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Understanding diff highlights

How to read Pulse's before/after pricing diffs and make sense of what changed.

Written by John Kotowski

What is a diff?

A "diff" is Pulse's record of a single pricing-page change. Pulse captures company pricing pages continuously and creates a diff whenever something changes — a price moves, a plan or feature is added or removed, a limit increases, or positioning copy is updated. Each diff pairs the before and after so you can see exactly what changed and when.

Where to find diffs

  • Across the market — click Diffs in the navigation to browse changes across all tracked companies.

  • For one company — open any company profile and scroll to Most Recent Diffs and Historical Diffs.

Reading the Diffs feed

On the Diffs page, each row shows the company, the period (e.g. 2026W21), a plain-English headline, a change-type badge, and a one-line summary of what moved. You can refine the feed with:

  • Weekly / Quarterly — switch the time granularity.

  • NewsworthyShow highlights surfaces only the most significant changes; All shows everything.

  • Event Types — filter by Pricing, Packaging, or Product changes.

  • Companies / Watchlists — narrow to specific companies, or (on Pro) just your watchlisted ones.

  • Periods — select which weeks or quarters to include.

Change-type badges

Every change is tagged so you can scan quickly. Common badges include Price Increased / Price Decreased, Plan Added, Feature Added / Feature Changed, Capacity Increased, Add-On Added, and Positioning Changed.

Reading a single diff

Click any diff to open its detail view, which shows:

  • Event summary — a short, plain-English description of what changed and its category (Pricing, Packaging, or Product).

  • Before / After screenshots — the pricing page on each date, side by side, with the changed region highlighted so you don't have to scan the whole page. Use the zoom controls to inspect details.

  • Dates — the "before" and "after" capture dates.

  • Previous / Next — step through that company's other diffs, plus Full screen and Explore views.

Credit cost

Viewing a diff in the app costs 15 credits, charged once per diff — if you open the same diff again later, you're not charged again. Public diffs are free for everyone. See How credits work.

Tip: track changes automatically

Instead of checking the feed manually, add the companies you care about to a Watchlist (Pro) and set up a Digest or real-time alert so relevant diffs come to your inbox. See Sharing reports with your team.

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