Week in review·Sep 21 – Sep 27, 2026·276 changes across 4,388 pricing pages·27 sources

Packaging rewrites outpace price moves: credits, bundles and metered add-ons

Snyk, Wiz and Vercel rebuilt their tiers while Baseten and Datadog re-metered AI usage. 276 changes across 268 companies, 1.4 times the eight-week average, with 125 packaging moves against 56 pure price changes.

This week in pricing · Sep 21 – Sep 27

2026W40

276

+40% vs 8-wk avg

pricing changes across 4,388 tracked pricing pages · 268 companies

W329-week trendW40

56 pricing125 packaging95 product

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The moves

Snyk took the Ignite tier off its plans page and replaced the flat Contact Sales Enterprise listing with a credit-based Platform Subscription: 1 credit is $1, and each capability draws down credits at a published rate between 0.33 and 4,000 credits ^[16]. The page now leads with buying credits and using them on any capability ^[4], and the billing policy spells out the mechanics: use draws down credits from a pre-purchased balance, based on a rate card ^[5]. Ignite had been the mid-market seat tier, listed at $1,260 per contributing developer per year ^[6].

Wiz consolidated five separate product licenses, Wiz Cloud, Wiz Code, Wiz Defend, Wiz Sensor and the Wiz Go bundle for SMBs, into three offerings on its pricing-request form: Wiz One, Wiz Go and A la Carte ^[17]. The public page still says customers can tailor to their exact needs with à la carte options ^[8], and buyer-side guidance describes pricing as customized to workload volume and the modules a buyer selects ^[9]. The result is a bundle-first menu with the modules kept as the fallback.

Vercel split Speed Insights into a free base tier, 10K events per team over a rolling 30 days on every plan, and a labeled Speed Insights Plus Events add-on that keeps the prior $10 per project per month plus $0.65 per 10K events ^[18]. The changelog frames the paid product as Speed Insights Plus with deeper diagnostics and historical data ^[1], and the docs confirm free-tier events carry no usage charges and do not count toward Plus usage ^[2]. The same week the page added Tracing Spans in beta: 1M span units included on Hobby, $0.50 per 1M span units on Pro, custom on Enterprise ^[18], the price the tracing changelog states ^[3].

Baseten cut the cache-input price of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash from $0.03 to $0.007 per 1M tokens, a 77% reduction, with input at $0.30 and output at $1.20 unchanged, added GLM-5.3 Fast at $2.10 input, $0.21 cache input and $6.60 output per 1M tokens, and removed six older rows from the Model APIs list ^[19]. Baseten's own model page positions GLM-5.3 for agentic coding workflows that require sustained planning, implementation and verification at production scale ^[15]. Coverage of the two Flash models notes DeepSeek retired V4 Flash and shipped V4.1 Flash with native image input and a lower price ^[14].

Datadog raised the extended-retention add-ons for LLM Observability across every tier: 30-day retention went from $1.50 to $6.50 per 10K LLM spans per month, 60-day from $3 to $8 and 90-day from $4 to $9, while experiment results now keep for 3 months instead of 15 days on a commitment ^[20]. Datadog's product page describes the add-ons as extending traces and spans to 30, 60 or 90 days and experiments to 6, 9 or 12 months ^[11]. One FinOps write-up notes the add-ons are billed per 10,000 LLM spans ^[12], and a pricing tracker records that retention rates moved again between July and September ^[13].

What they said

The vendors' own framing is flexibility, not price. Snyk pitches the Platform Subscription as buy credits, access any capability ^[4]. Wiz keeps à la carte options on the page even as the menu shrinks to three ^[8]. Vercel says the free tier carries over and you only pay if you upgrade, with the paid product now called Speed Insights Plus ^[1]. Datadog stresses what is not metered: tool, workflow, agent, embedding and retrieval spans are all free, so the new retention rates apply only to LLM spans ^[24].

What the market said

Third-party coverage lags the pages. Snyk pricing explainers published this year still present Ignite at $1,260 per developer per year as the mid-market step ^[6], and the broader commentary on Snyk is about confusion and sticker shock rather than the credit mechanics ^[7]. For Wiz, buyer-side guidance still frames the decision as bundling modules versus buying them individually ^[10], which is exactly the choice the new three-option form makes explicit. On Datadog, one tracker notes the retention rates moved again between July and September ^[13], consistent with what our capture logged this week. None of the five pages has coverage that reflects the new numbers yet.

The pattern

Pricing pages logged 276 changes across 268 companies in the week of Sep 21 → Sep 28, 1.4 times the eight-week average of 200.9 ^[21]. Packaging led the volume: 125 packaging changes against 56 pure pricing changes and 95 product changes ^[21]. Expansions ran at 127, a 1.7 ratio to the trailing mean, and contractions at 43, a 1.3 ratio, so most of the movement was tiers being rebuilt rather than list prices being edited ^[21].

Price direction stayed muted: 12 increases against 7 cuts, with increases at a 0.7 ratio to their eight-week mean of 16.8, and hidden-pricing events at 6 against 6 reveals ^[22]. The sharpest list-price increase was Datadog's retention add-on ^[20]; the steepest cut was Baseten's cache price ^[19].

Promotions ran above normal: 26 promo events, a 1.3 ratio to the average of 19.4 ^[23]. Docker swapped a whitepaper download for a $250 Cloud Sandbox credit ^[25], and Framer doubled first-month AI credits while raising its static-file limit from 50 to 500 ^[26]. Buyers got incentives to try; the structural changes landed on the plans themselves.

What to watch

Whether Snyk's credit rate card changes the effective price for the mid-market teams that sat on Ignite.
Whether Wiz publishes what Wiz One and Wiz Go include, or keeps the bundle behind the request form.
Whether Vercel takes Tracing Spans out of beta with the $0.50 per 1M span units price intact ^[3].
Whether Notion turns on Workers credit billing on Oct 15, the date the page stated before the notice disappeared ^[27].
Whether credit-based repackaging spreads beyond security and developer infrastructure next week.

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Sources

[1]Vercel changelog — Speed Insights now has a free tierverified“The paid product, now called Speed Insights Plus, includes deeper diagnostics and historical data.”
[2]Vercel docs — Limits and Pricing for Speed Insightsverified“Events from the free tier have no usage charges and do not count toward Plus usage.”
[3]Vercel changelog — Always-on tracing for production and preview trafficverified“Tracing is priced at $0.50 per 1M span units.”
[4]Snyk — Plans and Pricingverified“Flexible credit-based platform for enterprise: buy credits, access any capability.”
[5]Snyk — Credit Based Billing Detailsverified“Use of these capabilities draws down Credits from a pre-purchased balance, based on the Rate Card and the units of measure described below.”
[6]Ciphers Security — Snyk Pricing Explained: 2026 Plans & Costsverified“Ignite is Snyk's mid-market tier, listed at $1,260 per contributing developer per year for up to 50 developers.”
[7]DEV Community — Snyk Pricing in 2026verified“But Snyk's pricing is also one of the most common sources of confusion, frustration, and sticker shock in the developer security space.”
[8]Wiz — pricingverified“Customers also have the flexibility to tailor to their exact needs with à la carte options.”
[9]Vendr — Wiz Software Pricing & Plans 2026verified“Pricing is customized based on workload volume and the modules a buyer selects.”
[10]Vendr — Wiz Software Pricing & Plans 2026 (bundling)verified“Bundling multiple modules often results in better pricing than purchasing them individually.”
[11]Datadog — LLM Observabilityverified“Retention add-ons extend traces and spans to 30, 60, or 90 days and extend experiments to 6, 9, or 12 months.”
[12]eCorpIT — Datadog LLM Observability pricing 2026: 6 levers that cap the billverified“Retention add-ons extend traces and spans to 30, 60 or 90 days and are billed per 10,000 LLM spans; experiment results extend to 6, 9 or 12 months, and datasets carry a separate 3-year retention.”
[13]TrueFoundry — Datadog LLM Observability Pricing: 2026 Breakdownverified“Retention add-on rates then moved again between July and September.”
[14]Yotta Labs — GLM 5.3 Flash vs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (2026)verified“Then DeepSeek retired V4 Flash and shipped V4.1 Flash : 552B parameters, a new encoder-decoder architecture, native image input, a lower price, and a checkpoint three times the size of the one it replaced.”
[15]Baseten — GLM-5.3 Fast model libraryverified“GLM-5.3 supports three thinking effort levels (low, high, and max, with max recommended for coding), making it a strong fit for agentic coding workflows that require sustained planning, implementation, and verification at production scale.”
[16]Pulse capture: Snyk: Ignite tier eliminated, Enterprise moves to credit-based pricing“Snyk: Ignite tier eliminated, Enterprise moves to credit-based pricing”
[17]Pulse capture: Wiz collapses five licenses into three: Wiz One, Wiz Go, and A la Carte“Wiz collapses five licenses into three: Wiz One, Wiz Go, and A la Carte”
[18]Pulse capture: Vercel splits Speed Insights pricing, adds Tracing Spans beta observability“Vercel splits Speed Insights pricing, adds Tracing Spans beta observability”
[19]Pulse capture: Baseten adds GLM-5.3 Fast, retires 6 models, cuts DeepSeek V4.1 Flash cache price 77%“Baseten adds GLM-5.3 Fast, retires 6 models, cuts DeepSeek V4.1 Flash cache price 77%”
[20]Pulse capture: Datadog.llmObservability quadruples 30-day retention to $6.50 per 10K spans“Datadog.llmObservability quadruples 30-day retention to $6.50 per 10K spans”
[21]Pulse weekly stats, 2026W40Pulse Index data“276 changes across 268 companies; 125 packaging, 56 pricing, 95 product; expansions 127 (ratio 1.7), contractions 43 (ratio 1.3); eight-week mean 200.9, ratio 1.4”
[22]Pulse weekly stats, 2026W40 — price directionPulse Index data“12 price increases (ratio 0.7 to the 16.8 mean), 7 price cuts, 6 hid pricing, 6 revealed pricing”
[23]Pulse weekly stats, 2026W40 — promotionsPulse Index data“26 promo events, ratio 1.3 to the 19.4 mean”
[24]Datadog — LLM Observability (what is billed)verified“Tool, workflow, agent, embedding, and retrieval spans are all free.”
[25]Pulse capture: Docker adds $250 Cloud Sandbox credit in place of whitepaper CTA“Docker adds $250 Cloud Sandbox credit in place of whitepaper CTA”
[26]Pulse capture: Framer doubles first-month AI credits, boosts static upload limit 10x“Framer doubles first-month AI credits, boosts static upload limit 10x”
[27]Pulse capture: Notion silently drops Workers trial notice ahead of Oct 15 billing“Notion silently drops Workers trial notice ahead of Oct 15 billing”