Freelance Software Price Change Tracker
Every review on this site gets re-checked against current pricing before publishing — this page is what that adds up to over time. Whenever a review documents a tool raising prices, dropping a free plan, or restructuring how it charges, it gets logged here too, in one place, dated and linked back to the full review. Nobody else appears to be tracking this specifically for freelancer-relevant software; as far as we can tell, this list only exists here.
This is a running log, not a finished report — it grows every time a re-check turns up a change. Currently tracking 8 documented price changes.
Paid tiers increased meaningfully
Kit's paid pricing tiers rose in September 2026 — worth checking against current published pricing rather than assuming older comparisons hold.
Read the full review →Raised prices roughly 33%
1Password's individual/family pricing rose to bring it to around $36/year, widening the gap with Bitwarden's roughly $10/year premium plan.
Read the full review →Restructured pricing
Loom's 2026 pricing changes were significant enough to push a meaningful number of freelancers toward alternatives for quick, client-facing screen recordings.
Read the full review →Dropped its free plan
Teachable removed its free tier in 2026, the same shift Podia made — both course platforms now require a paid plan from day one.
Read the full review →Dropped its free plan
Podia removed its free tier in 2026, changing the entry-level math for freelancers testing out course sales for the first time.
Read the full review →Dropped its free plan entirely
Hootsuite removed its free tier and now starts at $99/user/month — repositioning around agencies and marketing teams rather than solo freelancers.
Read the full review →Entry plan price nearly doubled since 2021
Xero's entry-level plan price has nearly doubled since 2021, one of the steeper multi-year increases we've tracked in the accounting category.
Read the full review →Raised prices roughly 10-15% annually since 2023
QuickBooks has raised prices annually since 2023, with a further increase in 2026 — expect the renewal price a year or two out to run well above the promotional signup rate.
Read the full review →How this list is built
Every entry here traces back to a specific, dated claim already made in one of our reviews — this page doesn't introduce new pricing claims of its own, it just collects them in one place instead of leaving them scattered across 70+ separate articles. See our Methodology page for how we verify pricing in the first place. If you've noticed a price change we haven't logged yet, let us know.