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October 2026 report

Between Oct 1–18, 2026 Caliper Press recorded values for 340 plans, offers and websites in 6 sections on 18 dates, with 9 value changes between consecutive checks. How we check · Coverage by section.

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By section

Each section shows its index for the month, with how many plans or offers it is based on and the date, then the value changes we recorded and how many plans, offers and websites had at least one reading.

Domain registration and renewal prices

  • Caliper Press Domain Renewal Premium Watch: 81.7% (small sample: 8 records) (based on 8, observed range 0% – 248.9%; ). Median of (renewal / registration - 1) × 100 for eligible same-date, same-currency domain pairs.
  • 1 value change across 1 record this month; the latest: OVHcloud .com $14.69/year → $16.49/year (Oct 17, 2026).
  • 35 of 39 objects had at least one reading this month.

All records · Domain registration vs renewal: the renewal premium

SaaS pricing tracker

  • Caliper Press SaaS Price Inflation Watch: 100 (based on 115; ). Chained SaaS price level (first observed date = 100): each day's link is the geometric mean of page-price ratios for plans measured on both dates, in the page's own currency and billing period, so exchange-rate moves are excluded.
  • No value change was recorded between checks this month (124 records over 6 observation dates).
  • 124 of 130 objects had at least one reading this month.

All records · Monthly vs annual billing: how much you save · How SaaS prices change over time

Web hosting and VPS prices: first term vs renewal

  • Caliper Press Hosting Renewal Premium Watch: 190.3% (based on 20, observed range 33.4% – 1300%; ). Median of (renewal / first-term price - 1) × 100 for shared/managed hosting plans with both prices published on the same date, in the page currency.
  • No value change was recorded between checks this month (45 records over 5 observation dates).
  • Caliper Press VPS Price Watch — 2 vCPU / 4 GB, EUR: €16.05/month (based on 2, observed range €12.00/month – €20.10/month; ). Median ongoing monthly price of VPS plans with 2 vCPU and 4 GB RAM, in EUR only; currencies are never mixed.

All records · How hosting renewal pricing works: first term vs renewal · VPS prices for the same configuration

Post-quantum TLS checks

  • Caliper Press Hybrid TLS Adoption Watch: 82.7% (based on 52, observed range 0% – 100%; ). Fraction of valid measured hosts negotiating hybrid X25519MLKEM768 on the date.
  • No value change was recorded between checks this month (53 records over 18 observation dates).
  • 53 of 60 objects had at least one reading this month.

All records · Hybrid Post-Quantum TLS Explained, with a Finland Sample

VPN pricing, renewal and refund terms tracker

  • Caliper Press VPN Renewal Premium Watch: 85.4% (small sample: 7 records) (based on 7, observed range 0% – 178.6%; ). Median of (renewal price per month / first-term price per month - 1) × 100 across VPN services that publish both prices, in the page currency. Speed, leaks and actual logging are not measured.
  • 6 value changes across 4 records this month; the latest: Private Internet Access $1.89/month → $2.03/month (Oct 17, 2026); Private Internet Access $2.05/month → $2.19/month (Oct 17, 2026); ExpressVPN $4.99/month → $2.99/month (Oct 17, 2026).
  • 26 of 28 objects had at least one reading this month.

All records · Why VPN prices rise at renewal: what we measured

AI bot access policies

  • Caliper Press AI Bot Policy Watch: 64.3% (based on 56, observed range 0% – 100%; ). Fraction of measured sites disallowing at least one monitored bot on the root path on the date.
  • 2 value changes across 2 records this month; the latest: CNN 94.1% → 88.2% (Oct 15, 2026); Trustpilot 52.9% → 41.2% (Oct 3, 2026).
  • 57 of 60 objects had at least one reading this month.

All records · How to Block GPTBot and Other AI Crawlers in robots.txt

What changed

Value changes between consecutive successful checks this month, newest first. Each row links to the record with both values and their evidence.

How this report is made

Every number in this report comes from the same records as the rest of the site and can be found on the linked pages. A month is reported in full once it has at least 14 distinct observation dates; a shorter month is labelled as a baseline. Citation rules and the meaning of each data status are on how to use this data; errors can be reported through the corrections page.

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