AutoGrantHunter matches you to Grants.gov and SBIR/STTR grants and drafts proposals. Free account with no card; Pro is $49/mo. Read our review.
Researched and fact-checked by Bartu Cavusoglu · Updated October 26, 2026
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AutoGrantHunter is a web-based grant discovery and drafting tool for researchers, labs, startups, and nonprofits. It matches a user's work to open federal funding opportunities from Grants.gov and SBIR/STTR, then helps turn a selected call into a compliance checklist and a first draft. The site describes it as covering the grant lifecycle from discovery through submission tracking.
The company says the product is built on federal opportunity feeds rather than a general chatbot pointed at a web page. A free account runs Grant Match on live federal data without a card, and a $49 per month Pro plan adds unlimited compliance matrices and narrative drafts. The homepage labels part of the workflow as Beta, so buyers should confirm what is live.
Users create a free account, answer a few questions about their work, and can save a researcher or organization profile. Grant Match then returns live opportunities from Grants.gov and SBIR/STTR and shows why each one fits. The company says this takes minutes. The fuller workflow describes a fit score based on a CV, prior awards, and a project brief, plus an eligibility check before writing begins.
For a chosen call, the product turns the funding announcement into a checklist covering page limits, fonts, mandatory sections, and attachments. It can then produce section-by-section narrative drafts in the user's voice, grounded in source material. Reference data comes from NIH RePORTER, NSF Awards, USAspending, and an archive of agency announcements. Users edit every draft themselves.
Discovery includes a daily digest tuned to topic, eligibility, and career stage, with historical award data on each opportunity. The site says it scans more than 12,000 federal, foundation, and corporate funders. Match scoring ranks calls by fit rather than keyword. Drafting covers Specific Aims, Significance, Approach, and Broader Impact, plus budget justification grounded in institutional rates and figures-aware editing with captions.
Compliance checks cover sponsor-specific page limits, fonts, and margins, required-section coverage, and biosketch and Other Support automation for NIH and NSF. Collaboration features include real-time co-editing, comment threading, role-based permissions, and an audit log. A knowledge base stores prior proposals and syncs a citation library with Zotero and EndNote. A deadline dashboard and a submission packager for ASSIST, Workspace, and ProposalCentral support the workflow.
AutoGrantHunter is a web-based tool that matches researchers, startups, and nonprofits to open federal grants from Grants.gov and SBIR/STTR. It also generates compliance checklists and narrative first drafts for selected opportunities.
A free account costs $0 and requires no card. Pro costs $49 per month and can be cancelled anytime. No annual, team, or enterprise pricing is shown on the site.
Yes. The free account includes Grant Match on live Grants.gov and SBIR/STTR data, a saved researcher or organization profile, and explanations of why each opportunity fits. The compliance matrix is listed as limited on Free.
Pro adds unlimited compliance-matrix generation, narrative first drafts per opportunity, and priority email support. A card is required only at upgrade.
The site targets researchers, labs, and nonprofits, and the product description also names startups. It suits applicants to federal programs such as NIH, NSF, and SBIR/STTR who want help with matching, formatting, and first drafts.
The site names Zotero and EndNote for citation libraries and ASSIST, Workspace, and ProposalCentral for submission packaging. Its data sources include Grants.gov, SBIR/STTR, NIH RePORTER, NSF Awards, and USAspending.
The pricing page lists Pro at $49 per month but also offers a form to be notified when Pro launches. Because the wording is ambiguous, check with the company before relying on Pro features.
It generates first drafts and compliance checklists, but the company says every draft is yours to edit and that it provides the scaffolding while you prepare the submission.