Software
What seller software actually costs
Nine tools, priced from published sources with the date each figure was checked. Half of them carry a contested block, because sources dated within months of each other give different numbers for the same plan — usually monthly against annual, sometimes a retired plan that directories never removed.
These are pricing references, not tested reviews. No tool here has been purchased or used by this site. Scored reviews follow the published rubric, are bought at list price, and state the plan tier and month tested. No tool here has paid for inclusion and this site earns no commission from any of them — seehow this site is funded.
| Tool | Category | Reported entry price |
|---|---|---|
| Helium 10 The largest seller suite, and the one whose published price you are most likely to have wrong. | Research suite | Available, limited |
| Jungle Scout The softer landing of the two big suites, and cheaper at the tiers most sellers actually buy. | Research suite | From $29 / month |
| AMZScout One plan, three billing terms, and roughly a third of what the big suites cost. | Research | $59.99 / month |
| ZonGuru Two plans, and the second one is priced by how many SKUs you actually sell. | Research suite | $49 / month, or $348 annually |
| Keepa One paid tier, priced in euros, and the clearest example on this site of a stale figure outliving the fact. | Price history | €0, no time limit |
| A2X Turns marketplace payouts into entries your accountant can reconcile. Does one job. | Accounting | From $29 / month |
| Sellerboard The cheapest entry point in this list, and the one aimed squarely at knowing your real margin. | Profit analytics | $15 / month |
| GETIDA No subscription. 25% of whatever it recovers — which is a smaller number than it used to be. | Reimbursement recovery | 25% of recovered amounts |
| Aura A repricer for Amazon and Walmart — in a year when price became an input to the fulfilment fee. | Repricing | $27 to $397 / month |
Why the prices disagree
Three causes account for nearly all of it. Vendors quote monthly and annual rates from the same headline, and a source that does not state the billing term is unusable. Promotions run and lapse without the published figure being revisited. And software directories carry prices they have not rechecked in years — one listing in this set gives a figure whose own disclaimer dates it to 2019.
The practical rule is the same one that applies to fee schedules elsewhere on this site: a price without a date is a rumor with a decimal point. Every figure here carries the date it was checked, and the vendor's own page is the only current source.
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