AI-Assisted Personalized Financial Planning

Scholarships. Aid. Loans. Answered in real time.

Find scholarships, decode your award letter, optimize federal loan repayment, and get private lender hardship help — grounded in live search results, not stale data.

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What’s inside

Four tools. Every stage of your financial aid journey.

Scholarships

Scholarship Finder & Action Timeline

Find scholarships matched to your major, state, background, and financial profile using live Tavily search — then build a prioritized deadline timeline.

  • Live AI-powered scholarship search via Tavily by major, state & demographics
  • School-specific merit aid lookup for your target colleges
  • Select scholarships and generate a personalized deadline timeline
  • First-generation, need-based, and diversity award matching
  • Connected to CollegeScorecard for real school data
Award Assist

FAFSA & Financial Aid Decoder

Understand your award letter, calculate your real cost gap, and compare colleges side by side — with an AI summary powered by Groq.

  • College cost of attendance lookup
  • Award letter decoder — grants vs. loans, clearly
  • Financial gap analysis & net price
  • Side-by-side college comparison
  • Earnings by major (200+ programs)
  • AI-generated financial summary via Groq llama-3.3-70b
Post-Grad Debt Relief

Student Loan Repayment Optimizer

Enter your loans and income and Astra calculates your best repayment path. Private lender? Astra searches their live forbearance page to generate a tailored hardship letter.

  • All 8 federal repayment plans compared (SAVE, PAYE, IBR, ICR, Standard, Graduated, Extended)
  • PSLF employer eligibility checker (IRS 501c3 verified)
  • AI-recommended plan with rationale via Groq
  • Hardship letter generator grounded in live studentaid.gov search
  • Private lender forbearance research via Tavily — letter tailored to that lender's actual policy
  • Live-searched 0% balance transfer & refinancing offers by credit score
Ask Astra 🔒 Subscription

Your Personal AI Financial Aid Assistant

Chat with Astra about financial aid, scholarships, and loan repayment — powered by Groq's fastest inference. Subscription required; never included in the free tier.

  • Answers grounded in live search results, not training data alone
  • Ask anything about FAFSA rules, scholarships, or repayment options
  • Groq llama-3.3-70b — ultra-fast responses
  • Available across every stage of your journey

Powered by the best AI infrastructure available

Every AI response in Astra is grounded in live, authoritative search results — not hardcoded rules that go stale. Financial aid rules change annually. Astra keeps up.

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Groq AI Inference

All AI summaries, letters, and recommendations are generated by Groq running llama-3.3-70b — the fastest large language model inference available.

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Tavily Live Search

Before every AI response about financial aid rules, Astra fetches live content from studentaid.gov, your lender's forbearance page, and other authoritative sources.

Real-time · Authoritative
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FERPA-Compliant

No student data in logs or URLs. All sensitive data travels encrypted. AI providers are contractually prohibited from using your data for model training.

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Simple, transparent pricing

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$99.99

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Free tier included 1 search per tool (Scholarships, Award Assist, Post-Grad Debt Relief) — no credit card needed to start.
✓ Unlimited scholarship searches via live Tavily search
✓ Unlimited Award Assist analyses & AI summaries
✓ Unlimited loan repayment analyses, hardship letters & private lender research
⚡ Ask Astra chatbot — subscription only, never free
✓ Groq llama-3.3-70b AI on every response
✓ Live search grounded answers — always current
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