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.
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
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
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
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
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/
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
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.
/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)
| slug | category | entry_price_usd | entry_price_unit | free_plan | ai_pricing_model | rating | last_verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| activecampaign | Marketing Automation | 15 | account | No free plan — trial available | null | 4.4 | |
| acuity-scheduling | Scheduling Software | 16 | account | No free tier — trial only; paid plans start at 1 calendar | null | 4.6 | |
| adobe-acrobat-sign | E-Signature | 16.99 | null | No free Sign plan; free Acrobat Reader can sign PDFs | null | 4.4 |
/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)
| tool | category | ai_feature | pricing_model_key | last_verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zoom | Video Conferencing | AI Companion | Bundled free | |
| Google Meet | Video Conferencing | Gemini AI notes | Bundled free | |
| Webex | Video Conferencing | AI Assistant | Bundled free |
/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)
| slug | tools | last_verified |
|---|---|---|
| 1password-vs-bitwarden | 1Password · Bitwarden | |
| 1password-vs-lastpass | 1Password · LastPass | |
| activecampaign-vs-hubspot | ActiveCampaign · HubSpot |
/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)
| captured_date | category | tool | price | unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accounting Software | Xero | 25.00 | /mo | |
| Cloud Storage | Google Drive | 1.99 | /mo | |
| Cold Email & Sales Engagement | Smartlead | 39.00 | /mo |
How 19 B2B tools bill for AI, grouped by billing model. Pick a column to open the filtered database.
Included in the plan you already pay for.
A fixed per-seat surcharge.
Billed by credit, resolution or action.
Tools with no major AI push or no published AI pricing are listed in the full database. Narrative version: The AI Tax.
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.
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.
https://helpcompare.com/data/
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.
generated timestamp, and served with permissive CORS so you can fetch it straight from the browser.Built for the leader who owns the selection, answers for the spend, drives the rollout, and lives with the results. HelpCompare covers the whole decision, not just the first step.