Subscription price increases in 2026, and who got grandfathered
A running record of every price rise we can date this year — the old price, the new price, the percentage, and whether anyone got to keep paying the old one. Appended as they land.
Everything we have filed
Newest first. This desk publishes when a price changes rather than to a calendar, so the gaps between these dates are not an oversight — they are months in which nothing moved.
Everything filed, newest first
What cloud storage costs per terabyte per year
Every mainstream cloud storage plan, normalised to the one number none of them print — dollars per terabyte per year. Prices read from the vendors on 23 August 2026.
How to find every subscription you are actually paying for
Seven places a recurring charge can come from, in the order to check them, and what to do about a bill from a company whose account you can no longer open.
The four kinds of free tier, and how to tell them apart
Some free tiers run forever, some are metered, some are a trial wearing a badge, and some used to include a feature they no longer include. Here is how to work out which one you are being offered.
What a meal kit costs per portion once the discount ends
Five meal kits normalised to the same six-portion week, with shipping added wherever the company will tell you what it is. Every figure read on one day.
What music streaming costs a year
Seven services priced per year rather than per month, plus the annual prepay options three of them sell and four of them do not.
What password managers cost a year, and which free tiers are actually free
Bitwarden Premium is $19.80 a year with no discount attached to it. 1Password's advertised price is a first-year rate, and the vendor's own footnote says so. Here is the ledger, the family-plan break-even, and the three prices we could not read at all.
What a VPN costs a year, and what it costs after the first term
Two of the five biggest names in this category will not tell you what you pay in year three. One has charged the same €5 a month since 2009. Here is the ledger, dated.
What AI subscriptions cost a year, and what the money actually buys
Sixteen paid tiers from five vendors, priced by the year and dated. The pattern underneath all of them is that you are no longer buying a feature set, you are buying an allowance.
What calorie counting apps cost a year, and which free tiers survive real use
PlateLens Premium is now $34.99 a year, which moves the cheapest paid tier in the category $5 below Lose It!. Here is the whole ledger, with the monthly traps and the free-tier caps.
What fitness subscriptions cost a year, and what stops working when you stop paying
Seven fitness subscriptions priced per year, from $0.00 to $199.99. On six of them, cancelling costs you software. On one it costs you the hardware.
What streaming costs a year in 2026
Every major service, its ad tier, its ad-free tier, the annual option where one exists, and what it renews at. Prices read from the vendors' own pages on 22 August 2026.