Braintrust Cuts Free Tier to Starter, Adds Pay-Per-Use Overages
What happened
Between the Dec 29, 2025 and Mar 30, 2026 captures of Braintrust's pricing page, Pulse recorded 2 changes: Free plan renamed to Starter; overage pricing added (+$4/GB, +$2.50/1k scores); 1M trace spans removed from Starter. Pro data retention changed from 1 month ($3/GB overage) to 30 days with no overage charge; New feature comparison table added with Human review scores (1/project Starter, Unlimited Pro), Loop agent, RBAC, SAML SSO, SOC 2 Type II, S3 export, shared Slack channel for Pro, and SLA for Enterprise. Pulse files it as a packaging change (package change, feature added) with an upward direction. Pulse's latest capture (Aug 3, 2026) lists Pro at $249.
It lands 12 days after Braintrust's previous change, "Braintrust drops trace spans metric, rebrands Free tier as Starter" (Mar 23, 2026). Braintrust has been tracked since 2024-11-17.
In the same window Kontentino and Upwork also changed their Business Operations pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- Starter, Pro · PackagingRenamedFree planStarter
- Starter, Pro, Enterprise · FeatureAdded
BeforeNo feature comparison table
Afterfeature comparison table
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter, Pro | Packaging | Free plan | Starter | Renamed |
| Starter, Pro, Enterprise | Feature | No feature comparison table | feature comparison table | Added |
Values as written on Braintrust's public pricing page in the two captures Pulse compared; where the page states no number, the cells give the wording before and after.
Evidence
The two captures Pulse comparedFull-page captures of Braintrust's pricing page (braintrust.dev) from Dec 29, 2025 and Mar 30, 2026; the change is marked near the top of the page, where "Free plan" becomes "Starter".
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Braintrust, the last 90 days
Full history- Jul 2, 2026packagingBraintrust: introduced token-metered Topics AI pricing ($10→$249 credits)
- Jun 8, 2026improvedBraintrust adds Topics to comparison table with credit-based pricing
- Apr 1, 2026packagingBraintrust renames storage metric to processed data across plans
- Apr 3, 2026packagingBraintrust Cuts Free Tier to Starter, Adds Pay-Per-Use Overages · this change
- Mar 23, 2026packagingBraintrust drops trace spans metric, rebrands Free tier as Starter
Across Business Operations in the same window
All Business Operations changes- KontentinoOct 26Kontentino moves client approvals down from Standard into Starter plan
- UpworkOct 5Upwork adds bulk pay and milestone management across contracts
- UpworkAug 24Upwork raises Business Plus daily message cap from 10 to 15
- KontentinoJul 3Kontentino: replaced Starter+ tier with new Pro tier for agencies
- KontentinoMay 13Kontentino overhauls pricing, adds Pro plan at €199/mo
Questions about this change
Did Braintrust raise prices in March 2026?
No list-price increase was recorded between Dec 29, 2025 and Mar 30, 2026. The change Pulse detected was a packaging change: package change, feature added.
What changed on Braintrust's pricing page between Dec 29, 2025 and Mar 30, 2026?
Starter, Pro packaging: Free plan → Starter, renamed; Starter, Pro, Enterprise feature: No feature comparison table → feature comparison table, added. Pulse compared the captures it took on Dec 29, 2025 and Mar 30, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Braintrust change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 2 other pricing-page changes for Braintrust in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Braintrust drops trace spans metric, rebrands Free tier as Starter" on Mar 23, 2026; Braintrust has been tracked since 2024-11-17.