HONEST BLACK FRIDAY TRACKER · LIVE IN NOVEMBER 2026

Most Black Friday SaaS deals are the regular price with a hat on

We snapshot the pricing page of every tool we cover, every month. So when November comes, we can tell you which “70% OFF” is a real discount — and which one is the standard annual price wearing a countdown timer. The live tracker lands here in November; the honest groundwork is already public.

What you can verify today

  • 176 genuinely free tiers — no Black Friday required: the Honest Software Atlas
  • Documented price history — hikes, cuts and renewal jumps with evidence: SaaS Price Watch
  • Verified partner offers (working today) — some carry a code, some run through the link:
    • Mycroft — no code needed — ask for it by name (20% off any Mycroft purchase, confirmed in writing by Mycroft's Eric Yanofsky through PartnerStack on 22 September 2026. There is no code, and no link that switches it on: you name AI Builder Marketplace on the sales call and Mycroft honours it. They told us they might build a tracked link later, but it does not exist yet, so asking is the whole mechanism. It covers any purchase across all three packages — Platform, Scale and Managed; on the call Mycroft may call Platform its startup package, which Eric confirmed on 30 September 2026 is the same tier — and it is not a first-invoice trick — Mycroft said the discount becomes part of your agreement and that they will hold you at the same rate next year, on top of whatever standard renewal increase the contract carries. We asked for an end date and did not get one, so treat it as open rather than guaranteed. Read the shape of it before you count on it: Mycroft publishes no prices at all, so this is 20% off a figure you will not see until your quote arrives, and there is nothing published to check the discounted number against — get it in writing with the quote. One alternative is worth knowing about: Mycroft will put a free penetration test on any purchase instead of the 20%, not on top of it.) · review
    • Tradify — no code needed — it runs through our partner link (50% off for three months, built into Tradify's own sign-up flow. There is no code to type and nothing exclusive about it: Tradify told us in writing on 16 September 2026 that the offer sits in the sign-up process every new customer goes through, and that referrals are tracked automatically through PartnerStack, which is why no reader code exists. No end date was given. Read the shape of it before you count on it — three months at half price on the plan you pick, then the normal per-user rate from month four: Lite $47, Pro $51 or Plus $61 per user a month. We could not find the offer named anywhere on tradifyhq.com, including the pricing and sign-up pages we read on 16 September 2026, so it stays a vendor promise rather than a published term. Check that your first invoice actually halves before you commit.) · review
    • Bouncer — no code needed — it runs through our partner link (10% off pay-as-you-go email verification credits, applied automatically when you sign up through our link — there is no code to type. Confirmed in writing by Bouncer via PartnerStack on 25 Aug 2026, with no end date: the discount stays available for customers referred by us. Read the limits before you count on it — it covers pay-as-you-go verification credits only, so the Deliverability Kit subscriptions at $25, $125 and $250 a month and the separate Bouncer Shield product are not included.) · review
    • Quartile — no code needed — it runs through our partner link (40% off the first three months for new customers, supplied by Quartile via PartnerStack on 7 Aug 2026 with no end date given. Treat this one as unconfirmed. Re-read on 11 Sep 2026, Quartile's own referral page (quartile.com/partners) no longer publishes any customer discount at all -- it now rewards the person making an introduction, by an amount it declines to name -- so the 40% is no longer visible anywhere on their site. There is no code to type and no sign-up flow either: Quartile told us on 31 Aug 2026 that their PartnerStack links have not tracked since last year and moved us to a direct link to their demo form. So raise the discount on the demo call and get it in writing with the quote, and do not assume it still stands. Read the shape of it before you count on it: Quartile publishes no prices at all, so this is 40% off a figure you will not see until your quote arrives, and it covers three months rather than the ongoing rate.) · review
    • Nutshell — reader code nspub-partner-1monthfree (One month free of any Nutshell subscription, supplied by Nutshell via PartnerStack on 31 Jul 2026 for AIBuilder Marketplace readers. Read the shape of it: it is one free month, not an ongoing discount — the normal rate applies from month two, and Nutshell gave no end date for the code.) · deal page
    • Seller Snap — no code needed — it runs through our partner link (10% off for the first three months when you sign up through our link (vendor-confirmed 24 jul 2026) — three months, not ongoing: the normal rate applies from month four.) · review
    • Stampezee — reader code STAMP98 (98% off the first month of Stamp Lite — about $0.60 for month one, then the normal $29.99/mo (vendor-confirmed 2026). Their free Stamp Start plan may already cover a single small shop) · deal page
    • Tenable — reader code SAVE10 (10% off, confirmed in writing by Tenable on 5 Aug 2026 as an evergreen offer with no end date; the code Tenable10 works as well. It does not change which tier you need — commercial use and compliance checks start at Nessus Professional) · deal page
    • Bolt Business — reader code BB25OFF20 (25% off 20 rides, for companies that sign up to Bolt for Business. Shuyue Zhao of Bolt for Business gave us the code in writing through PartnerStack on 15 June 2026, as the reward for our readers. Bolt named no end date, eligible countries or ride types, so check that the discount appears in the Bolt Business app before you book.) · deal page
    • EngageBay — reader code AIBUILDER20 (20% off your first billing, created for AIBuilder Marketplace readers and confirmed in writing by EngageBay on 10 Aug 2026. Read the limits before you count on it: it works only on Growth or Pro, and only on yearly or biennial billing — the free tier, Basic and every monthly plan are excluded, and the code expires on 31 October 2026. Because those plans are prepaid, the first billing is the whole term, so this is 20% off your first year or first two years and then the standard rate at renewal. One detail we had to go back and ask about, now settled: EngageBay's pricing page defaults to a biennial ‘15% off’ display, so it was not clear which figure the 20% comes off. EngageBay confirmed in writing on 12 Aug 2026 that it is calculated from the list prices — $64.99 per user per month for Growth and $119.99 for Pro — and not from the already-discounted biennial figures. Compare your checkout total against those list prices.) · deal page
    • doola — reader code AIBUILDER10 (10% off your first purchase of a Starter, Tax and Compliance or Business-in-a-Box plan. The code was supplied by doola via PartnerStack on 5 Aug 2026 and pinned down in writing on 10 Aug 2026 with no end date: a one-off discount on the plan you buy first, not a rate that returns at renewal. doola's terms say it cannot be combined with other discounts or promotions, and doola runs its own sales from time to time, so if one is showing on doola.com/pricing when you buy, compare the two and take the larger. When we re-read the page on 1 October 2026 it carried no sale banner, so the code applies to a first plan purchase.) · deal page
    • Wegic — no code needed — it runs through our partner link (10% off any Wegic plan, applied automatically at checkout when you go through our link. Wegic's own partner offer page, read 16 September 2026, states it in those words: the discount is unlocked by the link and there is no code to type. Our two older reader codes still stand as a fallback for anyone who arrives another way — AIBUILDER10 for 10% off any plan, AIBUILDER20 for 20% off annual plans with monthly billing excluded, both dated through July 2027. Wegic's partner team confirmed in writing on 23 September 2026 that both codes remain valid exactly as they are, tied to our link.) · deal page
    • VidPal — reader code AIBUILDERMARKETPLACE (10% off all paid VidPal plans (Starter, Pro and Business), on monthly and annual billing, and on every renewal, not only the first payment. VidPal confirmed in writing on 7 October 2026 that the code is active and has no end date.) · deal page
    • Cloudways — reader code NETWORK26 (20% off for 3 months, no end date (vendor-supplied via Awin, 23 Jul 2026); Cloudways bills hourly in arrears, so it comes off your first three invoices. The public code SUMMER404, 40% off for four months, ran until 15 September 2026; since then this 20% is the standing discount) · deal page
    • Retouch4me — reader code AIBuilder20 (20% off Retouch4me plugins, exclusive to AIBuilder Marketplace readers. Buy a subscription through our link with the code and you also get bonus retouch credits on top of the discount. How many depends on the plan you pick: Start gives 500 credits, Pro 1200, Business 3600. Retouch4me sent us those three figures in plain text on 6 Aug 2026, which replaces the earlier answer that the amount simply varies — so these are numbers you can hold them to. Confirmed by Retouch4me in writing on 27 Jul 2026: the code has no expiry date. One caveat while the autumn promotion runs. Retouch4me is discounting a single plugin each week: Skin Tone 8-14 Sep and Clean Backdrop 15-21 Sep at 25%, Portrait Volumes 30% until 30 September, Fabric 30% on 1-7 October and Dust 35% on 8-14 October 2026. On that one plugin, in its own week, the sale beats our 20%. Retouch4me's partner mail of 25 September says the increased discount applies to buyers who use a partner code; we have not tested at checkout whether that means the sale rate or the sale plus our 20%, so if you are buying exactly that week's plugin on its own, compare the price with and without the code before you pay. For a subscription the code is still the better route, because that is where the bonus credits sit, and it stays the better route for every plugin that is not the current week's.) · deal page
    • Foxit — reader code CP366-B4dCXGN5 (20% off, created for AIBuilder Marketplace readers and supplied by Foxit on 28 Jul 2026. Read the three limits before you count on it: it is valid for the first 10 licences, the discount applies to the first billing cycle only — that is your first month or your first year, depending on which plan you pick, with the normal rate from the next cycle on — and the code itself expires on 31 December 2028.) · deal page
    • Quo — no code needed — it runs through our partner link (7 days free plus 10% off the first three months, applied automatically through our partner link — there is no code to type. Created for AIBuilder Marketplace readers by Quo (formerly OpenPhone) on 27 Jul 2026; we checked the landing page ourselves on 29 Jul and it is live. Read the shape of it: the 10% covers the first three months only, and the normal rate applies from month four. Quo gave no end date.) · review
    • Ngram — no code needed — it runs through our partner link (Upgrade to a paid Ngram plan through our link and you get half again as many credits as that plan normally carries. Ngram spelled the number out for us on 10 Aug 2026, after we asked them to: Basic normally comes with 3,000 credits a month, and 4,500 through a partner link. That is the one tier they put a figure on. They also said it applies to every paid tier and to both monthly and annual billing, but they did not give the numbers for Premium or Ultimate, so treat the same half-again ratio there as likely rather than confirmed. Two further limits from them: you have to actually upgrade to a paid plan, since a free signup gets you nothing extra, and no end date was given — their words were that there is no end to the package. It is not published on ngram's own site, so it stays a vendor promise rather than a public term.) · review
    • Salesmessage — no code needed — it runs through our partner link (Everyone gets the standard 14-day free trial and 30-day money-back guarantee. Readers who come through our link and speak to the Salesmsg sales team can additionally qualify for a 3-month pilot — a real proof of concept against their own CRM data, when they are ready to move forward. Note the wording: the pilot is granted if you qualify, it is not an automatic discount (vendor-confirmed by Salesmsg, 27 Jul 2026 — no end date given).) · review
    • UltaHost — reader code ultaad2RiM (10% off, supplied by Ultahost's affiliate manager via PartnerStack on 9 Aug 2026 for our readers. Two things Ultahost did not say, so do not assume them: which plans or billing terms the code covers, and when it runs out — no end date was given. Read it against the way UltaHost prices: the headline rates it advertises already need a 24-month prepay, so check at checkout whether the 10% actually comes off that promotional term or only off the standard rate.) · deal page
    • Nouswise — reader code 86ECADE3E22E (10% off the first six months of Essential or Pro, on annual as well as monthly billing, with no expiry date on the code — the terms Nouswise put in writing on 18 Aug 2026, after we asked them what it did. Worth knowing before you type it: the same string is our own PartnerStack tracking key, which Nouswise says is deliberate so the sale is credited to us, so watch that the total actually drops on the plan you pick) · review
    • Sentaro — reader code SUMMER (Three months free: sign up through our link, enter the code SUMMER, and the first three months cost nothing. Sentaro supplied this via PartnerStack on 24 Aug 2026 and gave no end date for it. Read the shape of it before you count on it. It is three free months, not a discount on the rate — the normal price applies from month four, and that price is the one thing you still cannot look up, because Sentaro publishes none and sells on a quote. So the free period is worth more as a test window than as a saving, and it happens to be exactly the right shape for the test this product allows: Sentaro reads the mailbox through the Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 API rather than changing your MX records, so you can run it beside your existing filtering and count real catches against false positives before anyone signs anything. Ask for the per-mailbox rate, the term and the renewal price in writing while the three months are still running — that evidence is your whole negotiating position, and it expires when the free period does.) · review
    • Lucrovox — reader code AIBUILDER25 (25% off your first month on any LucroVox or LucroChat plan, created for AI Builder Marketplace readers and supplied by Aria Dar of LucroVox via PartnerStack on 17 September 2026. Two things she put in writing: there is no cap on how many people can use it, and no end date was given. Read the shape of it before you count on it — it is one month, not an ongoing rate, so the normal price applies from month two: $199, $499 or $999 a month on the phone agent's three published tiers. The code is not published anywhere on lucrovox.com, which we read again on 17 September 2026, so it stays a vendor promise rather than a public term. Check that your first invoice actually drops by a quarter, and tell them if it does not — they offered to sort a checkout that refuses it the same day.) · review
    • Fast Bundle — reader code AIBM25 (25% off for three months on the monthly plans, created for AI Builder Marketplace readers and supplied by Fast Bundle's Ian Abbassi via PartnerStack on 31 Aug 2026, with no end date given. Ian confirmed on 1 Sep 2026 that the annual commitments are excluded because they already carry their own discount, so the 25% comes off whichever monthly tier your bundle sales put you on.) · review
    • Pippit — no code needed — it runs through our partner link (Pippit's own limited-time promotion on the Seedance 2.5 video model: $1.50 for the first month, which Pippit calls 90% off, for new users only. There is no code and nothing exclusive about it — it is open to every new Pippit user, and our link only decides who gets credited for the sign-up. Pippit sent us the terms through Impact on 17 September 2026, before the promotion started, so we could not read it on pippit.ai ourselves; check the amount on the page before you pay. The window is narrow and it is stated in Pacific time: 22 September 2026 at 8:00 PM PDT through 9 October 2026 at 8:59 AM PDT, which is 03:00 UTC on 23 September (05:00 in Amsterdam) to 15:59 UTC on 9 October (17:59 in Amsterdam). During the promotion Pippit also prices Seedance 2.5 at 720P from $0.035 a second, against $0.079 a second elsewhere — that comparison is Pippit's claim, not a figure we checked. Two things to weigh before the price talks you into it. The dollar amounts here are the vendor's; Pippit's pricing page bills in the visitor's own currency, which is why every figure in this review is in euros. And the discount does not change what the meter does: credits are consumed per attempt, and buyer reviews describe failed generations that still billed. A cheap first month buys you a cheap test, not a different product.) · review
    • Kit — no code needed — it runs through our partner link (Kit's own limited-time offer on Pro: 25% off the first year on annual billing. At 1,000 subscribers the pricing page shows $50 a month instead of $66, or $593 for the first year instead of $790, and states that the plan renews at the standard rate after that first year. There is no code to type and nothing exclusive about it: the discount is applied by Kit's own sign-up button on kit.com/pricing, open to anyone, and our link only decides who is credited for the sign-up. Kit told its affiliates the offer runs from 8 October to 7 November 2026; we read it on the pricing page on 7 October 2026. Pro is the tier that adds Subscriber Signals and unlimited users; if the free plan (up to 10,000 subscribers) or Creator covers what you do, a discount on Pro is not a reason to upgrade.) · review
    • SoftSync — no code needed — it runs through our partner link (30% off plus a 30-day trial instead of the standard 14 days, applied through our partner link — there is no code to type. SoftSync's COO, Celine Haaverstad, offered it to AI Builder Marketplace readers in writing through PartnerStack on 25 September 2026, with no end date given. Read the shape of it before you count on it. SoftSync did not say whether the 30% comes off the first invoice, the first year or every payment, so check your checkout total and ask if it is unclear. And the offer is not published on softsync.ai: the pricing page we read on 26 September 2026 names no discount and no trial length, and says the checkout page shows any trial terms, so it stays a vendor promise rather than a public term.) · review
  • Current honest offers — free trials and plans, no fake urgency: the deals page

How the tracker will work

Every claimed Black Friday deal gets checked against our September and October pricing snapshots (archived independently at the Wayback Machine). Real discount → listed with the receipt. Fake discount → listed too, in the wall of shame. That's the whole methodology. How we review →

Questions people ask

When do Black Friday SaaS deals 2026 start?

Most SaaS vendors launch Black Friday pricing in mid-to-late November 2026, though early-bird deals appear from October. This tracker verifies each claimed deal against our documented base prices, so you can see which discounts are real.

Are Black Friday software deals actually cheaper?

Often not: a common pattern is presenting the standard annual discount as a Black Friday special. Because we snapshot pricing pages monthly, we can compare the 'deal' against what the tool cost in September and October.

Which software is genuinely free without waiting for Black Friday?

In our hand-researched corpus, 176 tools have a genuinely free tier you can run on today — no countdown timer required.

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