GrantTrove and OpenGrants, side by side
How GrantTrove and OpenGrants differ on price, coverage and what each one shows about a record. Every OpenGrants figure was checked on 2026-09-02.
What OpenGrants is genuinely good at
This section is not a formality. OpenGrants 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 lowest paid entry point of any product here — a Pro subscription costs less per year than a single month of most alternatives.
- Contracts are indexed alongside grants, which matters for organisations whose funding mix includes government contracting.
- A Developer tier exists, so the data can be pulled into another system rather than only browsed.
- The index is described as updating daily.
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, OpenGrants 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.
OpenGrants pricing checked 2026-09-02 against OpenGrants’s own pricing page.
Field by field
Field by field, with the ones neither side publishes marked as such.
| Field | GrantTrove | OpenGrants |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A grant database where every field is traceable to one official page and carries the date we last confirmed it. | A low-cost grant and contract search product with a developer API tier and a daily-updated index. |
| Cheapest paid entry | $19/mo · read from the price config at render | $8/mo · checked 2026-09-02 |
| 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 | Grants 75,800+ · Contracts 27,200+ · Funders 5,800+ · 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 OpenGrants and will not guess at it. Every OpenGrants figure above comes from a page OpenGrants publishes about itself, checked 2026-09-02.
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 OpenGrants if what it publishes about its own coverage is what your search needs today. Choose GrantTrove if you need to know when each field was last confirmed, against which source, and to see the programme pool and the per-award ceiling as two separate numbers.