Pricing
We don’t price against other software; we price against what one contract is worth to you. Bidding already costs 1–3% of contract value — £5,000–£15,000 of effort every time, win or lose. DefenceLens makes sure that money is only ever spent on tenders you can actually win. Stop one doomed bid and we’ve paid for ourselves; win one extra contract and the return is twenty-five times the subscription.
Every new account starts with 14 days of Operator access — search, alerts, every winner and company histories — before you decide. No card needed.
Monthly billing is available on Sentry and Operator. Capture and Prime are annual, invoiced.
Founding-customer offer: 40% off Sentry or Operator, your first year on annual or first 3 months on monthly.
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Scout
Try the plan you'd actually buy before you decide. No card required.
- ✓14 days of Operator access when you join
- ✓After your trial: search, notice summaries and your saved alerts once a week
- ✓Weekly email digest
- ✓1 user
Sentry
Founding customers: £744 for your first year
For suppliers who want the right tenders, and who won them, in their inbox — without a full intelligence platform.
- ✓Full search of published UK defence tenders
- ✓Email alerts on up to 3 saved searches, usually within the hour
- ✓Winners feed — who won, value, buyer
- ✓Weekly email digest
- ✓1 user
Card, Apple Pay or Google Pay · 1-year term that simply ends if you tell us before renewal · Access starts instantly
Book a 15-min walkthroughOperator
Founding customers: £2,370 for your first year
For SMEs and agencies who bid — or sell to the companies that win. Less than one day of a bid writer per quarter.
- ✓Everything in Sentry
- ✓Company win-history pages
- ✓First-time-winner flags (new entrants to defence)
- ✓Notice and award history since May 2026
- ✓CSV export (annual plans)
- ✓Email alerts on up to 10 saved searches
- ✓3 users
Card, Apple Pay or Google Pay · 1-year term that simply ends if you tell us before renewal · Access starts instantly
Book a 15-min walkthroughCapture
annual · card or Bacs at checkout
For systematic BD teams. The price of one outsourced bid — for a year of knowing which bids to write.
- ✓Everything in Operator
- ✓Pipeline & pre-tender notices before they become tenders
- ✓Full notice and award history since May 2026
- ✓10 users
Card, Apple Pay or Google Pay · Annual plan, invoiced yearly · Access starts instantly
Prime
annual · card or Bacs at checkout
For primes, tier-1s and investors: the strategic market layer — who's taking share, what's expiring, who to watch and who to team with.
- ✓Everything in Capture
- ✓UK + EU (TED) coverage: defence tenders & awards in 27 countries, with country filters
- ✓Market Room: live market vitals, motion feed & market-share league tables
- ✓Re-compete radar — expiring contracts with named incumbents
- ✓Competitor watchlists & buyer intelligence profiles
- ✓Supplier finder for teaming & SME sourcing
- ✓Quarterly market briefing, board-ready
- ✓Data API & 100k-row exports
- ✓Bespoke analyst cuts · named contact · multi-year terms
- ✓Unlimited users
Card, Apple Pay or Google Pay · Annual plan, invoiced yearly · Access starts instantly
Coverage: UK — Find a Tender, Contracts Finder and defence innovation competitions (all plans). EU — TED, 27 countries (Prime).
Planned features are listed on our public roadmap; they’re not part of any plan until released.
Annual first
Defence companies budget annually, and so do we. Annual prices are the anchors; Sentry and Operator have a monthly option at roughly a 25% premium over the year. Capture and Prime are annual-only. Pay by card online, or by invoice (with your PO reference if you need one), payable on receipt. Three-year terms are available with a discount.
Per company, not per seat
Intelligence is only useful if your whole team sees it. Each tier includes a seat allowance rather than per-user pricing that punishes sharing.
Official data
Built on official UK and EU government procurement data, swept and classified by Periscope, our defence intelligence engine. See the live data before you spend a penny.
Security & data protection
Your searches aren't shared
DefenceLens does not expose your private searches to other customers or send them to generative AI providers.
Built by people who know UK defence
DefenceLens is built in the UK by its co-founders, Simon Bumford and Alex Griffiths, through Raplin Ventures Ltd (company no. 17276917). The application and primary customer database run on UK infrastructure.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the data come from?
- From official UK and EU government procurement publications. Periscope, our defence intelligence engine, sweeps them every 30 minutes, keeps only defence and security notices, and links every one back to its official source. UK data is used under the Open Government Licence v3.0; EU coverage is a Prime feature.
- Do prices include VAT?
- The prices shown are the total you pay. We are not currently VAT-registered, so no VAT is added. If that changes, we'll tell you before it affects a renewal.
- Can we pay by purchase order and invoice?
- Yes. Every plan can be paid by card online in one step, or by invoice on request (with your PO reference if you need one). Invoices are payable on receipt. Capture and Prime are annual-only. Sentry (£129/month) and Operator (£412/month) also have monthly card options — about 25% more over a year than paying annually. CSV export is included on annual plans.
- Is there a free trial?
- Every new account starts with 14 days of Operator access — full search, alerts, every winner and company histories — no card required. After that, the free Scout plan keeps search, notice summaries and your saved alerts once a week.
- Can we cancel?
- Monthly subscriptions can be cancelled any time and end at the close of the billing month. Annual plans run to the end of the term and simply don't renew if you tell us before the renewal date.
- What counts as a user?
- A named colleague with their own sign-in. We price per company with a seat allowance per tier (Sentry 1, Operator 3, Capture 10, Prime unlimited) rather than per-seat pricing that punishes sharing intelligence with your team. Your company gets a team page with an invite link — colleagues join on your plan in one click, watchlists are shared across the team, and the owner can remove leavers instantly.