Telnyx quadruples its Growth plan minimum to $2,000 and swaps the sales call for checkout
Telnyx quadruples its Growth plan minimum from $500 to $2,000 a month and replaces the contact form with self-serve checkout. Matterport raises its entry Professional price 55% and drops its Starter and Business plans, Together lifts Qwen3.8 Flash up to 68%, and Anthropic halves Sonnet 5.5 cache reads.
The week in 30 seconds
Telnyx quadruples its Growth (formerly Committed) plan minimum from $500 to $2,000 a month and swaps the 'Get volume rate' contact form for self-serve checkout.
Matterport rebuilds its lineup: entry Professional goes from 20 spaces at $58/mo to 10 spaces at $90/mo, and the Starter and Business plans disappear.
Together raises Qwen3.8 Flash serverless rates up to 68%, while Anthropic halves its Sonnet 5.5 cache-read price to $0.10 per MTok and ships Haiku 5.5 at $0.10/$0.50.
Published pricing-page diffs with at least one valid event, Oct 5 → Oct 12; one diff = one change, classified by its dominant event.
Top 5 moves
- 01HikeTelnyx
Telnyx quadruples its Growth plan minimum to $2,000 and swaps the sales call for checkout
$500$2,000
The middle tier, renamed from Committed to Growth, now carries a $2,000 monthly minimum, up 300% from $500, and sells through self-serve checkout instead of a contact form. Captures show the new card on Oct 7 and Oct 12, so this isn't a flip-flopping test.
- 02HikeMatterport
Matterport raises its entry Professional price 55% and cuts Starter and Business
$58/mo (20 spaces)$90/mo (10 spaces)
Professional now starts at 10 spaces for $90/mo billed annually, up from 20 spaces for $58, so buyers pay more for half the spaces. The redesign also removes the $12 Starter and $296 Business plans and moves the free plan to a footer link.
- 03HikeTogether AI
Together raises Qwen3.8 Flash prices up to 68%
$0.09/$0.28$0.15/$0.47
Qwen3.8 Flash serverless rates went from $0.09/$0.28 to $0.15/$0.47 per million input/output tokens, up 67% and 68%. The same diff added a 10% Kimi K3 promo ($2.70/$13.50), which only ran through Oct 11.
- 04HikeScribe
Scribe raises its Pro Team seat price 77% to $23
$13$23
Scribe's Pro Team seat price went from $13 to $23 a month on yearly billing, up 77%, and the five-seat minimum stays. The hike comes a week after Scribe added Autocapture AI to the plan.
- 05CutAnthropic
Anthropic halves its Sonnet 5.5 cache-read rate to $0.10 per MTok
$0.20$0.10
The Sonnet 5.5 cache-read price fell from $0.20 to $0.10 per MTok. In the same update Anthropic launched Haiku 5.5 at $0.10/$0.50 and moved Haiku 4.5 to Legacy.
Also moved
Raises & quiet cuts
- ALLDATA — Diagnostic Intelligence rises from $49 to $59/month, +20%, with the annual option up from $588 to $708/year.$49.00$59.00
- Hiya — Branded-call grid cut to four volume tabs; the 5,000-call tier rises from $449 to $550/month (+22%).$449$550
- Volusion — Business plan monthly billing rises to $399; the $299/month price now requires annual billing.$299/mo$399/mo monthly
- Microsoft — Microsoft 365 Family and Premium storage cut from up to 6 TB (1 TB per person) to 2 TB shared; yearly prices hold at $129.99 and $199.99.6 TB2 TB
Cuts & giveaways
- Whalesync — Starter halved from $32 to $16/month, and Plus gets a new $32 entry tier, down from $64.$32$16
- InVideo — Deeper annual promo cuts Starter from $20 to $10/seat/month, but Seedance video allowances shrink.$20$10
- Runway — New Enterprise customers get 2 free months of usage if they sign by Oct 31.0 months free2 months free
Reveals
- Element451 — Pricing page now states plans start at $20,000 per year; it used to show no price.Not listed$20,000/yr
- Taskade — Enterprise now lists $250/month (annual) with self-serve checkout instead of Contact sales.Custom$250/mo
- airSlate — Standard tier now shows a 'starting at $1.40 per document' rate; Advanced and Enterprise stay custom-priced.Not listed$1.40/doc
The pattern
This week's 230 pricing and packaging changes across 222 companies sit close to the eight-week average of 220 changes and 212.6 companies, a normal week by volume. Packaging changes (93) outnumbered pure pricing moves (61) and product updates (76). Price increases (20) ran at 1.3x their trailing baseline and price cuts (9) at 1.2x, with hikes outnumbering cuts by better than two to one.
Transparency pulled both ways. Six companies posted a price where there used to be none: Element451 now says plans start at $20,000 a year, and Taskade lists a self-serve $250/mo Enterprise tier. Six others went the other way, like Wingspan, which replaced its published Premium support prices (up to $1,500/mo) with 'your Wingspan team will share Premium pricing'. Promos held flat at 22 against an 8-week average of 21.5.
What to watch
Telnyx now sells its mid-tier through checkout at a $2,000 minimum. Watch whether it adds a cheaper committed tier for smaller accounts, or whether other voice-AI platforms raise their entry minimums too.
Matterport cut its lineup to Professional and Enterprise and raised the entry price. Watch whether former Starter and Business customers get migration pricing or a forced move up.
Price increases are running 1.3x baseline and cuts 1.2x, both up together. Watch whether that means the market is repricing more often rather than trending toward hikes or toward discounts.
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