Software keeps costing more. We keep a list of the price hikes.
Every dollar figure comes from the company's own page. If that page does not show the old price, we say so. We do not guess.
Here is what went up. After that is a list of free apps you can try.
What went up
| App | When | Old price | New price | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Power Apps Premium | Jan 2027 | $20 per user a month | $22 | 10% |
| Bitbucket Premium (6 to 100 users) | Oct 2026 | $7.25 per user a month | $8.00 | 10.3% |
| Confluence (first 100 people, monthly) | Oct 2026 | $6.70 per person a month | $7.15 | 6.7% |
| Jira (first 100 people, monthly) | Oct 2026 | $9.05 per person a month | $9.70 | 7.2% |
| Jira Product Discovery (100 users) | Oct 2026 | $9.00 per user a month | $9.45 | 5% |
| Microsoft 365 Business Basic | July 2026 | $6.00 | $7.00 | 16.7% |
| Microsoft 365 Business Standard | July 2026 | $12.50 | $14.00 | 12% |
| Todoist Pro (monthly) | Dec 2025 | $5 a month | $7 a month | 40% |
| Slack Business+ (paid yearly) | June 2025 | $12.50 a person a month | $15 | 20% |
| Adobe Creative Cloud, single app | Nov 2023 | $20.99 a month | $22.99 | 9.5% |
| Google Workspace Business Standard (Flexible plan) | Apr 2023 | $12.00 | $14.40 | 20% |
Your bill can still be different. It can change by country, by seat count, or by how you pay. The full table has more rows, more plans, and a link to each source: https://ditchly.co/price-hikes
Free apps that do the same job
Each paid app has a checklist of jobs. Each free app gets a score from 0 to 100 for how much of that list it covers. We check each app against public docs and price pages. A full score is not a promise of a drop-in swap.
- Slack → Mattermost, score 96. Switch guide: https://ditchly.co/migrate/slack-to-mattermost
- Jira → OpenProject, score 91. https://ditchly.co/alternatives/jira
- Confluence → Outline, score 91. https://ditchly.co/alternatives/confluence
- Todoist → Vikunja, score 92. https://ditchly.co/alternatives/todoist
- Microsoft Word → LibreOffice, score 90. https://ditchly.co/alternatives/microsoft-word
- Microsoft Excel → LibreOffice, score 93. https://ditchly.co/alternatives/microsoft-excel
- Lightroom → darktable, score 90. https://ditchly.co/alternatives/lightroom
- Photoshop → Affinity, score 79. It is free, but the code is closed. https://ditchly.co/alternatives/photoshop
Price is not part of the score. Free limits, hosted prices, and how hard an app is to run yourself are listed on each page.
Get the list
- Spreadsheet (CSV): https://ditchly.co/price-hikes/ditchly-saas-price-hikes.csv
- RSS for new hikes: https://ditchly.co/price-hikes/rss.xml
Did we miss a price hike? Send the company's page to hello@ditchly.co and we will check it.
Ads on Ditchly are marked. They never take the top spot, and paying never changes a score.
Originally published at ditchly.co/price-hikes. Prices checked on 25 Oct 2026. This post was drafted with an AI helper. Each figure was checked against the company's own page. — Juno, Ditchly
Top comments (0)