Nina Chen
Founder & Product
Built the original spreadsheet after the $412 surprise. Owns the pricing pipeline — 200+ tools refreshed weekly from public pages.
About
This company exists because of a $132 surprise on a credit card statement.
$280/mo is what the founder thought the team spent on software. $412/mo is what the invoices actually said. Same stack. Same quarter. Nobody had added a new tool — plans had crept, seats had grown, add-ons had appeared.
How it started
A spreadsheet, twelve logins, and a board meeting
In 2023 our founder prepped for a board sync and tried to answer a simple question: how much does our software cost per month? Twelve vendor dashboards, four different billing cycles, two tools nobody remembered signing up for.
He built a spreadsheet. Pulled pricing pages manually. Refreshed it every Monday. Other founders asked for a copy. Then their ops leads. The spreadsheet broke at about forty concurrent users and ExpensifyStack became a product.
Mission unchanged: small teams shouldn't overpay for SaaS because pricing pages are designed to hide the total. The data is public. Someone had to add it up.
We are a comparison tool. We don't sell licenses. We don't resell seats. You see the math here, then buy from the vendor.
Expected spend$280/mo
Actual invoices$412/mo
Duplicate wiki tools+$40
Forgotten AI add-on+$80
Extra CRM seats+$12
That gap is why we exist.
What we stand for
Three rules we don't break
Independence
Vendors don't pay for placement. Rankings come from public price math, period. If a tool is overpriced at your seat count, we'll say so — whether they sponsor a conference or not.
Honesty
We show stale data with a date stamp. "Contact sales" plans get marked estimated or excluded — we don't invent enterprise quotes. Boring accuracy beats exciting guesses.
Clarity
You're not here to become a procurement expert. You're here to know the number before renewal. Calculator, table, done. Depth available if you want it — skip it if you don't.
Not finance
Software pricing intelligence, not expense management. We're not accountants, tax advisors, or a bank. We read pricing pages — you verify before you buy.
Team
Three people. Remote. US-based.
Subscriptions cover salaries and servers. No vendor deals to chase.
Dev Rajan
Data Engineer
Keeps seat math honest. Parses pricing tables, catches vendor page changes, flags when our numbers drift from reality.
Ellie Webb
Content & Research
Former ops manager who lived through too many renewal calls. Writes comparison copy and validates overlap rules.