Trajecta vs · Prompt
Prompt sells human essay coaching with published prices: $999 for the Common App personal statement, up to $4,999 for every written part of every application, with a matched Writing Coach and a Student Success Manager. Trajecta is an AI counselor covering essays and everything around them for $249.99 a year. One is a specialist with people. The other is a generalist with software. This page compares them straight.
01 · The price
Prompt publishes every package price on its site, which deserves credit before any comparison: it is the transparency this industry mostly avoids. Their figures below are current published prices, not estimates.
Trajecta Pro, full year
$249.99
Prompt · Common App essay only
$999
Prompt · 1 to 3 applications
$1,999–$2,999
Prompt · 6 to all applications
$3,999–$4,999
Prompt package prices from their published pricing page. Retrieved July 19, 2026. Trajecta pricing current as of the same date.
02 · Area by area
Prompt descriptions below are from their own site, retrieved on the date under the price chart. The two products overlap on exactly one thing, essay feedback, and differ on everything else.
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With Prompt
Prompt publishes its prices, which deserves real credit in an industry that mostly quotes behind closed doors. Coaching on the Common App personal statement is $999. Every written part of one application is $1,999, three applications $2,999, six $3,999, and all applications $4,999, with monthly payment options. The scope is the written application: essays and the words around them.
With Trajecta
Trajecta Pro is $249.99 a year, or $24.99 a month, and the scope is the whole engagement: direction, activities, coursework, the college list, unlimited essay feedback, and a committee read of the finished application. On price alone, a full Trajecta year costs a quarter of Prompt’s single-essay package.
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With Prompt
A human Writing Coach, matched to the student, works one-on-one through video calls and written feedback across planning, drafting, and revision, with no hour limits inside the package scope. A good coach hears voice and pushes a student in ways a student notices. That is the product, and it is a real one.
With Trajecta
AI feedback, inline on every draft, tied to the full profile. It will not meet you on video. It will read the tenth draft at 11pm with the same attention as the first, and it reads every essay against the rest of your application, catching the draft that contradicts your activity list or retells what the file already says.
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With Prompt
Prompt is a specialist by design. The packages cover the written parts of the applications you buy, with an activities-list option on the smallest package. Direction, college list strategy, and the rest of the profile are out of scope.
With Trajecta
The essays are one part of the product. The direction compass and missions work the years before application season, the activity coach reads and rewrites every entry, the college list is scored from your record against each school’s Common Data Set, and Committee Review deliberates the finished application as a whole.
Browse the college data →04
With Prompt
Every package includes a Student Success Manager whose job is coordination and accountability: keeping the calls scheduled and the drafts moving. For a student who needs a person expecting things from them, this quietly matters as much as the coaching.
With Trajecta
Accountability is structural instead of human: missions surface the next concrete step, the profile-strength categories show what is thin, and progress updates the whole system. It works when the student opens the app. It cannot call anyone who does not.
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With Prompt
Prompt coaches until the written parts are done well, essay by essay. The judgment of how the whole application lands stays with the student and whoever else reads it.
With Trajecta
The last step is the room. A specialist essay reader files a report, four officers read the entire application through different lenses and disagree in writing, and a chair resolves the split into a decision with next steps, anchored to the school’s own published numbers. The essays get judged as what they are on decision day: one input among everything else.
Watch a full run on a real application →03 · Side by side
| Prompt | Trajecta | |
|---|---|---|
| What it costs | $999 (Common App essay) to $4,999 (all applications), published openly. | $249.99 a year or $24.99 a month for Pro. Free tier included. |
| Scope | The written application: essays and coaching around them. | The whole engagement: direction, activities, list, essays, committee. |
| Who reads drafts | A matched human Writing Coach, unlimited within package scope. | AI inline feedback on unlimited drafts, aware of the whole application. |
| Accountability | A Student Success Manager keeps the work moving. | Missions and profile-strength tracking. No human calls you. |
| The finished file | Done when the essays are done. | Deliberated by a simulated committee: four reads, a split, a decision. |
| Honest limits | Essay-scope only, priced per application, and quality rides on your coach match. | No human coach and no video calls. A simulation is not a prediction, ours included. |
Both columns are honest. The limits row applies to us too.
04 · Credit where due
Prompt does several things the rest of this industry should copy, starting with the prices being on the website.
Published prices
Prompt puts every package price on a public page. Almost nobody in admissions consulting does that, and it is exactly the transparency families should demand. It also made this comparison page easy to write honestly.
Unlimited inside the scope
No hour limits within a package is the right model for essay coaching, because drafting is iterative and students should not ration feedback. Their refund policy after the first call is also fair dealing.
A real human coach
A good writing coach on video can push a student in ways software does not: hearing what a student says out loud but did not write down. For a family whose main worry is the essays and whose budget covers it, Prompt is a credible specialist.
05 · FAQ
Prompt publishes its prices: $999 for coaching on the Common App personal statement, $1,999 for every written part of one application, $2,999 for three, $3,999 for six, and $4,999 for all applications, each with monthly payment options and a Writing Coach plus Student Success Manager included. Verified against myprompt.com in July 2026.
One-on-one coaching from a matched human Writing Coach through video calls and written feedback, across planning, drafting, and revising every written part of the applications in your package, with no hour limits inside that scope. A Student Success Manager coordinates and keeps the student accountable, and their platform manages the essay workflow.
Prompt gives you a human coach on video, which is a different experience from AI feedback and better for some students. Trajecta gives you unlimited profile-aware feedback on every draft for a fraction of the price, plus everything around the essays. If essays are your only concern and the budget covers four figures, Prompt is a credible specialist. If you want the whole engagement, or the same iteration volume for $249.99 a year, that is Trajecta.
They fail differently. A human coach hears voice, reads the student’s energy, and pushes back in conversation. AI feedback is instant, unlimited, and never tired, and Trajecta’s reads the essay against the entire application rather than in isolation. Plenty of strong essays have come from both. What matters is iteration: the essays that improve are the ones that get rewritten.
Yes, and the combination is coherent: Trajecta for the profile, the list, unlimited drafting feedback, and the committee rehearsal, with Prompt’s human coaching on the one or two essays that matter most, if the budget allows. Their Common App package plus a Trajecta year still totals less than their three-application package.
No. Essays are one part: inline feedback on every draft plus a brainstorm workspace. Around them sit the direction compass, weekly missions, AI coaching on every activity and award entry, a college list scored against each school’s Common Data Set, and Committee Review, where the finished application gets deliberated by four AI officers and a chair.
Unlimited drafts, the whole profile, and a committee read of the finished application, for a quarter of a single-essay package.