2026
Beamer Pricing in 2026 - Plans, MAU Limits & Cheaper Alternatives
Beamer starts at $49/mo but charges by monthly active users and locks feedback behind add-ons. Full pricing breakdown, real costs, and flat-rate alternatives.
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Beamer Pricing Explained: What You Actually Pay in 2026
Beamer is the most popular changelog tool in the SaaS space. If you've ever seen a "What's New" bell icon inside a web app that opens a feed of product updates, there's a good chance it was powered by Beamer.
It does that job well. The changelog widget is polished, easy to install, and effective at keeping users informed about product updates. But that's also where the confusion starts — because Beamer is primarily a changelog and announcement tool, not a full feedback platform.
Many teams sign up expecting feedback boards, voting, and a roadmap alongside the changelog. Instead, they find that feedback is a paid add-on, the free plan caps at 1,000 monthly visitors, and the tool gets expensive quickly as your user base grows.
This guide breaks down every Beamer plan, explains the MAU-based pricing model, shows the real cost of add-ons, and compares it to tools that include feedback, roadmaps, and changelogs in one flat-rate price.
How Beamer Pricing Works
Beamer uses MAU-based pricing — Monthly Active Users. An MAU is anyone who loads a page where the Beamer widget is installed. They don't need to click on it, read an update, or interact in any way. If the widget loads on the page they visit, they count.
This is important because it means your Beamer costs are tied to your website or app traffic, not to how many people actually use the changelog. If you have 50,000 monthly visitors but only 2,000 read your changelog, you're still paying for 50,000 MAUs.
Each plan has an MAU cap. Exceeding it requires upgrading to the next tier or buying additional MAU blocks. Beamer offers four tiers: Free, Starter, Pro, and Scale, plus a custom Enterprise option.
Every Beamer Plan Explained
Free — $0/month
The free plan gives you a basic changelog widget with up to 1,000 MAUs. You can post updates, add images and videos, and embed the widget on your site.
What it doesn't include: custom branding (Beamer's logo stays on your widget), push notifications, email notifications, segmentation, analytics beyond basics, feedback, NPS, or any real customization. You're also limited to 1,000 monthly visitors — most products with any traction will hit this within days.
The free plan is a demo, not a usable tier. It exists to let you test the widget before paying.
Starter — $49/month (annual) or $59/month (monthly)
Starter raises the MAU cap to 5,000 and adds boosted announcements (pop-ups, banners, snippets, tooltips), real-time updates, custom branding, basic analytics, and team collaboration features.
This is the first plan where Beamer becomes usable for a real product. Custom branding removes the Beamer logo, and boosted announcements let you show updates more prominently than just the widget feed.
What Starter doesn't include: reactions, NPS surveys, user segmentation, advanced analytics, the inbox, email notifications, or the feedback add-on. If you want users to react to your updates or collect any feedback, you need Pro.
At $49/month for a changelog tool, Starter is reasonable — but keep in mind this is just a changelog. There's no feedback board, no voting, and no roadmap.
Pro — $99/month (annual) or $119/month (monthly)
Pro raises the MAU cap to 15,000 and adds reactions, NPS surveys (as an add-on), the inbox for managing user responses, email notifications (5,000/month), user segmentation, advanced analytics, and audit logs.
This is where Beamer becomes genuinely useful for two-way communication. Reactions let users respond to updates, segmentation lets you target announcements to specific user groups, and the inbox lets you manage replies.
However, NPS and feedback are still add-ons with separate pricing. The "Pro" plan doesn't include them — you pay extra.
At $99/month (or $119 monthly), Pro competes directly with tools that include feedback, roadmaps, and changelogs together for less money.
Scale — $249/month (annual) or $299/month (monthly)
Scale raises the MAU cap to 80,000 and adds push notifications, email notifications (20,000/month), more team seats, and priority support.
At $249/month ($2,988/year), this is enterprise-level pricing for what is still primarily a changelog and announcement tool. Scale makes sense if you have a large product with tens of thousands of monthly visitors and need sophisticated segmentation and push notifications. For most SaaS teams, it's overkill.
Enterprise — Custom Pricing
For products with more than 80,000 MAUs or specific compliance requirements, Beamer offers custom Enterprise plans through their sales team.
The Add-On Problem
The biggest surprise in Beamer's pricing is that feedback and NPS — features many teams assume are included — are paid add-ons.
Feedback add-on: Lets users submit feedback through the Beamer widget. Pricing is not publicly listed — you need to contact Beamer. Based on user reports, expect an additional $30-50/month on top of your base plan.
NPS add-on: Adds Net Promoter Score surveys inside your product. Also requires contacting Beamer for pricing, with reports suggesting $30-50/month additional.
This means a team that wants Beamer for changelog + feedback + NPS on the Pro plan could be paying $99 + $40 + $40 = roughly $179/month — and they still don't have a voting board or a public roadmap.
Compare this to tools that bundle all these features into a single price, and Beamer's total cost becomes harder to justify unless you specifically need only its changelog capabilities and nothing else.
What You'll Actually Pay: Real Cost Examples
Solo founder, 3,000 MAUs, changelog only: Starter plan at $49/month ($588/year). This works if all you need is a changelog widget with custom branding. Reasonable for what it is.
Small team, 10,000 MAUs, changelog + feedback: Pro plan at $99/month + feedback add-on (~$40/month) = ~$139/month ($1,668/year). And you still don't have a voting board, public roadmap, or voter notifications.
Growing product, 25,000 MAUs, full engagement stack: Scale plan at $249/month + feedback (~$40) + NPS (~$40) = ~$329/month ($3,948/year). At this price, you're paying almost $4,000/year for a changelog tool with bolt-on feedback — no voting, no roadmap, no feedback loop.
The hidden cost: Because Beamer only handles announcements and basic feedback, most teams end up pairing it with another tool for feature voting and roadmapping. Beamer ($99/month) + Canny for feedback ($79+/month) = $178+/month for what an all-in-one tool handles for a fraction of the cost.
What Beamer Does Well
Beamer earned its reputation for a reason — it's the best-in-class changelog widget.
The widget is excellent. Beamer's in-app notification widget is polished, customizable, and easy to install. The "What's New" bell icon with a notification badge is a proven pattern for driving users to read product updates. The widget supports images, videos, GIFs, and multiple announcement types (pop-ups, banners, tooltips, snippets).
Boosted announcements drive engagement. Unlike a passive changelog page, Beamer can push updates to users through pop-ups, banners, and targeted notifications. This is genuinely effective at increasing feature awareness and adoption.
Segmentation on Pro and above. Being able to target announcements to specific user segments (by plan, country, behavior, or custom attributes) is valuable. Telling enterprise customers about a new SSO feature without bothering free users is exactly the kind of targeting that improves the changelog experience.
Easy installation. A single script tag and you're live. No complex SDK, no backend integration required. This makes Beamer one of the fastest feedback tools to get running.
Push and email notifications. On higher plans, Beamer can notify users through browser push notifications and email digests — reaching users who aren't actively in your product.
Where Beamer's Pricing Becomes a Problem
It's a changelog tool priced like a platform. At $99-249/month, Beamer costs as much as tools that include feedback boards, voting, roadmaps, and changelogs together. But Beamer only does the changelog part natively. Feedback and NPS are bolt-on add-ons with additional fees.
MAU-based pricing penalizes growth. Like Canny's tracked-user model, Beamer's costs scale with your traffic. A successful product launch that doubles your visitors also doubles your Beamer costs — even if the same number of people read your changelog. The cost isn't tied to value delivered, it's tied to page loads.
No feedback board or voting. The feedback add-on lets users submit feedback through the widget, but there's no public board where users can see what others have requested, vote on ideas, or track status changes. This means you can't use Beamer alone to collect and prioritize feature requests. You need a separate tool.
No public roadmap. Beamer has no way to show users what's planned, in progress, or coming next. A public roadmap is one of the most effective ways to set expectations and reduce "when will you add X?" support tickets. Beamer simply doesn't offer this.
No connected feedback loop. The most valuable workflow in product communication is: user requests a feature → others vote → you build it → you announce it → voters get notified. This feedback loop requires feedback collection, a roadmap, and a changelog working together. Beamer only has the last piece. The loop stays broken unless you stack additional tools.
Beamer vs. Alternatives: Price Comparison
Feature | Beamer Starter | Beamer Pro | fdback | Canny Pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Monthly price | $49/mo | $99/mo | $15/mo | $79/mo+ |
MAU/user limit | 5,000 | 15,000 | Unlimited | ~100 (scales) |
Changelog | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
In-app widget | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Feedback board | Add-on ($) | Add-on ($) | ✅ | ✅ |
Voting | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
Public roadmap | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
Voter notifications | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
Segmentation | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ (Pro) |
Push notifications | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Annual cost | $588 | $1,188 | $180 | $948+ |
The tradeoff is clear: Beamer excels at announcements and targeted notifications, but it doesn't handle the feedback side. fdback covers the full pipeline — feedback, voting, roadmap, changelog, and voter notifications — for $15/month flat. No MAU limits, no add-on fees.
If you specifically need push notifications, boosted announcements, and user segmentation for targeted product communication, Beamer delivers that well. But if your goal is the complete feedback-to-changelog loop, Beamer alone can't do it — and adding the missing pieces through other tools makes the total cost significantly higher than an all-in-one solution.
For more details on the feature comparison, see our Beamer alternative guide.
When Beamer Is the Right Choice
Beamer makes sense in one specific scenario: you already have a feedback and roadmap tool, and you need a dedicated, best-in-class changelog widget with advanced announcement features.
If your product has 10,000+ MAUs and you need segmented announcements, push notifications, boosted pop-ups, and email digests — and you're already handling feedback and roadmapping elsewhere — Beamer's Pro or Scale plan delivers capabilities that simpler changelog features in all-in-one tools don't match.
It's also a reasonable choice if your primary goal is product marketing through in-app announcements rather than collecting and managing feature requests. Beamer's strength is broadcasting, not listening.
When to Look at Alternatives
If you need feedback collection, feature voting, a public roadmap, and a changelog in one tool — which is what most SaaS teams actually need — Beamer is the wrong starting point. You'd end up paying for Beamer plus a feedback tool, spending $150-250/month for what an integrated platform handles in one subscription.
fdback covers this full workflow for $15/month flat. Feature voting board, public roadmap, changelog, in-app widget, voter notifications, custom domain — all included. When you mark a feature as shipped, the changelog entry goes live and every user who voted gets notified automatically. That's the connected loop Beamer can't provide on its own.
For the cost of two months on Beamer's Starter plan, you get an entire year of fdback.
FAQ
How much does Beamer cost per month? Beamer's paid plans start at $49/month (Starter, 5,000 MAUs), $99/month (Pro, 15,000 MAUs), and $249/month (Scale, 80,000 MAUs) on annual billing. Monthly billing is 17% more expensive. Feedback and NPS are paid add-ons on all plans. The free plan allows 1,000 MAUs with Beamer branding.
What is a Monthly Active User (MAU) in Beamer? An MAU is anyone who loads a page where the Beamer widget is installed. They don't need to click the widget or read any updates — the page load itself counts. This means your MAU count equals your website or app traffic on pages with the widget, not the number of people who engage with your changelog.
Does Beamer include feedback collection? Not in the base plans. Feedback is a paid add-on across all tiers. The add-on lets users submit feedback through the widget, but there's no public board, no voting system, and no way for users to see what others have requested.
Does Beamer have a public roadmap? No. Beamer does not offer a public-facing product roadmap on any plan. If you need to show users what's planned, in progress, or shipped, you need a separate tool.
Is Beamer's free plan usable? Barely. It's limited to 1,000 MAUs, includes Beamer branding on your widget, and lacks custom domains, feedback, NPS, segmentation, and email notifications. It works for testing the widget but not for production use.
How does Beamer compare to Canny? They solve different problems. Beamer is a changelog and announcement tool — it excels at broadcasting updates to users. Canny is a feedback collection tool — it excels at gathering and prioritizing feature requests. Neither does both well on its own. For a detailed Canny pricing breakdown, see our Canny pricing guide.
What's the cheapest Beamer alternative with feedback included? fdback includes feedback boards, voting, a public roadmap, a changelog, and voter notifications for $15/month flat. No MAU limits, no add-ons, no per-seat pricing. It covers both the announcement and feedback sides in one tool.
Can I use Beamer just for changelogs and another tool for feedback? Yes, many teams do this — Beamer for announcements plus Canny or fdback for feedback. But the combined cost (Beamer $49-99 + feedback tool $15-99) is typically more expensive than using a single tool that includes both. The other downside is that the feedback loop isn't connected — voters don't automatically get notified when the feature they requested ships through your changelog.
