Software price change log
Vendors change prices and rename plans quietly. We re-check 19 official pricing pages every Monday and publish what moved — so the number you researched last quarter can be trusted, or corrected.
Confirmed changes
| Date | Product | What changed |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-22 | Microsoft 365 Business Standard | A tier disappeared. Microsoft’s business comparison page now lists three plans — Basic at $7, Business Standard WITH COPILOT at $23.50, and Business Premium with Copilot at $32. There is no Business Standard without Copilot among them, so the cheapest plan carrying desktop Office is $23.50 rather than the roughly $12.50 most published comparisons still quote. Tracked as its own plan and written up in full. |
| 2026-09-22 | Google Workspace (all business tiers) | Not a price move — a change in what the price means. Google’s published $7, $14 and $22 rates now carry a footnote calling them introductory: new customers only, the first 20 users only, for 12 months, after which “standard pricing will apply to all users”. Google does not publish that standard rate. Our rows are flagged accordingly and the cost pages say so above the fold. |
| 2026-07-30 | 1Password Business | Our published figure was $7.99/user/month. The vendor page showed $8.99 — corrected in the dataset the same day. |
Automated signals
A signal is not a price change. It means a figure we verified at baseline was not found on the vendor's page during an automated run — which is as often a page that renders its prices in the browser as it is a real move. Every one gets chased by hand, and the outcome is recorded here whether or not anything turned out to be wrong.
| Run | Product | Signal | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-03 | Proton Pass Business | token "1.99" not found | Resolved 2026-09-22. False positive. Proton renders its prices in the browser, so the automated fetch saw no figures rather than a changed one. Re-checked in a rendered session: Pass Essentials is still $1.99/user/month on annual billing, billed at $23.88, minimum 3 users — exactly what we publish. The "60% OFF" badge on the page is the annual-versus-monthly saving ($1.99 against $4.99), not a time-limited offer, and the page carries no renewal or first-year language. Row re-dated rather than changed. |
Plan renames we've caught
Renames matter as much as price moves: the plan you researched stops existing, and every comparison article citing it silently goes stale. Recorded at baseline:
- Pipedrive — Essential became Lite; Advanced became Growth.
- SignWell — Personal became Light.
- Dashlane — business SKUs rebranded Omnix.
- Microsoft 365 — Business Standard and Premium now bundle Copilot at $23.50 and $32, a different product and price from the tier most comparison articles still cite.
How this works
An automated job re-fetches each vendor's official pricing page every Monday and checks that the price and plan names we published are still present. A missing token is a signal, not a conclusion — pages get restructured, and prices load dynamically. Every signal is re-checked by hand before we change a published number, and the correction is dated.
This log records what we observe on public pricing pages. It is not a guarantee of current pricing, does not cover negotiated or regional rates, and vendors may change prices between runs. Always confirm on the vendor's own page — every product in the tracker links to its source.