Buyers rarely get surprised by the first Celigo invoice. They get surprised by the third renewal, after two new sales channels, a 3PL, a sandbox environment and a handful of extra flows have quietly changed the entitlement being priced.
Nothing about that is unusual for a horizontal iPaaS — it is how the category prices. But it means comparing Celigo to alternatives on the headline edition tier alone will mislead you. The useful comparison is total annual cost at the estate size you expect to be running in eighteen months, including the internal staff time to operate it.