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The True Annual Cost Calculator
Headline prices hide membership, multimedia, syndication and word-overage fees. Enter your plan; see what every wire actually costs. Published figures archived to the Wayback Machine, June 2026.
Your PR plan
True annual cost: USD
The default scenario, in plain numbers
Six national releases per year, two multimedia assets each, 400 words, no AP add-on, true annual cost including membership, multimedia and published bundle pricing where cheaper:
| Service | True annual cost | Source |
|---|---|---|
| PR Newswire | $8,925 | Pressonify research (quote-only vendor) |
| GlobeNewswire | $8,700 | Published range midpoint + conservative fees |
| Business Wire | $4,560 | Pressonify research (quote-only vendor) |
| NewswireJet | $3,894 | Community-reported, unverified |
| eReleases | $2,394 | Published rate card, archived June 2026 |
| EIN Presswire | $648 | Published rate card, archived June 2026 (5-pack bundle applied) |
| Pressonify | €249.95 (≈ $270) | Our published pricing (€200 5-pack bundle applied) |
PRLog (free) is excluded here: it offers no national wire distribution. Adjust the controls above for your own plan; the interactive chart recomputes live.
Methodology & sources
This is Pressonify's own market research, stated as such: we build a competing product, so every uncertain figure uses the estimate least favourable to us.
Provenance markers
- Green: published rate card, captured to the Internet Archive on June 12 2026: EIN Presswire · eReleases · Pressonify
- Amber: vendor publishes no rate card (pricing is quote-only; PR Newswire's product pages, archived, list no prices). Figures are our research, June 2026. Independent anchor: eReleases' archived rate card publicly states "PR Newswire value – $1,145" as the national minimum, we still model PR Newswire national at $805, treating it as a conservative floor below what partner material values it at.
- Red: community-reported only, no public source found (NewswireJet's pricing page, archived, renders no extractable figures).
Rules
- Published bundle pricing is applied where cheaper (EIN's $499/5 and $999/15+5; Pressonify's €200/5). Vendors without public bulk pricing cannot be modelled.
- International figures use the midpoint of each vendor's range.
- Word-overage fees apply per 100 words above each vendor's included count (typically 400).
- Currency conversion is approximate at 1 EUR ≈ 1.08 USD; each vendor's native currency is authoritative.
Full narrative comparison: PR Newswire Pricing 2026: $350–$9,500 Per Release Compared.