Beamer has three paid plans in 2026 — Starter at $49, Pro at $99, and Scale at $249 a month when billed annually — plus a free plan for products with fewer than 1,000 monthly active users. Those are the numbers on the pricing page. The number on your invoice depends on two things the plan names don’t tell you: how many people load your app each month, and whether you want feedback or NPS.
This guide walks through each plan, how Beamer counts the users it bills for, what overage costs, and what the total looks like at a few realistic sizes. Every figure comes from Beamer’s pricing page and its help center, checked in November 2026.
Jump to: Plans at a glance · How MAU is counted · Overage · Add-ons · Real-world totals · Is it worth it? · A flat-priced alternative
Beamer plans at a glance
| Plan | Billed annually | Billed monthly | MAU included | What it adds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | Under 1,000 | The entry tier for small products |
| Starter | $49/mo | $59/mo | 5,000 | In-app and standalone changelog, boosted announcements, appearance customization, analytics |
| Pro | $99/mo | $119/mo | 10,000 | Everything in Starter, plus a dedicated inbox, comments and reactions, basic segmentation |
| Scale | $249/mo | $299/mo | 50,000 | Everything in Pro, plus advanced segmentation, user activities, a staging account |
Beyond 50,000 monthly active users, Beamer points you to sales for a custom plan. Annual billing saves roughly 17% against paying month to month on every tier.
Two things stand out. The feature differences between tiers are modest — the big step is segmentation, which starts on Pro. And the main thing each tier buys is a larger allowance of monthly active users, which makes the MAU definition the most important line in the whole pricing model.
How Beamer counts monthly active users
You might expect “active user” to mean someone who opened the announcement widget. It doesn’t. Beamer’s help center defines monthly active users as the number of unique users who access any page where Beamer’s script is embedded, or the standalone page, in a given month.
In practice that means:
- You’re billed on your product’s traffic, not on changelog readership. If the script loads on every page of your app, every person who signs in that month counts — whether they read an update or never noticed the bell icon.
- Inactive accounts don’t count. People in your database who don’t visit during the month aren’t charged for.
- Identification matters. If you pass a
user_id, one person is one MAU across devices. If you don’t, Beamer falls back to a browser cookie, and its own docs call that less reliable: cleared cookies and second devices each add to the count.
That last point is worth acting on before you look at plans. A product with 4,000 real users can show up as 6,000 MAU if nobody wired up user identification, and that’s the difference between Starter and Pro.
What happens when you go over
Beamer doesn’t cut you off the moment you cross the line. According to its overage documentation, it adds MAU bundles to your subscription automatically:
| Plan | Bundle size | Bundle price |
|---|---|---|
| Starter and Pro | 5,000 MAU | $50/month |
| Scale | 50,000 MAU | $150/month |
| Custom | — | Handled by your account team |
Three details from the same page matter for the bill. Bundles are charged 14 days after you go over, a review window meant to show whether the spike was real growth. They aren’t removed automatically when usage falls — you have to ask support, and the removal takes effect at the end of the billing period with no refund for it. And an account whose MAU count is far above its plan can be blocked, after Beamer contacts it; that usually traces back to a missing user_id.
The arithmetic has a quirk that’s useful to know. On Starter and Pro an extra MAU costs a cent; on Scale it costs less than a third of that. So once you’re consistently above about 25,000 MAU — Pro plus three bundles is $249, the same as Scale — moving up to Scale is the cheaper option even though its sticker price is higher.
The Feedback and NPS add-ons
The plans above cover the changelog and notification center. Two other Beamer products are sold separately:
- Feedback — $99/month. In-app feedback collection and moderation, a public and private roadmap, and automatic updates to users who asked for something.
- NPS — $99/month. In-app, email, and linked NPS surveys with analytics and segmentation.
Both are listed as add-ons on every paid tier, including Scale. If what you want is the common “changelog plus feedback board” setup, the realistic entry price for Beamer isn’t $49 — it’s $148 a month, and $247 with NPS as well.
What Beamer costs at different sizes
Here’s the monthly bill at list prices, using the annual plan rate and adding overage bundles where they’re cheaper than the next tier up.
| Monthly active users | Changelog only | With Feedback | With Feedback + NPS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1,000 | $0 (Free) | — | — |
| 5,000 | $49 (Starter) | $148 | $247 |
| 10,000 | $99 (Pro) | $198 | $297 |
| 20,000 | $199 (Pro + 2 bundles) | $298 | $397 |
| 50,000 | $249 (Scale) | $348 | $447 |
| 100,000 | $399 (Scale + 1 bundle) | $498 | $597 |
Over a year, a product with 20,000 monthly active users pays about $2,400 for Beamer’s changelog alone and about $4,800 with both add-ons. Paying monthly instead of annually raises the plan portion by around 20%.
Is Beamer worth the price?
It depends on which half of Beamer you’re buying.
It’s fairly priced if you use the engagement features. Beamer is a notification product as much as a changelog: boosted announcements, an in-app inbox, segmentation, and push notifications. If you target announcements at specific user groups and measure how they perform, MAU pricing lines up with the value — more users reached, more paid.
It’s expensive if you just publish release notes. The changelog and widget you get are the same whether 2,000 or 200,000 people could see them, but at the annual rates the bill goes from $49 a month to $699 (Scale plus three bundles) across that range. You pay more each time your own product grows, for a feature that didn’t change.
The add-ons change the comparison. At $99 each, Feedback and NPS cost more than the Starter plan itself. Tools built around feedback boards usually include the changelog in the base price, so if feedback is the main job, compare against those rather than against changelog tools.
If you only need the changelog
If the release notes are what you’re after, a flat price is the simpler model. ReleasePad is $35 a month per product — unlimited posts, unlimited team members, and no charge tied to how many people use your app. There’s a free tier with no time limit, and Pro adds the GitHub integration that drafts entries from your commits and pull requests, analytics, a custom domain, and the REST API.
| Beamer | ReleasePad | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry paid price | $49/mo (annual), 5,000 MAU | $35/mo per product |
| What the price scales with | Monthly active users | Number of products |
| 50,000 MAU | $249/mo | $35/mo |
| Free plan | Under 1,000 MAU | Yes, limited number of published posts |
| Drafts notes from GitHub commits | No | Yes (Pro) |
| NPS surveys, push notifications | Yes (NPS is a $99 add-on) | No |
| Feedback board and roadmap | $99 add-on | No |
The last two rows are the honest part: ReleasePad doesn’t do NPS, push notifications, or feedback boards. If those are why you’re looking at Beamer, it isn’t a substitute. If you were going to use the changelog and the widget and ignore the rest, the pricing page has the full feature list, and the ReleasePad vs Beamer comparison goes through the two products feature by feature.
The short version
- Free under 1,000 MAU; Starter $49, Pro $99, Scale $249 a month billed annually, with 5,000, 10,000, and 50,000 MAU included.
- An MAU is anyone who loads a page with Beamer’s script — not just people who read your updates. Pass a
user_idso nobody’s counted twice. - Overage is automatic: $50 per 5,000 MAU on Starter and Pro, $150 per 50,000 on Scale.
- Feedback and NPS are $99 a month each, on every paid plan.
- For a changelog on its own, compare against flat-priced tools before you commit to a meter.
Further Reading
- ReleasePad vs Beamer — the two tools compared feature by feature.
- Best Beamer Alternatives — changelog and release notes tools with different pricing models.
- Canny Pricing in 2026 — how tracked-user pricing compares with MAU pricing.
- Featurebase Pricing 2026 — the per-seat model, and what a changelog alone costs there.
- Best Changelog Tools — ten tools side by side.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does Beamer cost in 2026?
Beamer has three paid plans: Starter at $49 a month, Pro at $99 a month, and Scale at $249 a month when billed annually, or $59, $119, and $299 billed monthly. Each plan includes a set number of monthly active users: 5,000 on Starter, 10,000 on Pro, and 50,000 on Scale. There's also a free plan for products with fewer than 1,000 monthly active users.
Is Beamer free?
Beamer has a free plan, but it's limited to products with fewer than 1,000 monthly active users. Once more than that many unique people load a page where Beamer's script is installed, you need a paid plan, which starts at $49 a month billed annually.
How does Beamer count monthly active users?
Beamer counts the unique users who access any page where its script is embedded, or its standalone page, in a given month. It isn't a count of people who open the widget or read a post. If you don't pass a user ID, Beamer falls back to a browser cookie, so the same person on two devices can be counted twice.
What happens if you go over Beamer's MAU limit?
Beamer adds MAU bundles to your subscription automatically. On Starter and Pro each bundle adds 5,000 monthly active users for $50 a month, and on Scale each bundle adds 50,000 for $150 a month. Bundles are billed after a 14-day review window and aren't removed automatically when your usage drops. Ordinary overage doesn't interrupt service, though Beamer can block an account whose MAU count is far above its plan, after contacting it.
How much are Beamer's Feedback and NPS add-ons?
Feedback and NPS are separate add-ons at $99 a month each, on top of any paid plan. Feedback covers in-app feedback collection and a public or private roadmap; NPS covers in-app, email, and linked surveys. Adding both to the Starter plan takes it from $49 to $247 a month.
What is a cheaper alternative to Beamer for a changelog?
If you only need a changelog, tools with flat pricing avoid the MAU meter entirely. ReleasePad is $35 a month per product with unlimited team members and no charge based on traffic, and it has a free tier. It doesn't include NPS surveys or push notifications, so it's the cheaper choice only if release notes are what you're buying.
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