Our mission
Add up every recurring charge on a card statement, annualize the real cost, and show readers where to cancel, downgrade, or swap before another year of quiet spend. The goal is specificity — generic “cut your subscriptions” lists are a dime a dozen.
What we track
- Streaming and channel add-ons (Prime Video, Max, Disney+, niche sports bundles).
- AI and productivity SaaS with monthly vs annual plan math.
- Amazon Subscribe & Save, Audible, Kindle Unlimited, and digital bounty trials.
- Free-trial renewal dates, card-on-file requirements, and published cancel URLs.
- Household auto-ship and delivery subscriptions with per-unit annualized totals.
How we verify a stack
We don’t publish a savings claim from a single screenshot. Every audit requires at least two of the following agreeing on the price, renewal terms, and cancel path:
- Live checkout or account-billing pages captured on separate dates.
- Official plan pages and published commission or bounty documentation.
- Reader exports (redacted statements or app billing screens).
- Our own test sign-ups where terms allow cancellation without penalty.
When evidence is thin or a vendor changes pricing mid-review, we say so. “Possibly rising” is a different headline than “$14.99/mo × 12 = $179.88/yr.”
How we pick the alternative
Every audit ends with a specific swap — a cheaper annual plan, a bundled tier that replaces two services, a free tier that covers 80% of the use case, or a one-time purchase instead of another rental. The alternative must clear four bars:
- Lower annualized cost after factoring in any up-front hardware or migration time.
- Actually available in the regions our readers use — not a geo-locked promo.
- Honest cancel path with a documented URL or in-app steps we tested or verified.
- We’d switch to it ourselves, and most of the time we already have.
Editorial standards
- No sponsored placements. We do not accept paid promotion from any service SubAudit covers. If that ever changes, the page carrying the promotion will say so plainly.
- Partner links are disclosed. Amazon links use our Associates tag (subaudit-20). SaaS picks require a published commission rate and cookie window before we recommend.
- Named, dated, numbered. Every guide states the plan name, monthly and annual price, trial end date when relevant, and the specific cancel or downgrade steps. Soft claims don’t ship.
Disclosure
SubAudit is funded by affiliate revenue from Amazon Associates and select SaaS programs. When you click through partner links and sign up or buy, we earn a commission at no extra cost to you. See the full partner disclosure.
SubAudit uses AI tools for research drafting and initial article structure. Every piece is reviewed and edited by Morgan Hale before publish. Dollar amounts, renewal dates, and cancel URLs are verified by a human before they appear on the site.
Corrections
Wrong price? Wrong renewal date? Link to the billing page or statement export and email hello@subaudit.org. We correct fast and leave a visible “corrected on” stamp on the page so readers know what changed and when.
What SubAudit is not
SubAudit is consumer subscription journalism — not financial advice, not tax guidance, not a substitute for reading your own card agreement. If recurring charges are putting real stress on your monthly budget, we’ll point you to the swap, but we can’t tell you how much to allocate to discretionary spend.
