Thoughts on Pagecord pricing in 2026

A few paying customers have suggested I charge a bit more for Pagecord. I'm now considering upping the price in the next few weeks, for new customers, to $39/year. Existing customers will stay on their original plan unless they actually want to pay a bit more. Unlikely, but I'll happy increase your renewal price! 😅

There are a few reasons why I'd like to do this:

1. The Pagecord price (currently $29/year) includes sales tax wherever you're based. Many products add this on at checkout but I find that annoying as a customer myself, so I want the price on the website to reflect what you actually pay. No surprises. The downside of this is that I take a ~20% hit on the list price, plus another 5% for Paddle processing fees. This means I actually receive $21.75 a year for each full price subscription. World's smallest violin, I know, but it's actually a meaningful difference.
2. The current price is one of the (if not the) cheapest on the market, and there's an argument for it being too cheap for all the features. Most blogging apps of Pagecord's feature depth are $5/mo or $49+/year, and so $3.25 a month for an all-you-can-eat blogging platform feels good value to me.
3. I'm incorporating a Limited Company for Pagecord now it's sustainable so my annual costs are going to increase quite a bit as a result (higher tax and accounting bills, insurance, virtual office etc). Since existing customers are being grandfathered, I have to take the hit here but Pagecord has some growth so I'm confident it will be fine in time.
4. I now have costs for AI for both my own coding agents, as well as routine spam blog detection. It's pricey and eats into my meagre margins, but it really does make life as an indie dev 10x better.
5. I plan to add a bit more resilience to Pagecord's server stack which will increase ongoing costs and deplete margins.

If you're a customer (or thinking about being a customer) I'd value your thoughts on this, positive or negative! Bear in mind that I receive no personal income from Pagecord (yet), and it is only just profitable. A price rise will mainly offset the new costs, I don't expect to make a personal profit until I reach 300+ paying customers (some way to go yet!).

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