GrantTrove and FindGrants, side by side
How GrantTrove and FindGrants differ on price, coverage and what each one shows about a record. Every FindGrants figure was checked on 2026-09-07.
What FindGrants is genuinely good at
This section is not a formality. FindGrants is a real product with real advantages, and a reader deciding between the two is better served by knowing them than by a page that pretends they do not exist.
- Searching and matching are free with no account, which is a genuinely low barrier and the same commitment we make.
- A one-time fee per application pack is an honest answer to a real complaint about this category: most tools charge a subscription before you can see anything.
- Federal contracts are indexed alongside grants, which is a layer we do not cover at all.
- A stated 7-day money-back guarantee on the paid product.
Where GrantTrove is different
Where the two products actually diverge, point by point.
- Every record shows when it was last checked, against which source domain, and by which method.
- Programme pool and per-award ceiling are separate fields that are never shown under one label.
- Core fields — amounts, deadlines, eligibility, source link, verification stamp — are free without an account, permanently.
- A field the source did not state reads Not stated rather than being filled with a plausible value.
And the honest cost of that. Coverage is early. The data sources page publishes exactly which feeds are connected and which are not. If your search depends on breadth today rather than on traceability, FindGrants has more records than we do and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
Price
What each side charges, and what the free tier holds back.
GrantTrove pricing checked 2026-09-02 against our own pricing page.
FindGrants pricing checked 2026-09-07 against FindGrants’s own pricing page.
Field by field
Field by field, with the ones neither side publishes marked as such.
| Field | GrantTrove | FindGrants |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A grant database where every field is traceable to one official page and carries the date we last confirmed it. | An AI grant matcher for federal and state funding, free to search, that sells a one-off AI-drafted application pack rather than a subscription. |
| Cheapest paid entry | $19/mo · read from the price config at render | $0 · checked 2026-09-07 |
| Readable without paying | Every field of every record, permanently | Not measured |
| Coverage the product publishes | Records linked 1,734 · Verified inside the freshness window 1,160 of 1,160 | Open grants 6,000+ or 9,000+ · Records indexed 114,000+ · Categories 9 · Organisation types 8 |
| Shows when a record was last checked | Yes — date, source domain and method on every record | Not measured |
| Separates programme pool from award ceiling | Yes, always two fields under two labels | Not measured |
| What an empty field shows | Not stated, Not confirmed or Not linked yet — three different sentences | Not measured |
| Eligibility restrictions on who may subscribe | None stated | None stated |
“Not measured” means we have not audited that property of FindGrants and will not guess at it. Every FindGrants figure above comes from a page FindGrants publishes about itself, checked 2026-09-07.
What this page does not claim
What this page does not claim, and how it was written.
We do not publish a record count of our own counting for another product, a freshness figure we have not sampled, or an accuracy rate for anyone. Doing so would require an audit with a stated method and a date, and we have not run one. Where a comparison would need such a number, the row above reads Not measured.
Choose FindGrants if you want AI-drafted application content and would rather pay $99 once for a specific grant than subscribe. Choose GrantTrove if what you need is the record itself — every field traceable to one official page, with the date we last confirmed it — and if you would rather write the application yourself than review a draft you cannot check.