Sources
- • ComparEdge pricing snapshots (CC BY 4.0) — verified vendor pricing pages with capture dates. Last verification pass: 2026-04-26.
- • unlocksaas.com indie SaaS teardowns (CC BY 4.0) — editorial strategy analysis of 31 pricing pages.
- • Public source repositories — price constants and plan configs diffed across commit history, producing 50 dated repricing events.
- • Industry benchmarks — Zylo 2026 SaaS Management Index, OpenView, Metronome and Orb, used only for contrast on the price change page.
Confidence tiers
Every row carries a provenance. We separate them rather than averaging them:
| Tier | What it is | Used for |
|---|---|---|
| Verified | Read off the vendor pricing page on a recorded date | All medians, category benchmarks, calculator |
| Editorial | Human teardown of a live pricing page | Teardowns, pattern pages |
| Mined | Extracted from source code; only rows with a recognised billing interval and confidence ≥ 0.9 are surfaced | Price change timeline only |
Normalisation rules
- • All prices converted to USD monthly-equivalent. Annual totals divided by 12.
- • Entry price means the cheapest paid tier. Free tiers are recorded separately so they never drag the median to zero.
- • Quote-based tiers ("Contact us") are counted as tiers but excluded from price statistics.
- • Tier jump is the median ratio between adjacent published tiers, not entry-to-top.
- • Per-seat prices are taken at one seat; volume discounts are ignored.
Known limitations
- • Coverage skews to AI, developer and SMB software. It is not a proxy for enterprise software pricing.
- • The repricing log is a lower bound: companies that keep prices in a CMS leave no commit trail.
- • Published list price is not realised ARPU. Discounts, annual commitments and overage are invisible here.
- • Prices move. Every product page carries its verification date — confirm before quoting a number in a deck.
Licence and attribution
Upstream sources are CC BY 4.0 and attributed on every page that uses them. Our derived benchmarks are free to cite with a link to ideaproof.io/saas-pricing. Corrections are welcome via the contact form.