Software raises prices quietly. We watch, and we write it down.
Every week, we catch a real pricing change a vendor didn't put in a headline — a shrunk free tier, a renamed plan that costs more, a promo that quietly became the standard rate — verify it against the vendor's own page, and log it here.
+ $16/seat/mo (current, unified Full seat) [VENDOR]
$ kit --plan Creator --subs 1000
- $15/mo (before Sept 2025, ~300 subs) [3P]
+ $33/mo billed annually (current) [VENDOR]
Live log — week of Sep 28–Oct 4, 2026
This week's changes
Every entry is verified against the vendor's current pricing page; historical "before" prices are separately sourced and labeled, since a vendor's own page rarely shows what something used to cost.
No entries match this filter yet — check back as new changes get logged.
September 30, 2026Structural changeVerified
Salesforce's Core/Advanced/Max editions have gone from announced to live — on one pricing page
- Core, Advanced, Max announced Sept 3 with pricing described as taking effect "later this fall" [VENDOR] — not yet shown as purchasable
+ Core $195/user/mo, Advanced $395/user/mo, Max $550/user/mo now live on Salesforce's Sales Cloud pricing page [VENDOR] — Core/Advanced show "Try for free," Max shows "Contact us," same Flex Credits allotments as announced
The prices themselves haven't moved since the September 3 announcement — what's changed is status. Salesforce's Sales Cloud pricing page now lists Core, Advanced, and Max as active editions with the same figures as announced: $195/$395/$550 per user/month, billed annually, with 500,000/1,000,000/2,750,000 Flex Credits per org per year respectively. Core and Advanced carry "Try for free" buttons; Max requires contacting sales. One inconsistency worth flagging: Salesforce's dedicated Agentforce pricing page (the one this site has sourced for the $125/mo add-on and Agentforce 1 Editions) still doesn't mention Core, Advanced, or Max by name at all — the new editions currently live only on the Sales product pricing page. We could not confirm Salesforce's own claim that existing Agentforce 1 Edition customers get a free upgrade to Max, and no specific effective date is stated anywhere we checked — both remain unconfirmed.
Salesforce adds Core/Advanced/Max Agentforce editions at $195–$550/user/mo
- No fixed-credit Agentforce edition tiers [VENDOR] — packaging was the $125/user/mo add-on plus consumption-based Flex Credits and Agentforce 1 Editions from $550/user/mo
+ Three new Agentforce Industry Editions [VENDOR] — Core $195/user/mo (500,000 Flex Credits/org/year), Advanced $395/user/mo (1,000,000 Flex Credits/org/year), Max $550/user/mo (2,750,000 Flex Credits/org/year) [VENDOR]
On September 3, 2026, Salesforce announced a new three-tier Agentforce Industry Edition structure — Core, Advanced, and Max — each priced per user per month and bundling a fixed amount of Flex Credits per org per year, rather than leaving credit usage entirely consumption-based. Salesforce says pricing on existing legacy editions is unchanged, and the new editions are rolling out "later this fall" rather than immediately. Salesforce's announcement doesn't clarify how these relate to the Agentforce 1 Editions or the standalone $125/user/month add-on covered in our earlier entries — whether they're replaced, renamed, or simply run alongside the new editions is unconfirmed, so we're not asserting a replacement here.
+ $125/user/mo add-on remains [VENDOR] — plus new Flex Credits ($500/100,000 credits), Conversations ($2 each), Agentforce 1 Editions (from $550/user/mo), and a $5/user/mo Agentforce User License [VENDOR]
The $125/user/month Agentforce add-on hasn't been replaced — it's still listed for Sales and Service. What's changed is the packaging around it: Salesforce now also sells consumption-based Flex Credits, per-conversation pricing, a much pricier all-in Agentforce 1 Edition tier, and a low-cost per-user license that still requires buying Flex Credits separately. For buyers, $125 is now one option inside a wider menu rather than the only current path to Agentforce.
Atlassian is sunsetting Data Center outright — and Cloud migration isn't a like-for-like cost swap
- Data Center: perpetual on-prem licensing, no defined end date [VENDOR]
+ Phased shutdown: new-customer sales ended Mar 30, 2026 → existing-customer expansions end Mar 30, 2028 → licenses go read-only Mar 28, 2029 [VENDOR]
Atlassian is retiring Data Center entirely on a three-year phased timeline rather than just raising its price. Bitbucket Data Center is the one exception — it keeps a separate hybrid license instead of following the sunset schedule. Atlassian is offering a 10–20% first-year discount on Cloud Enterprise for customers who migrate by June 2027, but that incentive doesn't fully offset the underlying cost shift: independent analysis puts the average Cloud premium over equivalent Data Center pricing at around , a figure Atlassian itself has not published or confirmed on its own pricing pages.
This is an add-on price on top of the underlying Salesforce edition, not a replacement for Salesforce's core CRM subscription. Salesforce announced the Einstein-to-Agentforce replacement publicly in August 2025 — so it's not a hidden pricing-page swap — but the migration mechanics are where it gets less obvious. Agentforce (Default) reached End of Sale on June 17, 2025, and Salesforce's own Help docs lay out what happens when an existing Einstein customer upgrades their SKU to Agentforce. Separately, as of October 24, 2025, Agentforce usage outside unmetered employee-agent activity is tracked through a new "Flex Credits" system — so the $125/month sticker price doesn't mean unlimited AI usage. We could not verify a universal rule that every legacy Einstein customer is automatically moved to the new pricing at renewal; treat that specific claim as unconfirmed.
Aug 1, 2026Price increaseCurrent price verified · historical price third-party
QuickBooks raises affected Essentials, Plus, and Advanced subscriptions at renewal — but not Simple Start
Correction: an earlier version of this entry incorrectly stated that QuickBooks Simple Start's price rose to $38/mo on August 1, 2026. QuickBooks' own official pricing update confirms Simple Start, Free, Lite, and Ledger were explicitly excluded from this increase — only Essentials, Plus, and Advanced changed. This entry has been corrected to reflect that.
- ~$99–115/mo (Plus, before Aug 1, 2026 — sources disagree on the exact prior figure)
+ $140/mo [VENDOR] (Plus, current)
QuickBooks Online raised prices for Essentials, Plus, and Advanced at renewals on or after August 1, 2026 — Simple Start, Free, Lite, and Ledger were not part of this increase, per QuickBooks' own announcement. Essentials rose to $85/mo (third-party sources disagree on the prior figure, citing either $60 or $75). Advanced rose to $340/mo (prior figure similarly disputed between $200 and $275 across sources). Prepaid annual subscribers generally keep their existing rate until the current term ends, and some recent subscribers get a six-month price-protection window. We could not source an exact count of how many total increases QuickBooks has made since 2022; treat "a series of past increases" as accurate without a specific number attached.
Figma's per-product pricing became per-seat — and monthly billing disappeared from Organization and Enterprise
- Figma Design, Dev Mode, FigJam billed separately [VENDOR]
+ Unified seat types (Full/Dev/Collab), $3–$90/seat/mo depending on plan and seat type [VENDOR]
The bigger story isn't the sticker price — it's that Organization and Enterprise no longer offer monthly billing at all going forward, only annual. Teams with fluctuating headcount lost a flexibility option that existed before the overhaul, and it's easy to miss unless you're pricing out a renewal. Per-seat pricing (as of Sep 2026) breaks down as: Professional — Full $16/mo, Dev $12/mo, Collab $3/mo; Organization — Full $55/mo, Dev $25/mo, Collab $5/mo; Enterprise — Full $90/mo, Dev $35/mo, Collab $5/mo. Figma Design itself can't be purchased separately — it's bundled into the Full seat alongside Dev Mode, FigJam, and Figma Slides.
This wasn't a gradual increase — the old low-tier pricing structure was retired outright in the September 2025 repricing. Anyone quoting Kit's "starts at $15" is quoting a price that no longer exists for new signups. Separately: as of September 2026, Kit's higher tier is mid-rebrand — its current marketing page is titled "Kit Pro," while the linked help-center article and the page's own URL slug still say "Creator Pro." At 1,000 subscribers, Pro currently starts at $79/month, or $66/month equivalent billed annually.
A price change surfaces from a vendor's own changelog, a community forum thread, a support article update, or a discrepancy noticed while researching elsewhere.
Verify against the vendor directly
Before anything gets logged, we check the vendor's own current pricing page — never a third-party blog alone. If the vendor's own pages disagree with each other, we say so rather than picking one.
Cross-check the "before" price
The old price gets the same scrutiny as the new one — sourced from an archived page, a prior independent pricing tracker, or the vendor's own changelog, never guessed.
Log it plainly
What changed, what it actually means for a real buyer, and where to verify it yourself. No affiliate framing, no "which plan should you pick" — just what happened.
Real example from this week's log
quiethike/verifyQuickBooks Online
01 → 02: found on QuickBooks' own pricing update page, not a reseller blog
- ~$99–115/mo (Plus, before Aug 1, 2026) [3P — disputed]
+ $140/mo (Plus, current, confirmed Aug 1, 2026) [VENDOR]
03 → 04: renewal-date language checked against a live 90%-off promo, kept separate from the standard rate
05: published with the historical figure labeled disputed, not silently resolved
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Why this exists
Most "software raises prices" coverage happens after the fact, if it happens at all — a Reddit thread, a scattered blog post, easy to miss. QuietHike exists to catch the change while it's current, verify it properly, and give it a permanent, plain-English record. A companion to StackScope, which does the same verification work for full category comparisons rather than single price changes.
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