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Median costs, free plan adoption rates, and category benchmarks based on manually verified pricing data from 494+ tools.
Median Price
$31/mo
across all paid plans
Free Plans
66%
325 of 494 tools
Tools Tracked
494+
manually verified
Categories
15
covered in this report
Starting price of the lowest paid tier, in USD per month.
| Category | Tools | Median | Free Plan |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud Hosting | 24 | $21/mo | 46% |
| Website Builders | 23 | $38/mo | 74% |
| Project Management | 20 | $14/mo | 95% |
| Email Marketing | 20 | $29/mo | 65% |
| AI / LLM APIs | 20 | $15/mo | 95% |
| CRM | 18 | $59/mo | 44% |
| Video Conferencing | 18 | $30/mo | 78% |
| Design Tools | 17 | $20/mo | 59% |
| AI Productivity | 17 | $30/mo | 65% |
| Accounting | 15 | $39/mo | 47% |
| AI Coding | 15 | $30/mo | 93% |
| ai-image | 14 | $37/mo | 71% |
| databases | 14 | $99/mo | 93% |
| ai-video | 13 | $30/mo | 92% |
| ai-agents | 13 | $59/mo | 92% |
LLM API tools have a 95% free plan rate, the highest of any category. Competition from open-source models is pushing token prices down quarter over quarter.
Freemium has become the dominant go-to-market for SaaS. Tools without a free tier face significantly higher conversion friction in 2026.
Median CRM entry price is $59/mo, 2x the overall SaaS median. Enterprise CRM deals average $200-500K/yr.
95% of project management tools offer a free tier. Price competition has made the free plan table stakes in this category.
All pricing data is manually verified and machine-readable.
Data sourced from manually verified vendor pricing pages. Median prices calculated from the lowest published paid tier per tool. Full methodology.