Price change

Shortwave raises every paid tier ~20-29% and moves to monthly-only billing

Shortwave pricing

Shortwave repriced all four paid seats up — Pro $14 to $18, Business $24 to $30, Premier $36 to $45, Max $100 to $120 per seat/mo — and dropped the annual toggle so the page now quotes a single monthly per-seat price.

Before

Pro $14, Business $24, Premier $36, Max $100 per seat/mo (annual pricing shown on the page)

After

Pro $18, Business $30, Premier $45, Max $120 per seat/mo, billed monthly; no annual toggle on the page

Shortwave lifted the headline price on every paid tier of its AI email client and simplified the pricing page to a single monthly per-seat number. The increases range from ~20% on Max ($100 to $120) to ~29% on Pro ($14 to $18), with Business ($24 to $30) and Premier ($36 to $45) both up 25%.

The page also dropped its annual/monthly toggle: it now shows only “per seat / month,” and Shortwave’s billing docs state that “new subscriptions are billed monthly.” The five-tier lineup (Free, Pro, Business, Premier, Max) and the AI-capacity ladder — daily AI usage quota (More / 2x / 6x), AI search-history depth, max threads per AI search, context-token multipliers, and AI-powered filter counts — are otherwise unchanged. There is still no metered overage; more AI capacity is sold only by moving up a tier.

From Shortwave's pricing timeline
Headline prices raised ~20-29%; page moves to monthly-only billing

Shortwave repriced every paid tier upward and dropped the annual/monthly toggle so the pricing page now shows a single per-seat monthly price: Pro $18 (was $14), Business $30 (was $24), Premier $45 (was $36), and Max $120 (was $100) per seat/mo. The billing docs state 'New subscriptions are billed monthly.' The lineup, AI-capacity ladder (daily quota More/2x/6x, search history, threads, context tokens, filters), and team mechanics are otherwise unchanged; no standalone Enterprise card is shown on the page.

About Shortwave
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Shortwave is an AI-native email client that layers an AI executive assistant on top of Gmail and Outlook, built by ex-Google/Firebase engineers as a successor to Google Inbox.

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Shortwave pricing history

  1. Jun 2026
    Headline prices raised ~20-29%; page moves to monthly-only billing
  2. Jun 2026
    Max $100 tier + explicit daily AI usage quota
  3. Nov 2024
    Per-seat language + Premier $36 tier added; Personal $7 retired
  4. Feb 2024
    AI-metered ladder introduced — Free / Personal $7 / Pro $14 / Business $24
  5. Mar 2023
    AI summaries ship; pricing still Free / $9 Standard / Enterprise
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