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Tapita AI SEO Blog Builder is genuinely best for Shopify stores that want structured, product-linked blog drafts and a publishing schedule, and that will edit what comes out before it goes live. Skip it if you intend to bulk-publish AI articles unedited, or you are on Shopify Plus and can buy a full content tool for what the surcharge takes this to.

(read 2026-08-19 on apps.shopify.com/tapita-ai-seo-blog-builder) Free plan available: unlimited blog posts, 50 credits that do not recur, extra credits at $0.06 each, unlimited SEO audits, the drag-and-drop editor with autosave, author, product and table-of-contents blocks and 24/7 live chat. Pro is $9.99 a month or $101.89 a year, a 15% saving, and adds 250 AI credits a month, publish scheduling, content strategy suggestions, one-click multi-language AI translations, AI keyword suggestions, weekly idea suggestions and hands-on help fixing SEO issues. The headline price applies on Shopify Basic only: the listing states +$5 on the Grow plan, +$30 on Advanced and +$60 on Shopify Plus, so Pro is $14.99, $39.99 or $69.99 a month depending on which Shopify plan you are on. All charges are billed in USD and recur every 30 days. Rating 4.9 from 450 App Store reviews. Developer Tapita; the app launched 14 February 2022 and carries Shopify's “Built for Shopify” badge. Always verify the live price.

Publishing volume is the trap this tool makes cheap. It generates posts quickly and schedules them daily or weekly in bulk. And a Shopify blog filled with unedited AI articles is precisely the pattern search engines have spent the last two years demoting: the app lowers the cost of production, not the bar for ranking. Used the other way round, as a drafting and structuring tool for posts you actually edit, it is sensible and cheap. Two practical points on the price: the $9.99 headline holds only on Shopify Basic, and the surcharge takes it to $69.99 a month on Shopify Plus, which is the sort of detail that belongs in a headline rather than a footnote. And the listing never says how many of the 250 monthly credits a single post costs, so the allowance cannot be planned against until you ask.

Tapita SEO Optimizer is genuinely best for Shopify merchants on the Basic or Grow plan who want SEO audits, bulk metadata, image alt text and speed fixes out of one app instead of hiring a specialist. Skip it if you are on Shopify Advanced or Plus, where the same tier costs $30 to $60 a month more, or you need a published per-credit rate before you build a month of AI metadata around it.

(read 2026-08-21 on apps.shopify.com/google-seo-schema-meta-data) Three tiers. Free: SEO audit and LLMs.txt on basic pages, unlimited on-page SEO audit, essential JSON-LD schemas, and image compression 900 a month capped at 30 a day. Also bulk and AI metadata optimisation, bulk image alt text and file names for 50 products, one-click page speed and 24/7 support chat. Basic $9.99 a month or $101.88 a year, a 15% saving, adds SEO audit and LLMs.txt on main pages, auto image optimisation 100 a day, 100 AI metadata credits a month, full JSON-LD schemas, broken-link detection with auto-redirects and advanced speed features. Pro $39.99 a month or $408 a year adds all main pages, 500 images a day, 500 AI credits a month, higher speed capacity, full automation of image alt text and file names, unlimited keyword research and hands-on help fixing SEO and Search Console issues. Both paid tiers carry the same surcharge line, and it is the number that decides what this costs: +$5 on the Shopify Grow plan, +$30 on Advanced and +$60 on Shopify Plus. So Basic is $9.99, $14.99, $39.99 or $69.99, and Pro is $39.99, $44.99, $69.99 or $99.99, depending on which Shopify plan you are on. Extra audit pages and extra AI credits are billed on top and the listing does not print a per-credit rate. All charges are billed in USD and recur every 30 days. Developer Tapita, M5 Building, 91 Nguyen Chi Thanh, Hanoi; the app launched 15 March 2023 and carries Shopify's “Built for Shopify” badge. Always verify the live price.

The price on the listing is a Shopify-Basic price, and almost nobody reads the line underneath it. The same Pro plan is $39.99 on Shopify Basic, $44.99 on Grow, $69.99 on Advanced and $99.99 on Shopify Plus, because Tapita adds $5, $30 or $60 on top depending on your Shopify plan. That is a two-and-a-half-fold spread on identical software, and it is the single largest factor in what this app costs you. Work out which row you are on before you compare it to anything else. The second meter has no published rate at all. Basic gives you 100 AI metadata credits a month and Pro gives you 500, and beyond that the listing says only that more audit pages and more credits carry an extra charge. It does not say how much, and it does not say how many credits one product's metadata consumes. Tapita's own sister app publishes $0.06 a credit on its listing; this one publishes nothing, so you cannot price a month of AI metadata before you install. And the free tier is a demonstration rather than a plan: 50 products for bulk alt text and file names, 30 images a day, and the SEO audit and LLMs.txt limited to basic pages. Any real catalogue is on a paid tier within a week, which is fine as long as you know that going in.

Tapstitch is genuinely best for creators building a real apparel or streetwear brand who care about fabric, fit and how the product feels in hand. Skip it if you want the cheapest option or the widest catalogue — for pure margin and product breadth, traditional POD like Printify wins.

(re-verified 2026-08-17) No subscription and no monthly fee — you pay per item, production plus shipping, so there is no plan price to compare. Our monthly captures of the catalogue put item prices roughly between $2.99 and $23 depending on the blank. The honest catch is margin rather than fees. Printify's lower product and shipping costs mean noticeably higher profit per sale, while Tapstitch's premium heavyweight blanks — around 250 GSM tees and 350-380 GSM hoodies — sit at retail-grade prices, roughly $35-50 for a finished tee. Price the finished garment against your retail price, not the platform. Always verify the live price.

Printify is cheaper, higher-margin and has a far bigger catalogue — if you're optimising for profit per sale or product breadth, that's the real trade-off. Tapstitch earns its place when garment quality and brand feel matter more than squeezing the last point of margin.

Tax1099 is genuinely best for businesses and accountants who need to e-file 1099s, W-2s and related forms accurately and cheaply, especially seasonal or higher-volume filers. Skip it if you only file one or two forms a year (the IRS's own free options may suffice) or you want full bookkeeping rather than just the filing step.

(read 2026-09-08 on tax1099.com/tax-1099-efile-pricing) Filing is graduated volume pricing, not a flat rate that falls: each band is billed at its own rate and the bill is the sum across bands. The page works the example itself for 600 forms — the first 20 at $2.99, forms 21-150 at $2.30, forms 151-500 at $1.31 and the last 100 at $0.68, totalling $885.30, an average of $1.48 a form. Three eFiling plans: Essential is free, Teams (formerly eFile Plus) is $249 a year and adds multi-user access and 250 free TIN matches, and Scale (formerly Enterprise) is $349 a year and adds workflow, user and action management, API access and Notice Management (otherwise $199 a unit). TIN matching is not free on Essential: real-time is $1.00 a unit, within 24 hours $0.37, bulk $150 per 10,000 records — free on first use up to 10,000 records under one payer for Scale customers only. Other add-ons: eDelivery $0.25 a unit, print and mail $1.90 a form (plus a $1 rush fee in the last five days of the season through 2 February), foreign mail $4.99 a form, state reconciliation $4.99 a payer, and W-9/W-8 requests at $1.00 for one, $7.00 for 25, $45.00 for 200 and $95.00 for 1,000. Always verify the live price.

Per-form pricing is genuinely cheap for a handful of 1099s, but it's metered: TIN matching, W-9 requests, state filing and corrections can each carry their own charge. A business filing across many recipients and states should tally the add-ons, not just the headline per-form rate. It's a filing tool, not a bookkeeping system; it assumes your payee data is already clean.

TaxCycle is genuinely best for Canadian accountants and bookkeepers who prepare and e-file client returns and want fast, checked, CRA-integrated professional tax software. Skip it if you're an individual filing your own personal return (consumer software is far cheaper), or you're outside Canada.

Prices are published on www.taxcycle.com/pricing (read 9 September 2026, Canadian dollars before tax, per year, single user) and are currently sale prices: Tax Basics 2026 $1,600 (reg. $1,680) with additional users at $540; the Complete Tax Suite $2,625 (reg. $2,800) with extra users at $756; the Complete Tax Suite plus TaxFolder $2,752 (reg. $3,102) with extra users at $944. The page dates the discount — 'Sale Ends Sept 24' — and advertises a 12-month payment plan available only during the sale. Every module is also priced separately: TaxCycle T1 $618 (+$238/user), T2 $1,102 (+$248), T3 $532 (+$211), T5013 $516 (+$211), T2202 $558 (+$211), T3010 $268 (+$86), Forms $270 (+$27), and the slip modules T4/T4A, T5, T5018, NR4 and RL $268 each (+$27). TaxFolder is $375 (+$215) and licensed to the end of 2027; DoxCycle $280 (+$167); Data Mining a $242 site licence; Québec TP1 a $198 site licence. Three-user and ten-user tiers are listed on their own tabs. Always verify the live price.

This is professional preparer software priced for firms, not a consumer filing app: the cost only makes sense if you're preparing returns for clients at volume. The suites start at about CAD $1,600 a year for one user and each extra seat adds several hundred dollars, so a two- or three-person practice should budget the suite price plus seats, plus GST or HST, before comparing it with per-return alternatives.

Team Pulse is genuinely best for solo operators and small teams who want projects, tasks, chat AND a lightweight CRM pipeline with AI in one simple tool, and value the real free tier to start. Skip it if you need more than a handful of team members (seat caps climb the tiers fast), or you only need project management — dedicated PM tools give far more generous member limits.

Genuinely free tier: $0/mo for 1 member, 2 projects, unlimited collaborators, chat/tasks/files. Paid (billed annually): Starter $29/mo ($348/yr) — 1 member, 5 projects, NO pipelines; Growth $79/mo ($948/yr) — 3 members, 10 projects, 1 pipeline, AI; Pro $159/mo ($1,908/yr) — 10 members, 20 projects, 2 pipelines; top tier $299/mo ($3,588/yr) — 40 projects, 1,500 AI credits. Always verify the live price.

The tiers gate on TWO axes at once — member count and project/pipeline count — so you can hit a wall on either. The CRM pipeline is a big part of the pitch, but it doesn't exist below the $79 Growth plan (Free and Starter have none), and member limits are tight: Starter is a single seat, Growth just three. The listed rates also assume annual billing.

Teikametrics is genuinely best for Amazon and Walmart sellers spending enough on ads that a few points of efficiency covers the fee — under $10K a month the flat $149 is straightforward. Skip it if your ad spend is small or seasonal, because the flat fee at low spend is a large share of your budget and the percentage model at high spend needs modelling before you commit.

(2026-08-30, re-read on their own pricing page from a US exit) Essentials, for up to $10K a month in ad spend: $149 a month billed annually, or $179 billed monthly. Advanced, for over $10K a month in ad spend: custom pricing plus 3% of ad spend above $10K. Enterprise, for over $100K a month in ad spend: also custom pricing plus 3% of ad spend above $10K. A free trial and a free opportunity assessment are offered. Always verify the live price.

Read the Advanced tier carefully, because it is not a subscription — it is a subscription plus a percentage. Three per cent of ad spend above $10,000 means a seller spending $40,000 a month pays an extra $900 on top of whatever the custom base is, and that line scales with the thing the product is supposed to make more efficient. That is not automatically wrong — it aligns them with your growth — but it does mean your bill rises when your advertising does, and you should model it at your expected spend rather than your current one. The $10K threshold is the number to watch: crossing it changes the pricing model, not just the price.

Tellent is genuinely best for European scale-ups hiring continuously that want a collaborative ATS they can extend with HRIS and performance modules, and can put a sales call in the buying process. Skip it if you hire occasionally (job boards + a spreadsheet honestly suffice), or you want one all-in-one HR suite rather than modules.

Tellent publishes no prices. Its pricing page (read in a live browser on 9 September 2026, and separately in the served HTML) lists three ATS tiers for Recruitee — Start, Advance and Optimize — and the two Tellent HR modules, Manage (HRIS) and Grow (performance), and every one of them ends in 'Get a demo' rather than a figure; agencies are told to ask for a custom quote. Neither the rendered page nor the served HTML contains a single currency amount, and recruitee.com/pricing carries none either. What the page does state is scope: Start covers 5 active job posts and a single-page CareersHub; Advance adds unlimited posts, a multi-page branded careers site, ReferralsHub, 100 AI screening credits a month, 3 AI matching searches, workflow automations, candidate self-scheduling, offer-letter generation and up to 3 custom job fields; Optimize adds SSO, API support, a testing environment, requisition approval workflows, unlimited custom fields, 65 matching searches, onboarding support, a dedicated CSM and BI integrations. SSO, Texting, Journeys, AgencyHub and WhatsApp Hiring are optional add-ons on the lower tiers. A free trial is offered on every tier and needs only a company account; the page states no trial length. Always verify the live price.

Tellent's modular shape is genuinely useful — you can buy just the ATS, or just the HRIS — but nothing is priced in public: every tier on tellent.com/pricing ends in 'Get a demo' (read in a browser on 9 September 2026), and recruitee.com/pricing carries no figures either. Ask for Start, Advance and Optimize quoted together with their renewal prices, because you have no anchor to check a single number against. And as with every ATS, workflow fit — approval chains, careers-site needs, integrations with your assessment tools — matters more than the feature list; the free trial is enough to run one real vacancy through, so do that.

Tenable is genuinely best for security teams and IT-mature companies that need continuous, authoritative vulnerability scanning and can remediate what it finds. Skip it if you have no one to triage and fix findings — a managed security service or a lighter scanner fits a small team better.

(read 2026-08-30 on tenable.com/buy and the Nessus Essentials page) Nessus Essentials is free — a 30-day licence for 5 IPs, non-commercial only, with plugin updates delayed 30 days and no reporting, data export, compliance checks or support. Essentials Plus $199/year: 20 IPs, real-time plugin updates, basic PDF/HTML reporting, still non-commercial, free for verified students and instructors. Nessus Professional $4,790/year, $9,330.95 for two years, $13,637.54 for three — the first tier licensed for commercial use. Nessus Expert $6,790/year, $13,208.13 for two, $19,304.19 for three. Advanced Support (24x365 phone, email, community and chat) is a $400/year add-on on both. Training: $275 for a year of the Nessus Fundamentals course for one person, $385 with Nessus Advanced added. Cloud Tenable Vulnerability Management $3,500/year for 100 assets ($6,825 for two years, $9,975 for three); $3,700/year buys up to 250 assets online. Web App Scanning $6,790/year, or $3,578 for 5 FQDNs. Anything larger is a quote. Always verify the live price.

Note on how we link this one, updated 28 Jul 2026: between 21 and 28 July our partner link was dead — Tenable's shop subdomain stopped resolving, so we pointed the link at Tenable's own product page and earned nothing from it. Tenable confirmed on 28 July that the links are repaired; we re-tested them that day and the link now works again, lands on the same Nessus product page, and does pay us a commission. This is serious, enterprise-grade security tooling with an enterprise price and a learning curve — not a set-and-forget scanner. You need someone who can act on the findings, or you're paying for reports nobody reads.

TestGorilla is genuinely best for companies hiring steadily enough that a year of testing is cheaper than one bad hire, and who will actually use the library rather than writing their own questions. Skip it if you hire a few people a year — the annual commitment is the whole problem, and the free tier plus a well-designed take-home task covers occasional hiring.

(2026-08-30, re-read on their own pricing page from a US exit) Free $0 with 10 credits a month, no card needed, including preset custom questions and 1 full-access seat. Core $142/month on an annual commitment, $1,704 billed annually, with the full test library, analytics and 2 full-access seats; the Core card carries a credits selector and its sign-up link defaults to a 400-credit tier. Plus starts from $400/month with an annual commitment starting at $4,800, described as scaling with your hiring needs. The page also sets out what a credit buys: 0 for resume scoring, qualifying questions and custom questions, 1 per candidate for skill tests, video questions, ID verification or a talent-pool invite, and 2 per candidate for AI interviews. Prices are shown in USD with GBP, EUR, AUD and INR available. Always verify the live price.

Both paid tiers are annual-commitment only. Core is not $142 a month in any meaningful sense — it is $1,704 up front, and there is no monthly option to test it with real candidates first. That matters more here than in most categories, because hiring is lumpy: a company that hires in two bursts a year is paying for ten quiet months. Plus is worse to budget for, because it 'starts from' $400 and the page will not say what moves it. The free tier is credit-metered rather than feature-limited, which makes it a genuine trial — use it on a real vacancy before you sign a year.

TextExpander is genuinely best for support, clinical-admin and recruiting teams that need everyone sending identical approved wording — the shared library, permissions, auto-subscribe and SSO are what the paid tiers actually buy, and the SOC 2 and HIPAA-with-BAA posture is the one thing no free expander offers a compliance-bound team. Skip it if you are one person on a Mac with a couple of dozen fixed snippets. macOS Text Replacement is built in and free, Espanso is free and open source across all three desktop platforms, and TextExpander's own free plan now covers 5 active snippets. A subscription only starts earning its keep when you need fill-in fields, scripting, or a second person editing the same library.

(re-verified 2026-08-18 on the vendor's own pricing page; USD per user/month billed annually, excluding tax) The line-up was rebuilt since our July reading and it now starts at free. Free is $0 forever with no credit card, Pro $5 (billed annually at $60), Business $10 (billed annually at $120), Enterprise quoted. Annual billing is sold as two months free against paying monthly; the page does not print the monthly amounts next to the plans, so we do not quote them. The free plan is real but deliberately narrow: 5 active snippets out of an unlimited library, one snippet swap every two weeks, 3 teams, 5 team members and no snippet activity history at all. That history — what lets you see changes and restore deleted snippets — is 24 hours on Pro, 7 days on Business and unlimited only on Enterprise. Team members stay capped at 5 on Free and Pro; unlimited members start on Business, which is also the first tier with single sign-on (Google SSO on Business, all providers plus SCIM on Enterprise). A 30-day trial with full access to every feature and no credit card sits alongside the free plan. The page still carries an important pricing note for international customers, which we could not open on this reading, so treat the listed USD amounts as pre-tax. Always verify the live price.

On a Mac the operating system already does the basic job free: Apple's built-in Text Replacement syncs static snippets across your Apple devices, though Apple's own documentation notes it is not available in every app. And Espanso covers the power-user case free and open source on Mac, Windows and Linux. On Windows there is no built-in equivalent (contrary to a widely repeated claim, PowerToys has no text-expansion utility), so the case for paying is genuinely stronger there. Do not buy it for mobile. The vendor's own mobile page is an early-access signup form for Android and iOS betas, not a shipping product — even though the surrounding copy is written in the present tense. Then add the snippet activity history: nothing at all on the free plan, only 24 hours on the $5 Pro tier, 7 days on Business, and unlimited only on Enterprise. Add the vendor's own note that buyers in VAT/GST countries including the EU, UK and Australia may see an estimated 20% uplift on the listed USD price (read 21 July 2026). For one person with a few dozen fixed snippets, the honest answer is usually don't.

Textline is genuinely best for support and sales teams that already text customers from personal phones and need a shared, compliant inbox with a record of who said what. Skip it if you send marketing blasts rather than conversations — that is a different product and priced per message elsewhere; also skip it if your volume is low enough that a shared inbox on your existing helpdesk covers it.

(price re-verified 2026-08-31 against the vendor's own pricing page, read from a European exit) Amounts unchanged since 2026-08-01. Add-on message credits $0.03 each, bought in advance; backup message credits $0.04 each, Textline's automatic fallback when you run out mid-conversation. A $15 monthly 10DLC campaign fee applies if you use a 10DLC long code; the same page states that toll-free numbers do not carry a monthly registration fee. NEW since the last reading: the page now names three tiers with their inclusions but still no prices — Essentials (600 minimum included message credits a month, three agents, three-year conversation history), Pro (2,000 minimum credits, five agents, unlimited history, Salesforce, custom roles) and Enterprise (quote). HIPAA-compliant plans are charged an additional fee. Note for future readers: the per-feature tooltips on this page are unfilled placeholder copy, so the feature names carry no explanation. Always verify the live price.

Two costs are easy to miss and both are monthly. The credit system has two rates: $0.03 for credits you buy deliberately and $0.04 for backup credits that fire automatically when you run out — a 33% premium for not noticing. And a $15 monthly 10DLC campaign fee appears on your bill if you use a 10DLC long code, charged by the carrier registry rather than by Textline, so no plan removes it; the same page notes that toll-free numbers carry no monthly registration fee, so the number type is the lever, not the tier. Plan prices are still not published — the page names Essentials, Pro and Enterprise and what they include, but no dollar figures.

TheTop is genuinely best for professionals and small-business owners who lose the first hour of the day triaging Gmail and a calendar, and want one ranked brief instead of five open tabs. Skip it if your day runs through Slack, a CRM, a ticket queue or a project tracker — the integration list does not reach them, and a brief built from email and calendar alone will miss what actually moved.

(re-verified 10 September 2026 on thetop.com/pricing) One plan. Pro is $8 a month, month to month with no contract, and switching the billing toggle to yearly prints $80 — about $6.67 a month, or two months off for committing a year. It covers adaptive memory and learning, five brief refreshes a day, automatic data enrichment, quick actions and smart reply, and five connected data sources. Every account opens with a seven-day free trial of Pro, with no card charged during it. The home page labels $8 the "only plan" and prices it deliberately against the $20 to $30 it says most AI assistants charge. The pricing page shows no free tier, although its own FAQ still answers a question about starting on Free and upgrading later — so read "free" here as the trial until the vendor says otherwise. Always verify the live price.

Everything sits on one $8 plan, so the question is not which tier to buy but whether the caps on that plan fit your day. Five connected data sources and five brief refreshes a day are the limits, and there is no tier above them to grow into — outrun either and the published price list has no answer for you. Out of the box the reach is your calendar and your inbox through Google or Microsoft, plus news feeds. Anything else in your stack — Slack, a CRM, a ticket queue, a project tracker — sits outside the brief, and no amount of AI ranking repairs a missing source. And the FAQ still describes a Free plan the pricing page does not show. Ask before you count on sitting on one; what exists today is a seven-day trial of the only plan there is.

Thordata is genuinely best for data teams scraping at scale — price intelligence, SERP tracking, AI-training data — who want proxy infrastructure plus ready-made scraping APIs at aggressive per-unit rates. Skip it if you need predictable flat pricing, or your use case skirts site terms — residential proxying carries compliance questions no discount fixes.

(price re-verified 2026-09-01 against the vendor's own pricing page) (2026) Usage-metered, with free trials on the APIs. Every advertised "from" rate is the largest package on its ladder: residential $0.65/GB at 5,000 GB ($3,250) against $2.00/GB at 1 GB, $1.50 at 50 GB and $0.80 at 350 GB; mobile $2.20/GB at 500 GB against $5.00 at 1 GB; SERP API $0.70 per 1K at 1M responses against $1.20 at 15K; Web Scraper API $0.50 per 1K at 3M against $1.00 at 30K; Web Unlocker $1.00 per 1K at 200K against $1.30 at 10K; Scraping Browser $2.50/GB at 500 GB against $5.00 at 1 GB. Static ISP and datacenter proxies advertise $0.75/IP against a $1.50 list, while the ISP packages themselves list at $1.50 and $4.50 an IP. Always verify the live price.

Everything is a meter — per GB, per IP, per 1K responses — so the bill scales with usage. And every rate the site advertises is the largest package on its ladder: $0.65 a GB means buying 5,000 GB, while 1 GB of the same product costs $2.00. Budget at your own volume, not at the headline. Plus the category-wide caveat we'd give any residential-proxy vendor: those '100M+ real residential IPs' come from consumer devices, so check sourcing ethics and your target sites' terms before building on it.

Thryv is genuinely best for small service businesses — trades, salons, clinics — that currently run on a diary, a spreadsheet and a separate invoicing tool, and would genuinely retire all three. Skip it if you already have a CRM you like, because this is an all-in-one and its value is the bundle; buying it alongside what you have is paying twice for the overlap.

(read 2026-08-25 on their own pricing page) Starter is $99 a month and Signature $399 a month on monthly billing. Annual billing is stated to save 15%, which our 1 August reading put at $85 and $340, with Signature billed $4,068 a year. Amplify is custom-priced. A free trial is offered, and the growth add-ons sold alongside these plans are not priced on the page. Always verify the live price.

Two published tiers, $85 and $340, and nothing between them. That makes the decision unusually blunt: not which plan fits, but whether a fourfold step is worth taking all at once. Signature is billed annually at $4,068 — that is a year committed up front, and the monthly figure is a division rather than a payment option. Before that call, list which of the bundled parts you would otherwise buy separately: Thryv's case rests on replacing four or five tools, and if you only want two of them the arithmetic usually favours keeping them.

TicketTailor is genuinely best for event organizers with their own audience (venues, communities, creators) who want flat low per-ticket fees, full branding and no subscription. Skip it if you depend on marketplace discovery to sell tickets (Eventbrite's traffic is the fee you're paying for), or you run two events a year at tiny volume.

(re-verified 2026-09-09 on tickettailor.com/pricing with the currency switched to USD) No subscription and no contract: pay-as-you-sell $0.85 a ticket, or prepaid credits from $0.70 down to $0.34 depending on volume — 100 credits (the minimum) cost $70, 500 cost $300, 1,000 cost $520 and 20,000 cost $6,800. Credits carry no time limit. Free events are free up to 5,000 tickets a year, the first five paid tickets cost nothing, and charities, B Corps, PTAs and not-for-profits get 50% off, as do very low-priced tickets. Seated tickets cost two credits rather than one. Prices switch across GBP, EUR, USD, AUD and CAD. Stripe, PayPal or Square fees apply separately and Ticket Tailor never touches the payment. Note one contradiction in their own FAQ: one answer puts the free-ticket allowance at 5,000 a year, another at 2,000. Always verify the live price.

The fee honesty is the product — flat cents per ticket instead of percentage skims makes it dramatically cheaper than the big platforms on higher-priced tickets (a $0.30-0.85 fee on a $50 ticket vs a percentage is no contest). The trade: you bring your own audience. There's no discovery marketplace pushing your event, so if you rely on a platform's browsing traffic to sell out, the cheap fees won't fill seats.

Tidio is genuinely best for support teams that want an AI agent and a help desk from the same vendor and can size all three meters — billable conversations, Lyro AI conversations and Flows visitors — against their own volume before they commit, and Shopify, WordPress or Wix stores that want to run live chat at zero and treat the 50 free Lyro conversations as a measurement of whether the AI answers their questions at all. Skip it if you need the AI agent to keep answering past the first 50 conversations without paying, you cannot get the over-cap rate and the Plus usage rate quoted before signing, you want one per-seat price rather than three independent meters, or you are buying on the strength of the 67 percent resolution figure and need it as a commitment rather than an average.

(read 2026-08-24 on www.tidio.com/pricing/ with both billing columns clicked, and on www.tidio.com) The plan table opens on the annual column, so the first figures on the page are not what month-to-month costs. Starter is 24.17 a month billed annually against 29 paid monthly, Growth starts at 49.17 annually against 59 monthly, and the two stand-alone add-ons follow the same 20 percent step: the Lyro AI Agent from 32.50 annually against 39 monthly, Flows from 24.17 against 29. Plus is 300 a month in both columns and adds usage on top; Premium is contact-for-pricing. Tidio's own homepage quotes the higher, monthly number (“Paid plans from $29/mo, no surprise upgrades”), which makes the marketing page the more conservative of the two places you can read a price. The table rendered in euros on our reading while the same numerals appear with dollar signs on other retrievals of the same URL, so treat the figure rather than the symbol as the fact and confirm the currency at checkout. What you pay is decided by three separate meters, not by the plan name. The free plan carries 50 billable conversations, 100 Flows visitors reached and 50 Lyro AI conversations, and the comparison table's own footnote makes that last allowance a lifetime one rather than a monthly one. Starter covers 100 billable conversations, Growth starts at 250 and the table caps it at 2,000, both with 10 seats and a 7-day free trial. Lyro conversations are upgradable from 50 to 1,000 and Flows visitors from 2,000 to 100,000. Two things the page does not say: what a conversation over the cap costs, and what the “discounted usage rates” next to Plus's “+ monthly usage” actually are. On Plus that unquoted rate is the whole variable, because the 300 is only the entry fee. Always verify the live price.

The AI number on the homepage and the AI number on the pricing page do not agree, and the pricing page is the lower of the two. The homepage, read 24 August 2026, says Lyro “resolves 67% of conversations instantly” and repeats it as a statistic: 67% of conversations resolved instantly. The pricing table, read the same day, lists “Guaranteed 50% Lyro AI resolution rate” as a Premium feature — the most expensive tier on the page. So the figure the marketing quotes is 17 points above the figure the company is willing to guarantee, and the guarantee is only available if you talk to sales about the top plan. Both numbers can be true at once; a typical result and a contractual floor are different things. But it does mean that if you are buying on the strength of 67 percent, you are buying an average someone else achieved, not a commitment to you. Second, the plan table opens on annual billing. The headline 24.17 and 49.17 become 29 and 59 the moment you click Monthly, and the two add-ons move 32.50 to 39 and 24.17 to 29. Nothing is hidden — the toggle is right there and the annual column is honestly labelled “2 months free” — but the number you remember from the pricing page is about 20 percent below the number you pay unless you commit for a year. Tidio's own homepage quotes the monthly figure, so the two pages leave a buyer with two different first impressions of the same plan. Third, “Free plan forever” is true for the help desk and not for the AI. The free tier's 50 Lyro AI conversations are one-off: the comparison table footnote reads that your first 50 conversations are free (lifetime), and the same applies to the 100 Flows visitors. The live chat and ticketing side really does keep working at zero, but the AI agent that the whole homepage is built around stops after 50 conversations ever, which for a shop with any traffic is a matter of days. Read the free plan as a trial of Lyro inside a permanently free help desk, not as a free AI agent.

TiXel is genuinely best for Shopify merchants running Meta and TikTok ads who need more than the free channel apps give them — several pixels on one store, pixels scoped to individual products, or server-side Events API tracking alongside the browser pixel to recover events that ad-blockers and Safari strip. Skip it if you run one pixel for one brand, since Shopify's Meta and TikTok channels do that for nothing; or you cannot put real traffic through the store within three days, because that is the whole trial and the reported failure is a pixel that tracks nothing.

(read 2026-08-22 on apps.shopify.com/tixel) One paid plan and no ladder to climb. Unlimited Plan is $19.99 a month, or $119.94 a year at a stated 50% saving, and carries unlimited pixels, server-side Events API pixels, regular pixels via pixel code, pixels scoped to specific products, automatic event triggers with no manual event configuration, and online support. The trial is three days. The other tier, Development Stores, is free but only for development and partner stores, and billing activates on upgrade — the same shape as this developer's Blocky listing, where the advertised free plan is also development stores rather than a working free tier. Charges are in USD and recur every 30 days. Developer Effective Apps, 13 Max Nordau, Ashdod, Israel; the app launched 19 October 2020 and had 78 reviews at a 4.1 rating at the time of writing. Always verify the live price.

The 4.1 rating is the most useful number on this listing, but not for the reason an average usually is. The shape behind it is 67 five-star reviews, 4 four-star, none at three or two, and 7 one-star. Nothing sits in the middle. That is not a mediocre product; it is a binary one — it works immediately, or it installs cleanly and then tracks nothing at all. The one-star reviews describe the same failure in the same words: the pixel is set up by the instructions, no page views or add-to-carts ever arrive, and support does not reply. One reviewer reports being charged for a service they say never worked and being refused a refund, after three days of use. We cannot verify what happened in any individual account, but the consistency of the complaint is itself information. Set against that, the trial is three days. For a tracking tool that is short, because you need enough traffic through the store to see whether events actually land. Treat those three days as a test with a deadline, not a trial period.

TnC is genuinely best for Shopify merchants on a standard plan who need a recorded “I agree” gate before payment — for GDPR, an age gate, digital-goods withdrawal rules or chargeback defence — and who go to Advanced at $12.99 for the consent timestamp rather than stopping at the $7.99 headline. Skip it if you are on Shopify Plus and want the checkbox inside the real checkout page, where the plan you need is the $19.99 Plus tier the App Store listing does not show; you expected a free tier from the listing's badge, which covers development and partner stores only; or a checkbox on the cart and the express buttons is not the enforcement your legal requirement actually asks for.

(read 2026-08-25 and re-verified 2026-09-09 on apps.shopify.com/terms-and-conditions-checkbox, listed as “TnC: Terms and Conditions Box”, and in the vendor's own pricing article at www.effectify.help) The monthly ladder is $7.99, $12.99 and $14.99, and it has held there since the August rise: read on 24 August 2026 the same three plans, carrying the same feature lists, cost $6.99, $9.99 and $12.99. What moved between 25 August and 9 September is the annual price. It used to be $67.12, $109.12 and $125.92, roughly a 30% saving; the listing now shows $47.94, $77.94 and $89.94 and says “save 50%”. That is exactly six months' money for a year at every tier, where in August it was seven-tenths of the year, so the annual route got cheaper while the monthly one did not move at all. Four plans on the listing, and the free one is not for you. Development Stores is free and carries every Pro feature, but the listing states it is for development and partner stores only and that payment will be activated on upgrade — so the “Free plan available” line at the top of the listing describes a partner sandbox rather than a free tier for a store that takes orders. Basic is $7.99 a month or $47.94 a year and covers the AI terms-and-conditions checkbox with support for Buy It Now and express checkout buttons. Advanced is $12.99 a month or $77.94 a year and adds the consent date logged into the order's details plus the ability to show the checkbox for specific countries and products. Pro is $14.99 a month or $89.94 a year and adds newsletter and contact forms, translation of the checkbox into multiple languages, the checkbox in Shopify POS and an AI-powered policies generator. Every paid tier carries a 7-day free trial, and the listing states charges are billed in USD and recur every 30 days. The vendor's own pricing article, re-read on 9 September 2026, has not followed. It still prints the old annual rates of $67.12, $109.12 and $125.92, still puts the annual saving at approximately 30%, and still answers its own question “are there any hidden fees?” with “No. All pricing is transparent and listed above” — while the App Store listing, which is where the charge is actually raised, prints a different number for the same plan. It is also the only page where a fifth plan appears at all: a Plus Plan at $19.99 a month or $167.92 a year, for Shopify Plus merchants only, adding “the ability to show the checkbox in the actual Checkout page of your store”. The Plus Plan is the one monthly rate that has never moved, so the gap between the top listed plan and the hidden one is $5. The article also notes that uninstalling during an ongoing billing period still incurs that period's charge. Developer Effective Apps, trading as Effectify, at 13 Max Nordau, Ashdod, Israel; the app launched on 2 December 2019, carries Shopify's Built for Shopify badge, and stood at 550 listing reviews with a 4.9 average on 9 September 2026, up from 514 two weeks earlier. Always verify the live price.

Start with the badge at the top of the listing, because it is the one thing on this page that misleads. “Free plan available” is displayed twice, and the free plan is Development Stores — for development and partner stores only, with payment activated on upgrade. A store that takes real orders has no free tier here. It is the same shape as this developer's Blocky and TiXel listings, where the advertised free plan is also development stores rather than a working free tier, so read it as a house pattern rather than an oversight. Second, the App Store's pricing table is incomplete. The vendor's own help-centre article lists a Plus Plan at $19.99 a month, Shopify Plus only, and describes it as the plan that shows the checkbox in the actual checkout page. The App Store listing shows four plans and not that one. The same article answers its own hidden-fees question with “No. All pricing is transparent and listed above”, which is true of that article and not of the listing most buyers will read first. If you are on Plus and you want consent captured in checkout rather than in the cart, the price is two and a half times the headline. Third, the feature that makes the app defensible costs extra, and what it costs is not stable. Basic at $7.99 shows the checkbox; it does not record when anyone ticked it. Consent-date logging starts on Advanced at $12.99. Read a day earlier, on 24 August 2026, those same two plans were $6.99 and $9.99 with identical feature lists, so the step from checkbox to audit trail went from $3 to $5 overnight while the listing said nothing about it. For an app whose pitch is chargebacks and legal risk, an audit trail as a paid upgrade is worth knowing before you compare $7.99 against anything else. Fourth, be clear about what this can and cannot enforce. On a store that is not on Shopify Plus the checkbox lives in the cart and on express-checkout buttons, not inside Shopify's checkout, because Shopify does not open that page to apps below Plus. The listing is honest about the surfaces it does cover — cart drawers, Buy It Now, express checkout buttons, floating carts, PayPal and Apple Pay — but a shopper who reaches payment by another route has not passed a gate. Whether that is sufficient consent is a question for your own counsel rather than for an app listing. Finally, the data access. The listing states the app views device and activity data including geolocation, IP address, browser and operating system and browsing behaviour, and can view and edit customers, products, orders for the last 60 days, store analytics, web pixels and the Online Store script tags and theme. Geolocation is what the country targeting on Advanced and above runs on, so the scope is explicable, but an app installed for compliance reasons that itself processes IP addresses and browsing behaviour belongs in the same register as everything else you had to write down.

Todoist is genuinely best for individuals and small teams who want a fast, elegant task manager that gets out of the way. Skip it if you need full project management with timelines, workloads and dependencies — this is a to-do app, not a PM suite.

Free (up to 5 projects, one automatic reminder per task); Pro about $5/mo (annual, ~$7 monthly), Business about $8/user/mo (annual, ~$10 monthly) (2026). Always verify the live price.

The free plan's 5-project cap, and reminders that fire only at the moment a task comes due, push most serious users to Pro quickly — but Pro is genuinely cheap. It's a personal/team task manager, not a full project platform, so don't expect Gantt-level PM.

Toggl is genuinely best for freelancers, consultants and agencies that bill by the hour and want frictionless tracking with budgets, rates and profitability per project. Skip it if you need surveillance-style monitoring (screenshots, activity scoring — deliberately not Toggl's philosophy), or free-tier tracking already covers you.

(re-verified 2026-09-09 on toggl.com/track/pricing) Free is $0 for a limited number of users and the page calls it free forever. Starter is $9 per user a month billed annually and $12 monthly; Premium is $16 annually and $24 monthly; Enterprise is quoted. The introductory $14 Premium rate renewing at $18 that we recorded in August is gone — Premium now carries one annual price. The billing toggle advertises 'Annual (Save 33.3%)' and '4 months free', which holds exactly for Premium but not for Starter, where $12 to $9 is 25%. Trial is 30 days; Enterprise adds volume discounts on annual and multiple workspaces under one organisation. Always verify the live price.

Toggl's honesty problem is the good kind: the free tier is so capable that many teams never need to pay — the paid line is drawn exactly at 'do you bill clients' (budgets, rates, profitability). If you do, Starter earns itself fast; if you track time for personal discipline, resist the upgrade. Time tracking's real cost everywhere is adoption: the tool is frictionless, but the habit still has to be built.

Top Echelon is genuinely best for recruiting agencies and SMB staffing firms that want an applicant tracking system and CRM in one place, especially ones that would actually work split placements with other recruiters. Skip it if you are an in-house talent team hiring for your own company — this is built around agency and split-placement workflows, so you would carry a network you never use.

TE Recruit (the ATS and CRM) runs $75 per seat per month billed annually or $89 month-to-month on Standard, and $89 billed annually or $110 month-to-month on Professional. TE Network, the split-placement network, is priced per agency rather than per seat: $135 per month billed annually with the $350 startup fee waived, or $150 per month billed monthly plus a $350 one-time startup fee (2026). Always verify the live price.

Almost everything people shop for sits in Professional, not Standard: Smart-TE AI, automations, sequences, inbound email sync and API access are all one tier up, so Standard is a competent but plain ATS. The bigger thing to price honestly is that TE Recruit and TE Network are two separate subscriptions. The network is billed per agency on top of your seats, so "Top Echelon" can mean two bills. And taking the network month-to-month adds a $350 one-time startup fee that annual billing waives.

Tradify is genuinely best for electricians, plumbers, HVAC and other trades businesses that want quoting, scheduling, job tracking and invoicing from the field in one simple app. Skip it if you're a solo operator who invoices from a spreadsheet happily, or you need heavy project-management/accounting depth rather than trades job management.

Per user, per month, quoted in USD on their own pricing page and re-verified 2026-08-16: Lite $47, Pro $51 and Plus $61 per user, plus a Custom tier for large teams that is priced on request. The 14-day free trial includes all features. The Instant Website add-on is $12 a month. There is no free plan and no volume ladder published on the page — the per-user rate is flat within a plan. Always verify the live price.

Per-user pricing is honest and simple, but it means the cost scales linearly with headcount — a ten-person crew is a real monthly number, not the single-seat sticker. It's purpose-built for trades job management (quoting, scheduling, invoicing), so it's not a general project-management or accounting suite; you'll still run Xero or QuickBooks alongside it. For a trades business that's a feature, not a flaw.

Trainerize is genuinely best for personal trainers and studios delivering structured workout/nutrition coaching through a polished client app, scaling by client count. Skip it if you coach a handful of clients over WhatsApp and sheets happily, or you want one flat price without add-on shopping.

(re-verified 2026-09-09 on www.trainerize.com/pricing; prices in USD and subject to applicable taxes, annual plans billed once a year) Basic is free for 1 client; Grow is $9/mo for 2 clients; Pro starts at $23/mo for 5 client seats and steps up through 15, 30, 50, 75, 100 and 200 seats, with the comparison table showing $275/mo at the 200-client end; Studio Plus is $248/mo for each location added, with 5+ locations quoted. Add-ons are priced per tier: on Pro, Advanced Nutrition Coaching $45/mo, Business $25/mo, Stripe Integrated Payments $10/mo, Video Coaching $10/mo and a Pro-level Custom Branded App at a one-time $169. On Grow, nutrition is $20/mo (struck through from $45) with Business, payments and video at the same $25/$10/$10 and no branded app. Studio Plus includes all five. The branded app also requires your own Apple Developer Account at $99/year, charged directly by Apple. FitMetrics is a separate add-on from $6 per client. Always verify the live price.

The client-count ladder looks gentle, but the add-ons are flat and they land hardest on the smallest coach: at five seats a $23 Pro plan dressed with nutrition, payments and video is $88, while the same three turn the $275 two-hundred-client row into $340. Price the stack you'll actually coach with, and note that the branded app is $169 to Trainerize plus a $99/year Apple Developer Account billed by Apple. That said, the client experience and ABC ecosystem are genuinely mature; churn-prone coaches lose more to a clunky app than to a fair subscription.

Trainual is genuinely best for growing teams (roughly 10+ staff) that need to document SOPs and onboard new hires consistently instead of training by osmosis. Skip it if you're a team of two or three — a well-organized Notion or Google Doc captures your processes without the seat-band pricing.

(read 2026-08-25 on trainual.com/pricing) No prices at all. The page lists four plans — Core, Pro, Premium and Enterprise — and every one of them carries a "Get a demo" button where a rate would be. The only figure the page publishes is a one-time implementation fee of $1,000, stated in its own FAQ alongside a 4-6 week engagement with an implementation specialist. The FAQ also answers the sizing question directly: "Trainual is best suited for companies with 25 - 1000 employees", and says pricing varies with team size and the features you need. Pricing is quote-only. An earlier version of this entry carried monthly figures attributed to unnamed third-party sources; those are not on the vendor's page and could not be traced to a named source, so they have been removed rather than repeated. Always verify the live price.

You cannot find out what it costs without booking a demo. All four plans — Core, Pro, Premium and Enterprise — are quote-gated, and the single number the pricing page publishes is the one-time implementation fee of $1,000. The same page answers the sizing question plainly, best suited for companies with 25 to 1000 employees, so a small team is being told twice that it is not the buyer here: once by the fit range and once by a setup fee that arrives before the subscription does. Under a handful of staff, a shared doc may do.

Tresorit is genuinely best for businesses and professionals with confidentiality obligations (legal, health, finance) that need end-to-end-encrypted storage, granular sharing controls and compliance features. Skip it if you want cheap bulk storage or deep app integrations (mainstream clouds win), or a personal-grade E2EE like Proton Drive covers your needs at lower cost.

(re-verified 2026-08-14, read on their own business and personal pricing pages) There are three business plans: Professional for 1 user, Business from 3 users and Business Pro from 5 users. Priced from our location in euros, they run €29.99, €20 and €25 per user per month on monthly billing, and €23.99, €16 and €20 on yearly — which the page badges as 20% off. Personal runs a permanent free Basic tier plus Lite, Essential and Pro (€4.99, €11.99 and €29.99 a month from here). Our dollar reading of the same plans on 4 August 2026 gave Professional $33.99, Business $24 and Business Pro $30 per user per month. Storage runs 4 TB on Professional, from 6 TB on Business and from 15 TB on Business Pro, with maximum file sizes of 10, 15 and 20 GB. Every plan carries a 14-day trial with no feature limits, but Tresorit requires payment details up front to start it. Enterprise is quote-only. Always verify the live price.

You pay the Swiss-E2EE premium — noticeably above mainstream clouds and above Proton Drive per GB — and the encryption trade-offs are inherent: no server-side content search, more deliberate sharing flows, and credential/recovery discipline is on you. For regulated teams that's exactly the deal; for casual storage it's over-engineering.

Turbotic is genuinely best for teams that want an AI-assisted way to discover, document and run automations without deep RPA expertise. Skip it if you need a huge, battle-tested integration ecosystem right now — an established platform has more connectors and community.

(re-verified 2026-08-14, read on their own product page) The Turbotic AI Assistant is $25 per seat per month and includes 1,500 credits a month, with additional credits bought as needed. The broader orchestration platform is not priced publicly at all: turbotic.com/pricing is now a demo-booking form with no figures on it, so everything above the assistant seat is quoted after a sales conversation. No free plan is mentioned. Always verify the live price.

It's a newer, enterprise-leaning automation platform, so it's less proven with a smaller community than the big names — and the credit-per-execution model means heavy volume needs cost-checking. Verify it integrates with your actual stack first.

Typewise is genuinely best for customer-service teams with real ticket volume that want AI agents to resolve requests end to end and act inside the systems they already run — CRM, ERP, billing, commerce — with approval steps and human handover as they raise the automation level. Skip it if your helpdesk's built-in AI answers already absorb the volume, or your channel mix leans on phone support — their home page lists voice among the channels while their own SMB page still marks it "coming soon", so pin that down before you sign.

(re-read 2026-09-05 on typewise.app/pricing, a page that did not exist in August) A base plan plus a per-resolution rate. Starter is $99 a month or $999 a year with 1 user, email and chat, a $20 monthly AI Operator budget and pay-as-you-go resolutions at $2 each. Growth is $599 a month or $5,999 a year with 5 users, all digital channels, a $100 AI Operator budget and volume packages that bring resolutions down to $1. Business is $2,000 a month billed annually with unlimited workspaces, a $1,500 AI Operator budget, a custom DPA and a success consultant. Additional users are $89 a month. Every plan starts with a 14-day trial of 100 resolution credits and $10 of AI Operator credit, no card. The page defines the meter: a full resolution counts once, and unresolved tickets are free. Prices are in USD and shown in EUR, GBP or CHF at parity depending on your location. History: in August 2026 the only published number was 'starting from $1 per resolution' on the home page and /pricing returned a 404. Always verify the live price.

The bill has two parts and both are published: a base fee from $99 and a resolution rate from $2 (pay as you go) down to $1 with volume packages. The meter is published too — a ticket closed end to end counts as one resolution, a hand-off to a person counts as half, and a ticket passed straight through or flagged is free. So a conversation the AI cannot finish still bills, at half rate, which is fair but worth budgeting for. What the page still does not say is whether a reopened ticket counts again; get that in writing before the trial. The ROI calculator on their site is the vendor's own arithmetic; the pilot is where you replace it with yours.

UENI is genuinely best for small-business owners with no time or tech skills who want a professional site built for them, not another tool to learn. Skip it if you want full control over design, run a real e-commerce store, or need deep customisation and integrations — a DIY builder gives you more freedom.

(re-verified 2026-09-09 on www.ueni.com/pricing; every figure below unchanged since the August reading) A done-for-you website, now sold in four tiers rather than one. Every tier carries the same setup fee of $599, currently promoted at $79. Launch is $24.99/mo and covers a custom-designed site, domain and SSL, hosting, one professional email address and 30 days of done-for-you edits. Plus is $59.00/mo and adds unlimited done-for-you edits, four email addresses, advanced SEO, integrations such as live chat and lead forms, promotion on Google, Facebook and Instagram, and VIP phone support. Ecommerce is $99.00/mo and adds a full online store with abandoned cart recovery, social selling, subscriptions and courses, advanced bookings and deposits, automated sales tax and a loyalty programme. Growth is $124.99/mo and adds a dedicated VIP Growth Team, a custom marketing plan, monthly one-on-one sessions and 2,000 words of fresh content a month. A yearly toggle advertises about 17% off: our August capture records $20.83 a month ($249.90 billed annually) on Launch and $49.17 ($590) on Plus, with two-year rates of $18.74 ($449.82) and $44.25 ($1,062). Transaction fees are 0% on every tier and there is a 30-day money-back guarantee. Always verify the live price.

It's done-for-you, which is the appeal and the catch. DIY editing and customisation are limited, e-commerce and integrations are basic, and the most common complaint is the gap between the 7-day promise and reality — slow design turnaround and patchy communication with the team. Expect some upselling.

UltaHost is genuinely best for budget-conscious owners, developers and small businesses that want cheap, fast NVMe hosting (shared or VPS) with free migration and DDoS protection, and will prepay a multi-year term. Skip it if you run a business-critical, high-traffic site that needs premium managed hosting with guaranteed enterprise support, or you don't want to lock into a multi-year term to get the good rate.

(re-verified 2026-09-09 on ultahost.com/shared-hosting) The term ladder is Monthly, Yearly -30%, 2 Years -40% and 3 Years -50%, and the page opens on the two-year term. At that term the shared plans are Starter $3.44/mo (list $6.89) for 1 domain, ~10,000 visits a month and 30 GB NVMe; Basic $5.18 (list $9.19) for 4 domains and ~15,000 visits; Business $10.35 (list $17.02) for unlimited domains and ~25,000 visits; and Pro $13.23 (list $21.62). Every card now states 'Billed for 24 month term. Renews at [the same rate] /mo for 2 years. Cancel anytime.', which settles the renewal contradiction our August capture recorded. The banner above the table advertises a different entry price, $4.13. 30-day money-back guarantee, free SSL, free backups, cPanel. Always verify the live price.

It's the classic budget-host trade-off, with one thing in its favour. The sticker price is a term commitment, not a monthly rate: the headline figures are the 2-year prices, the discount ladder runs -30% yearly, -40% for two years and -50% for three, and paying monthly gives all of it back. What has changed is the renewal. Each plan card now states it renews at the same rate for another 2 years, so the usual trap of a cheap first term followed by a dear one is at least written down. Read that line on the plan you actually pick, because it is quoted per plan. The headline rates also sit under a running 40%-off sale, so treat the crossed-out price as marketing rather than a baseline. Support is generally fast but can be hit-or-miss depending on which agent picks up your ticket, and it's a smaller, less-established brand than the big managed hosts. It's a value play, not a premium-SLA one.

Unbounce is genuinely best for PPC specialists and agencies running paid campaigns who want A/B testing and Smart Traffic (AI routing each visitor to the best-converting variant). Skip it if your traffic or budget is small, or you want cheap unlimited pages — Landingi starts around $29/mo for similar basics.

(re-verified 2026-08-17 on their own pricing page, USD) Five published levels, monthly against yearly at 25% off: Starter $29 / $22, Build $99 / $74, Experiment $149 / $112, Optimize $249 / $187, plus custom pricing above that. The Starter tier is missing from most summaries, ours included until this update, which described the range as beginning at $74. Pages are unlimited on every plan; what pushes you up a tier is the visitor cap, so a traffic spike rather than a page count is what changes your bill. Always verify the live price.

The entry price is high for a landing-page tool, and the visitor caps bite if a campaign takes off. It's also oddly behind on basics — no URL import, limited file/code management, and still no true AI page generation in 2026.

Uniqode is genuinely best for marketing teams that need dynamic QR codes with real analytics and enterprise compliance (SOC 2, GDPR, ISO 27001, optional HIPAA). Skip it if you only need the occasional static QR code — a free generator does that, and Bitly is better if link-shortening is your main job.

(re-verified 2026-08-12, read on their own pricing page) The plan cards are rendered in the browser and invisible to a non-browser client. So what we can hold Uniqode to is its own pricing FAQ, read on 12 August 2026. Static QR codes are free, and dynamic QR codes start at a stated minimum of $9/month. A custom domain is a Plus add-on at $2,000 per domain per year. Your first digital business card is free, with extra seats on a Team plan at $6 per user per month. Billing is annual. Third-party listings quote a $5 entry tier; that is not what Uniqode's own page says, and we are not repeating a Lite or Pro figure we could not read at the source. Always verify the live price.

The tier jumps are steep and a lot is gated: analytics are capped at 60 days on the entry plan, scan limits apply across all tiers, and custom domains sit behind higher pricing. It's a real QR platform — but overkill if you just want the occasional code.

UniTel Voice is genuinely best for solopreneurs and small teams that want a professional toll-free or local number, auto-attendant and call routing on their existing phones — no hardware. Skip it if you need integrated video meetings, team chat and a full contact center, or you have no need for a separate business line at all.

(re-verified 2026-09-09 on unitelvoice.com/pricing) Three plans, no contracts: Solo $9.99/mo, Team $19.99/mo and Office $29.99/mo, each with one phone number and unlimited minutes. Annual billing takes 30% off, making them $6.99, $13.99 and $20.99 a month. Solo is one user, Team carries unlimited users, and Office includes three with additional users at $9.99 each a month. The plan set we recorded in August — Start-Up, Unlimited at $24.99 and Office-Max at $69.99 — is no longer offered on the page. Support is US-based, there is a 30-day money-back guarantee, and every plan includes a professionally recorded greeting. One caveat on those unlimited minutes: the pricing FAQ offers 3.9¢ per minute above "the minutes on your plan" and still names an Office-Max plan the page no longer sells, so the page contradicts its own cards — probably stale text, but unconfirmed. Always verify the live price.

It's a virtual phone layer, not a full unified-comms suite — you won't find the deep team messaging, video meetings and contact-center features pricier platforms bundle. For a solo founder or small team that just needs a professional number, auto-attendant and call routing, that focus is exactly the point; for a larger org wanting one platform for everything, it will feel thin.

Unleashed Software is genuinely best for manufacturers and wholesalers who have outgrown spreadsheets and need real-time stock across multiple warehouses, with batch and serial tracking, landed costs and purchase-to-sale visibility in one system. Skip it if your order volume is low or steady enough that the included 100 a month covers it and a lighter tool would do — at that size you are buying capacity you do not use, and the per-order tiers only pay back once volume is there.

(prices read 2026-08-17 on unleashedsoftware.com/pricing) Two bundles, in USD and excluding tax. Unleashed Core is $399 a month, or $4,389 a year which the page itself puts at $366 equivalent monthly. Unleashed Pro is $729 a month, or $8,019 a year at $668 equivalent monthly. The toggle promises “Save up to 10%”; the actual saving works out at 8.3% on Core and 8.4% on Pro. Both bundles come with a 14-day free trial with all features enabled. What the headline covers is the part worth reading twice: Core includes 3 user licences, Pro 5, and both include just 100 sales orders a month and 250,000 or 500,000 API calls. Everything past that is priced separately. Extra users are $69 a month on Core and $89 on Pro. Sales-order upgrades run $70 (up to 500), $200 (up to 1,500), $320 (up to 3,000) or $490 (unlimited) a month. And support is a paid add-on at $99 a month for Standard or $239 for Premier. Onboarding is a one-off fee on top: $449 self-service, $799 standard, $5,549 full. Optional modules start at $119 a month for Advanced Inventory Manager, $262 for Marketing Accelerator and $450 for CRM. Always verify the live price.

The 100 sales orders a month included on both bundles is the number that decides your bill, not the $399. A wholesaler running 1,500 orders with six users who wants phone support pays $399 for Core, $200 for the order tier, $207 for three extra seats and $99 for Standard support. That is $905 a month, or 2.3 times the headline, before a one-off onboarding fee of at least $449. Support being a paid add-on rather than part of the plan is the detail most comparison tables miss. Price the bundle you will actually be on: count your busiest month's orders, your real seat count, and decide whether you can live without phone support, then compare that total against the alternatives rather than comparing entry prices.

Upsell.com is genuinely best for shopify merchants who want one funnel covering product page, cart and post-purchase offers with AI recommendations and A/B testing, and whose monthly order volume is still low enough that the published tiers apply. Skip it if you do more than 200 orders a month and want to know the price before you install, because that part of the ladder is not on the app page — or you are not on Shopify Plus and were buying this for the checkout upsells.

(prices read 2026-09-02 on apps.shopify.com/reconvert-upsell-cross-sell) Billed in USD, with a 14-day free trial. The free plan is for development stores only, not a live shop. The three listed paid tiers all carry the same feature set — AI upsells, bundles and cross-sells, AI product recommendations, the full funnel across product page, cart, checkout and post-purchase, A/B testing, advanced analytics and segmentation, and 24/7 live chat support — and differ only in volume: Upsell Basic is $4.99 a month for up to 50 orders or $50 of upsell revenue, Upsell Growth $9.99 for up to 100 orders or $100, and Upsell Business $19.99 for up to 200 orders or $200. The listing adds that charges increase as monthly order volume or upsell revenue increases and points to a full pricing table it does not show, so what a store above 200 orders a month pays is not published on the app page. Always verify the live price.

The prices on the listing are the bottom three rungs of a ladder that keeps going. Upsell Business, the most expensive tier shown, tops out at 200 orders or $200 of upsell revenue a month — a ceiling most stores worth installing an upsell app on will pass — and the page then says only that charges rise with volume, referring you to a full pricing table it does not display. The app page therefore cannot tell you what the app will cost you. Two smaller things compound it: the free plan is restricted to development stores, so there is no way to try it on a live shop without paying, and checkout upsells require Shopify Plus, which puts the checkout stage of the funnel out of reach on a standard Shopify plan.

UpsellPlus is genuinely best for shopify merchants who want one app covering product page, cart, checkout, post-purchase, customer accounts and POS offers rather than three, especially Shopify Plus stores, where the checkout half of the product actually unlocks. Skip it if your upsell revenue sits near the $500 ceiling that Free and the $49 plan share — the first paid step buys features, not headroom — or you are not on Shopify Plus and were buying this for the checkout upsells.

(prices read 2026-08-31 on apps.shopify.com/upsellpluscheckout) Four tiers, billed in USD, with a 14-day free trial on the paid ones. Free runs one offer, opens all twelve upsell types plus analytics, and allows up to $500 in upsell revenue. Launch is $49 a month or $500 a year (the listing says that saves 15%) and also allows up to $500 of app-generated revenue a month, adding cart, pop-up and drawer upsells, product page and post-purchase upsells, multivariate A/B testing, progress bars and free gifts. The Shopify Plus tier is $119 a month or $1,149 a year (save 20%), raises the ceiling to $2,000 a month and adds checkout customization, checkout upsells, thank-you page customization and AI recommendations. Scale is $199 a month or $1,899 a year (save 20%) for up to $5,000 of upsell revenue a month, live support and multivariate A/B testing. Always verify the live price.

The plans are capped by the revenue they are allowed to earn you, and the first paid step does not raise that cap: Free and the $49 Launch plan both stop at $500 of upsell revenue a month. The $49 buys offers and features, not headroom — headroom starts at $119. The listing also never says what happens when a store passes Scale's $5,000 ceiling, which is precisely the moment the app is working, so ask before you build a checkout flow around it. And read the feature list closely: checkout upsells are marked Plus-only, meaning your store has to be on Shopify Plus, so on a standard Shopify plan the checkout half of an app called Checkout Upsell is not what you are buying.

UptimeRobot is genuinely best for solo builders and small teams monitoring sites, ports and APIs at 60-second resolution with status pages — and honestly, the free 50-monitor tier covers most hobby stacks. Skip it if you need many teammates in the dashboard (seats are a paid add-on) or heavy SMS alerting — credits stack on top of the subscription.

(read 2026-08-26 on uptimerobot.com/pricing over a US connection) Free is $0. Solo starts at $144 a year, Team is $468 and Scale starts at $948 — the page quotes yearly, not monthly, which makes it look cheaper per line than it is against monthly-priced rivals. Login seats are the upsell: none on Solo, three on Team, five on Scale, and more at $15 or $19 each a month. Data retention runs three months on Free, twelve on Solo and twenty-four above that. They publish a machine-readable version of this page for AI agents, which is rare enough to be worth noting. Always verify the live price.

The famous free tier is real — but the paid ladder has quiet extras: extra login seats cost $15-19 per month EACH beyond the included ones, and SMS or voice-call alerts are pay-per-credit on every plan. The Solo tier includes no team seats at all.