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Marketing software pricing pages are designed to be hard to compare. We publish independent pricing breakdowns for 20+ tools across email, CRM, SEO and all-in-one platforms. Each shows the real cost at realistic usage: contact overages, per-seat charges and mandatory onboarding fees included. Our finding across those tools: the plan you actually end up on costs 3.9x the advertised entry price. There is also a free calculator that prices the main tools at your own scale.
I built this because I kept getting surprised by SaaS bills.
Every pricing page leads with a number you will never actually pay. The entry tier is missing the one feature that made you choose the tool, contacts are metered separately, seats cost extra, and onboarding can be a mandatory four-figure fee that appears nowhere on the pricing page.
So I priced 20+ marketing tools at every tier and every realistic scale. The finding that surprised me most: the plan you actually end up on costs 3.9x the advertised entry price. One CRM advertises $9 and every serious recommendation starts at $99.
There is a free calculator that prices the main tools at your own list size or team size, and all the underlying statistics are free to cite.
Happy to answer anything about the methodology, or to add a tool you want priced.
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About RealCostLabs on Product Hunt
“What marketing software really costs”
RealCostLabs was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #98 on the daily leaderboard. Marketing software pricing pages are designed to be hard to compare. We publish independent pricing breakdowns for 20+ tools across email, CRM, SEO and all-in-one platforms. Each shows the real cost at realistic usage: contact overages, per-seat charges and mandatory onboarding fees included. Our finding across those tools: the plan you actually end up on costs 3.9x the advertised entry price. There is also a free calculator that prices the main tools at your own scale.
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