Honest Comparison
How Trackbeast compares.
Most recruiting services match your athlete against published walk-on standards, whole-roster PRs, or a coach's judgment. Trackbeast matches against the verified high-school marks of the athletes each program actually signed — school by school, across 985 programs — with the program's money shown alongside.
Competitor pricing verified July–September 2026. ✓ full · ● partial · — none.
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When someone else is the better fit
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Common questions
What actually makes Trackbeast different?›
The benchmark. Everyone else matches you against published recruiting standards — which college coaches and parents on public running forums repeatedly point out are aspirational and don’t match real signing classes. Trackbeast matches your PRs against the verified high-school marks of athletes each program actually signed, backtested against thousands of real commitments. Signings don’t lie.
Which is best for a family that needs scholarship money?›
Trackbeast is the only one carrying federal EADA money data for every program — athletic budgets, aid totals, and average athletic aid per roster athlete — and it factors what your family can afford into matching. None of the others show program financial data.
Is the free DIY route good enough?›
For a self-directed family with time, public meet results plus direct emails is free and works. Trackbeast’s job is compressing those 40+ hours of research into about 40 seconds — plus the money data DIY can’t easily get. Start with the free Reality Report either way.
Standards lie. Signings don’t.
Check your athlete’s PRs against real signing classes — free, no account, no card.
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