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Every number behind HelpCompare is published as JSON and CSV under a Creative Commons licence. Use it in your own research, your reporting, your pricing model or your product — no signup, no API key, no rate limit.

117 tool records 19 AI-pricing records 265 verification records Verified through CC BY 4.0

Software pricing dataset

One record per tool: entry price, free plan, free trial, pricing model, AI feature and billing model, rating, category, every comparison and migration guide it appears in, and the date and source page each figure was verified on.

/data/tools.json

AI pricing dataset

How each vendor actually charges for AI — bundled free, flat-fee add-on, metered by credit or resolution, or custom quote — with the plain-English detail of what that means on your invoice.

/data/ai-pricing.json

Comparison index

Every head-to-head comparison and migration guide on HelpCompare, with the tools each one covers and when it was last verified — the edge list of the graph.

/data/comparisons.json

Price history

Point-in-time snapshots of the cheapest published entry price in each category, captured on a rolling schedule so price drift can be measured rather than guessed.

/wp-json/helpcompare/v1/price-history

Switching cost calculator & migration plan

Enter the tool you use, your seats and your contract end date: the cost of staying vs switching over three years, a must-have check against vendor docs, a migration plan timed to your renewal and a one-page brief. Hours start as examples you change.

/data/switching-cost/

What moves when you switch CRM

For 20 CRM-to-CRM switches: whether a direct importer exists, and which data moves automatically, partly, by export file, must be rebuilt or stays behind. Every fact quotes its guide.

/data/migrations.json

What is inside each dataset

The fields every record carries and three sample rows from the live data, so you can see the schema before you download anything. Field-by-field definitions are in each JSON Schema.

Software pricing dataset

/data/tools.json

One object per tool under tools. Prices are US dollars per month before add-ons and annual discounts; 0 is a real $0 plan or free software, null means the vendor publishes no flat monthly price. The CSV carries the same column names.

30 fields per record in tools: slug, name, category, official_site, helpcompare_url, entry_price_usd, entry_price_unit, entry_price_unit_label, entry_price_included_users, entry_price_min_users, entry_price_unit_source, entry_price_text, entry_price_source, free_plan, free_trial, pricing_model, ai_feature, ai_pricing_model, ai_pricing_detail, rating, review_count, rating_source, rating_listing, rating_url, rating_checked, rating_note, last_verified, comparisons, migrations_from, migrations_to — definitions (JSON Schema)

3 of 117 records from https://helpcompare.com/data/tools.json, showing 8 of the 30 fields
slugcategoryentry_price_usdentry_price_unitfree_planai_pricing_modelratinglast_verified
activecampaignMarketing Automation15accountNo free plan — trial availablenull4.4
acuity-schedulingScheduling Software16accountNo free tier — trial only; paid plans start at 1 calendarnull4.6
adobe-acrobat-signE-Signature16.99nullNo free Sign plan; free Acrobat Reader can sign PDFsnull4.4

AI pricing dataset

/data/ai-pricing.json

One object per AI feature under records. pricing_model_key is one of the four billing models (Bundled free, Flat-fee add-on, Metered, Custom quote); detail holds the plain-English invoice line.

8 fields per record in records: tool, category, ai_feature, pricing_model, pricing_model_key, detail, tool_url, last_verified — definitions (JSON Schema)

3 of 19 records from https://helpcompare.com/data/ai-pricing.json, showing 5 of the 8 fields
toolcategoryai_featurepricing_model_keylast_verified
ZoomVideo ConferencingAI CompanionBundled free
Google MeetVideo ConferencingGemini AI notesBundled free
WebexVideo ConferencingAI AssistantBundled free

Comparison index

/data/comparisons.json

Two arrays: comparisons (below) and migrations (slug, from, to, url). Together they are the edge list of the software graph.

5 fields per record in comparisons: slug, title, url, last_verified, tools — definitions (JSON Schema)

3 of 132 records from https://helpcompare.com/data/comparisons.json, showing 3 of the 5 fields
slugtoolslast_verified
1password-vs-bitwarden1Password · Bitwarden
1password-vs-lastpass1Password · LastPass
activecampaign-vs-hubspotActiveCampaign · HubSpot

Price history (REST endpoint)

/wp-json/helpcompare/v1/price-history

A JSON array (no wrapper object), one snapshot per row: the cheapest published entry price in a category on the day it was captured. price is a decimal string in US dollars; unit is the billing unit. GET only, no key, no rate limit.

5 fields per row: captured_date, category, tool, price, unit — definitions (JSON Schema)

3 of 3 records from https://helpcompare.com/wp-json/helpcompare/v1/price-history
captured_datecategorytoolpriceunit
Accounting SoftwareXero25.00/mo
Cloud StorageGoogle Drive1.99/mo
Cold Email & Sales EngagementSmartlead39.00/mo

The AI Tax at a glance

How 19 B2B tools bill for AI, grouped by billing model. Pick a column to open the filtered database.

Bundled free4

Included in the plan you already pay for.

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Flat add-on4

A fixed per-seat surcharge.

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Metered6

Billed by credit, resolution or action.

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Custom quote2

Negotiated; no published rate card.

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Tools with no major AI push or no published AI pricing are listed in the full database. Narrative version: The AI Tax.

Security, offline & remote-work dataset

Compliance reports, SSO/SCIM/audit-log plan tiers, data residency, offline modes, desktop and mobile apps, IP allowlisting and device controls for 117 tools. Every value carries the vendor URL and the verbatim sentence it came from. CC BY 4.0.

Licence and citation

These datasets are released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. You may copy, redistribute, transform and build on them, including commercially, as long as you credit HelpCompare and link back.

HelpCompare. B2B Software Pricing Dataset. Retrieved .
https://helpcompare.com/data/

How the data is produced

Every figure originates on a HelpCompare comparison page, where it was recorded from vendor pricing pages and documentation at the time of research. The datasets above are generated from those pages, so each record carries verified (the date it was last checked) and the slug of the comparison it came from. Nothing is modelled, estimated or filled in — where a vendor does not publish a number, the field is null and the tool is marked as quote-only or percentage-priced.

Known limits

  • Entry price is a floor, not a forecast. It is the cheapest published seat or plan, before add-ons, minimum seat counts and annual-billing discounts. Several tools cost far more in practice; the comparison pages model that.
  • Quote-only vendors are not estimated. Tools without public pricing carry a null price rather than a guess.
  • Null is not zero. An entry price of 0 means a real $0 plan or free software; null means the vendor does not publish a flat monthly price. Every field is defined in a JSON Schema: tools, AI pricing, comparisons, price history.
  • Ratings are point-in-time. Aggregate ratings and review counts were captured during research and are not refreshed continuously.
  • Coverage is deliberate, not exhaustive. We track tools we have researched head-to-head rather than listing every product in a category.
Using this data in something public? We would rather you cite it than scrape it — the JSON is stable, versioned by its generated timestamp, and served with permissive CORS so you can fetch it straight from the browser.

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Bill Belcamino, founder of HelpCompare
About the author

Bill Belcamino

Founder and author, HelpCompare

Engineer by training, operator by experience, marketer by choice. Bill spent eight and a half years as an engineer at HP, was COO of Auctiva (the number one third-party selling platform on eBay, past 200,000 users) and ran Google’s $70M/year search syndication partnership at Alot.com. Then he spent 13 years building his own web properties with his own money at stake. He has bought, trialled, integrated and cancelled more SaaS tools than he can count, and started HelpCompare because the real cost of switching tools is the part nobody covers.

“I’ve sat on both sides of the table: the agency recommending the tool and the client paying for it.”

Researched and fact-checked by the HelpCompare team. No paid sponsorships, no affiliate commissions.