Sample of the October 2026 baseline CSV: 7 of 120 rows
pricing-baseline-2026-10.csv is the paid file of the October 2026 baseline: 120 plan rows of 27 tools, 17 columns. This page shows 7 of those rows, every row of Help Scout (5) and Paddle (2), copied from the file with every column, and says what each column holds. Snapshot date of these rows: 2026-10-05.
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The 17 columns of the file
| Column | What it holds |
|---|---|
| tool | The name of the SaaS tool the row belongs to. |
| plan | The name of the plan, product or price line as the pricing page shows it. |
| currency | The currency code of the figures of the row, taken from the page or from its currency symbol; no figure is converted. |
| billing_unit | What the price is charged for: flat, per seat, per usage with the unit in brackets, custom, or a mix of these. |
| monthly_price | The list price per month when billed monthly, as a plain number: 0 when the plan has no monthly fee, empty when the read gave no such price. |
| annual_price_per_month | The price per month when the plan is billed annually; empty when the read gave none. |
| annual_total | The amount per year when the page states one; empty otherwise. |
| displayed_price | One or more figures the page showed that are not recorded as a monthly or annual plan price, such as a usage rate or a figure whose billing period the read could not settle, separated by semicolons. |
| percent_fee | The percentage fee charged per transaction, for a tool priced by transaction; empty otherwise. |
| fixed_fee | The fixed fee charged per transaction, in the currency of the row; empty otherwise. |
| contact_sales | yes when the page sends the buyer to the sales team for this plan, no otherwise. |
| free_tier | Whether the read found a free tier for the tool: yes, no or not stated; a free trial is not counted as a free tier. |
| limits | The limits the page states for the plan, such as seats, contacts or usage, separated by a vertical bar; empty when none was read. |
| confidence | ok or low, for the read of the pricing page of the tool; low means the read was ambiguous. |
| note | A remark on the read of the pricing page of the tool, repeated on each of its rows: what was unclear, what was left out or how to read the figures. |
| source_url | The address of the public pricing page the row was read from. |
| snapshot_date | The date the pricing page was fetched, as year-month-day. |
The first line of the file holds these 17 column names, in this order, and each of the 120 lines after it is one plan row.
7 of the 120 rows: Help Scout and Paddle
Every row of Help Scout (5) and Paddle (2) as it stands in the file, in the order of the file. An empty cell is a field the file leaves empty, and the address in source_url is plain text, not a link.
| tool | plan | currency | billing_unit | monthly_price | annual_price_per_month | annual_total | displayed_price | percent_fee | fixed_fee | contact_sales | free_tier | limits | confidence | note | source_url | snapshot_date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Help Scout | Free | USD | flat | 0 | no | yes | 5 users | 1 inbox | 1 Docs site | low | One figure per plan is shown next to a -16% annual toggle; the text read does not settle whether it is the monthly or the annual-billing price. Currency symbol is $; the page does not name the currency. | https://www.helpscout.com/pricing/ | 2026-10-05 | |||||
| Help Scout | Standard | USD | per seat | 25 | no | yes | up to 25 users | 2 inboxes | additional inbox 10/mo | low | One figure per plan is shown next to a -16% annual toggle; the text read does not settle whether it is the monthly or the annual-billing price. Currency symbol is $; the page does not name the currency. | https://www.helpscout.com/pricing/ | 2026-10-05 | |||||
| Help Scout | Plus | USD | per seat | 45 | no | yes | up to 50 users | 5 inboxes | 25 light users | low | One figure per plan is shown next to a -16% annual toggle; the text read does not settle whether it is the monthly or the annual-billing price. Currency symbol is $; the page does not name the currency. | https://www.helpscout.com/pricing/ | 2026-10-05 | |||||
| Help Scout | Pro | USD | per seat | yes | yes | minimum 10 users | low | One figure per plan is shown next to a -16% annual toggle; the text read does not settle whether it is the monthly or the annual-billing price. Currency symbol is $; the page does not name the currency. | https://www.helpscout.com/pricing/ | 2026-10-05 | ||||||
| Help Scout | AI Answers add-on | USD | per usage (resolution) | 0.75 | no | yes | low | One figure per plan is shown next to a -16% annual toggle; the text read does not settle whether it is the monthly or the annual-billing price. Currency symbol is $; the page does not name the currency. | https://www.helpscout.com/pricing/ | 2026-10-05 | ||||||
| Paddle | Pay-as-you-go | USD | per usage (checkout transaction) | 0 | 0.5 | 5 | 0.5 | no | no | ok | Transaction pricing with no monthly fee. Currency symbol is cents/$; the page does not name the currency. | https://www.paddle.com/pricing | 2026-10-05 | |||
| Paddle | Custom pricing | USD | custom | yes | no | ok | Transaction pricing with no monthly fee. Currency symbol is cents/$; the page does not name the currency. | https://www.paddle.com/pricing | 2026-10-05 |
Rows of this sample marked low confidence: 5 of 7; in the whole file, 23 of 120. The sample is every row of 2 tools, not a pick of the cleanest rows. A row is marked low confidence when the read was ambiguous. Each pricing page was read once and nothing was checked against a second source, so an extraction error is possible on any row.
The other 113 rows have the same layout. The pages of Help Scout and Paddle show these rows next to the notes on the read, the tools page lists the 27 tools of the file, and the methodology page describes how the tools were chosen and the limits of the data.
The full baseline as a CSV file
pricing-baseline-2026-10.csv holds every plan row of the 27 tools in one file. October 2026 data pack (CSV, 120 plan rows, USD 9): the Gumroad listing is not yet available. It is a one-time purchase of a fixed file, no subscription, 23 of 120 rows marked low confidence.