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Software pricing changes in 2026: everything that moved (running log)

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Pricing pages change quietly. This is the running list of what actually moved in 2026 across the tools we track — dates where we have them, direction always. We update it as things shift; the individual entries carry the detail.

Price increases

  • Microsoft 365 business plans — up across the board on 1 July 2026. Business Basic $6→$7, Business Standard $12.50→$14 per user/mo. Announced December 2025.
  • Kit (formerly ConvertKit) — ~34% increase alongside the rebrand. Its 10k-subscriber tier went from roughly $89 to $119/mo.
  • ProWritingAid — annual plan $79 → $120 (a 52% jump).
  • Todoist Pro — +25%, to $60/year, in late 2025.
  • ClickUp Unlimited — $7 → $10 per seat, February 2026.
  • Bitwarden Premium (individual) — roughly doubled in January 2026, its first change in about a decade. Family plans largely spared.
  • 1Password Families — +$12/year, March 2026.
  • Gusto and QuickBooks Payroll — both raised base and per-employee pricing (Gusto March, QuickBooks May 2026).
  • Screen Studio — one-time license $89 → $149.
  • Mailchimp — free plan cut to 250 contacts, pushing small senders to pay sooner.
  • Postman — free plan cut to a single user (1 March 2026); shared workspaces now $19/user/mo.
  • ngrok — free tier cut to 1 GB bandwidth and 2-hour sessions, February 2026.
  • BigCommerce — added a payment-provider fee in its 2026 update that Shopify doesn't charge.
  • BILL — standardized ACH fee at $0.59 per transaction, 1 June 2026.
  • Hotjar — full suite now €200+/mo post-Contentsquare; legacy customers report increases.

Price cuts and things getting cheaper

  • Google Gemini — entry "AI Plus" tier cut $7.99 → $4.99, June 2026, and folded further into Google One. Gemini also became included in Google Workspace Business Standard at no extra charge.
  • Proton Pass — Plus plan roughly halved.
  • Affinity (Photo / Designer / Publisher) — made completely free by Canva, announced November 2025. Was a $164.97 one-time bundle.

Model changes (not strictly up or down)

  • GitHub Copilot and Cursor — both moved to usage-based "credit" billing in June 2026, replacing fixed request quotas. Heavy agent use can now exceed the base plan price.
  • HashiCorp Vault — shifted toward per-client billing after the IBM acquisition; Starter tier cut, HCP Vault Secrets sunset.
  • Tailscale — since April 2026, paid tiers bill per assigned seat, not per active user.
  • Suno — restructured limits September 2026: free tier lost song downloads entirely.

Shutdowns

  • Play.ht — acquired by Meta, shut down 31 December 2025. Accounts and API gone.
  • Tome — shut down April 2025; existing decks sunset with it.
  • Firebase — removed Cloud Storage from the free Spark plan (February 2026); Firebase Studio discontinued March.
  • Udio — not shut down, but downloads disabled during a platform transition as of mid-2026.
Sources
  1. Microsoft 365 — business plans
  2. Kit — pricing
  3. Affinity by Canva
  4. Firebase — pricing
  5. Postman — pricing