The cap you assume is mostly not written down
What 30 vendors' own standard terms say about the price at renewal. A numeric cap appears three times.
Reference & Evidence
Source: Author's corpus: renewal-pricing clauses in the current public standard terms (ToS/MSA) of the 30 top-ranked products on G2's Best Software 2025 list, vendors deduplicated, coded 2026-08-07 with verbatim clauses archived. Public written defaults: negotiated agreements override them, and a written right says nothing about how often it is exercised.
Each line is a claim from the register this journal publishes against, resolved from the register at build time.
- A 3 of 30 top-ranked vendors' public standard terms carry a numeric renewal cap; 10 discretionary, 8 silent, 6 then-current, 2 none, 1 same-price dataset-uplift-clauses-2026-08 ·
DFS-UPLIFT-C1 - A Notice numbers exist in 10 of 30 (0–90 days); promos stripped at renewal by 5, honored by 1 dataset-uplift-clauses-2026-08 ·
DFS-UPLIFT-C2
Grades: A, verified against the printed page of the primary source · B, primary source, text layer only · C, authoritative secondary · D, reported.
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