Blogging Titan research series
The money underneath: what tools really cost after the first year, who pays whom, and where the margin goes.
The standard for this series. Prices come from the vendor’s own page on a stated date and go into a dated log, so every figure can be checked against its history. First-year offers and renewal prices are always shown side by side.
In this series
- Blogging Tool Cost Index 2026: what 30 tools actually cost
- Tool pricing pages with a dated price history
- Blog Cost Calculator: hosting, domain and tools over 1 to 6 years
- What Cloudflare Pay Per Use offers a small blog, and why ours cannot see an offer
- Hostinger vs SiteGround: The Same $2.99, $540 Apart After Four Years (October 2026)
- Divi vs Elementor: Five-Year Cost, and the Currency Trap in Elementor’s Prices (October 2026)
- We Priced a Year of 16 AI SEO and Blogging Tools. For 13, the Monthly Price Times 12 Is Wrong.
- 6 Bluehost Alternatives, Priced Over Four Years, Not Year One (2026)
- We Checked 369 Prices in 39 Page-One Tool Reviews. Most Are Accurate. Almost None Are Usable.
The other five series
The Internet Experiment · The Website Autopsy · The AI Reality Check · The Internet Investigation · The Next Internet
Every series sits inside Original Research, alongside our named findings, how we test and our editorial policy.