GrantTrove and Grantsights, side by side
How GrantTrove and Grantsights differ on price, coverage and what each one shows about a record. Every Grantsights figure was checked on 2026-09-05.
What Grantsights is genuinely good at
This section is not a formality. Grantsights 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.
- The eligibility checker runs without an account at all: twelve guided questions, opening with a six-option organisation-type grid, answered against the same index the paid products read.
- The paid unit is one programme, not one month. A $49 intelligence report buys FY2024 winners and amounts, a geographic breakdown, a competition estimate and budget benchmarks for a single grant, which is the right shape for an organisation deciding whether one application is worth writing.
- Their about page states that programme pages display a "Data last verified" date — the same discipline this site is built on, and rare enough in this category to be worth naming.
- The $299 Federal Health Pursuit Room is scoped to one current SAMHSA or HRSA opportunity rather than sold as a general tier, which is honest packaging of a narrow thing.
- A 30-day refund is offered on reports, so the one-off purchase is reversible.
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, Grantsights 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.
Grantsights pricing checked 2026-09-05 against Grantsights’s own pricing page.
Field by field
Field by field, with the ones neither side publishes marked as such.
| Field | GrantTrove | Grantsights |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A grant database where every field is traceable to one official page and carries the date we last confirmed it. | A grant discovery product whose paid unit is a one-off intelligence report on a single programme rather than a monthly seat. |
| Cheapest paid entry | $19/mo · read from the price config at render | $29/mo · checked 2026-09-05 |
| Readable without paying | Every field of every record, permanently | Eligibility checker and basic search, no sign-up |
| Coverage the product publishes | Records linked 1,734 · Verified inside the freshness window 1,160 of 1,160 | Grant programs 25,000+ · Awards tracked 380,000+ · Foundation giving tracked $4.4B+ · Update frequency Daily |
| 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 Grantsights and will not guess at it. Every Grantsights figure above comes from a page Grantsights publishes about itself, checked 2026-09-05.
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 Grantsights if your question is about one programme — its past winners, its competition, what a realistic budget looks like — and a $49 report answers it better than a subscription would. Choose GrantTrove if your question is about the field of programmes rather than one of them, and you need every field traceable to one official page with the date it was last checked.