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TierGauge

About

Real pricing for real software, refreshed weekly.

TierGauge tracks live pricing and alternatives for marketing and sales SaaS. Most "alternatives" sites publish a list once and let it rot for 18 months. We don't. Every tool we cover gets its pricing page captured on a weekly cadence; the date of last verification is shown on every page that depends on it.

We started this because we got tired of clicking through to "Tool X pricing" articles that quoted plans that no longer exist, free tiers that were sunset two years ago, and limits that had been silently revised. If a number is on a TierGauge page, we captured it from the vendor's own pricing URL on the date listed, and we link to that URL below the data.

What's on this site

  • Tool profiles. One page per tool, with every published plan, plan-level limits, and features included or missing. Browse all tools.
  • Head-to-head comparisons. Two tools side-by-side at the entry paid tier, with derived facts (cheaper entry, free plan availability, plan count). Browse comparisons.
  • Alternatives lists. For each tool we cover, a ranked list of alternatives we also cover, sorted by free-plan availability and entry price. Browse alternatives.
  • Category leaderboards. Per-category pages ranking every tool we track in that space. Browse categories.

What we won't do

  • Fabricate pricing. If we can't capture a number from the vendor, the page says so. No back-of-the-envelope estimates, no "starting from" guesses.
  • Make undefended "best" claims. Rankings are derived from the data: free-plan-first, then ascending entry price. Where a tool has editorial pros and cons, those are plainly labelled, not laundered into a verdict.
  • Hide affiliate links. Links to vendors that pay us a commission are tagged rel="sponsored". We disclose our affiliate relationships in Methodology.

Coverage transparency

We don't track every marketing and sales tool that exists. The coverage page lists every tool that's referenced by something we DO track but isn't yet seeded into the spine, sorted by how often it's mentioned. It's our public TODO list.

For freshness: /freshness ranks every tool by when its data was last verified against the vendor's pricing page. Stale data is the editorial team's re-verification backlog.

Both surfaces also expose machine-readable feeds: /api/coverage.json and /api/freshness.json ; both schema-pinned, polled on a 10-minute Cache-Control window.

Editorial

TierGauge is a small editorial project, run by one operator with help from a build pipeline that captures pricing data and renders pages. Every editorial field on every tool page (descriptions, pros, cons, best-for, not-for) is hand-written; the pipeline only updates verified pricing and structural data, never editorial copy.

TierGauge is editorially anonymous by design. The data, methodology, and citations stand on their own: every page links to the vendor's own pricing URL, every number has a capture date, and every ranking explains how it was derived. If you want to verify a claim, the source is one click away on every page that depends on it.

Public data feed

Every tool we track is exposed as versioned JSON feeds:

  • /api/tools.json: full feed of every tracked tool.
  • /api/tools/<slug>.json: per-tool feed for consumers who only need one tool.
  • /api/categories/<slug>.json: per-category feed (primary and secondary fit).
  • /api/changes.json: chronological feed of every detected pricing change. Empty until the weekly scraper has captured a real diff.
  • /api/tools.schema.json: the JSON Schema 2020-12 spec for all of the above.

Free to use under CC BY 4.0 with attribution to TierGauge. Ten-minute cache; CORS open. RSS 2.0 feed of pricing changes lives at /changes.xml for news readers, IFTTT, Zapier, and similar.

Contact

Spot a stale price, a broken link, or a tool we should cover? We want to hear about it. Email [email protected].