Award Force vs OpenWater
Both publish prices. Award Force sells Growth at $3,250 a year and Pro at $6,500; OpenWater's estimators run from $2,700 a year (1–150 applications), or $6,650 a year for one program plus $2,400 a year per supported admin seat (checked 11 Oct 2026). One is priced by plan, the other by program and support seat.
Award ForcePrice published
A team that wants one annual plan with a published entry ceiling.
OpenWaterPrice published
A buyer who budgets per program and per supported admin seat.
Where each one is strongest
Award Force
- Your programme expects more than 1,000 submissions a year — Award Force Growth lists up to 10k annual entries.
- You need SAML single sign-on now — Award Force lists it as a paid add-on; Aclamos does not have it live yet.
- You want a paid onboarding service — Award Force lists one as an add-on.
OpenWater
- You already run programmes on OpenWater and the migration cost outweighs any saving — we have not verified its feature set beyond its public site.
- Your procurement team needs a vendor reference at your size and we cannot yet provide one.
These are the same points we make on each product’s own comparison page, unchanged. Competitor details checked on 5 Oct 2026 against Award Force’s and OpenWater’s own sites; where a vendor does not publish something, we say so rather than guess.
If you are still shortlisting
Aclamos is ours, so treat this paragraph accordingly. It publishes every price, charges a 0% platform fee today, and each of our comparison pages says plainly where the other product is the better choice — including the two above. If your RFP turns on named references, ask us what we can supply.