Five tiers. Straight answers on what you get.
Australian dollars, ex GST, with the GST-inclusive total on every card. No lock-in, cancel any time. Every AI allowance is a real number, not an asterisk. This page explains not just what each tier includes but why it is priced the way it is.
- 3 active opportunities at a time
- Federal feeds: AusTender and GrantConnect
- Weekly email digest
- Basic capability matching
- 10 active opportunities
- Every live feed Helm watches, all states
- Full itemised match scores on every tender
- Daily digest and alerts
- 3 saved searches with digest alerts
- CSV and calendar exports
- 25 active opportunities
- Everything Helm indexes in YOUR state: council tenders plus live state portals (QLD and NT today)
- Bid workspaces: tender packs, compliance matrix, checklist
- Evidence Library: 25 company documents with expiry alerts
- Answer bank: 25 approved reusable answers, citable in drafts
- 15 AI deep reads a month
- Ask the pack: 50 cite-or-refuse questions a month over your uploaded tender documents
- 2 AI-drafted sections a month
- Deadline reminders 7 / 3 / 1
- 10 saved searches with digest alerts
- See and track every tender nationwide; bid workspaces and AI work your state (interstate opens on National Pro)
- 100 active opportunities
- Nationwide: every tender Helm indexes, federal, state and council
- Every future source included at your locked-in price
- Evidence Library: 100 documents with expiry alerts
- Answer bank: 100 approved reusable answers, citable in drafts
- 100 AI deep reads a month
- Ask the pack: 200 cite-or-refuse questions a month over your uploaded tender documents
- 8 AI-drafted sections a month
- The Opener: distinctive first-line suggestions per tender
- Per-tender capability statement, built from the elements that fit
- Win Readiness Score and capability-gap analysis
- Contract clause flags: liability, indemnity, IP and termination clauses quoted from your pack
- Unlimited saved searches with digest alerts
- Instant email when a new 80+ match lands
- Priority support
- Everything in National Pro
- Unlimited AI deep reads (fair use)
- Unlimited Ask-the-pack questions (fair use)
- Contract clause flags on every pack
- Unlimited AI-drafted sections (fair use)
- The Opener: distinctive first-line suggestions per tender
- Per-tender capability statement, built from the elements that fit
- Unlimited Evidence Library and answer bank
- Up to 3 users in one shared workspace: invite your team, one pipeline, who-did-what on every status change
Prices exclude GST. The GST-inclusive total is shown with every price above, and your invoice itemises the GST. Both numbers are on the card before you commit; checkout adds nothing you have not already seen.
The price follows the coverage map
Helm's prices follow its coverage. When a major new source lands, the list price rises for new customers, and only for them: your price never changes while you stay subscribed.
The reason is not just more data. Every added source means more tenders and grants for Helm's AI engine to analyse: every record is scored against your profile, matched semantically, and available for deep reads and drafting. That analysis runs on real compute, and it grows with every source we add. A bigger coverage map is a bigger brain doing more work per customer. The price of joining later reflects that. The price of having joined earlier does not.
The thinking behind the tiers
The prices in this section are the monthly-billing rates, ex GST, with the GST-inclusive total in brackets. The toggle above shows the annual rates, which take 20% off the ex-GST base; GST applies to the discounted amount.
Watcher is free forever because seeing the market should cost nothing. Federal feeds, basic matching and a weekly digest, capped at 3 tracked opportunities. It is enough to learn whether government work is real for your business before you spend a dollar.
Tracker ($99 a month + GST, $108.90 inc. GST) is market-watching done properly. Where a notification service sends you links, Tracker watches every live feed Helm has, in every state, and shows the itemised maths on every match. That is the same full scoring the bigger tiers get, because we don't degrade intelligence to force an upgrade. The paid climb starts when you decide to actually bid one.
Regional Pro ($199 a month + GST, $218.90 inc. GST) is for businesses that win work close to home, and it is where the bid workspaces begin: tender packs, the compliance matrix, the submission checklist, 15 AI deep reads and 2 AI-drafted sections a month. You still see and track every tender nationwide, same as Tracker; the workspaces and AI tools work tenders in your own state, which is exactly why it costs less than National.
National Pro ($399 a month + GST at founding pricing, $438.90 inc. GST) unlocks the whole country, 100 deep reads and 8 drafted sections a month, every future source at your locked-in price, and the two analysis tools that pay for the tier: the Win Readiness Score and capability-gap analysis.
Bid Desk ($849 a month + GST, $933.90 inc. GST) is for businesses responding to tenders every week. Unlimited deep reads and drafting on fair use, up to 3 users, everything in National Pro. It costs less than one bid-consultant day a month.
Straight answers
- Is GST included? Prices are shown ex GST, because for a GST-registered business the ex-GST figure is the real cost. The GST-inclusive total sits beside every price on this page, checkout shows the GST as its own line, and your invoice itemises it. Nothing appears at checkout that is not already on the card.
- Lock-in? None. Month to month, cancel from your billing portal any time, access runs to the end of the paid month.
- Refunds? Cancel any time from your billing portal and your plan stays active until the end of the period you have paid for. We do not refund part-way through a paid period.
- What counts as an active opportunity? Anything you are tracking in your watchlist. Untrack one and the slot frees up immediately.
- What happens when I use my month's AI allowance? The buttons show a running count, and when it's spent they say so and offer the next tier. Nothing fails silently, and the counter resets on the 1st.
- Chamber, association or enterprise? Talk to us. Chamber members get 20% off every paid tier's ex-GST price, with GST applying to the discounted amount (the same discount as annual billing; the two don't stack).