Add the tools you pay for and see what the stack actually costs. Built on verified pricing for 252 tools, each carrying the date it was last read from the vendor’s own pricing page — free, and nothing to sign up for.
| Tool | Entry plan | Seats | Per month | Per year | Checked |
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Why stack costs are almost always underestimated
Per-seat pricing. Most business software multiplies by headcount, and the headline figure on a pricing page is one seat. Five tools at $15 a seat looks like $75 a month until you have ten people, at which point it is $750. The calculator keeps per-seat and flat-rate plans apart because adding them the same way is how budgets get set wrong.
The annual rate shown as monthly. Most vendors default their pricing page to the annual rate while quoting it per month. You only pay that number if you commit for a year. We hit this four times in a single verification pass — Otter.ai, Later, Kit and Instantly all looked like they had cut prices and had not.
Prices that moved since you last looked. When we re-checked our corpus, 21 tools had changed and only three of those were price rises. Far more often a tier had been renamed or retired, or the product had been absorbed into another — Semrush retired Pro, Guru and Business; Hotjar now redirects to Contentsquare. That is why every row here shows when it was checked.
Where the numbers come from
We read each vendor’s own pricing page rather than repeating a summary, record the date and the plan names, and re-check on a schedule. The full dataset is public at digijaws.com/pricing-data.json, and each tool has a pricing page breaking down every tier.
Where a vendor publishes no comparable figure — usage-based billing, a configurator, or quote-only enterprise pricing — the tool is left out of the calculator rather than given an invented number.
Frequently asked questions
How much does a typical software stack cost?
It depends far more on your headcount than on which tools you pick, because most business software is priced per seat. A ten-person team on five per-seat tools at $15 a seat is paying $750 a month, not $75. The calculator above multiplies per-seat plans by your headcount and leaves flat-rate plans alone, which is the single biggest source of error when people add a stack up by hand.
Where do the prices come from?
Each figure is read from the vendor's own pricing page rather than a third-party summary, and carries the date it was checked. The dataset behind this calculator is public at digijaws.com/pricing-data.json.
Why does the calculator warn about old prices?
Because a price checked eight months ago is not evidence of anything. When we re-checked our corpus, 21 tools had changed – and only three of those were straight price rises. The rest had renamed a tier, retired one, or been absorbed into another product, which breaks a comparison without moving a number.
Is the monthly figure just the annual one divided by twelve?
No, and that distinction matters. Where a vendor quotes a rate 'per month billed annually' you only get that price by committing for a year; paying month to month costs more. The calculator uses the published entry figure and tells you how many of your selected tools are quoted at an annual rate.