InstantMarkets vs FedScout
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
InstantMarkets
Discover new business opportunities, including RFPs and contracts, that match your products and services. Monitor public sector customers, understand their needs, and gain insights to strategize and increase your chances of winning bids. Access a vast database of procurement transactions from thousands of agencies.
- Discover new business opportunities
- Access RFPs, RFQs, and contracts
- Monitor public sector customers
- Analyze competitor strategies
- Receive new opportunity alerts
- Search thousands of agencies
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Would you like to be the first to learn of new business opportunities that best fit your products/services, are already budgeted and will be awarded soon, either to you or to your competitor? InstantMarkets provides the widest exposure to procurement and sourcing transactions from across the web. Find active and past opportunities (RFP, RFQ, RFI, ITB, IFB, CSP, CSB, pre-bid notices), MBE/WBE set-asides, contracts, awards, SOWs, purchase orders – even invoices. With the insights you gain from InstantMarkets, you monitor all your public sector customers from one location, understand your customers better, target your competitors, and maximize your chances of winning. InstantMarkets sources include thousands of public websites such as sam.gov, fpds.gov, and others listed at https://www.instantmarkets.com/agency (it may take a minute to load this searchable list of 25000+ agencies). Instant Markets is an advanced and comprehensive Business Search Engine: * Free: Absolutely no cost for all search and notification features. * Advanced search algorithms help you find the best opportunities for your products and services. * Alert/Notification of new opportunities. * Instant access to tens of thousands of current and historical RFx transactions from thousands of prospective customers. Find awards and contracts for similar RFx transactions and use that insight to help strategize how to prepare your RFx response. IMPORTANT: Instant Markets is a private organization without any affiliation with public sector/government agencies nor it represents any government agency
FedScout
Discover Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants to fund your startup and retain equity. Set up automated searches, receive funding and solution alerts, and utilize analysis tools and calculators to assess opportunities and make informed decisions.
- Automated SBIR grant searches
- Funding and solution alerts
- Grant analysis and calculators
- Team collaboration tools
- Information on winning companies
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FedScout is the easiest way for start-ups and funding seekers to find the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants that can help them grow while keeping their equity. Set up automatic searches for SBIRs that meet your needs, get critical information and analysis, leverage our calculators, and make a decision whether to go after it. Why you’ll love FedScout: 1) Funding alerts make sure that you are up to date and don’t miss any funding opportunities that could give you the capital you need 2) Solutions alerts to keep you up to speed whenever the government funds a piece of tech that you might want to use 3) The analysis gives you the projected answers to your most important questions, like how much funding you’re likely to get, how long will it take to get paid, and the characteristics of companies that typically win 4) Calculators take complex decisions, like determining your chances of winning, and convert them into a simple series of questions that together give you the insight you need 5) Trackers and referrals help you work with your team to identify SBIRs and come to a group decision quickly HOW WE GOT HERE: We’ve been applying for SBIRs, running workshops, and building online education to help people apply for SBIRs for years, and now that support and awareness is always with you. WE KNOW SBIR: We are the 2015 and 2019 SBA SBIR Growth Accelerator winners and we won a 2019 SBIR to help people access the SBIR program (meta we know). Additionally, we are repeat SBIR applicants and winners so we know the program and because we are entrepreneurs first we understand how to convert SBIR lingo and steps into tools that are meaningful to you WHO FEDSCOUT IS FOR: Anyone that is looking for growth capital to help them build their product, who wants to keep their and who doesn’t want to check the SBIR portals every week is a good fit for FedScout. That means that lots of people are a good fit but we’ve seen the most luck with: 1) Veterans who know about a government need and an idea to solve it but who don’t have the funding to get going 2) Early-stage technologies that have too much technical risk for VC 3) Students who want to turn their research into a product Start your funding search with FedScout today. FedScout is free to use and download.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: FedScout at 5.0 against InstantMarkets's 3.7. FedScout also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). InstantMarkets's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (11 vs 3). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. FedScout sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $28.99 per month. InstantMarkets asks for nothing beyond the download.
FedScout holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 3 respectively.
InstantMarkets ships an update every 2 months, FedScout fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | InstantMarkets | FedScout |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (11 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 73 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Instant Systems, Inc. | Federal Foundry LLC |
Customer experience
InstantMarkets
FedScout
In-app purchases
InstantMarkets
No in-app purchases
FedScout
- Standard (1 Month)$28.991 Month
- Growth (1 Month)$144.991 Month
- Enterprise (1 Month)$699.991 Month
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