TrialPath
The plain-English clinical trial finder

Clinical trials, without the paperwork and the middlemen.

Every recruiting study in the United States, searchable in your own words and translated into plain English. For patients looking for treatment — and for healthy volunteers looking to get paid. Free, no account required.

450k+ studies · Live from ClinicalTrials.gov · Updated hourly

Why TrialPath

Clinical trial search that actually works for real people.

Most trial-matching sites exist to route your contact info to a handful of sponsors. We built the opposite of that — a plain tool for finding what's actually available, with AI that makes the hard parts legible.

AIAI features · Included, free

An AI that actually reads the protocol for you.

Describe your situation in plain language — "my mom has stage 3 ovarian cancer near Philly" — and we parse condition, location, and age for you. Then, on every trial, AI rewrites the eligibility criteria into a simple checklist so you can tell in ten seconds whether you'd qualify. No medical degree required.

01
Direct from the source

Every US trial. One search.

450,000+ studies, pulled live from the ClinicalTrials.gov public API — the same registry the FDA uses. No hidden list, no pay-to-rank.

02
Not a broker

We don't sell your data.

TrialPath isn't lead-gen. You contact each trial's site directly from the listing. We take no referral fees and never share your email with sponsors.

03
No gatekeeping

Browse without an account.

Search, filter, and read every trial with zero signup. Make an account only if you want to save studies or get an email when new ones open up.

04
Two ways to use it

Find treatment, or get paid to help.

Patients use Help mode to find trials that might treat their condition. Healthy adults use Earn mode to browse paid Phase 1 and bioequivalence studies — often $500–$5,000 per study.

Compared to what's out there

The others exist to sell your info. We exist to find you a trial.

Most visitors reach us from one of two places — a lead-gen broker site that dressed up ClinicalTrials.gov with a signup wall, or the raw registry itself. Here's how we stack up against both.

Plain-English eligibility
Protocol jargon rewritten into a simple checklist.
TrialPathYes
BrokersPartial
CT.govNo
Natural-language search
Describe your situation; we parse it — no rigid form.
TrialPathYes
BrokersNo
CT.govNo
Every US trial, unfiltered
All 450k+ ClinicalTrials.gov listings, no curated subset.
TrialPathYes
BrokersNo
CT.govYes
Free, no signup to search
Account optional — used only for saved trials + alerts.
TrialPathYes
BrokersNo
CT.govYes
Doesn't sell your data
No sponsor referral fees; we never share your email.
TrialPathYes
BrokersNo
CT.govYes
Paid healthy-volunteer mode
Phase 1 + bioequivalence studies with honest pay display.
TrialPathYes
BrokersPartial
CT.govNo
Saved trials & email alerts
Get notified when a new matching trial opens up.
TrialPathYes
BrokersYes
CT.govNo

"Lead-gen brokers" refers to the category of sites that front ClinicalTrials.gov with a contact form and sell the resulting leads to sponsors. We're not naming names — the point is the business model, not any single operator.