Search for Beamer pricing and you get two different products. One is a video projector. The other, the one this post is about, is Beamer the changelog tool: the in-app “what’s new” widget that SaaS companies embed so customers see a release without getting another email.
Beamer publishes its prices, which is more than most tools in this category manage. What is easy to miss is the unit those prices are attached to. Beamer charges by monthly active users, so the bill tracks how many people load your app, not how many people on your team use the tool. That one choice decides whether Beamer is cheap or expensive for you, and it is worth working out before the trial ends.
What does Beamer cost?
Beamer costs $59 a month for Starter, $119 for Pro and $299 for Scale on monthly billing, plus a free plan capped at 1,000 monthly active users. Annual billing brings the same three plans down to $49, $99 and $249 a month. Beamer’s own pricing page carried those figures when we checked it on 20 September 2026, alongside a 14-day free trial.
The two sets of numbers explain why third-party directories disagree about what Beamer costs. A listing quoting $49, $99 and $249 is quoting the annual rate. One quoting $59, $119 and $299 is quoting the monthly rate. Both are accurate, and neither is the whole bill.
| Plan | Monthly | Annual, per month | MAUs included | What the tier adds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | 1,000 | Unlimited changelog posts, basic analytics, pinned posts, post scheduling, filter by URL |
| Starter | $59 | $49 | 5,000 | In-app and standalone changelog, boosted announcements, appearance customization, analytics |
| Pro | $119 | $99 | 10,000 | Dedicated inbox, comments and reactions, basic segmentation |
| Scale | $299 | $249 | 50,000 | Advanced segmentation, user activities, staging account |
| Custom | Contact sales | Contact sales | Negotiated | Negotiated |
Above a tier’s ceiling, the published route is to buy capacity in blocks of 5,000 monthly active users at $50 a month each, listed on that same pricing page.
What counts as a monthly active user in Beamer?
A Beamer monthly active user is any unique person who loads a page where the Beamer script is embedded, or who opens the standalone changelog page, counted once in a given month. It is not a seat and it is not a subscriber. It is reach, and reach is the thing a product team has the least control over month to month.
Two details decide how fast that number climbs. The first is identity. Pass a user ID with the embed and one person on a laptop and a phone counts once. Leave it out and every new browser or device counts again, and so does anyone who clears their cookies. The second is placement. A widget on your marketing site counts visitors; a widget behind your login counts customers.
Beamer’s own help documentation, which we read on 20 September 2026, tells customers to avoid embedding on public-facing pages or pages reachable before login, so they track actual users rather than casual visitors. The advice is correct and it is also the tension in the model. An announcement widget is most useful where people already are, and the pricing quietly argues for putting it somewhere narrower. If you want the changelog on a public page as well as in the app, price that decision before you make it, because it lands in the invoice. That tradeoff is the core of what a changelog tool has to get right.
What do the Beamer add-ons cost?
Beamer’s Feedback and NPS modules cost $99 a month each, charged on top of the plan price, and neither is included in any tier. Both were listed at that same price against Starter, Pro and Scale alike on the pricing page we checked on 20 September 2026. The plan price is a floor, not a total.
The add-on structure matters because three modules together, changelog, feedback and NPS, are usually the reason a team looks at Beamer at all: announce the release, collect the replies, measure how people feel about it. Put all three on Pro and you pay $99 for the plan, $99 for Feedback and $99 for NPS. That is $297 a month on annual billing, or $3,564 a year, for 10,000 monthly active users.
| What you want | Plan | Add-ons | Annual billing, per month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Changelog, 5,000 MAUs | Starter | none | $49 |
| Changelog, 10,000 MAUs | Pro | none | $99 |
| Changelog and feedback, 10,000 MAUs | Pro | Feedback | $198 |
| Changelog, feedback and NPS, 10,000 MAUs | Pro | Feedback and NPS | $297 |
| Changelog, feedback and NPS, 50,000 MAUs | Scale | Feedback and NPS | $447 |
Where Beamer pricing stops making sense
Beamer pricing stops making sense at two points: when your audience passes roughly 20,000 monthly active users, and when you want more than announcements.
The first is arithmetic you can do yourself. Pro covers 10,000 MAUs at $99 a month on annual billing, and extra capacity costs $50 a month per 5,000. At 20,000 MAUs you are on $199, still under Scale. At 25,000 you are on $249, which is exactly Scale’s price, except you are getting half of Scale’s 50,000 ceiling and none of its advanced segmentation. Past 20,000 MAUs, topping up Pro is the wrong move, and the crossover arrives sooner than most people expect because MAUs count visitors rather than customers.
The second point is structural. Above 50,000 MAUs the published ladder simply ends, so 100,000 users means Scale plus ten blocks of capacity, or a conversation with sales about a custom plan. And if what you want next is a public roadmap where customers can see what is planned and vote on it, there is nothing on the price list to buy: no tier on the pricing page we checked listed a roadmap module.
What do teams actually pay for Beamer?
Teams that negotiate pay around $1,500 a year for Beamer, materially less than the published tiers suggest. Vendr’s buyer guide for Beamer puts the average annual cost at about $1,500 and the average contract value at $1,453, with a maximum near $3,600, drawn from more than five completed deals and five unique purchasers. That is a small sample, so read it as a range rather than a quote.
Two things stand out in that range. The average sits close to Pro on annual billing with no add-ons, which suggests most buyers take the changelog and stop there. And the top of the range, near $3,600, is within a rounding error of the $3,564 a year that Pro plus Feedback plus NPS costs at list price. Whatever negotiating room exists does not appear to come from the add-ons.
It is also worth knowing who you are buying from. Beamer acquired the onboarding tool Userflow in February 2024, a deal TechCrunch reported at $60 million and backed by Arsenal Growth Equity and lead investor Camber Partners, and Beamer’s help documentation now lives on the Userflow domain. A company consolidating into a broader product-adoption suite is a company whose price list tends to move. Meanwhile Capterra still shows Beamer’s starting price as “contact vendor”, with no free trial and no free version, against a 4.8 rating from 35 reviews. The directories are not keeping up, which is the practical argument for checking the vendor page yourself on the day you buy.
Beamer pricing next to a seat-priced alternative
The useful comparison is not feature against feature, it is what the bill is attached to. Beamer prices on audience size, so growth in traffic raises the cost of announcing to it. Sleekplan prices on team size: tracked users, feedback items and subscribers are unlimited on every plan, including the free one, and what you pay for is seats and modules. There is an allowance on announcement views, 1,000 a month on the free Indie plan and 10,000 on Starter, but the account itself is not metered on how many people visit.
| Beamer | Sleekplan | |
|---|---|---|
| Billing unit | Monthly active users | Team seats |
| Free plan | $0, 1,000 MAUs | Free forever, single-admin workspace, unlimited feedback and subscribers |
| Entry paid plan | $49 a month annually, 5,000 MAUs | $13 a month annually, 3 seats |
| Changelog | Included | Included on every plan |
| Feedback board | $99 a month add-on | Included on every plan |
| NPS and CSAT | $99 a month add-on | Included from Starter |
| Public roadmap | Not on the price list | Included from Starter |
| Trial | 14 days | 30 days, no card |
Read across that table and the difference is about which number you can forecast. A seat count is something you decide in a planning meeting. A monthly active user count is something your marketing team changes without telling you.
If Beamer is the shape of tool you want but the metering is the problem, the Beamer alternative comparison goes through the modules one by one.
The full plan ladder, including what the free tier covers and where the seat count stops being enough, sits on our pricing page.
What to work out before you start the trial
Get your real monthly active user number first, then price only the modules you will actually turn on.
- Measure reach, not users. Count the unique people who would load any page carrying the widget over a full month, logged-out visitors included. That is the figure Beamer bills against.
- Decide the embed placement before day one of the trial. Marketing site or post-login only is a choice that can move you a whole tier.
- Add the modules to the headline price. Feedback at $99 and NPS at $99 each cost more than the Pro plan they sit on.
- Check yourself against the 20,000 MAU line. Past it, Scale beats topping up Pro with capacity blocks.
- Ask what renewal looks like. The published tiers and what buyers actually pay are not the same number.
Do those five and you will know within an hour whether Beamer is the $1,188 a year that Pro alone costs or the $3,564 that Pro plus both add-ons costs, which is the question you came here with.