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Crayon is priced and built for a company that employs a competitive intelligence analyst. The platform’s centre of gravity is a curator: someone who reads the feed daily, picks what matters, writes the card, and pushes it to a sales floor. If you employ that person, Crayon is a good buy and this page will not talk you out of it. If you do not, the part of Crayon that creates the value is work nobody at your company is going to do. Spyingbee is built for the second case.
This page makes four claims. Each one is checkable in under a minute, and each one names where to check it.
Crayon does not publish a price. Ours is on this page.
Open crayon.co/pricing and it lands on www.crayon.co/pricing-inquiry. It is a lead form, not a price list. The call to action there is “Request an Estimate”. Checked 13 September 2026.
Crayon’s pricing is tailored to the needs of your competitive intelligence program.Crayon, on that page
What buyers reportedly pay
Median buyer pays $30,000 per year Based on data from 93 purchases, with buyers saving 20% on average.Vendr, vendr.com/marketplace/crayon, checked 13 September 2026
The stated range is $12,700 to $46,000. That is Vendr reporting transactions it handled, on a sample it states. It is not a Crayon price, Crayon did not publish it, and it is not our number either.
What we charge
Free tracks 3 competitors and takes no card.
Pro is $9.99 per user per month, or $99 per user per year, and tracks 15 competitors.
Team is the same per-seat price with a three-seat minimum, and tracks 50 competitors.
Those figures are on our pricing page, and they are what the checkout charges. See pricing.
The curator is the cost, and the curation goes stale faster than the contract.
We could not retrieve a single quotable review from a Crayon customer. The review sites block our requests, so we hold no customer quotes, and we are not going to paraphrase one into existence. What follows is not about Crayon’s customers. It is a survey about the job itself.
- 47% of battlecards go stale within three months, 82% within six months, and only 2% last more than a year.
- 52% of shops with dedicated competitive intelligence teams report battlecards going stale within three months, against 33% at companies with no formal approach.
- Only one in three sales teams consistently uses the competitive content their product marketers produce. 37% freestyle or ignore it.
Wynter, “2026 State of Competitive Intelligence in B2B SaaS”, a survey of 101 product marketers at mid-market and enterprise companies. Reported by MarTech (Gene De Libero) on August 13, 2026: read the article. Checked 13 September 2026.
Read the whole thing, including the part against us
Those respondents are product marketers across B2B SaaS. Not one is identified as a Crayon customer, and the study is not about Crayon. We are quoting the findings about staleness and adoption because those are what this claim is about. The same article reports other findings that argue against buying any competitive intelligence tool, including ours. Follow the link and read them.
The curator tax is not a Crayon defect. It is what the job costs wherever a person does it. Crayon’s answer is to make that person faster. Ours is to not need one.
We publish what we find about Crayon, dated, with the page we read it from.
Free, no login, no form. It is below. This is the same crawler that would watch your competitors, pointed at one of ours.
Classified signals from pages on crayon.co, last 90 days
2 across the source types below. The decomposition is the point, not the total.
| Source type | In rotation | Shelved | Signals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blog and resources | 8 | 0 | 2 |
| Docs and integration pages | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Pricing page | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Product pages | 0 | 7 | 0 |
The most recent moves we recorded, with the page we read
Every link resolves on crayon.co. The type beside each one is our classifier’s call, not a verdict.
This list is not limited to the 90 days in the table above. It is the 8 most recent moves we hold at any age, running back to 6 April 2026.
Crayon integrates competitive intelligence into Glean for AI-powered revenue teams
14 July 2026 · integration · www.crayon.co/blog/crayon-integrates-competitive-intelligence-into-glean-for-ai-powered-revenue-teams
Crayon launches Field Agent for Slack to capture real-time competitive insights
3 June 2026 · feature update · www.crayon.co/blog/slack-field-agent
Crayon launches Slack integration for real-time competitive intelligence sharing
19 May 2026 · integration · www.crayon.co/integrations/slack
Crayon integrates with Gong to automate competitive battlecards from sales calls
19 May 2026 · integration · www.crayon.co/integrations/gong
Crayon integrates competitive battlecards directly into Salesforce
19 May 2026 · integration · www.crayon.co/integrations/salesforce
We Predicted Our Competitor's Product Launch Before They Even Hit ‘Publish’
6 April 2026 · feature update · www.crayon.co/blog/we-predicted-our-competitors-product-launch-before-they-even-hit-publish
Webinar: Connecting Crayon to Enterprise AI Tools
6 April 2026 · integration · www.crayon.co/connecting-crayon-to-your-ai-tools
Before You Build: The Realities of DIY Competitive Intelligence
6 April 2026 · feature update · www.crayon.co/blog/build-vs.-buy-building-a-dyi-ci-tool-or-investing-in-a-competitive-enablement-platform
How to read these numbers
This is our crawler measuring both sides. It is not an industry benchmark and it is not a scorecard. Coverage differs by vendor, because the source list for each company was assembled by our own discovery rather than handed to us, so a low count can mean we found fewer of a company’s pages, not that the company went quiet.
Everything counted here was published on crayon.co itself. News and commentary written about Crayon elsewhere reaches us too, and none of it is in these numbers: what a search engine says about a company is not evidence of our crawler, and counting it would inflate the total with other people’s work.
A source that keeps failing gets shelved and stops being checked, which is the other way a count falls without anything happening at the company. 7 of the Crayon sources in that table are currently shelved. Classification is automated and sometimes wrong, which is why the link is next to every row.
The most recent move in that list is dated 14 July 2026.
If the job is a win/loss programme and cards inside your CRM, buy Crayon.
Win/loss programmes and battlecards embedded in your CRM are labour and integration. They are not crawling, and no crawler produces them. If your next quarter depends on running a formal win/loss programme and pushing the resulting cards into Salesforce and Gong for a large sales org, that is the job Crayon is built for, and you should buy Crayon.
Who that is, concretely: a competitive intelligence manager who owns the practice full time and is measured on seller adoption of the cards rather than on how fast the feed arrives. If that describes you, close this tab.
Crayon was named a Leader in the inaugural 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Competitive and Market Intelligence Platforms. We are not going to pretend otherwise, and this page is not an argument that Crayon is bad software.
Spyingbee has no win/loss tracking, no CRM integration and nobody curating your cards. Those are labour and integration, not crawling, and we are not building them this year.
If nobody at your company owns competitive intelligence
Point it at three competitors, take no card out, and read the first brief. If the feed is not worth the ten minutes a week, you have lost ten minutes.
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