FINNY pricing model changes took effect on Monday, August 17, announced from New York. In effect, the AI prospecting platform replaced its flat annual subscription with Pay-as-You-Grow. Advisors get unlimited platform access for $50 a month. On top sits a share of assets the platform helps bring in, charged only while those clients stay.

Rates behind the FINNY pricing model are public, which makes this analysable. Chief executive and co-founder Eden Ovadia says the average LPL advisor pays 20 basis points on assets brought in. That tiers down to 12.5 basis points as volume rises. Meanwhile, larger firms negotiate case by case. Previously the company charged $6,000 or $12,000 a year regardless of results. LPL is a foundational customer.

The FINNY Pricing Model Has a Crossover Point

Do the arithmetic and the trade becomes visible. At 20 basis points, an advisor gathering $6 million through the platform pays $12,000 a year. That matches the old top-tier subscription exactly.

Above that line the FINNY pricing model costs more, and it keeps costing more. After all, the old fee was $12,000 once a year. The new one recurs on the same gathered assets every year those clients stay, with fresh assets stacking on top.

Ovadia describes the logic openly. Some advisors closed $40 million a year while paying the same flat fee as advisors closing $200,000. She says that never sat right. Notably, $40 million at 20 basis points is $80,000 a year. So this is a deliberate repricing away from high performers and toward lowering the barrier for everyone else, not a universal discount.

The FINNY Pricing Model Bills on Conversion, Not Discovery

One clarification narrows the FINNY pricing model scope usefully. Ovadia states that the company participates in the upside only when a contacted lead becomes a client. Simply identifying someone through a search creates no revenue-share obligation.

Attribution is what made this possible at all. Over the past year, the company built integrations with major custodians and portfolio reporting tools. Those give it visibility into which clients converted. Ovadia notes that billing on success without that visibility would have meant relying on customer self-reporting.

Consequently, the FINNY pricing model depends on infrastructure as much as on philosophy. Notably, outcome pricing is not new to wealth management, and FINNY acknowledges as much. For years, custodians have run referral programmes on similar terms. However, those generally served only the largest firms accepting minimums and custody requirements. FINNY claims to be the first non-custodial platform charging this way, with no minimums and no custody move required. So that access point is arguably the bigger story than the mechanic.

The FINNY Pricing Model Raises Disclosure Questions

Here one framing needs correcting. Regulation Best Interest governs broker-dealers rather than registered investment advisers. So it is the wrong reference point for an RIA weighing the FINNY pricing model.

Instead, the relevant framework for advisers runs elsewhere. Fiduciary duty under the Advisers Act applies, alongside the SEC Marketing Rule. That rule governs compensated endorsements and solicitation arrangements, having replaced the older cash solicitation rule in 2022. Form ADV disclosure obligations sit alongside both.

Whether this particular structure triggers those provisions is fact-specific and not something any press release settles. Much depends on how outreach is framed, what FINNY says on an advisor’s behalf and how the relationship is characterised. Even so, the practical point holds. An ongoing payment tied to a specific client remaining with a specific advisor is the kind of arrangement a compliance team examines, and the announcement does not address disclosure at all. Meanwhile, advisors on dual-registered platforms face an additional layer, since brokerage activity brings a different rulebook.

What to Watch on the FINNY Pricing Model

Reaction to the FINNY pricing model is already visible rather than hypothetical. A Reddit discussion prompted Ovadia to respond that a shared success model transfers risk from customers to the product. So the debate started before the ink dried.

Then watch the tiering in practice. Twelve and a half basis points at volume is materially different from twenty, and where individual firms land determines whether growth gets punished. Watch too whether competitors follow, since a pricing structure is far easier to copy than a matching algorithm.

Finally, watch how firms handle the disclosure question. FINNY has raised over $20 million and won a 2025 industry award for its growth engine. Product credibility is therefore established. The open question is whether compliance departments treat perpetual asset-based fees to a marketing vendor as routine or as something requiring more thought than a software licence ever did.

For related reading, our guide to AI in fintech tracks adoption across advisory technology. Our 2026 regtech guide maps the compliance landscape, while our piece on retail investing support covers the advice relationship. FINNY published the announcement through BusinessWire. WealthManagement.com reported the basis point figures, and InvestmentNews covered the LPL relationship.

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