BidscopevsCLEATUS
A lower price, proposals on the entry plan, and filters, not chat.
If you're not using Bidscope, you're missing perfect-fit opportunities.
Most tools watch bid portals. Bidscope's agentic crawler also goes where there is no portal — into school district Google Drives, town and county websites, legal notices in local newspapers, and council and board packets. A solicitation that never reaches a portal never reaches a portal-based tool. It's still on Bidscope.
The short answer
CLEATUS's comparable tier is $78 per user per month with AI chat metered at 50 credits and document storage capped at 100MB, with its proposal writer and REST API reserved for a contact-us tier, while Bidscope is $45 per seat per month with unlimited chat and documents and a proposal a month drafted, filled out and submitted for you — and where CLEATUS's discovery is deliberately chat-first, Bidscope gives you 30+ structured filters over the requirements extracted from every attachment.
- What it costs
- Bidscope$45/month per seat, proposal writing included
- CLEATUS$78/user/month for the comparable tier
- Where opportunities come from
- BidscopeAn agentic crawler over 50,000+ sources — district Drives, county sites, newspaper notices
- CLEATUSNamed sources, plus multi-state platforms and state portals
- How you narrow the list
- Bidscope30+ filters over extracted requirements, plus AI matching
- CLEATUSChat-first — "no complex filters or search syntax required"
- What's capped
- BidscopeChat, documents, smart codes and pipeline are unlimited
- CLEATUS50 AI credits/month, 100MB documents, up to 5 seats
- Once you decide to bid
- BidscopeBidscope AI drafts it, fills out the forms, and submits it — from the $45 plan
- CLEATUSA proposal writer on the contact-us tier; you download and submit
CLEATUS vs Bidscope, feature by feature
Where a cell says a plan name, that's the Bidscope tier the feature starts on.
| Capability |  | CLEATUS |
|---|---|---|
| Coverage | ||
| Federal, state, local and education solicitations | BidscopeYes | CLEATUSYes |
| Agencies with no bid portal (district Drives, county sites, newspaper notices) | BidscopeReached by agentic crawler | CLEATUSOften via a multi-state platform or state portal |
| Exclusive opportunities from partner buyers | BidscopeYes | CLEATUSNo |
| Narrowing the list | ||
| Structured filters over extracted requirements | Bidscope30+ | CLEATUSChat-first by design |
| Filter by set-aside, bonding, insurance limits and budget | BidscopeYes | CLEATUSNo |
| Filter by radius from your office locations | BidscopeYes | CLEATUSNo |
| Saved views you can rely on returning the same set | BidscopeYes | CLEATUSNo |
| Bid tabulations — who bid, and at what | BidscopeYes | CLEATUSNo |
| What's metered | ||
| AI chat | BidscopeUnlimited | CLEATUS50 credits/month on DATA + AI |
| Document storage | BidscopeUnlimited | CLEATUS100MB on DATA + AI |
| Seats on a published plan | BidscopeAny number, at $45 each | CLEATUSUp to 5 |
| Opportunities in your pipeline | BidscopeUnlimited | CLEATUSUnlimited on the contact-us tier |
| Before the solicitation | ||
| Expiring contracts and upcoming recompetes | BidscopeFederal and SLED, Professional plan | CLEATUSFederal |
| Meeting notes | BidscopeAI alerts on what's discussed, Professional plan | CLEATUSMeeting calendars, linked to agendas and minutes |
| Writing and submitting | ||
| AI proposal writer | BidscopeStarter plan, $45/month | CLEATUSContact-us tier only |
| Fills out the agency's own forms, price sheets and templates | BidscopeStarter plan and up | CLEATUSContact-us tier only |
| Submits the proposal to the agency for you | BidscopeBy email or mail | CLEATUSNo |
| Matching | ||
| AI relevance score on every opportunity | BidscopeYes | CLEATUSYes |
| Several matching profiles for separate business lines | BidscopeYes | CLEATUSNo |
| Tune matching by editing the codes behind a match | BidscopeYes | CLEATUSNo |
| Daily email digest | BidscopeYour matches, ranked by fit | CLEATUSDaily matches with a compliance read |
| Terms and tooling | ||
| MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT and other AI clients | BidscopeProfessional plan, $340/month | CLEATUSFrom $78/user/month |
| REST API | BidscopeProfessional plan, published price | CLEATUSContact-us tier only |
| Published price for the full product | BidscopeYes | CLEATUSTop two tiers are contact-us |
| Month-to-month option | Bidscope$90/month | CLEATUSMonthly at a higher rate |
| Free plan | BidscopeYes | CLEATUS7-day trial |
| Percentage of your winnings | BidscopeNone | CLEATUSNone |
What a year costs
Both sides publish per-seat pricing, so this compares like with like. CLEATUS's $39 DATA tier is cheaper than Bidscope but excludes AI chat, the CRM and the Claude and ChatGPT connectors, and allows one seat — the tier that matches what Bidscope's Starter plan does is DATA + AI.
DATA + AI at $78/user/month, the seat ceiling on this tier — 50 AI credits each per month.
No seat ceiling, and no AI credits to ration per seat.
$1,980 less per year at the same team size — CLEATUS lists 1.7× the price for this configuration.
Why teams switch from CLEATUS
The reasons people give us on onboarding calls, in the order we hear them.
We go where the bids actually are
CLEATUS's own coverage documentation is candid about the method: a local government it doesn't name is "often still covered indirectly through a multi-state platform (OpenGov, PlanetBids, BidNet, Bonfire, DemandStar…) or its state portal." Bidscope doesn't need the district to be on a platform. Our agentic crawler goes into school district Google Drives, town and county sites that were never built to be scraped, legal notices in local newspapers, council and board packets — which is how we carry more state and local solicitations than any other commercially available tool.
50,000+ sources daily, including agencies on no platform at all
Proposals on the entry plan, and sent
CLEATUS's AI Proposal Writer isn't on its $39 or $78 tiers — its pricing page says it requires DATA + AI + Automations, which is contact-us pricing — and it finishes by assembling the package for you to download and submit. Bidscope's proposal writing starts on the $45 Starter plan. Bidscope AI drafts from the solicitation and its attachments using your business details, fills out the agency's own forms, price sheets and templates, and attaches your files. You review and sign, and Bidscope submits it — emailed from your own Gmail account, or printed and mailed to the agency.
From $45, not a contact-us tier
$45, not $78
CLEATUS's DATA tier is $39/user/month, but it has no AI chat, no CRM and one seat — the tier that matches what Bidscope's Starter plan does is DATA + AI at $78/user/month, $936 a year, and even that has no proposal writer. Bidscope is $45/month per seat, $540 a year, and that already includes AI matching, the pipeline, daily alerts and a proposal a month.
$540 a year against $936, like for like
Nothing behind a meter
On CLEATUS's DATA + AI tier the AI chat runs on 50 credits a month, the Document Hub stops at 100MB, seats cap at five, and unlimited pursuits arrive only on the contact-us tier above it. Bidscope doesn't meter any of that. Ask as many questions as you like, keep as many opportunities in your pipeline as you like, run as many smart codes as you like — the invoice is the same at the end of the month.
Unlimited chat, documents, codes and pursuits
Filters, not just a chat box
CLEATUS markets chat-first discovery — "Skip the filters and search boxes… No complex filters or search syntax required." That's lovely for a question you can phrase. It's harder when you want the whole list sliced a particular way, every day, the same way. Bidscope extracts budget, bonding, insurance limits, set-asides, pre-bid meetings, local preference and place of performance into structured fields, so 30+ filters give you a saved view you can trust rather than a fresh answer each time you ask.
30+ filters over extracted requirements
The API without a quote
Bidscope's REST API and MCP server both come with the Professional plan at a published $340/month. On CLEATUS the REST API sits in DATA + AI + Automations, which is contact-us pricing, and the Claude and ChatGPT connectors start at $78/user/month. If building on the data is part of your plan, that's the difference between reading a pricing page and booking a call.
API + MCP on a published plan
Contractors are winning with Bidscope
Bidscope helps first-time contractors and enterprise businesses discover and win more contracts.
“In less than three months, we secured our first contract valued at $86,000 the first year, with the possibility of renewal each year for up to 5 years total, or $430,000 in new business. Investing in Bidscope is one of the best business decisions I have made in a very long time. There are a lot of things in the market that promise to increase sales and we have invested in many of them only to be disappointed. To date, none of them has so quickly and so greatly paid off!”
“Bidscope has been a cost-effective addition to our U.S. Federal, State, and local government business development pipeline activities. It has allowed our business to broaden our awareness and reach across the government procurement landscape. The email notifications are efficient and informative, allowing for a quick and confident assessment of interest.”
“Bidscope has significantly streamlined our RFP/RFQ search process through flexible, criteria-based filtering that quickly identifies relevant opportunities. We've found RFPs we hadn't seen through other channels, even within our home state. This has allowed us to expand our reach and pursue projects we otherwise would have missed.”
“Within 12 months, Bidscope helped us secure two contracts: a one-year contract for $32,000 and another for $80,000, totaling $112,000 in new revenue for the upcoming calendar year. Its matching algorithms have greatly reduced our search time, allowing us to submit more bids, strengthen the quality of our proposals, and focus on opportunities that better align with our strengths.”
Looking for a CLEATUS alternative?
Teams leave CLEATUS for different reasons — price, coverage, what's metered. They pick Bidscope for the same one: more state and local solicitations than any other commercially available tool, matched to a plain-language profile of your business, with the proposal drafted, filled out and submitted for them, at a published $45 per seat per month.
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Starter
- Federal + SLED solicitations
- Federal + SLED contracts
- Federal + SLED vendors, vendor activity, and vendor award history
- Federal + SLED buyers, buyer contacts, and agency award history
- 50,000+ sources daily
- AI-powered matching
- Daily email alerts
- Pipeline tracking
- 1 proposal writing session/month, then $30 each
- Chat support
Submitting a proposal by mail may add printing and postage fees.
Professional
- Everything in Starter
- 15 proposal writing sessions/month, then $30 each
- Access upcoming federal/SLED recompetes
- Federal/SLED procurement forecasts
- AI Federal/SLED agency budget alerts
- AI Federal/SLED meeting notes alerts
- Export contracts, vendors, vendor activity, buyers, and buyer contacts
- GSA eBuy integration
- API + MCP
- SSO
- 10 seats
- Personal onboarding
- Dedicated support
Submitting a proposal by mail may add printing and postage fees.
Business
- Everything in Professional
- Private opportunities
- CRM integration
- Unlimited seats
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Sources
Claims about CLEATUS on this page come from its own published material and from third-party reviews, listed below. CLEATUS is a trademark of its owner and is not affiliated with Bidscope. If something here is out of date, tell us and we'll correct it.