How Rasid checks UAE subscription prices

Where prices come from

• The provider's own page for the UAE. Never a news site, a comparison site or a reseller. Where the provider's page prints US dollars for the UAE, dollars are what we show.
• The UAE App Store listing, for people who pay through Apple, in its own table. An item counts only when its name says both the plan and the term.
• The regular price, not an introductory offer.

How each price is checked

Every new or changed price is read a second time by an independent reader, and the page text it was read from is kept as evidence. A price whose two readings disagree is not changed; it waits for a person.

Today the catalogue holds 56 services and 196 dated price readings.

How often prices are re-read

Every week. Each price is shown with the day it was read. A price read more than 30 days ago is labelled "may have changed" until it is read again.

When a price changes

The new price is added to the service's price history with its date, the change in percent and its source, and to the list of UAE price increases.

A change goes live by itself only when both readings agree, the evidence is saved and the price moved 30% or less. Anything else waits for a person to approve it.

Changes we did not read ourselves are labelled "reported", with the publication that reported them.

Use the data

The whole catalogue is published as one file: rasid.app/data/catalog/AE.json. The Rasid app reads the same file.