Daily market commentary · 16 September 2026

Nerve raises Operator pricing as enterprise leads 30-day gains

The market was nearly flat on 2026-09-16: the index stood at 100.32, down 0.02% over 1 day, up 0.02% over 7 days, and up 0.19% over 30 days. The reading covers 7,366 like-for-like pairs and remains marked ok.

The most notable move was Nerve in Business Process Automation, where the Operator plan moved from $79/mo to $129/mo, a 63.3% increase. Its price path stands out against the broader set of 6 recorded repricings. Aicss reduced Personal from $190 once to $89, down 53.2%, and Enterprise from $490 once to $299, down 39%. Cairn cut its Search & discovery pass from $499 to $299, down 40.1%. The smaller upward move was 100Hires' Start plan, from €85/month to €86/month, up 1.2%. Civils Ai was effectively flat, moving from € 77.99 / MONTH to € 77.97 / MONTH. For Nerve, the comparison set includes 8 charted neighbours, while the niche records density across 358 vendors and sits at the 80th percentile. That makes the size and direction of the change more significant than the flat overall index alone.

The 30-day picture shows the clearest separation by buyer tier. Enterprise is up 0.46%, the strongest change, with an index level of 100.58. Team / SME is up 0.27%, reaching 100.5. Individual is up 0.18%, at 100.4, while Pro is up 0.09%, at 100.12. Enterprise also had the sharpest 1-day decline, down 0.11%, compared with Individual down 0.03%; Pro and Team / SME were unchanged. Over 7 days, Enterprise is up 0.05%, Individual and Team / SME are each up 0.04%, and Pro is down 0.01%. For buyers, the longer-term pattern is a stronger rise in higher-value tiers, even as the latest daily movement remains modest.

Generated from the day’s verified price scans (6 clean repricings, 7,366 like-for-like pairs — figures are from the release published at generation time; later releases for the same day can carry different pair counts). An index level, not investment advice. Live data at agentery.com/aepi.