Price | AI applications | Per application |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 1, no card | — |
| Pro | $79/mo | 25 a month | about $3.16 |
| Agency | $199/mo | Unlimited | falls as you use it |
Both plans are also sold yearly — $790 and $1,990, which works out at two months free. Cancel any time.
Start on Agency — $1,990/yr Start on Pro — $79/mo
Or create a free account first — scoring, eligibility and one full application draft, no card.
What this replaces, at their published prices
Three jobs, normally three subscriptions. Every figure below was read off that vendor's own pricing page on 24 September 2026.
| The job | What people buy for it | Their price |
|---|---|---|
| Funder research — who funds work like yours | Candid Search Premium | $219/mo |
| Grant discovery, scoring and deadlines | Instrumentl Discover | $299/mo billed annually and its entry tier does not write anything |
| 25 AI application drafts | Quillify pay-as-you-go | about $375/mo 30 credits a foundation proposal at $0.50 — a federal one is ~500, so about $250 each |
| Total, at their published rates | $893/mo | |
| MCGrantz Pro | $79/mo | |
Read that honestly. These are not identical products and we are not pretending otherwise. Candid holds a far larger funder dataset than we do. Instrumentl does post-award compliance and team permissions we do not. If you need those specific things, buy those — we say so further down. What the table shows is what the three jobs cost when bought separately, which is how most people end up buying them.
And everything else, which nobody sells at this price
Each of these is a product somebody charges separately for. The prices are theirs, read off their own pages on 24 September 2026.
| What you also get | What it costs elsewhere |
|---|---|
| Peer funder discovery Name organizations like yours; see which funders back several of them and have never funded you. Read from a million grant records in IRS filings. |
Quillify leads with this. Their plans start at $99/mo. |
| Post-award report tracking Interim report, final report, spend-down — the deadlines that arrive after you win, which is when most tools stop. |
Instrumentl puts the post-award lifecycle in a $999/mo tier. |
| The eligibility answer, including what is closed Two questions, thirty seconds. No SAM.gov registration means no federal grant at all; foundations are the wrong door for a for-profit. |
Nobody else checks it. Free here, permanently. |
| Foundations that will not read you, marked Seven in ten private foundations state on their own tax return that they only fund organizations they already chose. |
Included |
| 22 integrations Slack, Teams, Discord, Google Chat, Zapier, Make, Airtable, Notion, Todoist, Trello, Telegram, calendar subscription, and CRM export for Bloomerang, DonorPerfect, Neon, Little Green Light and Salesforce. |
Instrumentl's Salesforce integration sits above its entry tier. |
| API access Your pipeline and answer library over HTTP. |
Instrumentl puts API access behind a sales call. |
| 101 languages | Not offered by anyone in this table. |
The guarantee
We will find you grants you are actually eligible for, or you do not pay.
Not "you will win one". Nobody can promise that, grant cycles run six to twelve months, and anyone who does promise it is selling you something. We promise the part we control: that the list is real, that you qualify for what is on it, and that every score traces back to a public record you can check.
If it does not, email us inside 30 days and we refund the month. No form, no retention call. One reply.
And one draft is free
The thing worth paying for is the writing, so you should read a piece of it before you decide. Every account gets one full application draft — your own organization, your own grant, no card. If it is not usable, you have lost nothing and you will know in about two minutes.
What that looks like next to the rest of the category
| Tool | Entry price | Free tier | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Instrumentl | $299/mo billed annually ($349 monthly) | No free tier — 14-day trial | Discovery and post-award for established nonprofit teams. The entry tier does not write. |
| Quillify | $99/mo (Access), $250 (Pro), $750 (Max) | Pay-as-you-go credits | Credit-metered. A federal proposal runs about 500 credits, which is $250 at their own per-credit rate. |
| MCGrantz | $79/mo (Pro), $199 (Agency) | Free forever, no card | 25 AI applications a month on Pro, unlimited on Agency. |
Prices read off each vendor's own live pricing page on 24 September 2026. They change — check before you decide, and tell us if one of these is wrong and we will fix it.
Where somebody else is the better buy
If you run an established development team that needs post-award compliance reporting, spend-down management and deep team permissions, Instrumentl is built for that and we are not. If you want per-action metering so you pay only for what you run in a quiet month, Quillify's credit model does that and our flat plans do not. We would rather say so than have you find out after paying.
What we will not do
- Charge you to find out what you are not eligible for. That answer is free and always will be.
- Invent a grant, a deadline or an amount to fill a results page.
- Publish a customer quote we cannot stand behind.
The founding rate
Ten organizations get Pro free for 90 days. Not a trial that bills you afterwards — ninety days, no card, and you decide at the end.
What we want back is one honest sentence about what happened, win or lose. We publish it with your name, or not at all. Your call, after you have read it.
Ten is the real number, not a countdown that resets. When they are taken the page will say so.