Pricing
SaaS Price Hikes: Every Tool That Got More Expensive
We capture vendor pricing pages on a schedule and keep every version. This is what changed, taken from those captures rather than from memory or a press release.
Why this list exists
Software pricing changes quietly. A vendor moves a feature up a tier, raises a platform fee, or starts billing something that used to be included, and the only people who find out are the ones who read their invoice carefully that month.
We capture each vendor's own pricing page on a schedule and keep every version. That means we can say what changed and when, and show the capture it came from, rather than relying on anybody's recollection. Every figure below is traceable to a dated snapshot.
A price we cannot show you a capture of is a price we do not publish.
What changed, and when
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newest firstThe change that costs the most is rarely the headline price
Across our captures, the increases that hurt most are not the per-seat figures anybody advertises. They are the platform fees, the seat minimums attached to the tier that has the permission you need, and the things that quietly move from included to metered.
A per-seat rise of a few pounds is visible and easy to model. A feature moving from Team to Business can double a bill overnight, because the tier jump carries a seat minimum with it. That is why our pricing receipts model the cost at real team sizes rather than quoting the headline rate.
How to protect yourself
Read the renewal notice rather than the marketing page: the notice is the document that binds. Model your cost at the seat count you will actually have in a year, not the one you have now, because seat minimums are where tier jumps bite.
Ask what is metered rather than what is included, since that is the direction things move. And if a vendor cannot tell you what changed at the last price revision, treat that as the answer.
Questions
Asked often enough to answer here
- How often do you check pricing pages?
- Weekly per product, by capturing the vendor's own page. Changes are reviewed by an editor before they publish, because a wrong price is a correction and corrections are public.
- Do vendors know you are tracking this?
- Yes, and several have asked us to correct a capture. Where they were right we corrected it and logged it. Where they disagreed with an accurate capture, the capture stands.
- Can a vendor pay to have a price change removed?
- No. Nothing on this site can be removed by payment, and the full list of what money cannot buy is published.
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