About PricingAlmanac

Software pricing is published, then quietly changed, and almost nobody keeps the record. Vendors restructure tiers, move a feature up a plan, or raise a per-seat rate, and the page that documented the old arrangement is simply replaced. Ask what a tool cost eighteen months ago, or which plan you had to buy for SSO before the last repackaging, and there is usually no answer.

PricingAlmanac is an attempt at the answer. A crawler reads each vendor's own pricing page on a schedule, records every figure with the URL and the timestamp it was read at, and keeps the previous value rather than overwriting it. From that record it computes the things the pricing pages themselves do not state — what a tier costs a team of twenty-five, the seat count at which one product stops being cheaper than another, which plan is the cheapest one that includes a given feature.

What makes this different from a directory

Most comparison sites restate what a vendor already says, on a page with a template around it. That is worth nothing to a reader who could have opened the vendor's page, and search engines have been increasingly explicit that they agree. Three rules keep this site on the other side of that line.

1. Every figure carries its source and its date. Each data page ends with a table of datapoint, source URL, verification timestamp, and how the value was extracted. If a number here is wrong, the table tells you exactly where to check.
2. No page exists unless it has something to say. A pricing page is generated only when there are enough verified plans, features and citations behind it, and a comparison only when two products overlap on enough published detail to compare honestly and then differ on enough of it to be worth comparing. Missing pages are the gate working, not an oversight.
3. No language model writes any of it. Every sentence on a data page is assembled by a formatter from numbers that have a citation underneath them. The eight pages like this one are written by hand. There is no third category.

What it does not do

There are no ratings, no review scores, and no overall "value score" with weights nobody publishes. Those are the parts of a comparison site that are easiest to generate and hardest to justify, and a score built from undisclosed weights is an opinion wearing a number's clothes.

Where a vendor publishes no price, this site says so. A custom-quote tier is recorded as a custom quote and excluded from every computed comparison rather than being filled in with an estimate. A price that has not been verified recently is labelled with how old it is, and one that goes unverified long enough is withdrawn rather than left to quietly rot.

Who runs it

PricingAlmanac is run by an independent developer based in Indonesia. It is a small, independent project — the collector, the analysis and this site are all one codebase, maintained by one person. It carries advertising to cover hosting; nothing on any page is ordered, weighted or included in exchange for payment, and no vendor has any input into what appears here. If that ever changes it will be disclosed on this page before it takes effect.

The dataset currently covers 11 products across 48 plans, backed by 94 citations. The scope is deliberately narrow: project management and team collaboration software, done properly, rather than every category done thinly.

Getting in touch

Corrections are the most useful thing you can send, and there is a page for reporting a wrong figure that explains what to include. For anything else, hello@pricingalmanac.com reaches a person. If you are a vendor who has found this site's crawler in your logs, the crawler explains itself here, including how to block it.

The methodology page documents how collection, verification and page eligibility actually work, with the thresholds written out.