About Stackfeature

What it is for

A pricing page tells you the cost of one seat on one plan. What a business needs to know is the monthly bill for the team it has, and what happens to that bill when the team grows past a free tier, a seat cap or a minimum. Stackfeature works that out, tool by tool, from the vendor's own figures.

It is written for the person at a company of 5 to 200 people who has been asked to pick the CRM, the help desk or the password manager, and who has to justify the cost afterwards.

What it covers

14 categories of software a small business pays for:

• CRM: Real cost at your team size, the plan that unlocks workflows, sequences and single sign-on, seat limits, and CRMs you can host yourself.
• Project management: Per-seat and flat plans, free-tier seat caps and the plan jumps a growing team hits, plus project tools you can host yourself.
• Help desk: Cost per agent, the plan that adds live chat, a knowledge base, automation, SLAs and single sign-on, and self-hosted alternatives.
• Email marketing: Cost at the list size you have, free-plan ceilings, seats per plan and self-hosted senders.
• SEO tools: Plan limits on projects, keywords and users, the cost of each extra seat, and self-hosted rank trackers.
• Hosting & servers: Virtual servers and self-hosted deployment panels compared on monthly price, specs and included traffic.
• Website builders: Plan prices, transaction fees, staff accounts and ecommerce limits, plus self-hosted publishing.
• Password managers: Cost per user at real team sizes, the plan that adds single sign-on, provisioning and audit logs, and self-hosted vaults.
• HR & hiring: Applicant tracking and HR systems compared on how they charge: by company size, open jobs or users.
• Web analytics: Price per traffic tier, data retention, and whether you can host it yourself.
• Team communication: Chat and video meeting tools priced per user, including open-source chat servers you can run yourself.
• Developer platforms: Git hosting, CI and deployment platforms priced per developer, with included build minutes and transfer.
• AI tools for work: AI assistants bought as a business seat, compared on price, data use and admin controls.
• E-signature: Cost per sender, envelope limits, the plan that adds bulk send, API access and single sign-on, and self-hosted signing.

Each category includes tools you can host yourself where they exist, because for many teams the real alternative to a per-seat bill is a small server.

How it is made

Every figure is read from the vendor's pages and dated. Products whose prices cannot be read at source are named and left out until they can. Nothing is described as tested unless it was. The method page has the detail, and the editorial policy explains the shared byline and how AI tools are used.

How it is funded

Vendors can pay for an evaluation of their product, and the site may carry labelled sponsored placements and affiliate links. None of these sets the order of a list or the wording of a verdict, and every paid link is labelled where it appears. There is no paywall.

Contact

Corrections, missing tools and vendor questions: editorial@stackfeature.com. Out-of-date prices are the most useful thing you can send.