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Pricing

Take the first step towards your dream school.

  • 300colleges verified against their own site
  • 292real majors, not category families
  • 24/7available whenever you need it

What this replaces

The other way families do this.

Spike Holistic

$708for a full year

  • There at 11pm in October, not just at the next appointment
  • Remembers every detail you have ever told it
  • Built on admissions data from over 300 colleges
  • Free to start, and free to stay on

$59 a month, cancel whenever you want.

A private counselor

$3,000 to $10,000usually paid once

  • A few hours a month, booked in advance
  • Knows your family, which Spike cannot replace
  • Deep expertise, and a caseload it is shared across
  • Paid upfront, before you know if it fits

Typical full-service package, $5,000 to $7,000.

Counseling figures are typical US full-service package prices reported by Collegewise and Private Prep for 2025 to 2026.

What unlocks in each plan

Everything Spike can do.

FeatureFreeProHolistic
Finding the right schools
College ExplorationBrowsePersonalizedPersonalized
Spike's Recommendations—✓✓
School-by-School Fit Analysis—✓✓
Day-to-day guidance
Spike ChatBasicFullFull
Voice Counselor—90 min/mo180 min/mo
Weekly Check-Ins—✓✓
Weekly parent update✓✓✓
Autonomous Spike✓✓✓
The application itself
Essay Coach—✓✓
Essay Reviews—10 a month30 a month
Activities & Honors AI—✓✓
Interview Simulation—10 a month30 a month

Voice Counselor

Some things are easier said out loud.

Talk to Spike the way you would talk to a counselor sitting across from you. It hears the hesitation, asks the follow-up, and remembers all of it afterwards.

90 minutes a month on Pro, 180 on Holistic.

See how Spike works

Why not just use ChatGPT?

Five things a general assistant cannot do.

ChatGPT is capable, and it will help you think out loud. But it was not built for admissions, it does nothing while you are away, and it has never read an application.

SpikeChatGPT

  • 01Built for admissions

    An AI built on over 300 colleges' admissions data, real student applications, and real essays.

    Trained on the whole internet, including last year's deadlines.

  • 02Works while you sleep

    Spike acts autonomously. It fixes gaps in your story, revises your essays while you sleep, and optimizes your strategy until the last second.

    Opens when you open it.

  • 03Remembers everything

    In admissions, details are crucial. Spike remembers every detail it has ever been told, and uses your entire story to craft an application that is truly yours.

    Keeps a few notes on you. It decides which ones.

  • 04Finds what to apply to

    Before application season, Spike finds the scholarships you qualify for and the opportunities that strengthen your profile, then tells you how and when to apply.

    Suggests programs without checking whether you qualify.

  • 05Holistic Intelligence

    Spike sees everything relevant to your situation, and the full picture flows into every decision. A coherent profile is what holistic admissions is reading for.

    Sees one conversation at a time.

Billing

Before you start.

Yes, and you do not need a card to do it. Free covers browsing colleges, building your profile, and basic chat. You can stay on it as long as you want.

Yes. Paid plans renew monthly and you can cancel whenever you choose. You keep access through the end of the period you have already paid for.

Volume. Pro covers a normal month. Holistic triples the essay reviews, mock interviews, and voice minutes, for the stretch when applications, essays, and interviews all land at once. Everything else is the same on both.

Yes, in either direction. Upgrades take effect right away, and downgrades take effect at your next renewal so you do not lose time you have paid for.

Your profile, college list, essays, and deadlines stay in your account. You drop back to the free plan rather than losing what you have built.

If cost is what is standing in the way, write to info@get-spike.com. We would rather hear from you than have you go without it.

No plan can promise that, and we do not. What a paid plan buys is more of Spike's attention on your application, not an outcome.

For institutions

Counseling that scales past the caseload.

Schools, districts, and college-access programs license Spike for a whole cohort rather than seat by seat.

Cohort accessOne school-provided link gives a whole year group their own counselor.
Counselors stay centralSpike handles the in-between so meetings can go to the decisions that need a person.
Priced per programmeLicensing is scoped to the size of your cohort, not a public per-seat rate.
Talk about a pilot

Start with the free plan.

Talk to Spike once and see what it already understands. Upgrade when you are ready.