What PriceTape records

What is recorded

For each vendor, the pricing, product and security pages it publishes, preserved as they stood on each date they were seen. Older states come from archived copies of the same pages and are labelled as such. Nothing is edited after it is preserved.

What counts as a change

A change is a difference between two preserved states of the same page that alters what a buyer would pay, get, or have to do: a price, a plan or tier, what a plan includes, a limit, a trial or discount, the path to buying, or a published security or compliance claim. Wording, layout and navigation changes are not changes. Each change carries the two dates it was observed between, never a guessed date in between.

Public records

Contract awards, procurement notices, court and regulatory filings that state what a buyer paid or was quoted. Each carries its document, its date, and its basis: awarded, negotiated, list, or derived. A record is never treated as a vendor's price list.

What PriceTape never does

It never infers a price a source does not state, never averages, never estimates, and never publishes a figure it cannot point to. Where a vendor does not publish pricing, the page says so and stops. Where PriceTape is not sure, it says it is not sure.

What is public and when

Headlines of changes and every public record are public 14 days after they are recorded. The before and after, the preserved pages, and same-day alerts are for customers.

Corrections

If a claim is wrong, email hello@pricetape.co with the page address. Errors are fixed and the fix is noted.