a public cost audit of business software · in build, 24 August 2026

The price on the pricing page is not the price you will pay.

You pick a tool at $29/month. At 10,000 contacts and 6 seats the bill is $349/month, and by then the list and the team habits are inside it. Convertly computes the twelve-month cost at your own numbers, names the tier wall you will cross, and prints the month you cross it.

the pricing page says

$29/month

you pay, at your numbers

$4,188/year

at 10,000 contacts, 6 seats, 2 sends per week · itemized below

convertly.nanocorp.app — send it to whoever signs the invoices.

read the arithmetic ↓

There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to buy. The first cost reports cover email marketing and CRM, then helpdesk and automation.

A long paper receipt coiling down the page. A single red line cuts across it, and below that line its rows grow denser.

01 — the receipt

Six lines, and only one of them is on the pricing page.

Nothing here is exotic. Contact-count tiers, a per-seat rate that starts at seat 11, a feature one tier above the one you bought, an add-on that is not listed, a discount that is annual only. Priced separately they look small. Added up they are your bill.

We do this arithmetic for every tool in a category, at your numbers, and print it beside every competitor.

cost report · email marketing · illustration

per month, as of 24 August 2026

01headline price, the tier the pricing page shows first: $29.00
02contacts above 10,000, next tier up: +$41.00
03seats above 10, per-seat rate from seat 11: +$99.00
04the segmentation you need, one tier above that: +$61.00
05dedicated sending ipnot shown on the pricing page: +$50.00
06monthly billingthe advertised discount is annual only: +$69.00

true cost

at 10,000 contacts, 6 seats, 2 sends per week

$4,188/year

$349.00/month · 12× the headline price

This receipt is an illustration. Every line on it is a real pricing mechanism, in use today across the category. The figures are not a claim about any named tool: we publish no number we have not computed from that vendor’s own published terms and dated. Named reports go up as each pricing model is extracted.

02 — the tier wall

The tool you dismissed is the cheaper one.

A tier wall is the boundary where the price jumps. It is not on the curve the vendor draws for you, because the vendor’s calculator defaults to a scale below it. We draw it as a red line, name the month, and put the jump next to it.

Below: two tools over twelve months, at a contact list growing from 8,000 to 12,500. One starts 3.1× cheaper and ends more expensive.

cost per month · illustration

scroll the chart sideways →

tool	headline price	tier wall	true cost, 12 months
tool bflat rate, no tier	$89/month	none	$4,788
tool acontact-count tiers	$29/month	month 8, +$212/month	$5,248

tool b costs $460 less over 12 months, at a headline price 3.1× higher.

In the real reports each row carries the vendor’s name, an as-of date, a link to the pricing page the figure came from, and an identical outbound link — including for the tools we earn nothing from.

03 — how it will work

Ninety seconds, no account, nothing gated.

you enter your numbers

Seats, contacts, monthly volume, storage. Three fields, pre-filled, no account and no signup. Ninety seconds instead of an afternoon in a spreadsheet.

we compute the true cost

Every serious tool in the category, ranked cheapest first, twelve-month cost in full. The tier wall you will cross is named, and the month you cross it is printed.

you read the arithmetic

Every figure carries its assumptions, an as-of date and a link to the vendor's own pricing page. Change one number and the table recomputes and reorders.

then, the part that keeps working

Vendors change their prices constantly and nobody keeps the record. We do. Every change we find goes into that vendor’s price ledger as a permanent, dated, public entry — old figure and new figure, with the source.

price ledger · today

0 changes recorded

The ledger starts the day the first pricing model is extracted. We would rather show you an empty archive than a stale one.

04 — our rules

Nothing on this site is for sale to a vendor.

Review sites rank by popularity and vendor spend. Listicles restate the tier table the vendor wrote. Both are paid by the companies being compared. We are paid too — and here is exactly how, and exactly what it is not allowed to touch.

No ranking here can be bought. There are no badges, no leader grids, no paid placement, and no vendor can pay to move a row.
A tool that pays us nothing is listed on equal terms and can win at your numbers.
No figure goes up that we have not computed from the vendor's own published terms, and dated.
Every cost figure carries a visible as-of date and a link to the source it came from.
When a vendor with sales-led pricing publishes nothing, the row reads “true cost: not published”. We never guess a number.
When we get a figure wrong we print it: the old figure, the correct figure, and the date we corrected it. Our errors stay on the page.
affiliate disclosure
We will earn a commission from some vendors when a reader buys through a link we publish. It never changes a ranking, a computed figure or which tools appear. Every page carrying such a link says so above the link, in this type size, never in a footer.

05 — before you sign anything

Someone in your company is about to be blamed for a bill.

The first cost reports go up as each pricing model is extracted: email marketing and CRM first, then helpdesk and automation. There is no account, no payment and nothing gated, now or later.

convertly.nanocorp.app — send it to whoever signs the invoices.