Flat org pricing. No per-seat games.
Candela is priced to sit under one consultant-day a month, and the org brain compounds while you use it. You pay by the size of your organization, not by the head. Everyone belongs in it, so bring everyone in.
Plans and pricing
Pay annually and get 2 months free.
Starter
Evaluators and the smallest teams getting started.
$0Free
- Compliance Inbox: it tracks your grant and reporting deadlines so nothing slips.
Core
Organizations under a $1M budget.
$1,950per year
Includes about $25 a month of AI work.
- Everything in Starter
- Home and the Planning Surface
- Lenses (descriptive read of your data)
- Studio basics: social cards, one-pagers, and a board packet
- Your vault library for documents
- One brand kit
- Google Drive connector
Growth
Organizations with a $1M to $5M budget.
$4,950per year
Includes about $75 a month of AI work.
- Everything in Core
- Insights: reviewed, methods-aware analysis of your data
- Vault search across your whole library
- Grant writer
- Financials
- Governance dashboard
- QuickBooks Online connector
- Crew agents that draft work for your review
- Dashboards
- Impact Report (first-pass register)
- Custom domain
Impact
Organizations at $5M or more, or output-heavy teams.
$9,950per year
Includes about $200 a month of AI work.
- Everything in Growth
- Impact Report at the methods-reviewed register
- Donor Wrapped: one campaign a year included
- Living Presentation
- Three microsites included
- White label
- Priority support
Covered
Teams that hold participant records and protected health information.
from $1,750/mo, plus $35 per CRM user
- Everything in Impact
- HIPAA-covered participant CRM on infrastructure dedicated to your org
- Business Associate Agreement (BAA)
- Security review, single sign-on (SSO), and master service agreement
- Dedicated onboarding
Getting set up
Spark: onboarding that is worth paying for
Onboarding is a paid setup we call Spark. You get a consultant-grade assessment of your organization, and paying for it keeps the work serious on both sides.
Every Spark produces a Synthesis Report: a written read of where your organization stands, built from your own documents.
Spark Lite
$950one time
Guided and self-serve: drop in your corpus, an Excel intake, and your Synthesis Report.
Spark
$2,500one time
Everything in Spark Lite, plus connector setup for Drive and QuickBooks, a curation session with Clayton, and seeded Planning views.
Spark Plus
$5,000one time
Everything in Spark, plus multi-year historical corpus, a brand kit build, and a leadership walkthrough session.
Covered onboarding
$10,000+starting point
Everything in Spark Plus, plus dedicated infrastructure provisioning, your BAA, data migration, and a security review.
AI capacity
AI capacity, explained honestly
Every paid tier includes a generous monthly amount of AI work. Most organizations never reach the cap.
If you do reach it, your work never hard-stops. Candela keeps going on lighter, less expensive models until the next month. You stay in motion.
Need more headroom? Capacity Packs add $50 of monthly AI capacity for $100 a month.
À la carte
Add exactly what you need
These sit outside your subscription. Buy them when you need them, not before.
- Bespoke output templatesCustom output designs beyond your brand kit theming.$2,500 per template
- Extra Donor Wrapped campaignsAdd $150 for each additional 1,000 donors.$950 per campaign, up to 2,500 donors
- Extra micrositesPast your tier's included quota.$50 per month each
- AI Capacity PacksAdds $50 of monthly AI capacity.$100 per month
- Data migrationLegacy data beyond the standard connectors.$175 per hour, or a fixed quote
- Additional brand kitsFor sub-brands and programs.$500 per year each
- Training and workshopsBeyond what onboarding includes.$350 per session
Prism
Need attributed, evaluator-reviewed work?
Prism is the consulting practice. Verify and Badge, Strategy Sprints, and Evaluation Partner retainers all live outside your subscription, on the Consulting page.
See Prism services →