2026 CPI Increases

Price Increases Are Never Fun

For a long time at devfu, we never raised our prices. They were always the same year-on-year. We wanted to be predictable and honest with our clients, not have random price hikes for a tool they depend on. We’ve also had a long standing policy of increasing wages by CPI as a base payrise to ensure our team’s wages are never going backwards in real dollar terms. I had this happen to me in the past, and it did not make me feel like a valued member of the team!

To manage this growing difference between licence revenue and wages, we decided to implement annual increases to the price of our licences in accordance with March CPI. That way we’re not profiteering, we’re just passing on the increases of life with an objective 3rd party measure, and the timing gives us enough time to communicate to our clients about the updated prices.

We’ve heard from our clients that some other vendors charge much more in annual increases so that makes me feel confident we’re doing the right thing and operating with due consideration of our valued clients in a way that’s aligned with out values as a company.

In real dollar terms, everything stays the same, and we’d hope that our clients would agree that they get more value each year with our progressive updates and ongoing improvements of our software.

ABS Announced March 2026 CPI

The ABS just announced March CPI numbers, and CPI is at 4.6%. This is a bit of an upswing month-on-month, and you don’t need to be an economist to recognise the global factors that will have caused such a movement.

Impact for Customers

All licences that renew from 1st of July 2026 will have this CPI increase applied to their renewal price.

Our general recommendation is for customers to budget for an upto 5% CPI increase, and we’ll only increase our licence fees by what the CPI increase actually was.

We feel these increases are as fair as we can possibly make them but appreciate sometimes the internal mechanisms within large companies can make even simple indexing harder than it needs to be.

As always, if this or any other increases create a problem for you, please reach out.