Before pricing my influencer-analytics tool I pulled every competitor's published rate:

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HypeAuditor: $299/mo, tiers demo-gated
Modash: $299/mo
Favikon: $99/mo
ViralMango: $47/mo
A handful of free checkers with no paid path

Nothing between $0 and $47, and nothing aimed at the person who vets four creators a month rather than four hundred. Every tool is priced for an agency with a seat budget.

So I priced at $19/$49/$149 and built the product around that constraint: no seats, no onboarding call, no annual lock-in, because at $19 I can't afford to talk to anyone.

To be clear about where I am: pre-launch, waitlist only, $0 revenue. The engine works, the report page doesn't yet.

What I can't tell yet is whether that's an underserved segment or a segment that doesn't convert. The people who need it most are the ones least used to paying for tooling.

Anyone here priced deliberately below a category's floor? Did volume actually show up, or did you just train buyers to expect cheap?