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Fast Bundle is genuinely best for Shopify merchants who want every bundle and upsell format from one app — mix-and-match, build-your-own, BOGO, volume breaks, AI frequently-bought-together — priced against what those offers actually earn rather than a flat fee, and who are comfortable with an app that Shopify delisted for two weeks in July 2026 and then restored. Skip it if you need one bundle type only, where a single-purpose app costs less than the metered ladder; you sell in person, since Shopify POS support sits behind the $299 Enterprise tier; or an app in your path to checkout having been pulled and deactivated once, however well handled, is a risk you cannot carry.

(read 2026-08-24 on apps.shopify.com/fast-bundle-product-bundles, listed as “FBP | Fast Bundle & Upsell App”, and on fastbundle.co/pricing) The meter here is not your catalogue, your traffic or your seats — it is the revenue your bundles themselves generate. The listing is free to install and shows four tiers. Development stores are free to install and free to run. Standard (1K) is $19 a month or $180 a year and covers up to $1,000 of monthly bundle sales. Standard (3K) is $49 a month or $468 a year for up to $3,000. Standard (10K) is $139 a month or $1,380 a year for up to $10,000. All three paid tiers carry a 7-day free trial and the same feature list: unlimited bundles, upsells and cross-sells, mix and match, volume-discount upsell, BOGO and Buy X Get Y, unlimited AI frequently-bought-together, product add-ons, 24/7 English support and the AI bundle image generator. The App Store states all charges are billed in USD and recur every 30 days. The vendor's own pricing page adds a fifth tier the listing never shows: Enterprise at $299 a month or $2,988 a year, described as limitless monthly bundle revenue, with automatic bundle detection in the cart, Shopify POS integration, minor specialised customisations, priority onboarding with an account manager and a five-minute support target against Standard's thirty. That page also prices the annual commitments as effective monthly rates — $15, $39, $115 and $249 — under a “2-MONTHS FREE” label, and it is the only place the free plan is described in full: all six bundle types, 24/7 support, available to development stores and “eligible merchants”, and capped at $500 in bundle sales a month. Its comparison table shows what the free tier gives up: volume discounts and product add-ons on selected products only rather than collections or the whole catalogue, no AI frequently-bought-together across all products, no multilingual translation, no subscription-app integration, and a “Powered by Fast Bundle” credit left on your storefront. Fast Bundle's own FAQ defines the metered revenue as sales through bundles, volume discounts, product add-ons, mix and match, Buy X Get Y, frequently bought together and other offers created with the app, and states that exceeding your plan's monthly bundle revenue limit means upgrading to keep campaigns running. Developer Fast Bundle, listed at 13353 Commerce Parkway, Unit 2353, Richmond, BC, Canada; the app launched on 26 November 2020, the vendor's site claims 22,400 merchants, and the listing carried 3,031 reviews at a 5.0 average at the time of writing. Always verify the live price.

The most important thing about this app is not on its App Store listing. On 17 July 2026 Fast Bundle detected what its own status page calls a security attack; Shopify removed the app from the App Store as a precaution and deactivated it on existing stores, so merchants found it simply gone. It was restored to limited visibility on 30 July and fully searchable again on 3 August, after Shopify reviewed an incident report and a third-party vulnerability and penetration test. The vendor states its investigation and testing found no indication that any customer, store or shopper data was accessed, exposed or leaked, and that 2,405 stores had reinstalled by early August. Shopify's own words, quoted on that page, are that the app “has been restored to limited visibility”. Nobody outside the process can verify what was reached, and neither the vendor nor Shopify has published the technical detail. What is verifiable is the shape of the disruption: a storefront-facing app pulled without warning, deactivated on live stores, and roughly two weeks coming back. If your bundles carry your average order value, that is the risk you are underwriting — not because it is likely to recur, but because it has happened once and the app sits in the path to checkout. The review record needs reading with that date in mind. 5.0 from 3,031 reviews is exceptional, and the breakdown is 3,000 at five stars against 19 at one. But most of that history predates July 2026, and Shopify app ratings skew high because merchants are prompted for them. What an average cannot tell you is how a vendor handles an incident, and on that the status page is the better evidence: dated, specific, quoting Shopify directly, and correcting its own earlier estimates in public. That is a good sign about communication rather than about security. One practical hazard came out of the outage and has not gone away. While the app was delisted, other apps renamed themselves to include “Fast Bundle” — the vendor names Fast Bundle Offer, BOGO, BYOB; Sparrow Fast Bundle Upsell App; and Rabbit Fast Bundle & Upsell — and Shopify subsequently delisted three of them. Searching the App Store for the name is therefore not a reliable way to find this app. Install from the listing slug, fast-bundle-product-bundles, and check that the developer reads Fast Bundle. Finally, the listing's data grant is broad even for this category: it edits customers and customer tags, products, inventory and collections, orders including third-party fulfilment and order edits, discount codes and promotions, Shopify Functions cart transforms, the checkout page and Online Store pages. Cart transforms are how a bundle becomes a single line item, so the scope is explicable, but an app with write access to your discounts and your checkout page belongs in your processing register and in whatever review you run after an incident like July's.

Fastmail is genuinely best for individuals and small businesses that want fast, private, ad-free email on their own domain with proper support and masked-email aliases. Skip it if your team lives in Google Docs/Drive collaboration (Workspace bundles that), or free mail genuinely serves you and privacy isn't a priority.

(read 2026-08-26 on fastmail.com/pricing over a US connection, with their country selector on United States and the 12-month term chosen) Individual is $5 a month, or $60 for twelve months, with 60 GB of storage for one person. Duo is $8 a month ($96 a year) for two inboxes and 120 GB. Family is $11 a month ($132 a year) for up to six people and up to 360 GB, at 60 GB each. The page also sells 24- and 36-month terms, so the twelve-month figure is the middle of three commitments rather than the cheapest one. Always verify the live price.

You're paying for what the free giants monetize differently: no ads, no profiling, real support and standards-first email (JMAP/IMAP everywhere). The honest limits: it's email/calendar/contacts, not a Workspace-style office suite, so document collaboration lives elsewhere, and migrating decades of Gmail habits (filters, integrations) takes a weekend of care. For owning your address on your own domain, it's the boring, excellent choice.

Feedvisor is genuinely best for mid-market and enterprise Amazon sellers with large catalogs where algorithmic repricing and ad optimization move real revenue. Skip it if you're a small seller (rule-based repricers cost a tenth), or your margins are set by factors repricing can't touch.

Feedvisor publishes no price, and we checked that again on 2026-09-03. feedvisor.com/pricing returns a 404. Their own llms.txt lists every public page and contains no pricing page and no amount. The plan comparison at feedvisor.com/plans does publish a tier structure — Professional, Premium and Enterprise for price optimisation, Feedvisor and Feedvisor Plus for advertising, and a single Enterprise tier for brand optimisation — but every column ends in Request Demo rather than a figure. One correction to what we wrote before: the sentence we attributed to Feedvisor, that pricing is hybrid and varies with catalogue size, ad spend and complexity, is no longer anywhere on their site. The platform has been rebranded to Agentis and that wording went with it, so we no longer put those words in their mouth. Every figure you will read elsewhere, including the roughly $100 a month entry tier and the roughly $1,500 a month for the full platform that we carried before, comes from third parties or from sales conversations rather than from Feedvisor. Treat those as indicative only, and expect a sales call. Always verify the live price.

The honest structure: the $100 tier is a limited on-ramp, and most of what Feedvisor is famous for (the algorithmic Buy-Box strategy that holds prices UP, ad management, analysts) lives behind the $1,500+ top tier — this is enterprise software for serious catalogs, priced accordingly. If your Amazon revenue can't absorb that as a small percentage, simpler repricers are the rational choice.

Feedyio is genuinely best for Shopify merchants who need several feeds at once, in formats they control — custom XML, CSV, TXT or JSON built from their own template — and especially those selling into Central and Eastern European marketplaces and price-comparison sites, with a catalogue that fits inside a published tier. Skip it if you need one Google Shopping feed and nothing else, where the older and far more widely reviewed feed apps cover the same ground; or your catalogue runs past 6,000 products, because the price for that is not published.

(read 2026-09-10 on apps.shopify.com/product-feed-10) Four published tiers, billed in USD every 30 days. Free is permanent and covers up to 30 products or 100 variants, one feed, the primary market only, a daily product update and email support. Basic at $9.99 a month raises that to 1,000 products or 2,000 variants, up to five feeds, hourly product updates and the named comparison-shopping integrations (Heureka, Favi and similar), still on the primary market and language only. Advanced at $19.99 covers 2,500 products or 5,000 variants, up to ten feeds, and all markets and languages. Pro at $29.99 covers 6,000 products or 12,000 variants and up to 30 feeds. Every paid tier has a 7-day free trial, and the Pro column notes that additional plans are available, so a catalogue larger than 6,000 products is priced off the listing. Always verify the live price.

Two gates decide your bill and neither is about how much value the feeds create. The first is catalogue size: the ladder counts products and variants, so a store with 7,000 products is past the published ceiling and into an unpriced 'additional plans' conversation. The second is freshness — the free tier updates products once a day, and hourly updates start at $9.99, which matters when stock moves faster than a day. Multi-market and multi-language feeds only appear at $19.99. The app is also younger and smaller than the shelf leaders: launched 16 May 2022 by happyapps.cz in Prague, with 115 reviews (114 of them five-star) against thousands for the established Google Shopping feed apps. And the standout integrations — Heureka, Zboží.cz, Árukereső, Glami, Favi, Kaufland — are Central and Eastern European channels; that is the app's real edge, but it is not an edge if you only sell through Google and Meta.

Filevine is genuinely best for law firms past the point where a general project tool works, with enough matters that case-specific workflows and intake tracking pay back a negotiated annual contract. Skip it if you are a small practice wanting a published price to compare — this category will not give you one, and simpler practice-management tools do publish theirs.

(2026-08-29, read on their own pricing page) No prices are shown. Their own wording: all packages are custom built for your team's needs. The page describes five products — LOIS (AI features), Matters, Intake, Depositions and Signatures — and routes everything to a sales team for a custom quote. No per-user cost, no minimum seats, no contract length and no implementation fee is published, which is unchanged since 1 August 2026. What the page does name now is a free way in: LOIS Explore, described as a free tier of LOIS for AI-powered legal research and drafting, with a trial that takes no credit card. Always verify the live price.

Nothing is priced, so everything is negotiable — which cuts both ways. In legal software the number that usually surprises people is not the per-seat rate but implementation: data migration from your existing case system, template configuration and training, quoted separately and often as a one-off in the thousands. That figure is absent here along with everything else. Ask for it as its own line, ask what the contract length is, and ask what happens to your matter data if you leave. A custom quote is fine; a custom quote you cannot compare against a rate card is what you are trying to avoid.

Finale Inventory is genuinely best for e-commerce and wholesale operations with real order volume that need multi-channel stock sync, purchasing and barcode-driven warehouse workflows. Skip it if you're a low-volume store where your sales platform's built-in inventory is enough, or you want a slick modern UI over deep functionality.

(re-verified 2026-08-31 on finaleinventory.com/pricing) Essentials starts at $499/mo (positioned for 1-2 warehouses); Growth starts at $799/mo and adds the Mobile Barcode WMS module plus email, phone and Zoom support; Enterprise is custom pricing on request and adds API and EDI access, premium support with SLAs and a dedicated account manager. Both published figures are 'starting at' and no per-tier order, SKU or user cap is published -- the vendor's FAQ says overage means additional usage fees or a plan upgrade, with the thresholds written into your agreement. Every plan routes through Request a Demo; there is no self-serve signup or trial. Most customers sign 12-, 24- or 36-month terms. Standard onboarding is included and go-live is quoted at 2-6 weeks. Stated platform ceilings: up to 300 users, 1.5 million orders per month and 1.5 million products. The Self-Starter tier at around $99/mo that our earlier record described is no longer on the pricing page. Always verify the live price.

It's built for real warehouse volume and priced that way: Essentials starts at $499 a month and Growth at $799, with Enterprise quoted. There is no self-serve tier and no published order or user cap -- every plan goes through Request a Demo, most customers sign 12- to 36-month terms, and API and EDI access are Enterprise-only. If you do a few dozen orders a month, this is far more inventory engine, and far more cost, than the job needs.

Fireflies.ai is genuinely best for teams that want every meeting transcribed and searchable automatically — the free unlimited-transcription tier is genuinely rare. Skip it if your meetings involve sensitive topics where an AI notetaker joining calls raises consent or confidentiality questions — check policy first.

(price re-verified 2026-08-31 against the vendor's own pricing page, read from a European exit) Free $0 — unlimited transcription, limited AI summaries, 400 mins storage per team, 20 AI credits. Pro $18/seat/mo month-to-month or $10/seat/mo billed annually — unlimited AI summaries, 8,000 mins storage per seat, 20 AI credits. Business $29/seat/mo month-to-month or $19/seat/mo billed annually — unlimited storage, 30 AI credits. Enterprise $39/seat/mo, annual only — 50 AI credits, SSO/SCIM, HIPAA, private storage. CORRECTION to the previous dossier: $10 and $19 were carried as the price; they are the annual rates and month-to-month is 80% and 53% higher. Enterprise was missing entirely. The AI-credit ladder (20/20/30/50) means Pro adds no AI credits over the free plan. Always verify the live price.

The advertised $10 and $19 are annual-billing rates; month-to-month is $18 and $29. And AI credits are capped on every tier — Pro carries the same 20 a month as the free plan, so upgrading to Pro buys recording and storage rather than more AI. If you mainly want real-time in-Zoom captioning and simple English notes, Otter is the simpler pick.

Flatpay is genuinely best for a physical shop, café or bar with steady card turnover above £995 a month that wants one predictable rate on every card type instead of a pricing table full of card categories. The on-site installation and 24/7 support suit an owner who would rather not configure hardware, and daily payouts help if cash flow is tight. Skip it if your card takings are small or seasonal: the £995 monthly minimum and the £39 shortfall charge punish exactly that pattern, and the price list says the assessment is annual so a quiet winter still counts. Skip it too if you are online-only — this is built around physical terminals and an in-person sales visit — or if you turn over more than £200,000 a year on cards, because then every published price is replaced by a quote.

(2026-08-13, read off flatpay.com/en-gb/pricing and their separate /pricelist page) Flatpay charges one rate per transaction on every card type, with no monthly subscription. The card terminal is 1.49% and costs £0 to start. The three point-of-sale tiers all run at 1.69% and differ only in what you pay up front for onboarding and installation: £995 for mobile POS, £1,495 for POS Pro and £2,495 for POS Premium. Every one of those four prices applies only below £200,000 in annual card turnover; above it, all four say “custom rate — contact sales”, so the published ladder is for smaller merchants only. Included on all plans: 24/7 support, daily payouts and a customer portal. The part that needs reading is the price list, which is linked from the footer rather than from the pricing page. It sets a **minimum monthly turnover of £995** and charges **£39 in any month you fall short** — assessed annually, so seasonal businesses are explicitly in scope. It also lists £410 for a replacement terminal, £25 to re-onboard after a change in business registration, and hardware separately: tablet £495, printer £495, cash drawer £200. All of those figures exclude VAT. One inconsistency worth raising with their salesperson: the pricing page puts POS Pro onboarding at £1,495 while the price list quotes a “Pro POS bundle” at £1,995 — a £500 gap between two pages on the same site. Always verify the live price.

“Zero monthly fees” is the headline, and there genuinely is no subscription — but there is a floor. Miss £995 of card turnover in a month and you are charged £39, which for a quiet month is the same thing as a monthly fee wearing a different hat. Do the sum before you sign: a shop turning over £500 on cards pays £7.45 in transaction fees and then £39 on top, so the cost of taking cards is six times what the rate suggests. The rate itself is straightforward and the terminal really is free to start, so this is a good fit for a busy till and a poor one for a market stall, a seasonal business or anyone whose card volume swings. And the four-figure POS installation charges are real money that the “no hidden fees” promise sits directly above — they are disclosed, but they are not what most people picture when they read that line.

FlexiQuiz is genuinely best for educators, trainers and small teams that want professional graded quizzes, exams and simple courses — with certificates, timed tests, question banks and analytics — without building out a full LMS. Skip it if you need a complete learning platform with deep integrations, or your volumes run past a few thousand responses a month — the caps make it the wrong shape.

(re-verified 2026-08-31 on flexiquiz.com/Home/Plans; the monthly-billed rates were read from the page's own billing-toggle script, the yearly rates from the rendered cards) Free: 20 responses a month, no card required. Essentials $25/mo billed monthly or $17/mo billed yearly ($204/yr) -- 500 responses a month, 1 administrator, unlimited quizzes and questions, question bank, live quizzes, auto grading. Premium $39/mo monthly or $25/mo yearly ($300/yr) -- 2,000 responses a month, 2 administrators or trainers, learning paths, selling quizzes and courses, custom certificates, embedding, self-registration. Enterprise $89/mo monthly or $60/mo yearly ($720/yr) -- 25,000 responses a month, 15 administrators or trainers, APIs and webhooks, single sign-on, white-label emails, custom CSS, 100 custom groups, 24/7 priority support. Enterprise+ is tailored and quoted by sales. Yearly billing works out 32-36% cheaper than monthly, which is more than the 'save over 25%' the toggle advertises. Purchases over $300 can be invoiced for bank transfer or cheque against an additional $50 fee. Always verify the live price.

The monthly response caps are the business model: 20 on free, 500 on Essentials, 2,000 on Premium and 25,000 on Enterprise -- one viral quiz or one big exam cohort and you're shopping a tier up. The per-response price falls steeply as you climb ($0.034, $0.0125, $0.0024 on yearly billing), so the ceiling is the thing to price, not the sticker. Administrator seats are capped separately at 1, 2 and 15, and sharing a login is against the terms.

Flippa is genuinely best for buyers and sellers of small-to-mid online businesses, SaaS, apps and domains who want the largest marketplace and are comfortable doing their own due diligence. Skip it if you're selling a large, premium business where a dedicated broker's vetting and negotiation earns its higher fee, or you want a hands-off sale.

(re-verified 2026-09-03 on their own pricing page, USD) Sellers pay an upfront listing fee plus a success fee when the business sells, and BOTH change with the asking-price band. The success fee is 10% on every band up to $499.9K, then 9% from $500K, 8% from $1M, 7% from $5M, 6% from $10M and 5% at $50M+. The listing fee is not one figure either: on a sub-$10K asset it is $29 flat for a 60-day term, $49 flat for a boosted three-month listing, or $199 per six months for Premium; from $10K the ladder is $49, $399 or $599 per six months; from $50K it is $129, $399 or $699. From $100K upward there is no self-service option at all — Flippa routes those to its own brokers at a single upfront $399 to $1,499 for a six-month brokerage term, with the success fee still on top. Buyers browse free — AI matching, Deal Room, FlippaPay, escrow and multi-currency are all included — and a paid buyer subscription ($49 a month or $490 a year, up from $388 a year in our July and August 2026 captures) adds 21 days of exclusive early access to new listings valued over $10,000. Payment charges are published too: FlippaPay from 1% and Escrow.com from 1.2%. Always verify the live price.

The real cost is the success fee, and it's a flat bracket rate on the whole sale price, not marginal — a mid-five-figure sale can hand over a four- to five-figure commission. Flippa is also a self-serve marketplace: more listings, but more due-diligence burden on you. Verification and quality vary, so buyers must vet hard and sellers should expect tyre-kickers. It's reach and liquidity, not a white-glove broker.

Flocksy is genuinely best for marketing teams and agencies with steady, recurring creative volume (ads, social, video edits) that want predictable flat-fee capacity instead of freelancer wrangling. Skip it if your design needs are occasional or spiky (pay per project instead), or you need one senior specialist deeply embedded in your brand.

Flat monthly plans priced by dedicated creative hours per business day: $1,199/mo for 2h/day, $1,699 (3h/day), $2,199 (4h/day), $2,599 (5h/day), $2,999 (6h/day), $3,399 (7h/day) and $3,799/mo for 8h/day, each billed annually and shown per month (re-verified 2026-09-03; every annual rate unchanged since 6 August, and the monthly and quarterly ladders are now published beside them at $1,699 to $5,899 a month). Plans start at 2 daily hours and scale to 8, with custom teams beyond that; month-to-month costs more — on the 4h/day plan Flocksy prices annual billing as saving $10,800/yr versus monthly. The pricing page carries a money-back guarantee. Always verify the live price.

'Unlimited' means unlimited queue, not unlimited throughput: work happens at your plan's daily capacity, so a big launch week still needs planning, and turnaround expectations are where subscription-design relationships sour. The economics are simple and honest — against even one freelance designer's day rate, the math works IF you feed it steady volume; if your design needs are sporadic, a flat monthly fee is paying for silence — unused hours do bank, but only for 30 days.

folk is genuinely best for small sales teams, agencies and VC/partnership teams who want a clean, fast-to-set-up CRM with a great LinkedIn enrichment extension. Skip it if you're a solo founder who needs your network on your phone, or you need real workflow automation and reporting — folk is lightweight by design.

$30/member/month on Standard, $60 on Premium and from $100 on Enterprise when billed monthly; billed yearly those drop to $24, $48 and from $80 per member per month — 20% off — for $288, $576 and $960 per member per year (re-verified 2026-09-03; every figure held). The same page publishes euro rates: 27€, 54€ and from 83€ monthly, 22€, 43€ and from 67€ yearly, for 259€, 518€ and 804€ a year. The free trial is two weeks and needs no credit card; folk's own FAQ says an account that does not upgrade is blocked rather than deleted at the end, and that the trial can be extended by a week on request. The published caps: email enrichment 500 a month on Standard, 1,000 on Premium and custom on Enterprise; AI magic fields 2,000 and 5,000; account sync one per member and five per member. Always verify the live price.

One gap has closed and one has not. folk now has a mobile app — the pricing table carries a Mobile app row ticked on all three plans — so the browser-only complaint is out of date. Automation still bites: Zapier and Make are marked Premium and Enterprise only, so Standard has no automation route at all, and the table shows no native multi-step workflow anywhere. Enrichment is capped at 500 a month on Standard and 1,000 on Premium, and email sequences need at least Premium.

Foxit is genuinely best for individuals and businesses that want full PDF editing, OCR and organizing at a fraction of Acrobat's subscription — especially multi-seat deployments. Skip it if you only read and occasionally annotate PDFs (free readers cover it), or your org is contractually deep in the Adobe ecosystem.

(re-verified 1 Sep 2026 on the Foxit pricing pages and the eSign JSON-LD) PDF Editor is $129.99 per user per year, or from $10.99 per user per month, with a 14-day free trial that asks for no card. PDF Editor+ is $159.99 per user per year and bundles what used to be a second bill: mobile apps, AI Smart Redact, cloud storage and Foxit eSign with 150 envelopes a year. A perpetual licence, Foxit PDF Editor 14, is $209.99 once per user for Windows or macOS, covering editing, conversion, OCR, forms and security but not the AI Assistant, Smart Redact, the document management system or any cloud feature. Every Editor seat carries 300 free AI credits per user per month; the paid AI Assistant tier is $49.99 a year for 2,000 credits a month per user, credits reset monthly and do not roll over, and the add-on is not sold for perpetual licences. Standalone eSign still exists and the pricing page prints it in its JSON-LD: Essentials is $120.00 a year with 250 envelopes and 10 templates for one dedicated user, Business is $300.00 per licence a year with unlimited envelopes and a five-licence minimum, so $1,500 is the smallest Business order; volume licensing starts at 30 licences and is quoted. Foxit publishes a volume discount of up to 30% for larger teams. An education discount is applied automatically at checkout when you register with a school email address; Foxit does not publish the rate. Foxit states the comparison figures are US list rates. Always verify the live price.

Foxit's pitch is being the honest fraction of Acrobat's price, and on the headline numbers it delivers. The catch used to be that e-signing was always a second subscription. As of our 28 August 2026 reading that is only true below Editor+, which now includes Foxit eSign with 150 envelopes a year. The trap has moved rather than gone: buy the $129.99 Editor, then find you need signatures, and Editor plus standalone eSign Essentials is $249.99 a year against $159.99 for the Editor+ that bundles it. AI is still an add-on at $49.99 a year beyond the 300 monthly credits, and it is not sold for perpetual licences at all. Price the basket, not the first line.

Frase is genuinely best for content teams and SEOs who want to speed up research, briefs and SERP-driven optimization in one workflow. Skip it if you publish only occasionally — the monthly quota and subscription outweigh the time saved for a handful of articles.

(re-verified 2026-08-17 against Frase's own machine-readable pricing file) The headline figure is the yearly rate; paying month to month costs about 25% more, and both are shown on the page. Starter $39/mo billed yearly against $49/mo monthly: 1 seat, 1 site, 10 articles and 50 audit pages a month, Content Guard watching 10 pages. Professional $103/mo yearly against $129/mo monthly: 3 seats, 5 sites, 40 articles and 250 audit pages, extra seats $29/mo. Scale $239/mo yearly against $299/mo monthly: 5 seats, up to 10 domains, 100 articles and 1,000 audit pages, Content Guard watching 300 pages, extra seats $29/mo. The trial is 7 days with no credit card. FraseCMS hosting is included free up to 100,000 page views a month; moving the blog to your own domain is $19/mo on top of a paid plan, or $99/mo at a million page views. On Starter, Frase stops at the limit rather than billing you extra; on Professional and Scale you can switch on pay-as-you-go capacity, so there the sticker price is a floor rather than a ceiling. Always verify the live price.

The article quotas pinch if you publish at volume (overage docs bill each), and it's a research-and-optimization tool, not a magic ranking button — it speeds up briefs, it doesn't replace the writing or the backlinks.

FreshBooks is genuinely best for freelancers and small service firms who bill time and want invoicing that chases payment for them — the client cap is generous enough at Plus for most one-person businesses. Skip it if you have more than a handful of clients and only need invoicing — the client cap is what pushes you up the ladder here, and flat-priced invoicing tools do not care how many clients you have.

(2026-08-29, read on their own pricing page) Every amount is unchanged since 1 August 2026. The prices shown are 90% off for three months. Lite $2.30 a month promotional, $23 regular, 5 billable clients. Plus $4.30 promotional, $43 regular, 50 billable clients. Premium $7 promotional, $70 regular, unlimited clients. Select is quote-only. Team members are $11 a month each on every tier, with 2 included on Select. Two add-ons sit in the fine print: Advanced Payments $20 a month and Payroll $40 a month plus $6 per user. The page prints the promotional saving beside each tier — $62.10 on Lite, $116.10 on Plus, $189.00 on Premium — which is exactly three months of the difference and confirms the discount runs three months and no longer. Separately, there is a 30-day free trial, and FreshBooks promises a full refund if you contact them within 30 days of purchase. Always verify the live price.

Two things multiply the number you first see. The promotional rate is 90% off for three months, so Lite is $23 rather than $2.30 from month four. And the meter is billable clients, not invoices or revenue: Lite stops at five, which a freelancer with a handful of retainers passes in their first good quarter, and the step to fifty clients is $43. Then people cost extra on top at $11 each, so a two-person studio on Plus is $54 a month rather than $43. Payroll is a separate $40 plus $6 a head, which is the line most people miss when they compare this against a bookkeeping tool that includes it.

Freshchat is genuinely best for small-to-mid support teams that want live chat and messaging with a real free tier to start. Skip it if you need a full help-desk and ticketing system, not just chat — look at a complete support suite instead of bolting on channels.

Read 1 Sep 2026 on freshworks.com/live-chat-software/pricing/ (USD fields of the page own plan data). Free is $0 for up to 10 agents. Per agent per month: Growth $19 billed annually or $23 monthly, Pro $49 or $59, Enterprise $79 or $95. Freddy AI is a separate bill, and both rates are published: the Freddy AI Copilot add-on is $29/agent/mo billed annually ($35 monthly), and Freddy AI Agent sessions cost $49 per 100 sessions beyond the 500 complimentary sessions each paid account receives once. Other add-ons on the same page: Freshcaller at $15/$39/$69 per agent per month annually ($18/$47/$83 monthly) on Growth/Pro/Enterprise, campaign contacts at $100, connector app tasks at $80, and day passes at $2/$7/$12. Always verify the live price.

The free tier is genuinely useful for small teams, but AI features and higher-tier routing sit behind paid plans and add-ons — and being part of the wider Freshworks suite means you'll be nudged toward the full platform.

Freshservice is genuinely best for IT teams that want proper ITSM (incidents, assets, changes, service catalog) running in weeks, without enterprise-suite implementation pain. Skip it if you need a simple shared helpdesk (Freshdesk-class is cheaper) or you're at the scale where ServiceNow's depth is genuinely required.

Per agent, read 1 Sep 2026 on freshworks.com/freshservice/pricing/ (USD fields of the page own plan data, so not a euro reading): Starter $19/agent/mo billed annually or $29 monthly; Growth $49 or $59; Pro $99 or $119; Enterprise $139 or $167 -- Enterprise is no longer quote-only. Monthly billing costs 53% more on Starter and about 20% more on every tier above it. Metered on top of the seat: Freddy AI Copilot $29/agent/mo (Pro and Enterprise), orchestration transactions included at 1,000/2,000/5,000/20,000 per account per month with extra packs at $250 per 1,000, an e-signature pack at $90 for 30 signature credits, project management licences at $15/user/mo, a Business Agent add-on at $49 and connector app tasks at $80. Every tier includes the ITAM Growth package and 100 ITAM Growth asset units; further units are bought separately. Always verify the live price.

The $19 headline rarely survives contact with a real deployment: the ITSM features most IT teams buy for (change/problem management, deeper analytics) live at Pro, and the modern extras — AI agent sessions, orchestration runs, asset counts — meter separately. Price the tier that contains your must-haves plus realistic AI usage, not the starter row. Within that honesty, it's one of the fastest ITSM tools to actually stand up.

Freshworks is genuinely best for teams who want a support desk that is cheaper per agent than the category leaders and will genuinely use the annual commitment — Growth at $19 is real value if ticketing is all you need. Skip it if you want the AI-first product the marketing describes without doing the arithmetic, because that configuration is $55 plus $29 an agent annually, or $66 plus $35 if you take the monthly column.

(2026-08-29, read on their own pricing pages) The main Freshworks pricing page still carries no prices at all — it lists the products and links out to each one, and that list has grown to nine: Freshdesk Omni, Freshdesk, Freshchat, Freshcaller, Freshservice, Freshservice for Business Teams, Freshsales, Freshsales Suite and Freshmarketer. On Freshdesk the annual rates are unchanged since 1 August 2026: Growth $19 per agent per month, Pro $55, Enterprise $89, billed annually. What has changed is that the monthly column is now published: Growth $23, Pro $66, Enterprise $107 per agent per month, billed monthly. The page's SAVE 20% badge overstates the gap — $19 against $23 is 17.4%, $55 against $66 is 16.7%, $89 against $107 is 16.8%. Freddy AI Agent is included with the first 500 sessions; additional sessions are $49 per 100. Freddy AI Copilot is a separate add-on at $29 per agent per month annually, or $35 monthly, on Pro and Enterprise only. Day passes are $2, $7 and $12 per pass on Growth, Pro and Enterprise. Connector app tasks are $80 per 5,000 tasks. The 14-day free trial starts you on Enterprise. Always verify the live price.

Freshworks is not a product, it is nine of them behind a pricing page that contains no price. Once you find Freshdesk's own page, two things sit on top of the number. Freddy AI Copilot — the AI the marketing leads with — is $29 per agent per month extra, 53% on top of a Pro seat, and it is not sold on Growth at all. And the Freddy AI Agent that is included stops after 500 sessions; beyond that it is $49 per 100 sessions, so a busy queue turns the included allowance into a metered bill. The SAVE 20% badge on the annual toggle is really 17%. If you want support and IT and CRM, price three subscriptions, not one.

FullEnrich is genuinely best for outbound teams that need maximum find-rates on emails and especially mobile numbers, and prefer paying only for verified hits. Skip it if you only need emails at volume (single-source tools are cheaper per hit), or your ICP data lives fine in one database already.

(slider re-read 1 Sep 2026 on fullenrich.com/pricing from a Dutch exit; the USD amounts are the 26 Aug 2026 US reading, unchanged in structure) Pro is priced off a credit slider rather than a fixed tier: $55/mo at 1,000 credits a month, printed as $0.055 per credit, and $720/mo at 15,000 -- $0.048 each, so the rate drops as you commit to more. The slider runs from 500 credits to over 100,000. Enterprise is quoted. The free trial is 50 credits with no credit card, and inviting team members earns more. What a credit buys is the part worth reading and it did not change: one work email costs 1 credit, a personal email 3, a reverse email lookup 1, and a mobile number 10, so a list that needs phone numbers burns through ten times faster than the headline suggests. Credits roll over three months on monthly billing and twelve on annual. One caution for anyone checking these numbers from outside the US: the page localises. From the Netherlands the slider prints 0.055 euro per credit while the recommended-plan card on the same page still prints $720/mo, and the page structured data declares USD with a 0 to 500 range. Read the currency next to the number before comparing. Always verify the live price.

The pay-on-success model is refreshingly honest, but note the 10x: phone numbers eat credits ten times faster than emails, so a calling-heavy motion consumes budget quickly — model your email/phone mix. As an orchestration layer over 15+ providers, its hit rate genuinely beats single databases; the flip side is you're paying a premium per contact versus querying one source that might have sufficed.

Gamma is genuinely best for anyone who wants to turn a prompt or notes into a good-looking presentation, doc or webpage draft in minutes. Skip it if you need pixel-perfect, brand-controlled decks — you'll spend the saved time re-polishing the AI output.

(re-verified 2026-08-26 in the browser, and unchanged from our 16 Aug reading; the page is client-rendered and serves a bot challenge that our capture cannot pass, so there is no dated screenshot beside this. Served to us in euros from a Dutch address, so your own checkout may quote dollars) Free €0 with 400 one-time credits at signup and up to 10 slides per generation. These are the individual plans, monthly / annual per seat per month. Plus is €10 / €8 with 1,000 monthly credits and Gamma branding removed. Pro is €24 / €18 with 4,000 credits, API access and up to 10 custom domains. Ultra is €86 / €77.33 with 20,000 credits and the most advanced models. Read the annual column carefully: that €77.33 is not a rate Gamma charges but €928 a seat a year divided by twelve, and the same arithmetic sits behind €8 and €18. On the business side Team is €18 per seat a month (€216 a year) with 6,000 credits per seat, Business €35 (€420 a year) with 10,000 credits and SSO, and Enterprise is custom. Annual billing is advertised as saving up to 25%. Always verify the live price.

The credit model means heavy generation eats your monthly allowance, and outputs still need a human polish for high-stakes decks — it's a brilliant first-draft engine, not a finished-deck button. The free tier's watermark pushes you to paid quickly.

Gelato is genuinely best for creators and stores selling custom products internationally who want local production in many countries to cut shipping time and cost, with no inventory. Skip it if you sell only a handful of orders a month (stay on the free plan) or your customers are concentrated in one country where a single-hub competitor is simpler.

(re-read 2026-09-03 on gelato.com/subscription-plans in a browser session, every figure unchanged since 26 August; the site serves a bot challenge that our capture cannot pass, so there is no dated screenshot beside this) Free is $0 forever with two connected stores and two account users. Gelato+ is $29.99 a month, or $19.99 a month billed annually, and lifts both of those to unlimited while adding Personalization Studio, the AI tools and up to 33% off products year-round. Platinum is quoted, with custom discounts, a rewards programme and a dedicated implementation service. Note where those figures live: gelato.com/pricing publishes no subscription rates at all — it explains how payment works, with no upfront fees and no commission — and the plan table sits on /subscription-plans. The rates are in dollars even read from Europe. Gelato+ pays for itself on product discounts rather than features, so the question is order volume, not which tools you want. Always verify the live price.

The free plan is genuinely usable, so the honest question is only whether Gelato+ earns its fee — and that depends entirely on volume: below ~10 orders a month the discounts won't cover the subscription. Its real edge is local production in 30+ countries (fast, cheaper international shipping), but that means quality and product availability can vary slightly by region and print partner. Sample your key products before scaling.

GeoStock is genuinely best for retailers with physical locations who want shoppers to see per-store stock and find the nearest branch on the product page itself. Skip it if you are online-only — there are no locations to show — or you need actual inventory management, which this is not.

(read 2026-08-18 on apps.shopify.com/product-inventory-information) From $9.99 a month, with a free trial. Base Plan $9.99 and Plus Plan $29.99. Rating 4.8 from 71 reviews. Developer sohkal llc. Always verify the live price.

Know what this is before you buy it: despite the name it is a storefront widget, not an inventory system. It displays the stock you already track in Shopify per location, and adds a store-locator map — it does not manage, forecast or reconcile anything. If you came looking for multi-location inventory management, that is a different category and a different budget. What it does do well is close a specific gap: a shopper who can see that a nearby store has the item is a shopper who does not abandon.

Geotargetly is genuinely best for marketers personalizing redirects, content blocks and popups by visitor location — country to city level — without engineering work. Skip it if your traffic is small enough for a hand-built redirect, or your CDN/edge stack already covers the basic geo-cases you need.

(price re-verified 2026-08-31 against the vendor's own pricing page, read from a European exit) 14-day free trial. Six tiers, priced in USD: Dev $12/mo, Startup $24, Growth $49, Business $99, High Traffic $199, Enterprise from $349 — billed yearly $9, $19, $39, $79, $159 and from $279. Amounts unchanged; the yearly rates for High Traffic ($159) and Enterprise (from $279) are new to this dossier, which previously listed only the first four. All plans include country, state and city-level targeting. The meter is PAGEVIEWS, not visitors (the previous dossier said visitors): the FAQ states a pageview is consumed for every page visit, and that pageviews are consumed separately for each product in use; Geo Links consumes one on link click only. On quota exhaustion you get 2 days to upgrade or re-subscribe before services stop, with email alerts at 30%, 10%, 5% and 0%. Per-tier pageview quotas are NOT reliably readable: the page's JSON-LD repeats '500,000 pageviews/month' for every monthly tier and '6,000,000 pageviews/year' for every yearly tier, which cannot be right, and the visible ladder is a slider not present in the served HTML. Its priceValidUntil is stale (2025-12-31). Always verify the live price.

The meter is pageviews, not visitors, and each product consumes its own pageview on the same page visit — so a redirect plus a popup bills twice. Run out and you get two days to upgrade or re-subscribe before services stop. The friendlier advertised numbers are the yearly rates; month-to-month runs about 25% higher. And the dependency worth pricing in: the rules run from a script you drop into your site, so they exist only while that script is served. Stop the subscription and every visitor sees the same page again, wherever they are.

GetResponse is genuinely best for small businesses that want email plus landing pages, automation and webinars in one affordable suite. Skip it if you only need basic broadcasts — a leaner tool costs less without the extra modules you won't use.

(re-verified 2026-08-17 on their own pricing page, in euros, quoted at 1,000 contacts) Free plan: 1,000 landing-page visitors a month, AI tools capped at 3 uses, webinars capped at 10 attendees, GetResponse branding retained, and premium features stop after 14 days. Starter €16/mo or €13.12/mo billed annually: 1 automation workflow, up to 3 users. Marketer €54/mo or €44.28 annual: unlimited workflows, 5 users, ecommerce tools, advanced segmentation, abandoned-cart recovery. Creator €62/mo or €50.84 annual: website builder, course creator up to 500 students, webinars up to 100 attendees. Enterprise quote-only, adding SMS, dedicated IP and 1,000-attendee webinars. Annual billing saves a stated 18%, and prices step up at 1k, 2.5k, 5k, 10k, 25k, 50k and 100k contacts. One currency warning: GetResponse's own FAQ on that same page quotes the entry plan at $19 a month for 1,000 subscribers while the plan grid served us euros — check which currency your own checkout uses before you budget. Always verify the live price.

Priced by contact count, so the entry number climbs as your list grows, and the best value only shows on long (annual/24-month) commitments. A solid all-rounder, but you lock in to get the good rate.

Getscreen is genuinely best for IT and support people who want browser-based remote access without installing software on the other person's machine — at a fair price or a one-time fee. Skip it if you need the absolute lowest latency (AnyDesk) or heavy compliance certifications like HIPAA/SOC 2 (TeamViewer).

(price re-verified 2026-09-02) Business rates on getscreen.me/en/pricing/plans/ are quoted on annual payment, which the page marks 16% off. The figures were first read over a US connection on 2026-08-26 as dollars and have not moved since; from a Dutch connection the same numerals print as euros, so the currency symbol follows the visitor region rather than the price. The business subscription bills on two meters at once, and quoting only the first understates it: Standard is $4.17 per technician a month plus $0.08 per device, Advanced $6.67 plus $0.13, and Enterprise $8.33 plus $0.17. Advanced and Enterprise add unlimited client invitations. Free plan (2 devices); paid tiers add one-time quick connections (Advanced) and white-label, roles and mass-device management (Enterprise) — plus a one-time Personal Lifetime Deal around $149, which sidesteps the recurring fees of rivals like TeamViewer (~$50/mo). Always verify the live price.

AnyDesk tends to feel faster and lower-latency, and TeamViewer carries the heavier security/compliance certifications (HIPAA, SOC 2). Getscreen's real edge is being fully browser-based — nothing to install on the other person's machine — and cheaper, especially with the lifetime deal.

Gixo is genuinely best for teams that want one dedicated, source-grounded tool per deliverable — a deck tool, a content tool, a proposal tool — and would rather buy them separately than bend one generic generator into every shape. Skip it if you want a single flat AI subscription covering writing and design together, or you cannot justify stacking three narrow products to cover what one all-in-one tool does under one price.

(2026-08-19, read in a live browser on their own pricing page) Gixo is not one product but seven, each sold separately, and the pricing page publishes only a floor for each. Quill (articles and content), Lumen (decks) and Prism (visuals and infographics) start at $10 a month. Business (briefs and decisions) and Folio (books and long-form) start at $19. Lex (legal and compliance) is from $29, and Arc (proposals from RFPs) from $49. Six of the seven advertise a 14-day free trial and Quill's is explicitly no-card; Folio instead lets you plan or import a book free and charges monthly to draft. There is no bundle price and no published tier ladder: the pricing page says exact plan details sit on each product page, and the product pages we read carried none — they point you at the plan list inside the app. Quill, Lumen, Business, Arc and Lex can also be bought through Microsoft Azure Marketplace, with private offers for procurement. Always verify the live price.

Two things about this pricing are worth reading twice. The first is that seven products means seven subscriptions. Gixo is priced per deliverable, not per company. So the moment a team needs decks and articles and a proposal it is buying Lumen plus Quill plus Arc — $10 + $10 + $49, or $828 a year at the published floors — rather than one plan. That is a fair trade if you genuinely need one of them and a poor one if you need three, because there is no published bundle to fall back on. Ask about a multi-product bundle before you subscribe to the second product, not after. The second is that every number above is a floor and nothing else is public. “Plans from $10/month” is all Gixo publishes: what a higher tier costs, and what the entry tier actually allows in generations, seats or exports, is on neither the pricing page nor the product pages. You find that out inside the product. So run the 14-day trial at the volume you actually expect rather than on a sample, because the tier you land on is the price you will pay, and right now it is a guess.

Glide is genuinely best for teams that already run operations out of spreadsheets and want a real app on top — internal tools, field data capture, client portals — without hiring a developer. Skip it if you need heavy custom logic or a high-write consumer app: the update metering punishes exactly that shape of workload, and anything beyond the published ceilings is a quote-only conversation.

(Classic re-verified 2026-09-03 in a live browser session on both tabs and both billing toggles, unchanged since 2026-08-04; the GlideOS plans were re-read the same day after a restructure) The classic spreadsheet-to-app builder still has a genuinely free tier: unlimited drafts, one editor, up to 25k rows. Its paid plans are unchanged, but they now live on glideapps.com/classic/pricing instead of the main pricing page. On the individual tab, Explorer starts at $19 per month billed yearly or $25 billed monthly (one app, 100 personal users, 250 updates, up to 25k rows) and Maker at $49 per month billed yearly or $60 monthly. On the business tab, Business starts at $199 per month billed yearly or $249 monthly, with unlimited apps, 30 users included, 5,000 updates and up to 100k rows. Extra users are $5 each on annual billing and $6 on monthly, and extra updates cost 2 cents each. Enterprise is quote-only. VAT is added at checkout, and Business comes with a 14-day free trial. Glide now sells two products from two pages. What glideapps.com/pricing shows today is GlideOS, the newer AI builder, on its own separate subscription, and its plan ladder was rebuilt between our August and September readings. The Free, Solo and Team tiers we recorded on 4 August 2026 are gone; as read on 3 September 2026 the ladder is Free, Basic at $25 per month, Plus at $50, Pro at $125 and a quote-only Enterprise. Free carries 2 team members, 10 projects and limited credits, with no published apps. Basic adds 100 credits, 2 published apps and 1 enabled workflow. Plus gives 250 credits, 3 team members, 5 published apps, 20 projects and 5 workflows, with credit bundles up to 10,000 a month. Pro starts at 5 team members with 500 credits, 50 credits included per member, unlimited published apps and workflows, premium integrations and the option to build with your own agent over MCP. Two things that used to be on the page are not any more: the $10 per additional member above five, and Glide's note that annual GlideOS plans were coming. So the GlideOS prices are still monthly only, and what a sixth seat costs is no longer published. Credit top-ups are capped at one a month on Basic and two on Plus, and are unlimited on Pro and Enterprise. One caveat on the row ceilings, from Glide's own partner team on 18 August 2026. The 25k limit applies to synced spreadsheet sources regardless of plan type, and the 100k+ figures apply to their Big Table data source. So which ceiling you hit is set by where the data lives as much as by what you pay. They also confirmed the Individual and Business tabs on the pricing page are audience segmentation rather than two halves of one plan ladder. Always verify the live price.

Glide meters updates, not just seats. Your bill tracks how busy the app is rather than how many people own a licence. A write-heavy workflow can pass the included 5,000 updates and add 2 cents each without anyone changing plan. The jump from Maker to Business is also steep: $49 to $199 per month on annual billing, and the row ceiling only moves from 25k to 100k. Per Glide's partner team on 18 August 2026, those ceilings track the data source rather than the plan. 25k applies to synced spreadsheet sources whatever you pay, and the 100k+ figures belong to their Big Table source. So an upgrade alone does not lift a spreadsheet-backed app past 25k rows. The pricing page is hard to read for a reason Glide does not dispute. Asked about the Individual and Business tabs, the same team called them audience segmentation. They agreed on 18 August 2026 that the comparison tables confuse, because they never put all plans side by side. And there is a trap before any of that arithmetic applies: everything above describes the classic builder, but the free signup button on glideapps.com does not lead there. We pressed it on 7 September 2026 and landed in GlideOS, the newer AI product, which meters credits instead of updates, starts at $25 a month instead of $199, and describes its free tier only as “limited credits” with no number anywhere in the pricing page or the app. Read the classic prices, click sign up, and you are evaluating something else.

Goflow is genuinely best for multichannel e-commerce operations with serious order volume that want orders, inventory, purchasing, listings and shipping unified — including EDI retail. Skip it if you sell on one channel only (a single-channel tool costs a tenth), or your volume sits just past the free Core allowance but nowhere near what the $499/mo Launch tier is worth.

(re-verified 3 Sep 2026 on goflow.com/pricing; Scale changed, the rest held) Goflow Core is free forever at $0/mo with no credit card, covering 500 orders, 3 users, 1,000 newly created listings and every Goflow feature. Paid tiers add unlimited channels, users, integrations and listings — Launch $499/mo (750 orders), Scale $979/mo (5,000 orders plus wholesale/EDI orders; on 12 Aug this tier was $1,449 for 10,000 orders, so it has been cut in price and in volume), Enterprise custom — and Enterprise is the one annual commitment, twelve months, where every other paid plan is month-to-month. Billing is month-to-month with no setup or implementation fees, but EDI, SFTP and AS2 connections carry a one-time setup and testing fee of typically $500-1,300 per connection. There is no free trial and no discount programme — the free Core plan is the trial (vendor mail, 12 Aug 2026). Always verify the live price.

Every tier ships the whole platform — you pay for volume, not unlocks — and Core really is free forever, so 500 orders a month costs $0. The catch is the cliff above it: orders past the Core allowance are paused until you upgrade, and the next step up is $499/mo. Goflow also states you cannot move back down to Core once you go paid. Budget the EDI setup separately: $500-1,300 one-time per connection, multiplied by the number of retail partners.

Gorgias is genuinely best for ecommerce support teams with seasonal or spiky volume, where per-agent pricing punishes you for having enough people on a busy week. Skip it if your volume is steady and low — 50 tickets a month is the entry allowance, and below that a shared inbox costs nothing; also skip the AI agent until you know your automated-interaction count, since that is the meter that runs away.

(re-verified 8 September 2026 on their own pricing page) Not priced per agent -- their own line -- but the seats are capped: the comparison table gives Starter 3 user seats and Basic, Pro and Advanced 500 each. Two meters stack. Starter is $40/month all in, monthly billing only: a $10/month helpdesk with 50 tickets included and $0.40 per ticket beyond, plus the AI Agent at $30/month with 30 automated interactions. Basic is $90/month month-to-month or $77/month billed annually ($924 a year), including 300 tickets and 30 automated interactions with the same $0.40 ticket overage; the $50 helpdesk and $27 AI Agent printed on that card sum to the annual rate, not the monthly one. Pro is $550/month or $471/month billed annually ($5,652 a year) -- $300 helpdesk plus $171 AI Agent -- including 2,000 tickets and 190 automated interactions, with ticket overage falling to $0.36. Advanced is $1,430/month or $1,227/month billed annually ($14,724 a year) -- $750 plus $477 -- including 5,000 tickets and 530 automated interactions, also at $0.36. Above 5,000 conversations a month it is quote-only, and that custom tier is the only one with SSO via SAML, audit logs and an API above the 2 requests a second every listed plan gets. The page contradicts itself on the AI meter: every plan card says $1.50 per automated interaction past the limit, while the comparison table on the same page prices it at $1.00 on Starter, $0.90 on Basic and Pro and $0.85 on Advanced. Always verify the live price.

Never priced per agent is a real advantage, but it starts one tier up: the comparison table caps Starter at 3 user seats, and only Basic and above open the inbox to 500. On Basic upwards your whole team can be in there without the bill moving, which is the main reason to choose this over a per-seat helpdesk. The cost sits on two meters instead, and both bite. Tickets beyond your allowance are $0.40 each on Starter and Basic, $0.36 on Pro and Advanced, so a bad week costs money rather than attention. And the AI agent -- the thing the homepage leads with -- is a separate $30 a month on the entry plan, which is three times the helpdesk it sits on. So the honest entry price for the product as advertised is $40, not $10. Count a normal month's tickets and a busy month's, and price both. Then check the AI meter separately: the plan cards charge $1.50 per automated interaction past the included allowance while the comparison table on the same page says $1.00 to $0.85 depending on tier. When a vendor publishes two rates for the same meter, get the one that will be on your invoice in writing before you switch the agent on.

GrapeLeads is genuinely best for web developers, designers and agencies prospecting local businesses that do not have a website yet — surfaced from Google Maps with contact details. Skip it if you sell to companies that already have an online presence, or you want transparent pricing before creating an account.

(re-verified 2026-08-12, read on their own buy-credits page) Pay-as-you-go credit packs, bought once rather than subscribed to: Freelancer $28 for 50 credits ($0.56 each), Startup $55 for 100 credits ($0.54) and Agency $127 for 250 credits ($0.51). Bulk pricing is on request and signing up gives 20 free credits. Credits measure work, not leads: one credit starts a search and one more is charged for every filtered result, so a search that returns 20 matching businesses costs 21 credits. The vendor also states that unused credits carry a 50% bonus when its 2.0 app ships. Mind the URL — the price list lives at /buy-credits/ while the /pricing link 404s, which is how we had this down as unpriced until now. Always verify the live price.

You are billed per result, not per usable lead: one credit opens the search and one more is charged for every business it returns, so a broad filter burns credits whether or not the results are worth calling. The packs are small enough that this is cheap to test ($28 for 50 credits) but it is the wrong shape if you want volume prospecting at a predictable monthly cost — there is no subscription at all. The site also still 404s its own /pricing link while the real list sits at /buy-credits/, which is an odd look for a tool sold to web professionals. And the niche (Google-Maps businesses without websites) is the real product: judge the data on one pack before you go further.

Grapevine is genuinely best for Shopify stores running more than one marketing channel that want attribution from customers rather than from cookies — post-purchase 'how did you hear about us', NPS and CSAT — with unlimited responses at a predictable flat price, and that already send data into Klaviyo, GA4 or Shopify Flow. Skip it if your order volume is small enough that $25 a month buys a handful of answers; you want a single one-off survey rather than a running programme; or you need a permanently free tier, because the only free access here is the 14-day trial.

(read 2026-09-10 on apps.shopify.com/grapevine) One plan, called Complete, at $25 a month, billed in USD every 30 days, with a 14-day free trial and no free tier. There is no response limit and no per-response charge: unlimited post-purchase, NPS, CSAT and attribution responses are included at that price, on every Shopify plan. The single price also covers revenue and AOV reporting per marketing channel, targeting by order value, product, country, payment method and customer, delivery on-site, by email and on Shopify POS, exports to Shopify Flow, Klaviyo and GA4, and querying your survey data with your own AI assistant through the vendor's MCP server. Always verify the live price.

The flat price is the whole pricing page, which cuts both ways. There is no free tier and no small plan, so from day fifteen the app costs $25 a month whether it collects four responses or forty thousand — a low-volume store pays the same as a high-volume one, and several of the nearest alternatives do publish a free plan. The second thing to weigh is access rather than price: the listing's data section asks for customer data including sensitive, device and activity data, plus orders, staff accounts and the online store, which is a lot of reach for a survey tool and worth reading the privacy policy over. The evidence base is otherwise good for a Shopify app — launched 17 August 2017 by Union Works Apps in London, 221 reviews of which 214 are five-star and none below three.

Gravity Forms is genuinely best for WordPress site owners and developers who want powerful, self-hosted forms with conditional logic, payments and deep integrations they fully control. Skip it if you're not on WordPress, or you want a hosted drag-and-drop builder with no plugin maintenance.

Annual WordPress licences, read 1 Sep 2026 on gravityforms.com/pricing/: Basic $59/yr (1 site), Pro $159/yr (3 sites, payment add-ons such as Stripe, Square and PayPal Checkout), Elite $259/yr (unlimited sites, WordPress Multisite, priority support and every first-party add-on). No renewal rate is published on the page. The third-party extensions most advanced builds lean on are separate purchases with their own ladders: Gravity Perks $59/$169/$299 a year for 1/3/unlimited sites, Gravity Flow $99/$299/$447 for 1/3/50 sites, and GravityKit $119 for GravityView, $199 for GravityView Pro and $396 for the All Access Pass (all three were discounted for a first year at the time of reading). Always verify the live price.

Two honest notes. It's a WordPress-only plugin — no WordPress, no Gravity Forms — and its real power often lives in paid add-ons and third-party extensions, so a genuinely advanced setup can cost more than the base license suggests. It's developer-friendly rather than beginner-slick; non-technical users may find hosted builders more polished. For a WordPress site, though, it's the reliable gold standard.

Guesty is genuinely best for hosts with 1-3 listings starting on Guesty Lite (~$9/mo + ~1% per reservation) who may grow into the full property-management platform. Skip it if you want quote-free scaling — Pro and Enterprise are custom-priced, so growth means a sales conversation.

(price re-verified 2026-08-31 against the vendor's own pricing page, read from a European exit) Guesty Lite is $9/mo PER LISTING plus ~1% per reservation, for 1–3 listings; Pro covers 4–199 listings and Enterprise 200+, both quote-only. 14-day free trial of Lite. CORRECTIONS to the previous dossier: (1) the $9 is per listing, not a flat fee covering one to three listings; (2) the price is set by country. The page's geo-pricing table puts US, GB, AU, NZ, CA, MX and ~28 other markets at $9 both monthly and yearly (no annual discount), with country groups at $20/$29, $18/$26 and $16/$23 yearly/monthly, and a fallback of $27 yearly / $39 monthly for any country not listed — so the headline $9 is a major-market price and much of the world pays three to four times it. (3) The Pro and Enterprise listing bands (4–199, 200+) were not previously recorded. VENDOR SELF-CONTRADICTION, confirm before relying: the geo-price note reads '+1% per reservation | Including PriceOptimizer', while the same page's feature table lists Guesty PriceOptimizer as an 'Add-on' on Lite, Pro and Enterprise alike. Also add-ons rather than inclusions on Pro: Trust Accounting, GuestyPay, Fraud & Chargeback Management, GuestVerify, Damage Protection, Liability Coverage. Lite excludes owner management and the owners portal, rate strategies and promotions, phone support and a dedicated CSM, and processes payments through Stripe only. Always verify the live price.

Pricing runs higher than leaner rivals, onboarding has a learning curve, and some users flag support — it earns its keep at scale, but it's heavy for a single listing.

Gusto is genuinely best for US small businesses that want genuinely easy full-service payroll, benefits and tax compliance in one place. Skip it if you employ people outside the US or need enterprise, multi-entity HR — Gusto is built for US SMB payroll.

Read in a browser on gusto.com/pricing on 5 September 2026 (the page blocks plain fetches): Simple $49 a month plus $6 per person for single-state payroll, Plus $80 plus $12 per person with multi-state payroll, next-day pay and time tracking, Premium $180 plus $22 per person with a dedicated service advisor and HR experts. Contractor Only is $35 a month plus $6 per contractor, with the base fee waived in the current promotion. No contracts, free setup, cancel any time. Always verify the live price.

The base-plus-per-employee model is transparent but adds up, and Gusto is US-only — excellent for straightforward US payroll and benefits, but not the pick for international teams or complex multi-entity HR.