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

  • 141 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:
    • Nutshell — verified 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.) ·
    • Stampezee — verified 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 — verified 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 — verified code BB25OFF20 (25% off 20 rides) · deal page
    • doola — verified code AIBUILDER10 (10% off at checkout, supplied by doola via PartnerStack on 5 Aug 2026 for our readers — doola gave no end date, and did not say whether it covers every plan or only your first payment, so check the total before you confirm. Read this before you type the code: on 6 Aug 2026 doola told us they also take 20% off the first year of a new annual Tax & Compliance plan ($1,599 instead of $1,999) or Business-in-a-Box ($2,399 instead of $2,999), applied automatically at checkout with no code at all — and doola's own terms say it cannot be combined with other discounts. On those two annual plans the automatic 20% is the better deal and our 10% code is the one to leave out. The 20% covers the first year only, on a new plan for a new user forming a new business; it excludes Starter and monthly plans, existing customers, existing businesses adding a plan, add-ons and one-time services (expedite, annual state compliance, ITIN, DBA), and it renews at the standard $1,999 or $2,999. doola gave no end date for it and reserves the right to withdraw it without notice. State filing fees are charged by the state, not doola, so no code touches those) · deal page
    • Wegic — verified code AIBUILDER10 (10% off all Wegic plans — or use code AIBUILDER20 for 20% off annual plans (monthly excluded); both exclusive to our readers, valid through July 2027) · deal page
    • VidPal — verified code AIBUILDERMARKETPLACE (10% off) · deal page
    • lemlist — verified code OFFSUMMERLEMAGENT (30 days free) · deal page
    • Cloudways — verified code NETWORK26 (20% off for 3 months (vendor-supplied via Awin, 23 Jul 2026 — no end date given). Billing is hourly and post-paid, so the discount applies to the first three invoices) · deal page
    • Retouch4me — verified 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.) · deal page
    • Foxit — verified 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.) ·
    • Ngram — no code needed — it runs through our partner link (Upgrade to a paid Ngram plan through our link and you get extra credits on top of what that plan normally carries. The vendor's own wording, sent to us by the ngram partner team on 4 Aug 2026, is “1.5 times extra credit than what they normally get” — we cannot tell from that sentence whether it means half again as many credits or one and a half times more, so ask them to spell it out before you count on a number. Two limits they were explicit about: it only applies if you actually upgrade to a paid plan (a free signup gets you nothing extra), and no end date was given. It is not published on ngram's own site, so it is a vendor promise rather than a public term.) ·
    • 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).) ·
  • 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, 141 tools have a genuinely free tier you can run on today — no countdown timer required.

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