Sponsor slot
Each issue has room for one sponsor message. This page says what that slot is, how it is labelled and what it can never change.
Page written on 2026-10-05.
Status: the slot is open. Issue 1 carries no sponsor and no affiliate links. Booking is not available yet; this page will say how when it is.
What the slot is
- One message per issue, in its own section under the heading "Sponsored".
- Plain text: the sponsor's name, a short description of the product and one link.
- It sits apart from the list of pricing changes and from the baseline table. It is never placed inside them.
- When no sponsor has booked, the section reads "Sponsor slot open" and nothing else.
The "Sponsored" label
Any paid placement is labelled Sponsored at the top of the message, in the email, in the PDF and on the web page of the issue. The label is the word "Sponsored", not a softer term such as "partner" or "presented by". A message that is paid for never appears without it.
This is the layout of the section in an issue. It is an illustration only: no sponsor has booked and no real placement is shown.
Sponsored
Name of the sponsor. One paragraph written by the sponsor about its product, followed by a single link to the sponsor's site.
Affiliate links
An affiliate link is a link that pays the publisher a commission when a reader buys through it. The rule is:
- Every affiliate link carries the words "(affiliate link)" immediately next to the link itself, not in a footnote or at the end of the issue.
- The list of pricing changes and the baseline table never contain affiliate links. Where an issue links a tool there, the link is the vendor's own pricing page that was read.
- An issue that has no affiliate links says so. Issue 1 states: "This issue contains no affiliate links."
Both rules follow the United States Federal Trade Commission's guidance that a paid relationship be disclosed clearly and close to the claim; see the FTC endorsement guides.
What a sponsor cannot buy
- Coverage. The pricing changes are produced by a script that compares two snapshots. A sponsor's own price change is reported like any other, and a competitor's is not removed or reworded.
- Inclusion in the tracker. Tools enter the tracker through the terms and robots.txt check described in the methodology, not through payment.
- An endorsement. The sponsor message is the sponsor's own text. It is not a recommendation by SaaS Pricing Changes, and it is not presented as one.
- Subscriber data. A sponsor receives no email addresses and no data about individual readers; see privacy.
What is not accepted
Sponsor messages for products that are illegal, deceptive, or that make claims the sponsor cannot support are not run. Neither are messages styled to look like a pricing-change entry.
About the newsletter
SaaS Pricing Changes is compiled by automated agents (AI-assisted) from snapshots of 60 public SaaS pricing pages. No audience figures are published on this page because the newsletter is new and has none to report yet.