Alma is an attorney-led immigration service with flat-fee O-1 at $8,000 and EB-1A/EB-2 NIW at $10,000, including RFE/NOID response and one free refile on denial. JustiGuide is a self-serve platform with attorney review at $5,944 for guided filing. Here's exactly what each includes, verified against both companies' own pages.
The headline gap is price — JustiGuide's $5,944 guided filing sits below Alma's $8,000 O-1 — but the honest comparison is about model and inclusions, not just the number. Alma is attorney-led full service with a notably complete included-services list; JustiGuide is self-serve with attorney review at a lower price and a narrower base package.
This page states both accurately. Alma includes things JustiGuide charges separately for, and it says so; JustiGuide costs materially less, and it says that too. Every Alma figure is quoted from tryalma.com as of the verified date.
Both handle self-petition and sponsored paths. EB-1A and EB-2 NIW are self-petitionable at either; the O-1 requires a U.S. petitioner (employer or agent) regardless of provider, per 8 CFR § 214.2(o). The decision here is the model — attorney-led full service versus self-serve with attorney review — not who is eligible.
What each includes, verified from both companies' own pages on 2026-08-20 (Alma's pricing can change — check tryalma.com/pricing for their current figures):
You must meet: an honest read of both, including where Alma includes more
The same either way — USCIS filing fees (I-129 for O-1, I-140 for EB-1/NIW) plus optional premium processing are set by USCIS rule and paid on top of any provider's fee. Neither company's price includes government fees; check the live USCIS G-1055 schedule for current amounts.
Broadly comparable and driven by USCIS, not by provider: weeks of evidence gathering, then drafting, then processing that premium processing can shorten to roughly 15 business days.
Alma figures quoted from tryalma.com as of 2026-08-20 and may change; JustiGuide figures are current. Not a quote for any individual case.
Choose Alma's model when you want an attorney to own the whole petition and you value the complete included package — RFE/NOID response and a free refile on denial, in the flat fee. For a borderline case, or anyone who wants those protections without a separate line item, that bundle is real value and closes much of the headline price gap.
Choose JustiGuide's model when your evidence is strong and organized, when you're willing to do the assembly yourself with the platform structuring it to the criteria and an attorney reviewing before filing, and when the $5,944 price — about $2,000 below Alma's O-1 and well below its EB-1A/NIW — matters most. The honest trade is explicit: no free refile, and an RFE response is a separate $2,000 engagement, so a case likely to draw an RFE narrows the gap.
The rule that holds across the category: the weaker or messier your evidence — and so the higher your RFE and denial risk — the more Alma's included RFE response and free refile earn their premium. The stronger and cleaner your record, the more a self-serve platform captures the same approval for less. Compare on inclusions, not headlines.
The hard part of Comparison is structuring your evidence to the criteria above. Drop your documents and our team will organize them into a JustiGuide profile mapped to each requirement — so you (and any attorney you work with) start from an organized record, not a folder of PDFs.