Monthly recap
Software pricing changes — August 2026
Every tracked movement across the CostBench pricing database this month, aggregated.
Changes tracked
93
Products touched
87
Median movement
33.3%
Increases / decreases
35 / 28
Top categories this month
Biggest movers
- 23 Cohere Embed $0.12 → $3.3K/month +2708233.3%
- 18 DeepEval (Confident AI) $49.99 → $2K/month +3900.8%
- 25 Activepieces $5 → $166/flow/month +3220%
- 24 Tripo AI $109.90 → $329.70/month +200%
- 18 Luma Genie (3D) $100 → $300/month +200%
- 19 SerpApi $2.8K → $7.6K/month +176.4%
- 23 GitHub Copilot $39 → $100/user/month +156.4%
- 1 Tavus $397 → $975/month +145.6%
- 20 xAI Grok API $2.50 → $6/per million tokens +140%
- 24 Spline AI $30 → $70/month +133.3%
- 24 Stable Audio $89.99 → $199/month +121.1%
- 28 Chargebee $5K → $160/month -96.8%
- 18 LangSmith $500 → $39/seat/month + per trace -92.2%
- 28 Character.ai $119.88 → $9.99/month -91.7%
- 27 Carbonite $83.33 → $8/month -90.4%
Showing the 15 largest movements this month by percent change. The full list runs to 93 entries — if you're tracking a specific product, see its page.