GGranted AI

Granted AI points out that professional grant writers charge $5,000 to $15,000 per proposal, and sells its own plans from $29 a month. For that, it searches more than 140,000 active grants, reads the funder’s solicitation, asks the applicant targeted questions and drafts every required section, then runs six AI reviewers over the result. Professional members get a refund if they do not win a grant within 12 months.

Granted AI suits small nonprofits without a grants office, research teams and SBIR applicants who face long, rule-heavy solicitations. Areas it could add are grants management and outside validation: post-award tracking, named integrations beyond Word export and public user ratings are not yet available, and its pages quote different prices for Professional. We rate it 8.3/10 on our scale. We have not used Granted ourselves; this review is based on Granted’s product, pricing and technical pages and its published comparison.

Granted AI by the Numbers

Granted publishes unusually detailed numbers about its search engine, alongside its prices.

For a small nonprofit, the price rows tell the story. A year of Professional at the $89 monthly rate costs $1,068, roughly a fifth of the $5,000 low end Granted quotes for a single proposal from a hired writer. That does not make the drafts as good as a seasoned writer’s, but it lowers the cost of trying.

The search figures are more technical than most buyers need, but they show Granted has put real engineering into finding the right grants, not only into writing. Some numbers differ across its pages, such as 85,000 versus 140,000 grants and $57 versus $89 for Professional, so check the plan at checkout; aligning them would help buyers.

Granted’s Four-Step Proposal Workflow

Granted describes itself as RFP-first. Instead of writing from a description of your project, it starts from what the funder asked for.

Finding Grants in Granted

Applicants search by agency, topic, eligibility and deadline across federal, state, foundation and international sources. Behind the search, Granted expands queries with synonyms, matches by meaning and fuses results from five AI search providers, then re-ranks them with its own model. Foundation profiles come from IRS 990 filings. Prospect lists, saved searches, a pipeline tracker and deadline monitoring keep candidates organized.

Reading the Solicitation

When you upload an RFP, notice of funding opportunity or program announcement, Granted extracts every required section, sub-requirement, scoring criterion, formatting rule, eligibility condition and deadline, and turns them into a drafting plan. This matters most for federal solicitations from agencies such as NIH, NSF, DOE and DARPA, where missing a required element can sink an application.

The Grant Writing Coach

Before drafting, the coach asks questions about your organization, team, budget and methods, each tied to a specific funder requirement. Granted says it asks for missing information rather than making it up, and that every paragraph traces back to your answers.

Section Drafts and the Coverage Tracker

Each section is drafted separately, so a budget justification reads differently from a research strategy or a needs statement. A live dashboard shows which funder requirements are covered, partly covered or missing, which turns the last days before a deadline into a checklist.

The Granted Review Board

Six AI reviewers score the draft and return findings ranked by severity, with suggested fixes that can be applied in one click. The comparison post says Professional includes up to three committee reviews per proposal.

A Federal Proposal in Granted, Start to Finish

Picture a research team responding to a federal solicitation with a dozen required sections. They find the opportunity in Granted’s search, upload the announcement and get a plan listing each section, its page limits, the scoring criteria reviewers will use and the deadline. Over a few sessions the coach asks for aims, preliminary data, team roles and budget lines, and Granted drafts each part. The coverage tracker flags that the data management plan is still missing and that one scoring criterion is only partly addressed. The Review Board then marks a weak significance argument as a high-severity finding, and the team accepts a revision before polishing the final text themselves.

For a small nonprofit applying to a state program or a foundation, the steps are the same but shorter. The value is less in speed than in not missing what the funder asked for.

What the Applicant Still Does

You supply the facts, numbers and evidence, decide what to claim, check every draft and submit through the funder’s system. Granted does not submit applications or manage awards after they are won.

What Granted Costs a Small Grants Team

Granted publishes prices, but its pages do not fully agree. This table shows each figure with where it appears.

Three Grant Budgets Worked Out

• A small nonprofit testing AI: the free tier’s five drafts a month can cover a single proposal’s sections. Cost: $0.
• A part-time grants coordinator writing six proposals a year: Basic at $29 a month is $348 a year. Five drafts a month may be tight in deadline months, so expect to upgrade around big submissions.
• A research team or consultant writing many federal proposals: Professional at $89 a month is $1,068 a year on monthly billing; at the $57 rate it would be $684 a year. Unlimited drafts and the Review Board justify the step up.

Compare those figures with what the grants are worth. A single $25,000 foundation award would cover more than 20 years of Professional at the $89 monthly rate, so the subscription only has to lift your win rate slightly to pay for itself.

No usage charges are listed. The main other cost is staff time to answer the coach’s questions well, which is where most of the proposal’s quality comes from. Read the refund guarantee terms on the pricing page before relying on them.

Granted AI Compared With Grantable, Instrumentl and Bonterra Que

Grant tools split between writing assistants, grant databases with management, and suites inside a nonprofit CRM.

Granted is the cheapest way to get strong drafts against a demanding solicitation. Grantable is a better fit for teams that reuse past proposals and juggle many deadlines, and Instrumentl is the choice when post-award reporting matters. Bonterra Que only makes sense inside Bonterra. See more on our AI agents for nonprofits page.

Granted’s own comparison is useful context, keeping in mind that Granted wrote it. It credits Instrumentl with stronger post-award management and Grantable with lifecycle tools such as document storage and reporting, and it positions Granted on proposal competitiveness. That is a fair summary of where each product puts its effort, and it means many grants teams will end up using two tools.

To compare, take one real RFP, run it through the free tiers of Granted and Grantable, and score the drafts against the funder’s own criteria. Count how many required elements each one missed.

Who Should Use Granted AI

• Small nonprofits without a grants office: the coach and coverage tracker give structure that an experienced writer would otherwise supply.
• Research teams on federal proposals: NIH, NSF, DOE and DARPA solicitations are the RFPs Granted is built around.
• SBIR applicants: Granted names Phase I and II proposals across DOD, NIH, NSF, DOE and USDA as a core use.
• Grant consultants: unlimited drafts on Professional suit writers handling several clients.

Grants Teams That May Want a Different Tool

• Teams that need award tracking and reporting: Instrumentl covers post-award work.
• Nonprofits on Bonterra or Salesforce wanting one system: Bonterra Que or Agentforce Nonprofit keep grants with donor data.
• Organizations writing short letters to local funders: a lighter tool or Grantable‘s free plan may be enough.
• Buyers needing peer reviews before buying: there are no public ratings yet.

Points to Check Before Choosing Granted AI

• Figures that differ across pages: Granted’s pages quote 85,000 and 140,000 grants and $57 and $89 for Professional.
• Guarantee terms: the pages reviewed give limited detail on the refund promise, and fuller terms on the page would help; read the full terms.
• Draft quality depends on your answers: the coach cannot invent your outcomes data, budget or evidence.
• Integrations: Word export is the main output path, and sync with a CRM or grants system is not yet offered.
• Funder rules on AI: some funders ask applicants to disclose or limit AI use; check each solicitation before submitting AI-drafted text.
• Five-draft cap on Basic: a single complex proposal can use several drafts, so Basic may run out in busy months.
• Young product: no user counts or grants-won figures are published yet, and sharing them would help buyers.

Granted AI Research Paper and Pricing Updates

Granted’s technical page says a paper describing its search and ranking system was submitted to NeurIPS 2026, reporting a 10.2% gain in nDCG@10 from its LambdaMART ranker and a cross-encoder precision at five of 60.3%. Its comparison with Grantable, Instrumentl and Candid, first published September 5, 2025 and last verified April 11, 2026, lists Basic at $29 and Professional at $89 a month, while its pricing page now shows Professional from $57 a month.

Granted AI on Our Scoring Scale

Granted AI scores 8.3/10 on our scale. Price and setup earn its best marks: a free tier, a $29 entry plan, self-serve sign-up and a refund guarantee. Its RFP-first workflow and coverage tracker address the most common reason proposals fail, missing what the funder asked for, and its stated policy of never training on user data will reassure nonprofits handling sensitive program details.

The refund guarantee is unusual in this category and shifts some risk to Granted; it applies to Professional, and its conditions could be spelled out more fully on the pages we reviewed.

Granted could raise its score by adding integrations, aligning the figures across its pages and building a base of public user ratings. For a small nonprofit or research team facing a complex RFP, it is worth trying on the free tier. Teams that need full grants management should pair it with, or choose, a tool like Instrumentl.

Grant Writer Questions About Granted AI

How Much Does Granted AI Cost Each Month?

Plans start at $29 a month. Professional is listed from $57 a month on the pricing page and at $89 a month on monthly billing in Granted’s comparison post. A free tier offers five AI drafts a month.

Does Granted Make Up Facts in Proposals?

Granted says its coach asks for missing information rather than inventing it and that every paragraph traces back to your answers. You should still check every claim before submitting.

Can Granted Submit My Application?

No. Granted finds grants, analyzes the RFP and drafts and reviews sections. You export to Word and submit through the funder’s own system.

Is My Proposal Data Used to Train AI?

Granted says uploaded RFPs, coach answers and drafts are private to your account, never used to train models and never shared with third parties.

How Does Granted Compare With Grantable?

Granted drafts from the funder’s solicitation and tracks requirement coverage, while Grantable drafts from your project information and past proposals and adds lifecycle tools such as deadline tracking and document storage.