Pricing
Start free. When you're comparing colleges in earnest, one Aid Season subscription covers every child in your family.
Coming to the App Store in 2027. These are the plans and prices AidAhead will launch with.
Free
$0
No account, no time limit.
- Your federal Student Aid Index and Pell Grant, with how each was worked out
- One college's estimate, with its merit scholarship estimate (the first college on your lists that uses only the FAFSA®)
- The college finder: colleges sorted by what families like yours pay
- The before-you-file check: what the FAFSA counts and what it leaves out
- Award-letter reading and comparison
- The deadline and document tracker
- All help
Aid Season
$129 per year
7-day free trial. Every child in your family.
- Everything in Free
- Cost and merit estimates for every college on every child's list
- Estimates for colleges that use the CSS Profile®, with each college's own rules
- The base-year planner: taxes and aid under scenarios you choose
- Appeal letters built from your facts
- The Parent PLUS loan planner
- Your family's college years: every child's costs, year by year, including years when two are in college at once
The details
- One subscription, every device. Works on iPhone, iPad and Mac with the same Apple Account.
- Family Sharing. Share Aid Season with your family through Apple's Family Sharing.
- Free trial. Cancel during the 7 days and you aren't charged.
- Cancel any time in your Apple Account's subscription settings. Billing is handled by Apple; we never see your payment details.
- No fee tied to aid. The price is the same whatever aid your family receives. We take no commissions or referral fees.
- Prices are in U.S. dollars and may vary by country.
The FAFSA is free. You never need to pay anyone to file it. File it yourself at studentaid.gov. AidAhead helps you understand and plan; it doesn't file anything for you.