Toolradar Research
Software pricing changes we will not print yet
As of September 21, 2026 the Toolradar pricing tracker holds 536 proposed diffs and zero applied changes. 52 of those proposals share one copied before-state. This page does not quote a new list price from that queue.
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Key findings
What the data shows.
- 01
The pricing-change tracker has 536 rows in PricingChangeLog, every one of them proposed. Applied count: 0. Approved count: 0. (Source: Toolradar production database, September 21, 2026.)
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By month filed: 331 in June 2026, 59 in July, 91 in August, 55 in September through September 21. (Source: same query.)
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266 of the 536 say only "prices differ." 270 also say the feature lists differ. The cron files a proposal only when the tier count, the tier names, and the free-trial flags stayed put and a monthly number moved. That gate is necessary. It is not sufficient.
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52 proposals share the identical before-state Enterprise = $21, Free = $0, Team = $4. The tools are not the same product. Recent examples include shutup-mcp, google-workspace-cli, and kit-by-speakeasy. A copied baseline is not a price change.
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We opened two September proposals against the live vendor page and still did not print a new price. Appwrite 2.0 was proposed on September 17 as Pro $15 becoming Pro $25. The Appwrite pricing page fetched September 21 is a database compute grid (dedicated compute from $10 a month), not that Pro row. NordPass was proposed on September 21 with null monthly prices rewritten as Premium $2.99 and Family $3.99. The plans page fetched the same day did not print those amounts. Both rows stay unapplied.
About the research
How we built this report.
Toolradar tool database. Editorial review with weekly pricing verification.
2026. Snapshot taken September 21, 2026. Refresh due Oct 21, 2026.
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What the tracker is
Each day a cron re-reads a slice of published tools, least recently checked first, extracts tiers from the pricing URL, and diffs them against the stored pricingDetails. A proposal is written only for a price move on a stable tier set. Structural reshuffles (tiers renamed, plans added) are not auto-filed, because a 2026 seed showed that kind of diff is mostly the model re-slicing the same page.
Proposals wait at admin review. Nothing in this table has been accepted. Until a row is applied, the public listing is unchanged, and this report will not announce that the vendor raised or cut a price.
Why 536 proposals are not 536 price changes
The high-precision gate still lets three kinds of junk through.
A copied before-state. 52 proposals start from Enterprise $21, Team $4, Free $0. That pattern shows up on listings that do not sell those plans. The diff is then "the extractor noticed the template was wrong," which is a catalog repair, not news that a vendor moved a price. We do not know, from the log alone, how the template got there. We do know it is the same three numbers on dozens of unrelated slugs.
A null that grew a number. NordPass is the September 21 case. The stored tiers had no monthly price. The proposal filled Premium at $2.99 and Family at $3.99. Filling a blank is not evidence the vendor changed the price that day. The plans page we fetched did not show a dollar figure at all (the grid is rendered in the client), so we will not adopt $2.99 from the model.
A plan rename the gate did not catch. Appwrite's stored row still thinks in a Pro tier at $15. The proposal says $25. The live pricing page on September 21 prices dedicated database compute from $10 a month (Micro $10, Small $15, Medium $60, and up). Quoting "Appwrite Pro went from $15 to $25" would be false. The page no longer has that shape.
Other September rows in the same queue show the same smells: a Pro price falling from $84 to $8.49 (annual and monthly swapped), duplicate tier names, and several tools sharing the $21 / $4 template on the same day. They are not listed here as price moves. Listing them would launder the queue.
What the next edition will print
The next version of this page publishes a price only if one of these is true:
- The
PricingChangeLogrow isapplied, and the before and after monthly numbers are different on a tier whose name did not change. - Or we fetched the vendor pricing URL ourselves and the number is on that page.
Until then the first-party finding is the queue, not the market. 536 proposed. 0 applied. 52 sharing one before-state. 266 that claim a pure price diff and still are not safe to quote.
Category free-tier shares, which are a stock not a flow, are in free-tier share by category. This page is the flow, and the flow is not clean enough to publish a single new dollar amount.
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