What Free vs Pro actually unlocks
Pricing pages compress; this page does not. Here is the exact line between tiers, feature by feature, including what Free deliberately keeps and why the paywall sits where it sits.
The principle
Free is discovery, Pro is workflow. You can find things on Free indefinitely: full search, full browse, the daily Top 3, the weekly wire. What Pro adds is everything that turns finding into a repeatable process: saving, alerting, scoring, and depth on funders and signals. If you use Raise Lens once, Free is enough. If you use it weekly, the workflow features are the product.
The full split
| Capability | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Search and browse the full opportunity feed | Yes | Yes |
| All filters: type, sector, country, deadline, value band | Yes | Yes |
| Daily Top 3 shelf | Yes | Yes |
| Weekly news wire (edited digest) | Yes | Yes |
| Dismiss records to clean your feed | Yes | Yes |
| Funder directory, card level | Yes | Yes |
| Save opportunities to a watchlist | Yes | |
| Saved searches with alerts | Yes | |
| Weekly digest emails, deadline-aware | Yes | |
| Match scoring against your profile | Yes | |
| Full funder profiles: programmes, cheque sizes, application context, recent grants | Yes | |
| Full signal stream with type, score and country filters | Yes | |
| Premium sector deep-dive views | Yes | |
| Application draft generator (beta) | Yes |
£50/mo or £500/year, Stripe-billed in GBP, USD or EUR, cancel any time. No seat minimums, no sales call. Enterprise arrangements exist for teams; ask at hello@raiselens.com.
Two things worth stating plainly
Teaser records. Some Free records show the funding detail with the funder identity withheld: "Foundation has £2M for climate adaptation" rather than the name. Same record, same data quality; the identity is the paid field. You can see this mechanic on any anonymised card, and dissected at Sample unlocked opportunity.
The free tier is not crippled on purpose. Discovery staying free is the strategy, not a trial. A founder who finds one grant through Free search and applies is a good outcome for us; they tend to come back when tracking ten deadlines by memory stops working.
Which tier do you need?
- Checking whether funding exists for your work: Free, today, no card.
- Running the weekly founder workflow: Pro pays for itself against the hours.
- Running the BD workflow across business lines: Pro; saved searches and the signal stream are the core of it.
- Landscape research: Free covers browsing; Pro adds funder depth and the raw signal stream. See Raise Lens for research teams.
Related
- Sample unlocked opportunity
- A founder workflow and A BD workflow
- Last refreshed, the thing your subscription actually pays for