CopperFeed is a dated record of what changed in SaaS and AI tooling: plans retired, prices moved, products launched, companies shut down, kept in the order things actually happened.
Why this exists
There is no shortage of software that will tell you which tool is best. There is very little that will tell you what a tool did last quarter.
In 2026 that gap started costing money. Vendors stopped raising prices and started retiring the plans underneath their AI tiers, so the increase never shows up as an increase. It arrives as a migration, at renewal, with a deadline attached. If nobody is watching for it, the first you hear about your plan being discontinued is the quote.
Watching for it is tedious work. Pricing pages change without a word, sunset notices go to some customers and not others, and half the announcements land in a changelog nobody reads. CopperFeed writes the changes down as they happen so you do not have to check 200 pricing pages yourself.
What counts as an entry
Four kinds of change, each dated to when it happened:
- Launched. A new product or company.
- Released. A significant feature, or a change to what an existing plan includes.
- Repriced. A price change, a plan restructure, a tier retirement, or a shift in billing model.
- Shut down. Discontinued, sunset, or acquired away.
How entries are dated and sourced
Two rules do most of the work.
Entries are dated to when the change happened, not when we wrote it up. Cover a pricing change from six weeks ago and it lands six weeks back in the feed, where it belongs, rather than at the top. A feed sorted by when the editor got round to it is a publishing schedule, not a record.
Entries cite a source wherever one exists. Usually the vendor’s own pricing page, changelog, or customer email. Sometimes credible reporting. Where a claim comes out of somebody else’s research we say so and link it, instead of restating it as ours. The failure mode of this format is repeating something confidently that never happened, and citations are the only real defence against it.
One caveat worth stating plainly. Vendor communication about plan retirements is inconsistent by design: some announce a year out, some announce at renewal, some tell one customer segment and nobody else. Anything here is a floor on what changed, never a ceiling, and your own contract governs rather than our summary of it.
What CopperFeed is not
It is not a review site and it ranks nothing. “Which is best” is a different question with a different shelf life. Our sister site KestrelPicks answers that one, with a single pick per topic. CopperFeed only answers what changed.
It is not procurement advice either. The articles here describe patterns documented across the market and suggest questions worth asking. They are no substitute for reading your own agreement, or for talking to someone who can.
Corrections
If an entry is wrong, whether that is a bad date, a bad number, or a change that got announced and then reversed, tell us. We will fix it and note what changed. A dated record that quietly edits its own history is worth less than no record at all.
CopperFeed is new. The feed lives at copperfeed.com and the analysis lives here.