AwardScience - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

AwardScience (formerly Nobel) is AI-native software for running awards, grants and scholarships, from setup to the final announcement. AI is built into the platform to remove administrative work, never to decide who wins. Human review is mandatory and cannot be switched off.

AI that does the admin, not the deciding

- Program and form building: describe your program in plain language and the AI drafts the stages, workflow, application form fields and conditional logic for you to review and publish.

- Document extraction: reads uploaded PDFs and images and fills in application fields, so applicants and reviewers retype less.

- Translation: translates form content, submissions and email campaigns, so multilingual programs run on one platform.

- Duplicate detection: compares submissions by meaning, not just exact wording, and flags likely duplicates with a similarity score before judging begins.

- Scoring assistance: drafts an assessment against your published criteria, with written reasoning a judge can check. The judge always does the scoring.

- Workflow automation and applicant assistant: helps configure stages and conditions, and answers applicants' questions about status and deadlines.

- Ask AI and insights: ask questions across your program data and get answers that respect each user's role permissions.

- AI judge finder: search judges and professionals based on your need with ai search

Humans decide, always

AI output is advisory. No AI result can determine an applicant's outcome without a person confirming it, and this cannot be configured away. Every AI feature can be switched off, individually or entirely, per program. With AI off, no submission data reaches any model.

Your data stays yours

No customer data is ever used to train, fine-tune or improve any AI model, ours or a provider's. AI runs through Amazon Bedrock in your own region, and enterprise customers receive 30 days' notice before any change of model, version or provider. See exactly what each AI feature does and sees at awardscience.com/responsible-ai.

Fair, defensible decisions

Blind scoring, structured rubrics, recusals, conflict-of-interest management and multi-round voting keep judging fair. Every score, decision and change is logged and timestamped, so you can explain any outcome to boards, funders and auditors.

Built for everyone involved

Program managers automate stages and communications, applicants apply and track status in real time, judges review in one clean interface, sponsors see live dashboards and branded portals, and auditors get a full trail.

Programs we support

Corporate and industry awards, grant management (including peer-reviewed research grants), scholarships, accelerators and incubators, and recognition programs.

Trusted by leading organizations

Used by Lenovo, Roche, NYU, WWF and the Hong Kong Volunteer Award, from a partner awards program across 180 markets to a pharmaceutical innovation fund with 1,200+ applications. We support organizations across Asia Pacific and globally.

Secure by design

Hosted on AWS infrastructure certified to ISO/IEC 27001 and PCI DSS, with AES-256 encryption at rest and in transit, role-based access, daily backups, EU data residency and GDPR-ready data handling. Your data is never sold, shared or used for anything other than running your program.

Simple pricing

From $149/month with no transaction fees. Start a free trial with no credit card, or book a live demo. An API is available for integrations.