PraiseEngine pricing changed in August 2026 — and if you read launch-week posts, you may still see references to a 14-day trial. That trial is gone. New accounts land on a Free plan forever with no credit card required. Paid tiers — Starter, Growth, and Agency — add team seats, badge removal, and custom branding rather than gating core review collection.
This guide is the plain-language breakdown of review software cost for PraiseEngine in 2026: what you get free, what each paid plan adds, and when upgrading makes sense. For the official changelog, see the August 2026 product update. For live numbers, visit the pricing page.
What the Free plan includes
The PraiseEngine free plan is not a stripped-down demo — it is the full collection and moderation workflow with PraiseEngine branding on widgets.
Included on Free:
- AI-guided three-question interviews or manual entry — customers choose their path
- Customer approval — reviewers sign off on AI drafts built only from their words before submit
- Business moderation — approve, reject, or mark spam before anything publishes
- SEO review profiles with Review JSON-LD structured data
- Collection and display widgets — all four layouts: Standard, Grid, Carousel, Marquee
- 11 widget locales — embed UI, success messages, and AI questions adapt per language
- Sortable reviews — highest rated (default), lowest rated, newest, oldest
- Delete widgets and reviews from the dashboard
- Filter and sort in the reviews list by status, website, rating, or date
Free widgets show a “Powered by PraiseEngine” badge and use default profile and widget styling. That is the main tradeoff — not feature access.
Get started free — no credit card, no trial expiration. PraiseEngine launched August 2, 2026 as a product of Salestrics Inc.
Starter — $29/month
Starter is the entry paid tier for solo founders, freelancers, and small teams who want PraiseEngine to look like their brand — not a third-party plugin.
Starter includes:
- 1 teammate seat
- Badge removal — no “Powered by PraiseEngine” on collection or display widgets
- Custom profile colors — accent, background, and text on public review profiles
- Custom widget colors — same accent, background, and text controls on embeds, aligned with your profile
- Everything on the Free plan
At $29/month, Starter is the lowest review software cost tier for teams that embed widgets on customer-facing pages and care about white-label presentation. Compare alternatives on our comparison hub.
Growth — $79/month
Growth fits marketing and customer success teams who share moderation duty and need more seats without agency-scale pricing.
Growth includes:
- 5 teammate seats
- Badge removal on all widgets
- Custom profile and widget colors (accent, background, text)
- Everything on Starter and Free
Choose Growth when two to five people — marketing, CS, product marketing, an agency partner — need dashboard access to moderate, configure widgets, and manage reviews. Same branding benefits as Starter; the jump is team capacity.
Agency — $199/month
Agency is for agencies, resellers, and larger organizations managing multiple brands or a large internal team.
Agency includes:
- Unlimited teammate seats
- Badge removal on all widgets
- Custom profile and widget colors
- Everything on Growth, Starter, and Free
At $199/month, unlimited seats removes per-user math when you onboard clients, regional marketers, or a full CS org. Branding controls match Growth — the differentiator is scale.
When to upgrade
Stay on Free while you are validating the workflow — collecting first reviews, testing AI interviews vs manual entry, embedding a widget on a staging page. Upgrade when one of these triggers hits:
You embed widgets on production pages customers see
The “Powered by PraiseEngine” badge is fine for internal tests. On your homepage, pricing page, or checkout adjacency, paid badge removal makes embeds look native. That alone justifies Starter for many teams at $29/month.
Your brand palette matters
Paid plans unlock custom accent, background, and text colors on SEO review profiles and widgets. If off-brand embeds clash with a carefully designed site, upgrade before you drive traffic to those pages.
More than one person moderates reviews
Free and Starter support one teammate. When marketing and CS both need queue access, Growth’s five seats fit. Agency when seat count is unpredictable or large.
You are comparing total cost of ownership
PraiseEngine includes moderation, AI interviews, SEO profiles, multilingual widgets, and four display layouts without per-review fees on any tier. When evaluating review software cost, factor in what other tools charge for moderation seats, widget white-labeling, and structured data — see our alternatives comparison pages for side-by-side context.
Badge removal and custom branding on paid plans
Every paid plan — Starter, Growth, and Agency — removes the “Powered by PraiseEngine” badge from collection and display widgets. Free plan widgets keep the badge; that is intentional: you get the full product to evaluate, and you pay when you want customer-facing embeds to represent your brand alone.
Paid plans also unlock custom profile and widget colors:
- Accent — buttons, links, star highlights
- Background — card and panel surfaces
- Text — body copy and headings inside embeds and profiles
Set colors once; collection widgets, display widgets (Standard, Grid, Carousel, Marquee), and your indexable review profile stay consistent. Sorting defaults to highest rated everywhere — dashboard, profile, and widgets — so your strongest proof leads without extra configuration.
Branding does not change the review workflow: customers still complete AI-guided interviews or manual entry, approve AI drafts, and submit. Your team still approves, rejects, or marks spam before publish. Paid tiers polish presentation — they do not bypass moderation.
Questions about fit? Create a free account and run your full flow before you choose a tier. Leave us feedback on our public review page, or read the August 2026 product update for the complete feature list behind this pricing model.