Issue 016 · Research · AI and company facts · Mon 2 Nov 2026

Half of SaaS pricing pages don't say what they cost

We set out to test how often ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity get SaaS prices wrong. First we had to write down the right answer, so we read the 24 companies' own pricing pages the way a machine does: as text, without running scripts. Only 12 of 24 stated a clear entry plan, price and billing period. Before anyone can grade an AI's answer, the source has to say something gradable. Often it doesn't.

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How we read: each company's official pricing page, opened on 31 Oct 2026 by a text reader that does not run scripts, and compared with our first reading on 12 Oct. A page counts as clear only if its text shows the entry paid plan, its price, and whether that price is billed annually or monthly. Every count and percentage below is calculated.

Only 12 of 24 pricing pages state a clear entry price.

A · READ24 official pricing pages opened on 31 Oct 2026. Counts are our calculation.

FactOf 24 B2B SaaS pricing pages, 12 (50%) showed a clear entry plan, price and billing period in their text: Salesforce, monday.com, Asana, Zoom, DocuSign, Shopify, GitLab, Figma, Miro, Airtable, Pipedrive and Webflow. Nine showed a price with something missing or qualified: HubSpot, Dropbox, Wix, Notion, Canva, ClickUp, Calendly, Zapier and Grammarly. Three showed no prices at all, because they load them by script: Jira, Box and Klaviyo. On 12 Oct the same check found 14 clear, 8 qualified and 2 with no prices.

ReadThese are not obscure vendors. They are the 24 products buyers are most likely to ask an AI about, and half of them don't say, in plain text, what the cheapest paid plan costs and how it's billed. A person can click a toggle. A model reading the page, or a crawler building the index that AI search relies on, often can't.

So whatOpen your own pricing page with scripts turned off, or ask someone to paste its text into a plain document. If the entry price, the unit and the billing period aren't all there in words, assume AI assistants are guessing at them.

Salesforce small-business pricing ↗Asana pricing ↗Zoom pricing ↗Figma pricing ↗Jira pricing ↗Box pricing ↗Klaviyo pricing ↗

The most common gap: a price with no billing period.

A · READSame 24 pages. Grouping of reasons is our calculation.

FactFive pages show a price but never say, in the text, whether it is the annual or the monthly rate: Dropbox (Plus, $9.99 a month), Notion (Plus, $10 per member a month), Calendly (Standard, $10 per seat a month), Zapier (Professional, "Starting from $19.99 /month") and Grammarly (Pro, $12 USD, with no unit or period). Each page has a monthly/yearly toggle; the text shows one number and doesn't tie it to either setting. Calendly marks Standard "Save 17%", which suggests $10 is the annual rate, but the page doesn't say so. Several clear pages also show "$" with no currency code.

ReadWhere pages do show both, the annual rate is 17–26% below the monthly one (Zoom, Asana, Figma, Shopify; calculated), and Zapier and ClickUp advertise savings of up to 33%. An answer of "$10 a month" can be right or wrong depending on a toggle the text doesn't record. That is exactly the kind of error that will look like an AI mistake but starts on the vendor's page.

So whatWrite both prices next to each other in text, with the period: "$10 per seat a month, billed annually; $12 billed monthly." It costs one line and removes the most common ambiguity.

Dropbox plans ↗Notion pricing ↗Calendly pricing ↗Zapier pricing ↗Grammarly plans ↗

Promotions hide the list price.

A · READHubSpot Starter page and ClickUp pricing page opened. Discount shares are calculated.

FactHubSpot's Starter page leads with "Starts at $7/month" billed annually and $10 billed monthly. The standard price it shows for both is $20 per seat a month. The discount is, in the page's words, for new customers "for a limited time": $7 is 65% off and $10 is 50% off (calculated). ClickUp shows Core at $9 per user a month billed yearly beside a struck-through "Regular price $12", without saying whether $12 is the monthly rate or a pre-promotion price.

ReadA promotional price is a true fact with an expiry date. Any AI answer that quotes $7 will become wrong the day the offer ends, and any answer that quotes $20 is arguably wrong today. For a competitor, the promotion itself is the signal: HubSpot is discounting its entry plan by up to 65% to win new logos.

So whatIf you compete with HubSpot at the low end, expect prospects to anchor on $7 a seat. Know that it's a new-customer, limited-time rate and that the list price is $20, and say so in the deal. If you run promotions yourself, keep the list price in the text so it survives the promotion.

HubSpot Starter ↗ClickUp pricing ↗

Jira's price went up on 13 October. Its pricing page text doesn't show it.

A · READAtlassian pricing-tables page and Jira pricing page opened. Change percentages are calculated.

FactAtlassian's cloud list-price tables show Jira Standard for 1–100 users rising from $9.05 to $9.70 per user a month, up 7.2% (calculated), and the 10-user annual price from $900 to $950, up 5.6% (calculated), effective 13 October 2026 for new and existing subscriptions. On 31 Oct, the main Jira pricing page still showed no prices in its text, as on 12 Oct. The new price is readable only in the separate list-price table.

ReadThe one company in our set that actually changed its entry price between our two readings is also one whose pricing page shows a reader no price at all. An AI that wants to answer "what does Jira cost?" has to find a licensing table most buyers never visit, or fall back on an older figure from somewhere else.

So whatIf you sell against Jira, use $9.70 per user a month (1–100 users, monthly) from 13 Oct, and expect buyers and AI answers to quote $9.05 for a while. If you change your own prices, publish the new number on the page buyers actually land on, in text.

Atlassian cloud pricing tables ↗Jira pricing ↗

In 19 days, 5 of 24 pages read differently.

A · READReadings of 12 Oct and 31 Oct compared. Some changes may come from our reader, not the page; we say which.

FactBetween 12 and 31 October, five pages changed status. Figma became clear: it now shows $12 per editor a month billed annually and $15 billed monthly. Calendly and Zapier stopped being clear: their prices ($10 and $19.99) are unchanged, but the text no longer ties them to a billing period. Canva's main pricing page could not be read on 31 Oct because its robots.txt disallows it; its Pro page shows $119.99 paid annually or $12.99 monthly, which we can't yet reconcile with the US$144 a year we read on 12 Oct. Box's page showed no prices in its text on 31 Oct, against a price with gaps on 12 Oct.

ReadOnly Jira's change is a confirmed price move. The rest are changes in what a reader can see, and for Box and Canva we can't rule out that our reader, not the page, is what differed. That is the point: a single reading of a pricing page is a snapshot, and the snapshot moves even when the price doesn't.

So whatDon't build a battlecard from one visit to a competitor's pricing page. Keep a dated copy each time you check, and re-check before you quote a number in a deal.

Figma pricing ↗Canva Pro ↗Calendly pricing ↗Zapier pricing ↗Box pricing ↗

What this means for the AI test.

METHODOur own design decision, stated before any AI answer is collected.

FactThe AI test asks ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity four questions about these 24 companies: entry price and free plan for all 24, and latest fiscal-year revenue and headcount for the 14 public ones. That is 76 questions per engine. On the pricing question, only the 12 clear pages give a single right answer to grade against. For the other 12 we will publish what the page says, record what each AI says, and label the result "source unclear" instead of right or wrong. Revenue and headcount come from SEC filings, which state their figures plainly, so those 28 questions per engine are fully gradable.

ReadCommercial fact-check tools, such as Peec's and Profound's, grade AI answers against facts the brand types in. Grading against the public page is stricter and fairer to the AI: where the page itself is unclear, an AI's wrong answer is partly the vendor's doing.

So whatWhen AI gets your price wrong, check your page before you blame the model.

Dataset: 24 pricing pages, 31 Oct 2026 (CSV) ↗How we source ↗

The running record

+Clear pricing pages (31 Oct) 12 of 24 (50%) · 12 Oct: 14 of 24
+Price but qualified 9 · no billing period: Dropbox, Notion, Calendly, Zapier, Grammarly · promotion: HubSpot, ClickUp · price varies by location: Wix · main page blocked, secondary page only: Canva
+No prices in text 3 · Jira, Box, Klaviyo
+Jira Standard $9.05 → $9.70 per user/month (+7.2%, calc) · 10 users annual $900 → $950 (+5.6%, calc) · effective 13 Oct 2026
+HubSpot Starter list $20/seat/month · promo from $7 annual (−65%) / $10 monthly (−50%) · new customers, limited time
+Figma Professional $12/editor/month annual · $15 monthly · now clear (was qualified 12 Oct)
+Unchanged and clear Salesforce Starter Suite $25 · monday.com Basic $9 (annual) · Asana Starter $10.99 / $13.49 · Zoom Pro $14.16 / $16.99 · DocuSign Personal $11 (annual) · Shopify Basic $29 / $39 · GitLab Premium $29 (annual) · Miro Starter $8 (annual) · Airtable Team $20 (annual) · Pipedrive Lite US$14 (annual) · Webflow Basic $15 (annual)
−Not carried Wix's displayed price (our reader was served a non-US price including GST) · Canva $119.99 vs US$144 (different pages, not confirmed as a price change) · Box "From $5" (page title only, not tied to a plan)
−Not yet run the AI answers. Next in this series.

Limits. One reader, two dates. Our reader does not run scripts, so some pages that look blank to it show prices in a browser; that gap is the finding, not a bug, but it is the gap a person wouldn't see. Our reader's location isn't fixed: Wix served a non-US price. Quotes come from the pages as our reader returned them. The full 31 Oct reading, with the URL and status for all 24, is in the dataset (/data/pricing-pages-2026-10-31.csv).

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Every claim carries the state of its own sourcing: A means we opened the document, B means only secondary coverage, C means no document found. Calculated figures say so. If a link is wrong or a number is misread, reply and it is corrected in the next issue and logged in the corrections log.

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