A price is only useful if you know when it was read. This page maps where to check a SaaS price in 2026 and how much trust each layer deserves — every fact below was captured on 2026-10-27.
Layer 1: the vendor’s official pricing page (primary)
The strongest source is the page the vendor edits itself. In our verification guide we show two live examples from the same day: CapCut Pro at $19.99/month or $179.99/year on capcut.com/pricing, and OpusClip Starter at $15/month with Pro at $29/month ($14.5/month annual) on opus.pro/pricing. Both were read on 2026-10-27 and dated in the article. The discipline is not the number — it is the date attached to it.
Layer 2: dated price-change trackers (the signal that catches movement)
PricingSaaS tracks thousands of SaaS pricing pages and publishes dated before/after changes; its own database entry shows, for example, an essential plan moving from $29/seat with a 35% off promotion to $19 (text layer captured 2026-10-27, evidence pricing-01-01-pricingsaas.txt). GetPricePulse offers the same idea — a price-change database, comparisons and calculators — with a “Start free” entry point (captured 2026-10-27, evidence pricing-01-02-getpricepulse.txt). A dated change log tells you the direction of travel: if the vendor keeps raising the entry price, budget for year two.
Layer 3: directory listings (least reliable)
G2 and Capterra list “starting at” prices everywhere, free for buyers to browse, but we could not verify a single figure on 2026-10-27: automated checks were blocked by DataDome and Cloudflare respectively, and neither directory dates its prices or publishes a check log. We are not saying their prices are wrong — we are saying nobody can tell from the listing when they were right. TrustRadius (captured 2026-10-27, evidence pricing-01-03-trustradius.txt) at least declares verified reviewers and no ads, but it is a sentiment platform, not a pricing source.
How to combine the layers
Read the official page and date it; then check a tracker like PricingSaaS or GetPricePulse for recent movement; then ignore the directory number unless it cites its own source. That is the same method our pricing and terms checks apply on this site — every price we publish comes from a dated capture you can open, like our Cal.com pricing check or the verification field guide that shows the three steps end to end.