SaaS Pricing Index

Verified price changes

Packaging changes

Plans that were added, removed or restructured — these shift the cheapest paid entry point without changing an existing plan's price.

• Surfer SEO · Entry price $49 → $49 archived page
  All existing plan prices are identical between July and September 2026 (annual-billed-monthly basis); the only real change is the addition of a new standalone 'AI Search Analytics' plan at $82/month (annual) in September — it does not appear anywhere in the July text, contradicting the automated extraction which erroneously reported it at $169.57 in July. ↗
• Subscribr · Entry price $7 → $99 extraction only
  The $7/month Starter plan was discontinued and replaced with an annual-only tier structure starting at $99/month equivalent; the '$7 today' still visible on the Sept page is a 7-day trial entry point, not a recurring plan price. ↗
• Brew · Entry price $49 → $99 archived page
  The Starter plan ($49/mo) was removed between July and September 2026, making Growth ($99/mo) the new cheapest paid tier — a structural change, not a price increase on an existing plan. ↗
• Lightfield · Entry price $89 → $89 archived page
  Pro underwent a structural billing-unit change (per-user → per-workspace), making the apparent price jump from $249 to $999 unit-incompatible rather than a simple increase; Startup was renamed Starter at an unchanged $89/user/mo; Growth held steady at ~$2,000/workspace/mo annual. ↗
• SocLeads · Entry price $59 → $29 extraction only
  A new Basic tier at $29/month was added between July and September 2026, lowering the cheapest paid entry point from $59 (Pro) to $29 (Basic); all pre-existing paid tiers remain unchanged. ↗
• Syllaby · Entry price $24.67 → $9 extraction only
  All existing plan prices (Basic/Standard/Premium) are identical in both periods; the only real change is the addition of a new Starter tier at $9/month (monthly billing only) that was absent in July; the automated extraction's reported 17.6% increases are billing-basis artifacts (annual July vs. monthly September). ↗

Entry price by category

Median of the cheapest paid plan (USD per month, monthly equivalent). Categories with at least five priced tools.

233 tools with a snapshot in September 2026, 207 of them with a paid plan; 52% offer a free tier.

Unclear cases

• Fathom Analytics: The July text renders a full static pricing table (all 10 tiers explicitly priced); the September text renders an interactive slider that only shows one price at a time — only the 500k/$45 tier is visible, which is unchanged, but the remaining tiers cannot be confirmed from the Sept visible text alone.
• BabyLoveGrowth: Currency changed from USD (July) to EUR (September, served from DE IP), making direct comparison an artifact; additionally the September page contains an internal contradiction — the Grow plan card prominently shows €49/mo while the feature-comparison table header on the same page shows €99/mo, so the true monthly price cannot be determined with certainty from the provided text alone.

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, September 2026. Next update: early October 2026.