# Pulse

> https://pricingsaas.com

Pulse is a pricing-intelligence news site and public dataset. It tracks pricing, packaging, and monetization changes on software companies' public pricing pages, verifies each change as a diff, and publishes the result as a live feed, written briefings, and permanent URLs.

Cite the permalink for a specific change or story — not the homepage.

## URL patterns

- Home: https://pricingsaas.com
- Newsroom: https://pricingsaas.com/news
- News article / pricing briefing: https://pricingsaas.com/news/article/{slug}
- Weekly issue (week in review, one per weekly period): https://pricingsaas.com/news/week/{YYYYWww}
  Archive: https://pricingsaas.com/news/week
- AI Brief (researched, cited weekly editorial on AI pricing): https://pricingsaas.com/news/ai/{YYYYWww}
  Archive: https://pricingsaas.com/news/ai
- Company profile: https://pricingsaas.com/companies/{slug}
- Weekly diff (one verified pricing-page change): https://pricingsaas.com/companies/{slug}/diffs/{YYYYWww}
  Example: https://pricingsaas.com/companies/stripe/diffs/2026W41
- RSS 2.0 of recent moves: https://pricingsaas.com/feed.xml
- Move explorer: https://pricingsaas.com/feed
- Category filter (company industry/category): https://pricingsaas.com/feed?category={Category}
- AI Monetization Monitor slices (same scheme the charts/bars/donut use):
  - https://pricingsaas.com/feed?dimension=ai-moves
  - https://pricingsaas.com/feed?dimension=ai-themes&category=agents
  - https://pricingsaas.com/feed?dimension=ai-themes&category=credits
  - https://pricingsaas.com/feed?dimension=ai-themes&category=free_ai
  - https://pricingsaas.com/feed?dimension=ai-monetization&category=Bundled
  - Other monetization slices: Usage, New tier, Add-on, Price up, Price cut
  - Optional week: &weeksAgo=0 (this week), 1 (last week), N (N weeks ago)

## Definitions

- A **move** (or **diff**) is a verified change to a company's public pricing page between two captured snapshots. The public permalink is /companies/{slug}/diffs/{period}.
- A **period** is the capture window a change was found in: ISO-like week `YYYYWww` (2026W41), or for older/longer windows `YYYYQn` (2026Q1), `YYYYMmm` (2026M03) or `YYYYDddd` (day of year). Diff URLs are keyed by company slug + period; do not invent a different permalink scheme.
- **Featured** companies are a home-page strip of key accounts with a 90-day change count and a weekly activity strip (pricing / packaging / product).
- **News** (Pricing Briefing) articles are written stories about a move. They link back to the diff permalink for evidence. Featured ≠ news: featured is the company strip; news is the briefing corpus at /news.
- The **AI Monetization Monitor** is a trailing-90-day dataset of AI-related pricing moves vs the prior 90 days, rendered on the home page and drillable via the /feed?dimension=… URLs above.

## How to cite

- Cite the diff permalink (/companies/{slug}/diffs/{period}) or the article URL, never the homepage. Definitions and the citation guidance also live on https://pricingsaas.com/about (FAQ).
- Sitemaps: https://pricingsaas.com/sitemap-index.xml lists them all — https://pricingsaas.com/sitemap.xml (hubs and articles), https://pricingsaas.com/sitemap-companies.xml (every company), https://pricingsaas.com/sitemap-diffs.xml (every published change, one file per year).
- Programmatic access: MCP server, see https://pricingsaas.com/mcp.

## Feeds

- Site-wide RSS 2.0 at /feed.xml (recent moves, permalinks, pubDates, rel=alternate on HTML pages).
- Per-company and per-category RSS are not published yet; use /feed.xml or the diff/article permalink.

## Indexing

The public origin is pricingsaas.com. Staging and preview hosts send X-Robots-Tag: noindex, nofollow. Private app routes (login, settings, workspace, agent, onboarding, auth) are not part of the public corpus.