Helium 10 A La Carte Plan: Discontinued + What to Use Now

Helium 10 has discontinued the A La Carte plan, so you can no longer buy individual tools one at a time. Helium 10 now sells three plans: Platinum, Diamond, and Enterprise. The cheapest way in is Platinum, from $99 a month with annual billing ($129 month to month). For how these tools perform in practice, see my full Helium 10 review.

The A La Carte sign-up flow no longer exists. You can still log into your free Helium 10 account and use the limited free tools, but the A La Carte upgrade form is gone. For paid access you now choose one of the standard Helium 10 plans instead.

Key Takeaways

• Helium 10 discontinued the A La Carte plan; you can no longer buy individual tools.
• Current plans are Platinum, Diamond, and Enterprise. Platinum starts at $99 a month with annual billing ($129 month to month).
• If you only need one tool, the limited free plan is the closest option left; there is no single-tool paid plan anymore.

Helium 10 A La Carte Coupon Codes

The A La Carte plan is gone, but you can still save up to 30% on current Helium 10 plans. Take advantage of our coupon codes to save money.

A La Carte Plan Pros and Cons

Pros:

• Saved you money if you only needed one tool.
• Many popular Helium 10 tools were included.
• You kept the free version of tools you did not add to the plan.
• The included tools could genuinely help grow your Amazon business.
• Sign-up was fast once you found the form.

Cons:

• No information about how many times each tool could be used.
• Hard to find on the Helium 10 website; there was no dedicated page.
• Monthly billing only, so long-term users could not get annual discounts.

What Was the A La Carte Plan?

The A La Carte plan let you individually select specific tools to create a custom Helium 10 plan. Pricing for each tool was set separately, and you added each tool one by one to your cart. The point was to avoid paying extra for a standard Helium 10 plan if you didn’t need the additional tools.

While the plan was sold, the tools you could add included Xray, Black Box, Magnet, Cerbero, Index Checker, Keyword Tracker, Alerts, Profits, and Refund Genie.

However, not all Helium 10 tools were available with the A La Carte plan. Hence, the plan was not the right pick if the specific tool you wanted was missing from the list.

Consider the free plan if you want to test-drive Helium 10 tools before paying for a subscription.

How Much Did the A La Carte Plan Cost?

The A La Carte Plan price was determined by the tools you added. For example, Xray alone used to cost $19 per month, while Xray, Magnet, Cerebro, and Black Box together came to $136 per month. The table below shows the last prices Helium 10 listed; none of these single-tool options can be bought today.

Want to test Helium 10 tools without paying? Take advantage of the free plan to see what’s worth the price.

How Did Sign-Up for the A La Carte Plan Work?

Before Helium 10 discontinued the plan, signing up started with a free account. The steps below stay for reference; you cannot complete this checkout anymore.

Back then, you could upgrade the account anytime by adding specific tools to the A La Carte plan. You would also keep the free account version of the tools you didn’t add. There was no rush to upgrade: the free plan let you test tools at your own pace.

Here is how the sign-up process used to work

Step 1: Create a free Helium 10 Account

Start by heading over to the Helium 10 website and follow our instructions on how to create your free Helium 10 account. It’s a 4 step process that requires you to click on the sign-up link, fill out your details, and install the Helium 10 Chrome Extension.

Step 2: Click on the Upgrade Button

Once your free account is created, log in and click on the blue Upgrade button in the top right-hand corner of the dashboard.

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Step 3: Enter Coupon Code

Next, you would see the “Plans Breakdown” section, which back then summarized the Free, Starter, Platinum, and Diamond plans (Starter has since been discontinued as well). There was also a coupon code field where you could enter a Helium 10 discount code.

After entering the code, don’t forget to click the “Apply” button. You’ll see a discount description appear if the coupon code is entered correctly, as seen in the screenshot below.

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Step 4: Create a custom A La Carte Plan

Once you’ve applied the discount code, you’ll need to scroll down until you reach the“Create a Custom A La Carte Plan”

You’ll see the interactive form in the screenshot below, where you could individually add the Helium 10 tools. Also, the price at the top of the form updated as you added tools to the plan.

Finally, clicking the blue “Subscribe” button placed the order for the A La Carte plan.

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Back then, you could unsubscribe from any tool before the next billing date or add more tools later as your needs changed.

Was the A La Carte Plan Worth the Cost?

While it was on sale, you had to work out whether the A La Carte Plan beat the standard Helium 10 plans. The calculation depended on your needs, budget, and what specific tools you’d use.

For example, a seller who only wanted product research could take the Xray tool on its own, far cheaper than a full plan cost at the time.

Bundling Black Box and Xray on the A La Carte plan came to $78 per month, close enough to a full plan that upgrading usually made more sense. That trade-off is gone now: Platinum, from $99 a month with annual billing ($129 month to month), is the entry point, and it includes the full product research toolkit.

Rule of thumb:

The old rule was: one tool, take the A La Carte plan; two or more, take a standard plan. Since A La Carte is gone, the choice today is simply the Platinum or Diamond plan.

Our Experience Using Helium 10s A La Carte Plan

We decided to give Helium 10s A La Carte plan a try to give an honest review.

Firstly, finding the form to complete the checkout process was tricky. That’s because Helium 10 pushed its then-current plans, Starter, Platinum, Diamond, and Elite, while not dedicating a page for the A La Carte plan.

Therefore, it took longer than we would have liked to determine that you need to create a free account, and then click on the upgrade button to find the A La Carte plan.

However, once we found the form, adding tools for checkout was intuitive, and we were pleased to see that the coupon codes were also applied.

Unfortunately, there was no information about how much each tool could be used on the A La Carte plan. When signing up for the other Helium 10 plans, a detailed list of tools is included with usage limitations.

Who Was the A La Carte Plan For?

The A La Carte plan was aimed at sellers who wanted flexibility without paying for a full suite. Since Helium 10 no longer sells it, this section describes who it used to suit.

Beginners on a tight budget who wanted to use one tool at a time benefited most from the A La Carte plan.

However, advanced sellers may find that a limited number of Helium 10 tools may reduce growth potential. Therefore, opting for a full suite of tools from the PLATINUM or DIAMOND plans is the better choice.

Note:

You can keep an eye on your sales number with Profits, an all-in-one dashboard for tracking the financial health of your products.

Final Verdict on the A La Carte Plan

To summarize, the A La Carte Plan is discontinued, so this verdict is historical. While it existed, it gave sellers who needed a single tool a way to save money instead of paying for a full suite. Today your realistic starting point is Platinum, from $99 a month with annual billing ($129 month to month), or the limited free plan if you just want to test the tools.

The plan also had a real weakness: adding multiple tools got expensive fast, since the cost of 2-3 single tools was roughly the same as the Helium 10 Platinum plan of that era. That math is probably why Helium 10 retired it.

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