One post a day on what the index recorded: which prices moved, where the typical rate sits on the most-traded services, what panels added to and dropped from their catalogues, and which storefronts stopped answering. Each post is written from a fact sheet our code builds from the database, and every figure in it links to the page where you can check it.
How to read the data
On 29 October 2026 the median price for Instagram Followers was $3.33 per 1,000. The lower quartile was $1.76, the upper quartile was $8.23, and the index row covered 65 panels. The median was $3.00 on 22 October 2026 (+10.8%) and $2.95 on 30 September 2026 (+12.7%), so read the spread, not the cheapest single row.
4 min readData 23–29 October 2026
Catalogue changes
Panels added 23,569 offerings and removed 6,129 between 22 and 28 October 2026, across 60 panels. First catalogue reads are counted separately.
4 min readData 22–28 October 2026
Service spotlight
The median price for 1,000 LinkedIn shares was $13.00 on 26 October 2026, up from $6.99 on 19 October. Quartiles, price bands and this week's cuts.
4 min readData 21–27 October 2026
Market rates
All 8 most-traded SMM services had a higher median price per 1,000 on 26 October 2026 than on 19 October 2026, led by Instagram Video Views at +25.4%.
4 min readData 20–26 October 2026
Price moves
Panels recorded 9,381 price moves between 19 and 25 October 2026: 5,904 rises and 3,477 cuts. The largest cuts and rises, and how to check them.
4 min readData 19–25 October 2026
Each morning a job reads the previous seven days from the PanelCompare database — catalogue changes, the daily price index, uptime probes — and assembles a fact sheet. An AI model (Claude) drafts the post from that sheet alone; before anything is published, code checks that every number in the text appears on the sheet, and the post is dropped if it does not. The charts are drawn from the same figures. When a week has nothing worth saying, no post goes out. The method behind the numbers is on the methodology page.