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havaloctoday at 3:11 PM3 repliesview on HN

Something seems off here, I don't see a huge climb in pricing. I feel $9 a month a seat is inline with SAAS pricing.

Today's pricing: https://www.getharvest.com/pricing

Pricing in 2023 (I looked at various years): https://web.archive.org/web/20230530052857/https://www.getha...


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SyneRydertoday at 3:38 PM

The small print here is the gotcha:

"Your base rate includes core features. As your team grows, additional invoices, projects, clients, and tasks are billed based on what you use, so you're never overpaying."

Harvest / Bending Spoons moved to charging for usage on top of the per-seat cost. Want to bill a new client? Now you need to pay more per month. Client gave you a new project? That's now a higher monthly fee again. Previously the Solo plan could have as many projects as you liked.

I commented when it happened to me on HN here:

"They took my ~$100/yr Harvest time-tracking Solo plan, increased the price by 2.5x for a more restricted plan than I had... or I could get back the plan I had for $20,000/year."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48849810

Click through to the comment if you want the punchline on how I solved this for myself.

EDIT: Found my Twitter post at the time with my screenshot from inside the Harvest interface: "Your plan is changing soon! You're on a Solo plan and will be moved to the Enterprise plan." mhermann above has an even better screenshot.

https://x.com/syneryder/status/2060707054709567582/photo/1 https://x.com/syneryder/status/2060844948250087816

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masfuertetoday at 3:53 PM

The current prices are labelled starting from. That doesn't tell you what it actually costs.

drcongotoday at 3:19 PM

It's explained in the article. They now charge for number of projects, clients and tasks, as well as active users.