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Families get admissions help from consultants, counseling platforms, and AI tools. These pages compare Trajecta with each of them honestly: sourced pricing with retrieval dates, and the trade-offs stated in both directions. More comparisons are on the way.
Human help
Consultants run $140 to $230 an hour and $4,000 to $12,000 for a package. This page breaks that package into its six jobs and shows how each side does them, including what a good consultant does that software cannot.
Read the comparison →Free platform
CollegeVine is free: a chancing calculator, peer essay review, and a big community, funded by college partners. Trajecta is paid and does the work with you. Where each one actually helps, area by area.
Read the comparison →Premium consulting
Crimson packages reportedly start near $30,000: a staffed team of strategists, mentors, and former admissions officers. What that buys, what software covers, and where each honestly wins.
Read the comparison →AI committee
Both stage an AI admissions committee. Kolly centers the room on your essays. Trajecta puts the whole application in it. The closest comparison on this list, taken seriously.
Read the comparison →AI analyzer
Both read the entire application, essays included. Uni App returns scores across admissions dimensions and a spike chart. Trajecta stages the deliberation and hands you the argument.
Read the comparison →Essay coaching
Prompt sells human essay coaching at published prices, $999 to $4,999 per package. Trajecta covers essays and everything around them for $249.99 a year. The specialist and the generalist.
Read the comparison →Counselor network
A matched human counselor and packages reported at $10,495 to $29,695, with sessions, essay edits, and committee reviews in counted amounts. The meter against the flat rate.
Read the comparison →Free AI counselor
Kollegio is a free AI counselor: matching, essay support, scholarships, activity feedback. Where their free product and our free tier overlap, and what the paid layer actually buys.
Read the comparison →Essay grader
GradGPT grades essays against college rubrics and admitted-student benchmarks, with genuinely useful public admissions data. Trajecta reads the whole file and stages the room. A grader and a room.
Read the comparison →School platform
Scoir is the platform your school may already run on: transcripts, counselor network, college matching, free for students. The one comparison where the honest verdict is that they stack.
Read the comparison →Storytelling coach
ESAI sells AI storytelling and a voice coach at $99 a month or $950 a year, the steepest AI-tool pricing in this series. Story-first against file-first, with the chart drawn to scale.
Read the comparison →Super app
Collegize bundles application tools and SAT/ACT/AP prep at $19 a month or $89.99 a year at current offers, the cheapest paid all-in-one here. Breadth against depth, priced honestly.
Read the comparison →AI agent team
Unive sells an AI admissions team with mock interviews and mentor calls, about $59 a month or $299 a year converted from per-day pricing. Task agents against one deliberating room.
Read the comparison →The roundup
All eight kinds of help on one honest list, from free platforms to $60,000 teams, with real prices, declared bias, and a pick per category. Start here if you are starting from zero.
Read the comparison →The category
Not sure which kind of help you are even choosing between? The committee page compares the three categories side by side and shows a real committee run on a real application.
See the categories →Honest answers
No, and we build admissions AI. The straight answer on prediction, plus companion pages on how accurate chancing calculators really are and how to actually tell your chances.
See the categories →Comparison tables only go so far. Build a free profile and look at what the product actually does with it.