We track the public pricing pages of 237 software tools month by month and verify every apparent change against the Internet Archive. This is what actually changed between September 2026 and October 2026.
of 227 comparable tools
per month, cheapest paid plan · September 2026: $20
Data as of 8. October 2026. 46 apparent changes flagged by automated extraction were rejected as artifacts (currency display, billing basis, tier-set differences) after checking archived pages.
Verified price changes
| Tool | Plan | September 2026 | October 2026 | Change | Billing basis | Confidence | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cardboard | Creator | $32 | $59 | +84.4 % | monthly | extraction only | Sep ↗ · Oct ↗ |
| Cardboard | Pro | $120 | $175 | +45.8 % | monthly | extraction only | Sep ↗ · Oct ↗ |
| Typli.ai | Plus | $11.99 | $14.99 | +25 % | annual (monthly equivalent) | archived page | Sep ↗ · Oct ↗ |
| Seobility | Premium | 49.90 € | 59.90 € | +20 % | monthly | archived page | Sep ↗ · Oct ↗ |
| Seobility | Agency | 179.90 € | 209.90 € | +16.7 % | monthly | archived page | Sep ↗ · Oct ↗ |
| Intercom | Pro add-on | $99 | $100 | +1 % | monthly | archived page | Sep ↗ · Oct ↗ |
| AdNova | Growth | $309 | $249 | -19.4 % | monthly | extraction only | Sep ↗ · Oct ↗ |
| AdNova | Pro | $499 | $399 | -20 % | monthly | extraction only | Sep ↗ · Oct ↗ |
| AdNova | Plus | $150 | $119 | -20.7 % | monthly | extraction only | Sep ↗ · Oct ↗ |
| Context.dev | Developer | $25 | $19 | -24 % | monthly | archived page | Sep ↗ · Oct ↗ |
| ServerAvatar | Newbie (annual) | $10 | $7.50 | -25 % sale | annual (monthly equivalent) | extraction only | Sep ↗ · Oct ↗ |
| ServerAvatar | Master (annual) | $40.83 | $30.58 | -25.1 % sale | annual (monthly equivalent) | extraction only | Sep ↗ · Oct ↗ |
| ServerAvatar | Business (annual) | $57.50 | $43.08 | -25.1 % sale | annual (monthly equivalent) | extraction only | Sep ↗ · Oct ↗ |
| ServerAvatar | Pro (annual) | $24.17 | $18.08 | -25.2 % sale | annual (monthly equivalent) | extraction only | Sep ↗ · Oct ↗ |
| Context.dev | Pro | $149 | $99 | -33.6 % | monthly | archived page | Sep ↗ · Oct ↗ |
| Intercom | Essential | $29 | $19 | -34.5 % | monthly | archived page | Sep ↗ · Oct ↗ |
| 1of10 | Basic | $29 | $15 | -48.3 % | monthly | archived page | Sep ↗ · Oct ↗ |
| folk | pro | $20 | $9.99 | -50.1 % | monthly | archived page | Sep ↗ · Oct ↗ |
Packaging changes
Plans that were added, removed or restructured — these shift the cheapest paid entry point without changing an existing plan's price.
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Topview AI
· Entry price $16 → $18
archived page
The Pro plan ($16/mo annual) was replaced by new Basic ($18/mo annual) and Plus ($36/mo annual) tiers, raising the entry-level price; Business, Ultra, and Team prices are unchanged. ↗ -
StoryChief
· Entry price $22 → $69
extraction only
StoryChief completely replaced its Social/Editorial/Agency tier structure with a new Starter/Growth/Scale/Agency lineup; the cheapest paid plan rose from $22/mo (annual-billed-monthly-equivalent) to $69/mo (monthly) or $59/mo (annual-billed-monthly-equivalent), a real increase even on a like-for-like annual basis. ↗ -
Capacity
· Entry price $9 → $25
extraction only
All four subscription plans are price-unchanged; the apparent jump in cheapest paid from $9 to $25 is entirely explained by the removal of one-time credit top-up packs, not by any subscription price increase. ↗ -
BoldDesk
· Entry price $8.25 → $99
extraction only
BoldDesk has replaced its per-agent-tier model (starting at $99/year for 5 agents = $8.25/month) with a single AI-credit-volume plan starting at $99/month billed annually, representing a fundamentally different and substantially more expensive entry point. ↗
Entry price by category
Median of the cheapest paid plan (USD per month, monthly equivalent). Categories with at least five priced tools.
| Category | Tools | Median October 2026 | Median September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Automation | 20 | $18.50 | $19 |
| Analytics | 20 | $50.77 | $77 |
| Communication | 20 | $13.60 | $12.54 |
| Video | 16 | $24 | $29 |
| Design | 16 | $17.22 | $16.25 |
| Social Media | 15 | $29 | $29 |
| CRM | 10 | $64 | $64 |
| Development | 9 | $16 | $18 |
| Lead Generation | 9 | $53.90 | $49 |
| SEO | 8 | $53.66 | $36.32 |
| AI Agents | 8 | $15.80 | $16 |
| No-Code | 7 | $19 | $9 |
| Email Marketing | 7 | $24 | $24 |
| AI Writing | 6 | $12.25 | $14 |
| Database | 6 | $11 | $12 |
| Website Builder | 5 | $21.89 | $20 |
| Customer Service | 5 | $29 | $29 |
| AI Coding | 5 | $19 | $19 |
237 tools with a snapshot in October 2026, 219 of them with a paid plan; 52% offer a free tier.
Unclear cases
- BabyLoveGrowth: Currency changed from USD (September Wayback text) to EUR (October live DE-IP text); nominal numbers differ but a cross-currency comparison is not possible from the provided texts alone, so no real price change can be confirmed.
- Whalesync: The Starter price appears to drop from $40/mo (monthly basis, July) to $16/mo (annual basis, October); without a confirmed monthly price for October the difference may be partly or fully a billing-basis artifact, but the magnitude (-60%) exceeds the stated 20% annual discount, suggesting a genuine price reduction also occurred.
- Seline: The July/Sept snapshot text contains no pricing data (only Next.js build metadata), so no price comparison is possible; the current live page shows Pro at $14/month (monthly billing) with an annual option implied by the '2 months free' toggle.
- Mailchimp: Manuell herabgestuft: Standard in EUR-Anzeige 17,68 → 17,95 € (+1,5 %) bei gleicher Basis; in dieser Größenordnung nicht von Wechselkurs-Weitergabe unterscheidbar, USD-Listenpreis unverändert. Both snapshots display EUR prices on an annual-billed-monthly-equivalent basis; Standard rose from €17.68 to €17.95 (+1.5 %), same billing basis, same currency — a genuine increase; Premium cannot be
How this index is built
Each month our collector fetches the public pricing page of every tool in the directory that has a vendor URL and extracts the plan tiers with an AI model, always normalised to a monthly-equivalent USD figure. Snapshots are stored per month; the baseline is July 2026.
Comparing two snapshots naively produces false alarms: pricing pages show different currencies depending on the visitor's location, mix monthly and annual billing, and change how tiers are presented. Every apparent change is therefore checked against archived copies of the pricing page in the Internet Archive for both months, with a second AI model quoting the exact evidence. Only changes that survive this check are listed; the rest are rejected as artifacts.
Confidence is "archived page" when both months could be verified against archived copies, and "extraction only" when no archived copy of the earlier page exists and the earlier figure relies on our own extraction.
Limitations
Only tools with a public pricing page are covered. Usage-based, per-seat and enterprise pricing is reduced to the cheapest paid plan. Prices displayed in other currencies are recorded as shown. The index reflects list prices, not negotiated or promotional prices, except where a sale is marked.
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Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — free to use with attribution to Toolsplorer. Cite as: Toolsplorer SaaS Pricing Index, October 2026. Next update: early November 2026.