Comparison

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Compare plans

Pick the plan that fits how you ship

Every plan includes unlimited viewers, global CDN hosting and SSL. Upgrade or downgrade any time.

Starter

$0forever

For side projects and trying things out with one collaborator.

Start for free

Projects3
Editors per project2
Version history7 days
Custom domainsNot included
Branch previewsNot included
Audit logNot included
SSO and SCIMNot included

Most teams pick this

Studio

$24per editor / mo

For product teams shipping every week across several sites.

Try Studio for 14 days

ProjectsUnlimited
Editors per project10
Version history1 year
Custom domainsIncluded
Branch previewsIncluded
Audit logNot included
SSO and SCIMNot included

Scale

$59per editor / mo

For companies that need controls, compliance and a named contact.

Talk to sales

ProjectsUnlimited
Editors per projectUnlimited
Version historyForever
Custom domainsIncluded
Branch previewsIncluded
Audit logIncluded
SSO and SCIMIncluded

Prices in USD, billed annually. Need more than 50 editors? Get a custom quote

Comparison Tiers

Plan cards side by side that list the same feature rows, so checks, dashes and values line up across tiers. The recommended plan gets a rotating beam border and a badge, and hovering a row highlights it in every card.

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Fieldnote vs the usual stack

Same questions, answered nine times faster

We ran both tools side by side for 30 days with 212 analysts at 18 companies. These are the medians.

Read the full report

FieldnoteLegacy BIMedian of 212 analysts

Time to first insight
From signup to a shared dashboard
Fieldnote: 4.0 min
Legacy BI: 38 min
9.5x faster
Query speed
p95 on a 200M row table
Fieldnote: 0.8 s
Legacy BI: 6.4 s
8.0x faster
Connectors included
Without paid add-ons
Fieldnote: 140
Legacy BI: 35
+300%
Weekly active rate
Share of seats used each week
Fieldnote: 87%
Legacy BI: 41%
+112%
Support reply time
Median, business hours
Fieldnote: 9.0 min
Legacy BI: 52 min
5.8x faster

Independent benchmark by Northgate Research, September 2026. Legacy BI is the average of three incumbent tools.

Comparison Scorecard

An us versus them scorecard with two overall score rings and a list of benchmark metrics, each with paired bars that grow in and numbers that count up, plus a delta chip per row.

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Pricing calculator

See what your support stack really costs

Move the sliders to match your team. Competitor prices come from their public pricing pages in October 2026.

Support agents

People who answer conversations

Monthly active contacts

Customers who start a conversation

You save at least, per year

$8,548

Start a free trial

$422 /moRelay

$1,166 /moBeacon Desk

$1,135 /moParcel HQ

$1,309 /moSwitchyard

Compared with the cheapest alternative for the same seats and contacts. Taxes not included.

Comparison Calculator

A light pricing calculator where sliders for seats and contacts and a monthly or yearly switch update a bar chart of your price against competitors, with the yearly savings counting to the new value.

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Compare

Why teams move their sites to Relay

The same features you would spend a quarter wiring together, on by default and priced per project.

Feature	RelayRecommended	Legacy CDN	Build it yourself
Performance
Global edge locations	310	84	Up to you
Median cold start	4 ms	240 ms	1.2 s
On-the-fly image optimization
HTTP/3 and early hints			Partial
Developer experience
Deploy on git push
Preview URL for every branch
One-click rollbacks		Manual
Security
Always-on DDoS mitigation
SOC 2 Type II report
Managed TLS certificates		Paid add-on

Performance

Global edge locations
Relay
310
Legacy CDN
84
Build it yourself
Up to you
Median cold start
Relay
4 ms
Legacy CDN
240 ms
Build it yourself
1.2 s
On-the-fly image optimization
Relay
Legacy CDN
Build it yourself
HTTP/3 and early hints
Relay
Legacy CDN
Build it yourself
Partial

Developer experience

Deploy on git push
Relay
Legacy CDN
Build it yourself
Preview URL for every branch
Relay
Legacy CDN
Build it yourself
One-click rollbacks
Relay
Legacy CDN
Manual
Build it yourself

Security

Always-on DDoS mitigation
Relay
Legacy CDN
Build it yourself
SOC 2 Type II report
Relay
Legacy CDN
Build it yourself
Managed TLS certificates
Relay
Legacy CDN
Paid add-on
Build it yourself

Deploy your first site Read the migration guide

Comparison Table

A feature matrix with grouped rows, a sticky header and a glowing highlighted column. Rows highlight on hover and the table turns into stacked cards in narrow containers.

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Before and after

Same launch. One-tenth of the busywork.

What changed for the content team at Northwind after moving 1,200 pages to Inkwell in a single sprint.

Before

Shipping a launch page the old way

Copy lives in 14 docs and nobody knows which one is final
Every typo fix waits for a developer and a deploy
Translations are pasted by hand into six locales
Approvals happen in DMs and quietly get lost
Preview links break whenever the branch changes

After

Shipping it with Inkwell

One source of truth with history on every field
Editors publish in a click, developers keep their weekends
Locales sync automatically into review queues
Comments and sign-off live right next to the content
A stable preview link for every single draft

Time to publish
Before: 3 days, After: 20 min
Tools in the stack
Before: 9, After: 1
Review rounds
Before: 6, After: 2
Monthly spend
Before: $1,840, After: $390

Comparison Versus

A Before and After split with a spinning VS badge between two contrasting panels, and a metric strip whose bars grow to show the change.

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Release timeline

Drag to see three weeks become two days

The same six release stages for a mobile banking app, before and after Pipeline took over the waiting.

Release plan, Ledger iOS 4.2

Day 0Day 5Day 10Day 15Day 20

Code freeze

Regression tests

Security review

Staging soak

Release notes

Rollout

Automated with Pipeline2.5 days, zero handoffs

17 days back2.5 days, zero handoffs

BeforeManual QA and handoffsAfterAutomated with Pipeline

Comparison Slider

A light section with a draggable divider over two release timelines. Drag or use the arrow keys to reveal how the same stages shrink from weeks to days.

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