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Pick a product, tell us your team size, budget and must-haves. You get a verdict per requirement with the sentence it rests on and the date we read the pricing page, and an honest “unknown” where our research stops. Cost as your team grows is available for 158 products so far.

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What we measured in our own tests, by product

One test per observation, on the plan shown; these observations do not change any estimate.

Aplos

Vendor claim: "Start Your 15-Day Free Trial"
Our observation: After onboarding the account showed 'Subscribe within the first 15 days and receive 25% off for six months!' and ran as a free trial; no card was asked.
Not testable · 2026-10-24 · Read our review
Claim source: https://app.aplos.com/aws/register (read 2026-10-23)
Free trial
Not the same quantity: the app showed a 15-day window for a subscription discount, not a trial end date or counter, so the trial length itself was not read.
No card was asked. Subscribing within the first 15 days came with 25% off for six months; check the trial end date in your own account.

Assembly

Vendor claim: "75 build credits / month"
Our observation: Settings > Plans in the new Free workspace showed 'Build credits 50 available' and 'Used this billing period 0 of 50 monthly', with the credits expiring on 24 Nov 2026.
Contradicted · 2026-10-24 · Read our review
Claim source: https://assembly.com/pricing (read 2026-10-23)
Free
Same quantity: monthly build credits on the Free plan.
Expect 50 build credits a month on Free rather than 75; the app showed them expiring on 24 November 2026. Whether unused credits roll over we did not test.

Atria

Vendor claim: "1,000 free credits included"
Our observation: The new Free account showed 1,250 credits; one generation of four variants cost 144 credits (1,250 to 1,106).
Contradicted · 2026-10-23 · Read our review
Claim source: https://www.tryatria.com/ (read 2026-10-23)
Free, no ad accounts
Same quantity: starting credit balance on a new account.
We got 250 more credits than advertised; at 144 credits per generation of four images, that is about eight generations.

Atto

Vendor claim: "No credit card required" and "14 day free trial"
Our observation: Sign-up asked for no card. On the day of sign-up the app already showed '13 days left in trial'.
Not comparable · 2026-10-23 · Read our review
Claim source: https://api.attotime.com/ (read 2026-10-21)
Trial, no integrations
Card requirement: same quantity. Trial length: the app counts remaining days and may exclude the start day; the end date was not shown.
You can test without a card. The app showed 13 days remaining on sign-up day; we did not record the exact end time, so we cannot determine whether the trial was shorter than 14 days.

Bokun

Vendor claim: "14 day free-trial" and "No credit card required"
Our observation: After sign-up we had to pick a paid plan to start the trial; the next screen asked for a card to bill after the trial ends on 6 November 2026 (14 days after 23 October), but 'I'll add card later' skipped it and the dashboard said '14 days left on your Bókun Start free trial'.
Confirmed · 2026-10-23 · Read our review
Claim source: https://www.bokun.io/ (read 2026-10-21)
Bókun Start trial, no channels connected
Same quantity: trial length and card requirement at sign-up.
You can test without a card, but expect two card prompts and a plan choice ($49/$149/$499 per month plus a booking fee) before you reach the dashboard; what happens after 14 days without a card we did not see.

BugHerd

Vendor claim: "free 7-day trial"
Our observation: The new account showed '7 days remaining! Upgrade now!' in the header. No card was asked.
Confirmed · 2026-10-24 · Read our review
Claim source: https://bugherd.com/ (read 2026-10-23)
Trial
Same quantity: trial length shown on day one.
You get 7 days without a card, but you must install the browser extension or a script on a site before you can use the board.

Campaign Monitor

Vendor claim: "500 email limit for the 30-day free trial"
Our observation: The app showed 'You have 30 days remaining on your free trial' and 'You can send up to a total of 500 emails, with a maximum of 100 emails per 24 hours. Your trial will expire on 23 Nov 2026.'
Confirmed · 2026-10-24 · Read our review
Claim source: https://www.campaignmonitor.com/pricing/ (read 2026-10-23)
Free trial, Single team
Same quantities: trial length and email limit shown in the account.
You can test for 30 days without a card, but only 500 emails in total and at most 100 a day.

Vendor claim: "Try Close free for 14 Days"
Our observation: On the day of sign-up the app showed 'Subscribe · 14d left'; no card was asked, but the trial only started after ticking consent to sales calls and texts.
Confirmed · 2026-10-23 · Read our review
Claim source: https://www.close.com/pricing (read 2026-10-23)
Trial, no phone number or integrations
Same quantity: trial length shown on day one.
You get 14 days without a card, but you must accept calls and texts from Close to your phone number to start.

CloudTalk

Vendor claim: "$5 Credit"
Our observation: Settings > Billing showed Credit '€10,00' on the new Demo package, with a 'credit balance is low' warning.
Contradicted · 2026-10-24 · Read our review
Claim source: https://www.cloudtalk.io/signup/ (read 2026-10-23)
Demo package
Same quantity (starting call credit). The sign-up page showed $5 also when read from the Netherlands, while our account, billed in euros, held €10, more than $5 at any exchange rate.
Our EU demo account started with €10 of call credit rather than $5; check the balance in your own account, since calls stop when it reaches zero.
Vendor claim: "14-Day Free Trial"
Our observation: On sign-up day the dashboard showed 'Your demo will EXPIRE in 14 days.' No card was asked.
Confirmed · 2026-10-24 · Read our review
Claim source: https://www.cloudtalk.io/signup/ (read 2026-10-23)
Demo package
Same quantity: trial length on day one.
You get 14 days without a card on the Demo package.

Deputy

Vendor claim: "Up to 31 days"
Our observation: On sign-up day the app showed '31 days remaining of your Core Plan trial.' No card was asked.
Confirmed · 2026-10-24 · Read our review
Claim source: https://www.deputy.com/ (read 2026-10-23)
Core Plan trial
Same quantity: trial length on day one; the claim is an upper bound and we got the full 31 days.
A new account got the full 31-day trial of the Core plan without a card.

Dext

Vendor claim: "free 14 day trial" and "No payment details required."
Our observation: After sign-up the account showed 'Your free trial ends in 14 days'. We gave no card or bank details, and the workspace worked without connecting accounting software.
Confirmed · 2026-10-21 · Read our review
Claim source: https://dext.com/ (trial); https://app.dext.com/signups/business?country_code=us (payment details) (read 2026-10-21)
Trial, country Netherlands, no accounting or bank connection
Same quantity: trial length and payment details at sign-up.
You can test receipt capture on your own documents without giving payment details; what happens after the 14 days we did not see.

FlexiQuiz

Vendor claim: "20 responses a month" and "10 questions per quiz" on the free account
Our observation: Saving an eleventh question gave 'There is a maximum of 10 questions on the free plan'. After 20 submissions the quiz link showed only 'This account has reached the maximum monthly response limit'.
Confirmed · 2026-10-20 · Read our review
Claim source: https://www.flexiquiz.com/Help/faq/what-you-can-do-with-a-free-flexiquiz-account (read 2026-10-17)
Free, one quiz, submissions as an anonymous visitor
Same quantities. With one quiz we cannot tell the per-quiz and per-account limits apart.
The limit blocked the 21st submission attempt before the quiz could start, so the free plan does not fit more than 20 submissions a month.

folk

Vendor claim: "No, we don't ask for your credit card during the trial." and "2 weeks free trial"
Our observation: Sign-up and onboarding asked for no card; the last screen said 'Welcome to your 14-day free trial ... access to all our Premium features' and the app showed 'Premium trial (2 weeks left)'.
Confirmed · 2026-10-23 · Read our review
Claim source: https://www.folk.app/pricing (read 2026-10-21)
Premium trial, no integrations
Same quantity: trial length and card requirement at sign-up.
You can try folk for two weeks without a card, but the trial runs on Premium features, so Deals and other Premium features you test may not be in a cheaper plan.

Freshworks

Vendor claim: "14-day all-access free trial"
Our observation: Right after sign-up the app said 'your 15-day trial starts today', with a 'Buy now' button.
Not comparable · 2026-10-21 · Read our review
Claim source: https://www.freshworks.com/freshdesk/signup/ (read 2026-10-21)
Freshdesk Omni trial, EU data centre, new account, no channels connected
Not the same count. The sign-up page and the app may count the start day differently, and we did not record the trial's end date, so 14 against 15 is not shown to be a real difference.
Plan your evaluation for 14 days and check the end date in the trial bar on day one; do not count on the extra day.

Hive

Vendor claim: "1,000 AI credits / month" on the Free plan
Our observation: Usage & billing > AI usage in a new account without a subscription: '5.000 of 5.000 remaining', '5.000 included · 0 purchased', 'Resets Nov 21'.
Not comparable · 2026-10-21 · Read our review
Claim source: https://hive.com/pricing (read 2026-10-17)
Free, new workspace, no card, no subscription
Not the same quantity as far as we can tell. The 5,000 may be a one-off starting balance for a new account; we saw one month, not the month after the reset.
Budget AI use on the published 1,000 credits a month; treat the higher first balance as unconfirmed until it survives a reset.

Imagify

Vendor claim: "Max upload size: 2MB/image" on Starter
Our observation: A 3.4MB file was refused with 'File size must be under 2.0 MB. Current file size is 3.4 MB' and used no quota.
Confirmed · 2026-10-21 · Read our review
Claim source: https://imagify.io/pricing/ (read 2026-10-17)
Starter (free) in the web app, account not yet confirmed
Same quantity: the per-image upload limit.
Files over 2MB need resizing before upload on the free plan.
Vendor claim: "20MB/month" on Starter
Our observation: The account showed '0.0KB / 20MB used'. After the first two images (11.8KB and 48.9KB) the counter read 61.44KB, much closer to their input sizes than to the compressed results; later increments varied, so we did not establish the exact accounting rule.
Confirmed · 2026-10-21 · Read our review
Claim source: https://imagify.io/pricing/ (read 2026-10-17)
Starter (free) in the web app, account not yet confirmed
Same quantity for the displayed allowance. We did not reach the 20MB limit or see a monthly reset.
Budget the free allowance on your original file sizes rather than on the compressed results, as a rough guide; the exact rule and what happens at 20MB were not tested.

lemlist

Vendor claim: "200 free credits"
Our observation: The import step showed '200 Remaining credits' in the new trial account.
Confirmed · 2026-10-24 · Read our review
Claim source: https://help.lemlist.com/en/articles/4941590-lemlist-free-trial-what-s-included-and-how-it-works (read 2026-10-23)
Free trial
Same quantity: starting credits.
200 credits go fast on enrichment: a verified email costs 5, a phone number 20.
Vendor claim: "14-day free trial"
Our observation: On sign-up day the app showed '15 days of free trial left'.
Not comparable · 2026-10-24 · Read our review
Claim source: https://help.lemlist.com/en/articles/4941590-lemlist-free-trial-what-s-included-and-how-it-works (read 2026-10-23)
Free trial
Not the same count as far as we can tell: the app counts remaining days and may include the start day, and we did not record the trial's end date, so 15 against 14 is not shown to be a real difference.
Plan on the documented 14 days and check the end date in your own account on day one.

MindStudio

Vendor claim: "1,000 runs / month"
Our observation: The Free plan page in the app shows '1,000 runs / month', but the workspace credit balance starts at $0.00 and our first run of our own agent failed with 'You are out of usage credits' (insufficient_credits/balance).
Not comparable · 2026-10-23 · Read our review
Claim source: https://www.mindstudio.ai/pricing (read 2026-10-23)
Free, Service Router, no top-up
The claim counts runs; we measured whether a run can start without paying for model usage. Different quantity.
On Free you still need to top up credit (or bring your own API keys, not tested) before an agent that calls a model can run.

Miro

Vendor claim: "Free teams can have up to 3 active boards."
Our observation: Attempting a fourth board opened a warning: 'You've reached the limit of three editable boards' and 'My First Board will become view-only', with 'Create team board' and 'Upgrade'. We did not confirm creation.
Confirmed · 2026-10-20 · Read our review
Claim source: https://help.miro.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017730373-Free-Plan (read 2026-10-17)
Free, new team, one member
Same quantity: the limit is three editable boards. We verified the warning, not the change to the old board.
On Free, plan on three editable boards; according to Miro's warning a fourth would make an older one view-only, which we did not confirm.

noCRM

Vendor claim: "(no credit card required)"
Our observation: We used the account for leads, next actions and pipeline steps without giving a card. The app offered to extend the trial to 30 days if we entered payment details that day; we declined.
Confirmed · 2026-10-23 · Read our review
Claim source: https://www.nocrm.io/pricing (read 2026-10-21)
Trial, no integrations
Same quantity: the card requirement at sign-up.
You can test without a card. Providing payment details was offered as a way to extend the trial to 30 days; we declined.
Vendor claim: "15-day free trial"
Our observation: We saw an offer of 30 rather than 15 days in exchange for payment details, but did not record the trial end date.
Not testable · 2026-10-23 · Read our review
Claim source: https://www.nocrm.io/pricing (read 2026-10-21)
Trial, no integrations
Trial length was not read in the app.
Check the end date in your own account on day one.

Oneflow

Vendor claim: "14 days with no charge"
Our observation: On the day of sign-up the app showed 'Trial ends in 14 days. After this, your access will be limited to the free version of Oneflow.' No card was asked.
Confirmed · 2026-10-24 · Read our review
Claim source: https://oneflow.com/uk/faqs-about-oneflow/ (read 2026-10-23)
Trial
Same quantity: trial length shown on day one.
You get 14 days without a card; afterwards the account drops to the free version rather than closing.

Parallel AI

Vendor claim: "50 free credits to start" and "No credit card required"
Our observation: The free plan 'Pay As You Go' ($0) showed 'Monthly credits 4 / 50' after onboarding; no card was asked for. The whole onboarding used 4 credits for 14 requests.
Confirmed · 2026-10-21 · Read our review
Claim source: https://parallellabs.app/pricing/ (read 2026-10-21)
Pay As You Go ($0), 1 company, 1 seat, no mailbox connected
Same quantity for the 50 credits and the card. The app labels the credits as monthly; we did not see a reset.
The free plan is enough to see what the onboarding builds (it cost 4 of 50 credits); the cost of later actions is not published, so measure your own work before choosing a paid tier.

Process Street

Vendor claim: "14-day free trial"
Our observation: On the day of sign-up the app showed '14 days left in your free trial'; no card was asked.
Confirmed · 2026-10-23 · Read our review
Claim source: https://www.process.st/pricing/ (read 2026-10-23)
Pro trial, no integrations
Same quantity: trial length shown on day one.
You get the full 14 days to test without a card.

Typewise

Vendor claim: "The trial runs for 14 days"
Our observation: On the day of sign-up, Plan & limits showed 'Trial · 92 days remaining' with no payment method.
Contradicted · 2026-10-23 · Read our review
Claim source: https://docs.typewise.app/documentation/billing/free-trial (read 2026-10-23)
Trial, simulator only
Same quantity: trial length shown on day one. The app gave more than the documentation says, so the difference is in the buyer's favour.
Our trial was longer than the documentation says; check the counter in your own account rather than the docs.

WebinarGeek

Vendor claim: "14 days free." and "No payment details required"
Our observation: The account showed 'Free trial for 14 days. Upgrade now'. No card was asked for at sign-up or before the dry run.
Confirmed · 2026-10-21 · Read our review
Claim source: https://www.webinargeek.com/register (read 2026-10-21)
14-day trial, one presenter, unpublished unlisted webinar
Same quantity for trial length and payment details.
You can run a full dry run without payment details; to test what viewers see you have to publish a webinar within the trial.
Vendor claim: "Up to 25 live viewers"
Our observation: We invited no viewers, so this cap was not tested.
Not testable · 2026-10-21 · Read our review
Claim source: https://www.webinargeek.com/register (read 2026-10-21)
14-day trial, one presenter, unpublished unlisted webinar
Not tested in this session.
To check the viewer cap you have to publish a webinar and invite viewers within the trial.

Products with cost as your team grows

Price rules written by hand from our pricing notes, each amount quoted from the vendor’s page. More products follow.

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