Good Grants vs Optimy
These two sit on opposite sides of the table. Good Grants is built for running an application round and judging it, with annual plans posted on its pricing page and no per-seat fee. Optimy is built for the organisation giving the money, with sponsorship and donation requests handled beside grants, and a request for its own price list ended in a dead link. Choose on whether your pain is the judging panel or the CSR programme mix, because the post-award tools, forms, integrations and hosting options differ as well.
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Choose Good Grants ifyou run one or two annual rounds, rely on an external judging panel and want a yearly figure posted in plain sight. You also accept that evaluation and closeout tools are still listed as in development.
Choose Optimy ifyou are a corporate foundation or CSR team that handles grants, sponsorship and donations in one place and want AWS hosting in the EU as an option. You can live with an unpublished price, since no tier price was readable on its own site.
Good Grants and Optimy side by side
| Good Grants | Optimy | |
|---|---|---|
| Our grant management rank | #1 of 15 | #2 of 15 |
| Established in | Australia | Belgium |
| List price, 10 November 2026 | EUR 3,200 a year (Intro) or EUR 6,400 (Premium), no per-seat fee, Enterprise quoted, 14-day trial | Start tier from EUR 650 a month per our category data (not confirmed on the vendor pages we could read); Smart and Pro quoted |
| Free tier | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Self-hostable | — | — |
| Built for | One or two annual grant rounds judged by an external panel | European corporate foundations that run sponsorship and grant programmes together |
| Not for | Funders that need closeout and evaluation workflows now, not on the roadmap | A charity that receives grants rather than gives them |
Both are reviewed in full in our grant management ranking: Good Grants and Optimy.
Where they differ
Good Grants 3 · Optimy 2 · open 1- 01
What EUR 3,200 a year buys at Good Grants
Good Grants lists Intro at EUR 3,200 and Premium at EUR 6,400 a year, with Enterprise quoted once you pass 10k applications. The page states that it charges no per-user or per-seat fee, so adding judges and managers does not move the bill. A 14-day free trial is offered, and no free plan is listed. For a small funder, a figure on the page before any sales call makes budget approval much simpler to arrange.
Edge: Good Grants
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Optimy's price list that was not there
Our request for the Optimy pricing page hit a 404, and the NPO programme page shows no prices, currency or billing period. Our category data lists a Start tier from EUR 650 a month, with Smart and Pro quoted, but we could not confirm that on the vendor's own pages. The NPO page offers a free product demo only, with no free plan or trial in sight. A buyer starts from a conversation, not a number, and the NPO page adds that large enterprises go live in 6-8 weeks.
Edge: Good Grants
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Judging panels versus giving programmes
Good Grants names five review modes and multiple review rounds, which suits an organisation that hands applications to outside judges. Optimy describes eligibility screening and scoring against weighted criteria, plus branded multilingual application portals, aimed at the team that funds. If your hard problem is scoring many entries fairly, Good Grants is the closer fit. If it is routing sponsorship and donation requests next to grants, Optimy reads closer to the job.
Depends on the buyer
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Where Optimy's AWS region choice meets Good Grants' silence
Optimy says it is hosted on AWS in the EU or the US, and its home page footer lists offices in Brussels and Toronto, so a European buyer can ask for EU hosting. Good Grants says only that it is deployed and accessed in the cloud, and the privacy policy we read names Creative Force Ltd and Award Force Pty Ltd without a registered office. Our data lists Australia for Good Grants and Belgium for Optimy.
Edge: Optimy
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After the award: payments, reports and closeout
Good Grants covers fund allocations, payment scheduling, tranche funding and grantee report forms after the decision, but evaluation and closeout are still listed as in development. Optimy describes budget and disbursement tracking, grantee follow-up with agreements, deliverables and reporting milestones, and impact and CSRD reporting against defined KPIs. For a funder that wants the full cycle on one platform today, Optimy's described scope is wider, though custom reports sit above its entry tier.
Edge: Optimy
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Forms, file limits and connections
On Good Grants, Intro allows one application form and a 10MB file limit per upload, while Premium allows ten forms and unlimited file size, both with up to 10k applications. It names Salesforce, Zapier and Make, WordPress and Copyleaks, plus an API and webhooks. Optimy links to an API integration page and promotes optimy AI, but it names no specific integration anywhere we looked, so ask for the connector list. Good Grants also names a multilingual interface and multi-currency funding.
Edge: Good Grants
When neither fits
If you receive grants rather than give them, neither tool is aimed at you. Submit.com and Foundant GLM are other grantmaker platforms in our grant management ranking, and both are worth a demo if you want a third price to compare.
Good Grants or Optimy: questions
3 answersDoes Good Grants charge extra when we add more judges?
No, the pricing page states that it does not charge per user or per seat, and Intro and Premium both list unlimited users.
The limits that matter are the number of application forms and the 10k application ceiling before Enterprise. Intro allows one form and Premium ten.
Why can't you quote a firm monthly price for Optimy?
The vendor's price page answered with a 404 on our visit, and the NPO programme page states no prices.
Our category data lists Start from EUR 650 a month with Smart and Pro quoted, but we could not verify that on the vendor's own pages. Ask Optimy for a written quote before comparing.
Which of the two lets a European funder choose where data sits?
Optimy states that it is hosted on AWS in the EU or the US, so the choice is offered.
Good Grants says only that it is deployed in the cloud and names no region on the pages we read. If region matters, ask Good Grants in writing.
Sources
Checked 10 November 2026- Good Grants pricing page: annual EUR prices for Intro and Premium, no per-seat charge, form and file-size limits, 14-day trial.
- Good Grants home page: cloud deployment, five review modes, payment scheduling, named integrations and Creative Force footer.
- Optimy home page: AWS hosting in the EU or US, Brussels and Toronto offices, described functions and the API page link.
- Optimy NPO programme page: no prices shown, free product demo only, live in 6-8 weeks for large enterprises.