Little Green Light Pricing (2026): The Only One Here That Takes Nothing From Your Donations
The whole price list, because there is one
Of six major event and fundraising platforms we captured on 19 August 2026, Little Green Light is the only one where a buyer can work out their exact cost without contacting anyone.
The verdict on whether the product justifies the number is a separate question, and it lives in our Little Green Light review.
| Constituent records | Monthly |
|---|---|
| up to 2,500 | $45 |
| up to 5,000 | $60 |
| up to 10,000 | $75 |
| up to 20,000 | $90 |
| up to 30,000 | $105 |
| up to 40,000 | $120 |
| up to 50,000 | $135 |
| over 50,000 | add $15/month per additional 10,000 tier |
Annual billing saves 10%. Accounts hold up to 200,000 constituent records. The first 30 days are free and no credit card is required to start.
At the ceiling, 200,000 records works out at $135 plus fifteen additional 10,000 tiers at $15, or $360 a month, before the annual discount. That is $4,320 a year, or $3,888 billed annually, for the largest account LGL supports.
One structural note worth having in front of you: the increments are not linear at the bottom. Going from 2,500 to 5,000 records costs $15 more. Going from 5,000 to 10,000 costs $15 more, but covers five thousand records rather than two and a half. The steps get better value as you go up, which means the smallest organisations pay the most per record.
The number that actually separates LGL from the category
LGL’s own wording on donation processing:
Starting at 2.2% + $0.30 per transaction paid to the payment processor (no fee to LGL).
That parenthesis is the product’s entire commercial argument.
Every other fundraising platform in this batch takes a percentage of money you raise. LGL takes a subscription based on how many people are in your database, and nothing else.
| Platform | Platform take on donations |
|---|---|
| Little Green Light | 0%. Processor takes 2.2% + $0.30 |
| Donorbox | 1.6% to 3.95% depending on plan |
| OneCause | 5%, capped at an amount not published |
On $250,000 raised in a year, a 5% platform take is $12,500. A 2.95% take is $7,375. LGL’s take is zero, and a 20,000-record organisation pays $90 a month, or $1,080 a year, falling to $972 with annual billing.
The one number that decides it
Divide your annual donation revenue by your constituent record count.
If that figure is high, meaning a compact list that gives generously, subscription pricing wins and LGL is likely the cheapest option in this comparison by a wide margin. A 5,000-record organisation raising $250,000 pays LGL $720 a year against roughly $7,375 on a 2.95% platform.
If that figure is low, meaning a large list that gives little, percentage pricing wins. A 50,000-record organisation raising $20,000 pays LGL $1,620 against roughly $590 on a 2.95% platform.
Most established small and mid-sized nonprofits sit on the side where LGL wins, because donation revenue tends to grow faster than list size once a database is mature. Organisations that have just run a large list-building campaign, or that inherited a big historical file, are the ones who should check.
Unlimited users is doing quiet work here
LGL includes unlimited users at every tier.
Set that against Bizzabo at $499 per user per month with a three seat minimum, and it is a different philosophy of who software is for. A nonprofit with fifteen volunteers who each need occasional access pays LGL nothing extra for them.
It also has a practical consequence beyond cost. When seats are expensive, organisations share logins, which destroys the audit trail on who changed a donor record and when. When seats are free, there is no reason to. For a fundraising database, where knowing who edited a gift record matters, that is a governance benefit that does not show up on a pricing page.
And it means the constituent count is the only variable you need to forecast, which is what makes the price genuinely self-serve.
Where the cost can surprise you
Two things to plan for, neither hidden but both easy to miss.
Constituent records accumulate and rarely shrink. Every lapsed donor, every event attendee, every imported list adds records. A tier change is a real budget event: crossing from 10,000 to 10,001 records moves you from $75 to $90 a month, a 20% increase triggered by one contact.
Before a large list import, check which side of a boundary it puts you on. If you are at 9,400 records and about to import 800 event attendees, you are about to cost yourself $180 a year. It might still be the right call, but it should be a decision rather than a surprise on the next invoice.
This also creates a genuine argument for database hygiene that most nonprofits never get. Archiving or removing records you will never contact again has a direct, calculable financial return here, which is not true on percentage-priced platforms.
Processing is “starting at” 2.2% + $0.30. LGL’s own FAQ notes the rate varies by processor, Stripe or PayPal, and by card type. Treat 2.2% as the floor, not the number you will pay. Corporate cards, international cards and American Express typically carry higher rates on any processor.
Cost per record, and why the smallest accounts pay most
Because the tiers are published, you can see something most vendors never let you see: what you actually pay per record at each level.
| Tier ceiling | Monthly | Annual at list | Cost per record per year, at the ceiling |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2,500 | $45 | $540 | $0.216 |
| 5,000 | $60 | $720 | $0.144 |
| 10,000 | $75 | $900 | $0.090 |
| 20,000 | $90 | $1,080 | $0.054 |
| 30,000 | $105 | $1,260 | $0.042 |
| 50,000 | $135 | $1,620 | $0.032 |
| 200,000 | $360 | $4,320 | $0.022 |
At the ceiling of each tier, the cost per record falls by a factor of ten between the smallest and largest accounts.
Two things follow. The smallest organisations get the worst value per record, which is true of most tiered software but rarely visible. And you get the best value sitting just under a tier ceiling, worst value just over one.
That gives you a concrete planning rule. If you are at 10,400 records, you are paying $90 a month for what 20,000 records would cost. Cleaning 400 records saves $180 a year, permanently, and takes an afternoon. There are not many places in nonprofit operations where data hygiene has a return you can calculate that precisely.
What switching actually involves
A price list is only useful if you can act on it, so two practical notes.
The 30-day free trial requires no credit card. That is unusual enough to be worth using properly. Import a real subset of your data rather than test records, because the thing you are evaluating is how your actual constituent structure maps onto theirs, and that is where migrations go wrong.
Your record count is the one thing to establish before you commit, and most organisations get it wrong. Exports from an old system routinely contain duplicates, deceased records, and every event-attendee list ever imported. Deduplicating before migration rather than after can move you down a tier permanently, and it is far easier to do on the way in.
Ask specifically how households, organisations and individuals count. A database with 8,000 individuals grouped into 3,500 households may count as either figure depending on the rule, and that is the difference between the $75 tier and the $90 tier.
What LGL is not
This is a donor management CRM. It is not event or auction software.
If your fundraising is built around galas and auctions, the OneCause style of tooling has no LGL equivalent, and comparing their take rates without saying that would be dishonest. Bidding, mobile auction, table management and event check-in are real products that solve real problems, and LGL does not do them.
Several organisations run LGL as the donor database and something else for events, integrating the two. That is a legitimate architecture and it is worth pricing as a pair rather than assuming one tool has to win.
Say that out loud when you price it, because a 0% take rate on a product that does not do the job you need is not a saving.
What to check before you commit
There is little to negotiate here, which is the point. These are the things worth confirming.
Where your record count actually sits today, including duplicates and inactive contacts. Most organisations underestimate it.
What counts as a constituent record. Households, organisations and individuals may count differently, and it changes which tier you land in.
Your realistic record growth over the contract, so you know when the next tier hits.
Your processor and card mix, since 2.2% is a floor.
Whether the 200,000 ceiling is relevant to you. If you are anywhere near it, ask what happens above it.
The whole category, side by side
Captured 19 August 2026.
| Platform | Publishes a price? | Entry | Takes a cut of donations? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Little Green Light | Complete public table | $45/month | No |
| Donorbox | Yes, in depth | $0 Standard, $150/month Pro | Yes, 1.6% to 3.95% |
| Bizzabo | Yes | $499/user/month, from $17,999/year | Not a donation platform |
| Cvent Event Design | Yes, with a buy button | Free, $49, $150, $320/month | Not applicable |
| OneCause | Partial, behind accordions, two pages disagree | $200 or $500 | Yes, 5% capped |
| Whova | No | Not published | Not published |
| Cvent platform | No | Not published | Not applicable |
Who LGL suits
It suits small and mid-sized nonprofits with a manageable constituent list, a lot of occasional users, and steady donation revenue that would be expensive to give a percentage of. It suits organisations that want to budget accurately a year ahead, because the cost is a known subscription rather than a function of how well fundraising goes. And it suits anyone who wants to evaluate properly, given a 30-day trial with no card required.
It does not suit organisations whose fundraising is event and auction driven, where the missing tooling matters more than the fee structure. It does not suit organisations sitting on a very large, largely inactive list, where paying by record size costs more than paying by results. And it does not suit anyone who needs a platform that scales past 200,000 records without a conversation.
Method and limits
LGL’s pricing page was loaded on 19 August 2026 and every collapsed control was expanded before reading. This mattered here: the full tier table sits behind a “show the full pricing table” control, so a plain read of the page captures only the headline figure and would have produced a thinner and less accurate piece.
The 200,000-record ceiling calculation, the per-record comparisons and the crossover examples are our own arithmetic on LGL’s published tier rule and on competitors’ published rates. They are sizing guides, not quotes.
The capture ran from an Indian IP. LGL served USD with no locale redirect.
We have not used Little Green Light. This is document research.
For the percentage-based alternatives, see Donorbox pricing and OneCause pricing. For CRMs in the same bracket, Bloomerang pricing and DonorPerfect pricing.
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