Bending Spoons Raises Harvest Pricing from $13.32 to $133.98 After 2025 Acquisition
Bending Spoons executed a 10x price increase on Harvest within months of acquisition. The move follows documented patterns from prior portfolio companies and replaces human support with LLM responses. Contractors face immediate migration decisions.
Bending Spoons acquired Harvest in 2025. The company previously owned Vimeo and applied similar cost extraction tactics. Former users received automatic migration notices that replaced the standard plan with unlimited enterprise billing. The flex tier retained a $12.65 base price but imposed an extra 2% skim on Stripe-processed payments that Harvest does not underwrite.
Aphyr documented the change in post 427 and confirmed support responses now route through an LLM that generates multi-paragraph non-answers. Comparable patterns appear in Bending Spoons' prior acquisitions of Evernote and WeTransfer, where core features were restricted and pricing restructured within 12 months. No public changelog or SEC filing details the exact revenue target.
Operationally, self-employed contractors must now migrate invoice data and Stripe keys before the next billing cycle. Migration costs include time for CSV export validation and new service onboarding. Historical usage charts and simple PDF invoicing remain the only retained functions. Further price adjustments remain possible under the new ownership model.
Users report testing alternatives such as FreshBooks and standalone Stripe invoicing. Churn data is not yet public.
Sources (3)
- [1]Primary Source(https://aphyr.com/posts/427-rip-harvest)
- [2]Supporting Source(https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/01/bending-spoons-vimeo-acquisition/)
- [3]Supporting Source(https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001847351/000184735124000012/bs-2024q3.htm)