About this site

Asterisk adds up what subscription software costs over a year. The name comes from the asterisk next to a price: the small conditions that decide what you really pay. Each page starts from a provider's own pricing page and terms and turns them into tables and calculators: the yearly total at a given list size, what happens when a limit is passed, and what a change of provider costs.

What is on this site

• Yearly cost tables and calculators. Every price is taken from the provider's official pricing page. Each table shows the page it came from and the date it was checked.
• Billing rules. How each provider counts subscribers, what it charges when a limit is exceeded, and when it gives refunds. These are summaries of the provider's published terms, with a link to the original.

What is not on this site

• No reviews, ratings or rankings. The products listed here have not been tested by this site. Nothing here says how a product feels to use or which one is better.
• No advice. The tables show published prices. Which product fits a business depends on things a price table cannot show.

How pages are made

Prices and plan limits are read from each provider's official pricing page with the help of AI tools, and pages are drafted the same way. The figures are re-checked against the official pages once a month, and the check date on each page is updated. Not every figure has been checked by hand, so treat the provider's own page as the final word.

Prices change. If a number here differs from the provider's own page, the provider's page is correct. Corrections are welcome through the contact form.

Who runs it

Asterisk is run by an independent individual publisher. It is not owned by, or part of, any of the companies listed.

How it is funded

Some links to providers are affiliate links. See the affiliate disclosure.