Pricing
Three plans, sized by your group
Pay yearly and it costs ten months, a saving of 17%, or pay monthly with no minimum term. Pay by card, or by invoice with a PO number on a yearly plan. What each plan gives you is running in the product today, and every plan starts with a free 30-day trial.
Euro prices are for research groups in Ireland, Denmark and the Netherlands. Choose your country when you sign up, and add your EU VAT number so invoices carry the reverse-charge note.
Solo
An early-career or newly appointed PI running their first grants.
£166per month, billed yearly
£1,990 a year, billed up front. Ten months' price, a saving of 17%.
£199per month, billed monthly
No minimum term. Yearly billing brings it to £166 a month.
€191per month, billed yearly
€2,290 a year, billed up front. Ten months' price, a saving of 17%.
€229per month, billed monthly
No minimum term. Yearly billing brings it to €191 a month.
- Manage up to 5 research staff
- 1 admin staff seat
- 1 manager seat
- Manage up to 5 facilities
Group
Most popularAn established PI with a full group and several grants running at once.
£291per month, billed yearly
£3,490 a year, billed up front. Ten months' price, a saving of 17%.
£349per month, billed monthly
No minimum term. Yearly billing brings it to £291 a month.
€341per month, billed yearly
€4,090 a year, billed up front. Ten months' price, a saving of 17%.
€409per month, billed monthly
No minimum term. Yearly billing brings it to €341 a month.
- Manage up to 20 research staff
- 2 admin staff seats
- 1 manager seat
- Manage up to 20 facilities
- Pre-award planning, with placeholder staff and budget simulation
- Portfolio risk analysis, graded and costed
- Expense estimate requests sent to staff by email
- Alloc Intelligence included: Ask Alloc with 1,000 messages a month, and Alloc Agent
Portfolio
A large group, or several groups, holding many grants at once.
£416per month, billed yearly
£4,990 a year, billed up front. Ten months' price, a saving of 17%.
£499per month, billed monthly
No minimum term. Yearly billing brings it to £416 a month.
€483per month, billed yearly
€5,790 a year, billed up front. Ten months' price, a saving of 17%.
€579per month, billed monthly
No minimum term. Yearly billing brings it to €483 a month.
- Manage up to 50 research staff
- 2 admin staff seats
- 1 manager seat
- Manage up to 50 facilities
- Everything in Group, with extra research staff seats beyond 50
- Alloc Intelligence with 2,000 Ask Alloc messages a month
Alloc Intelligence is included on Group and Portfolio, and an add-on on Solo. Add extra seats to any plan.
What it saves a group like yours
A year of keeping the allocations and the budget straight. Every number is an assumption, so swap in your own.
£6,900€8,100208 hours back a year
Project manager 6 hours a week on spreadsheets
Today: Allocation and budget spreadsheets kept in line by handWith AllocBoard: allocations and spend on one timeline, overloads flagged
£1,600€1,80035 hours back a year
Principal investigator 1 hour a week on spreadsheets and meetings
Today: Checking the spreadsheets for clashes and overspendsWith AllocBoard: reading the budget forecast or the monthly summary email
£8,500 a yearof staff time back (243 hours), for £3,490 on the Group plan
5 monthsto pay for itself, on time alone
€9,900 a yearof staff time back (243 hours), for €4,090 on the Group plan
5 monthsto pay for itself, on time alone
Plus a record of every allocation and expense change, ready for a funder query, a final report or a handover.
Counts 67% of today's time as saved, since the allocations and the budget still need someone to run them. Salaries: project manager £50,000, principal investigator £70,000, plus 30% employer costs, over a 37.5-hour week.
Counts 67% of today's time as saved, since the allocations and the budget still need someone to run them. Salaries: project manager €58,500, principal investigator €82,000, plus 30% employer costs, over a 37.5-hour week.
Alloc Intelligence: included on Group and Portfolio
Ask Alloc and Alloc Agent come together, for your whole team. They are included on the Group and Portfolio plans, with 1,000 Ask Alloc messages a month across the workspace on Group and 2,000 on Portfolio. On Solo they are an add-on, with 1,000 messages a month. Try both free during the 30-day trial before you decide. See what it does.
On Solo, as an add-on
£83per month, billed yearly
£990 a year, billed up front. Ten months' price, a saving of 17%.
£99per month, billed monthly
No minimum term. Yearly billing brings it to £83 a month.
€99per month, billed yearly
€1,190 a year, billed up front. Ten months' price, a saving of 17%.
€119per month, billed monthly
No minimum term. Yearly billing brings it to €99 a month.
Extra seats
Need one more researcher than your plan allows, or a second person with admin rights? Add a seat to any plan, and remove it whenever the group changes. Seats follow the plan's billing interval, so a yearly subscription buys yearly seats at ten months' price.
Research staff
£13per month, billed yearly
£150 a year, billed up front. Ten months' price, a saving of 17%.
£15per month, billed monthly
No minimum term. Yearly billing brings it to £13 a month.
€15per month, billed yearly
€180 a year, billed up front. Ten months' price, a saving of 17%.
€18per month, billed monthly
No minimum term. Yearly billing brings it to €15 a month.
Admin
£42per month, billed yearly
£500 a year, billed up front. Ten months' price, a saving of 17%.
£50per month, billed monthly
No minimum term. Yearly billing brings it to £42 a month.
€49per month, billed yearly
€590 a year, billed up front. Ten months' price, a saving of 17%.
€59per month, billed monthly
No minimum term. Yearly billing brings it to €49 a month.
Manager
£63per month, billed yearly
£750 a year, billed up front. Ten months' price, a saving of 17%.
£75per month, billed monthly
No minimum term. Yearly billing brings it to £63 a month.
€74per month, billed yearly
€890 a year, billed up front. Ten months' price, a saving of 17%.
€89per month, billed monthly
No minimum term. Yearly billing brings it to €74 a month.
Facility
£13per month, billed yearly
£150 a year, billed up front. Ten months' price, a saving of 17%.
£15per month, billed monthly
No minimum term. Yearly billing brings it to £13 a month.
€15per month, billed yearly
€180 a year, billed up front. Ten months' price, a saving of 17%.
€18per month, billed monthly
No minimum term. Yearly billing brings it to €15 a month.
On every plan
- Timeline allocation across every project
- Person-month tracking to a fraction of a month
- Overload detection the moment anyone passes 100 percent
- Allocation Optimizer suggestions
- Reporting periods, work packages and budget ceilings
- Expense tracking with custom categories and pay scales
- Facility booking by the hour, costed from dated prices
- Worktribe and CSV import, CSV export
- Full audit history, kept for as long as your account is open
Pricing questions
Is there a free trial?
Yes. Sign up and you get 30 days free, with every feature switched on and no credit card required. If your group needs longer than a month to evaluate it, email us and tell us what you want to try. We extend trials on request, at our discretion and for a limited period, with the same full access and still no card.
What happens when the trial ends?
You can purchase a paid plan to continue using AllocBoard. If you choose not to, the workspace becomes read-only for 90 days: you can still sign in, view everything and download reports, but not make changes. Every Manager is emailed about 30 days and again about 7 days before the end of that period. Subscribe before then and editing is restored with nothing lost. If you do not, the workspace is closed and its data is permanently deleted 30 days later.
How does payment work?
Paid plans are billed monthly or yearly, whichever you choose at checkout. A year costs ten months and is billed up front, so an annual subscription saves 17%. Pay by card, or on a yearly plan by invoice with your PO number on it, payable within 30 days. Payments are processed securely through Stripe. Extra staff, manager and facility seats beyond your plan's limits are billed alongside the plan on the same interval, so a yearly subscription buys yearly seats, and you can add or remove them at any time. There is no minimum term.
Can we pay in euros?
Yes, if your research group is in Ireland, Denmark and the Netherlands. Choose your country when you sign up and every plan and seat is billed in euros, at the prices on our pricing page with the currency set to EUR. Card and invoice work the same way. Add your EU VAT number in the billing settings and your invoices carry the reverse-charge note.
Can I cancel?
Yes, at any time, from the billing settings in AllocBoard. Your access continues to the end of the period you have paid for, the month or the year, and the workspace then becomes read-only. Refunds are not provided for partial periods. A read-only workspace is kept for 12 months and then closed.
What happens to data when we cancel?
When a subscription ends, the workspace becomes read-only for 12 months. You can still view everything and download reports, and subscribing again before the closing date restores editing with nothing lost. Every Manager is emailed about 30 days and again about 7 days before that date. At the end of the 12 months the workspace is closed and all of its data is permanently deleted 30 days later. If you close the workspace instead, by deleting the account of its only manager, all of its data, audit logs included, is permanently deleted 30 days later. While a workspace is open, audit logs are kept for as long as it is on any paid plan, and for 1 year on the free trial, before being permanently deleted after a 90-day grace period.
More on the product, data and security in the full FAQ.