Box pricing

About

Box is a cloud content management platform providing secure file storage, sharing, and collaboration, layered with workflow automation, e-signature (Box Sign), no-code apps, AI-powered content portals (Box Hubs), and Box AI/Box AI Agents for search, summarization, and data extraction across stored content. Beyond the core storage-and-collaboration product, Box exposes a separate developer-facing Platform layer — Core Content APIs, AI Units, Document Generation APIs, and Sign APIs, plus an MCP Server for connecting Box content to AI agents — that is priced and sold independently of the seat-based Business plans.

Box is a public company (NYSE: BOX) serving customers from small teams through large regulated enterprises, with dedicated industry pages for banking, government, healthcare/life sciences, and law firms, and compliance support (FedRAMP Moderate, HIPAA, SOC 1/2/3) built into its higher tiers. Its competitive set spans general cloud-storage/collaboration rivals (Dropbox, Google Drive/Workspace, Microsoft OneDrive/SharePoint), e-signature competitors (DocuSign, Adobe Acrobat Sign) for its Box Sign product line, and, for its Platform APIs, developer-facing content-infrastructure alternatives.

Pricing summary : How Box prices seats, usage caps, and quote-only developer APIs

Box uses a seat-based subscription with scaling usage entitlements, split across three distinct pricing surfaces:

1. Business plan grid (seat + bundled usage caps): Five tiers — Business, Business Plus, Enterprise, Enterprise Plus, and Enterprise Advanced — each billed per user per month with a 3-user minimum. Storage is unlimited on every tier, but file-upload size (5GB → 500GB), API-call allowance (50K → 100K+/mo), and Box AI Units (unmetered “Integrated Box AI” on the two lowest tiers, 1,000/mo and 2,000/mo on Enterprise and Enterprise Plus) scale by tier, with additional volume purchasable beyond the included amount.
2. A separate “Individuals and Teams” tab sits alongside the “Businesses” tab on the same pricing page, offering a free Individual plan, a $10/month Personal Pro plan, and a $5/user/month Business Starter plan (last independently confirmed via archived captures in October 2025) — this review’s live automated attempt to capture that tab today was blocked by Cloudflare.
3. Platform APIs (fully sales-negotiated): Core APIs, AI Units, Document Generation APIs, and Sign APIs are each priced entirely by quote, with zero list prices published anywhere on the Platform pricing page.

What makes this different: Box publishes a fully transparent, five-tier public price list for its core IT-buyer audience while gating its entire developer/API layer behind sales quotes — the same company is simultaneously price-transparent and price-opaque depending on which persona is reading the page.

Pricing by product

Box (Individual & Teams plans)

Box’s live “Individuals and Teams” tab returned a Cloudflare bot-verification wall on every automated capture attempt in this research pass (2026-09-04), including a --stealth retry, even though the neighboring “Businesses” tab on the same domain captured normally. The table below is reconstructed from Box’s own historical pricing-page captures — most recently confirmed unchanged between January 2025 and October 2025 — and is structurally corroborated by a July 2026 capture (same three tiers, same proportional annual discount, priced in Canadian dollars that session).

Prices above are Box’s last independently confirmed USD figures (October 2025 capture); this review’s live automated attempt to reconfirm them today was blocked by Cloudflare, so current-day exact figures should be verified directly with Box before purchase.

Box (Business plans)

All prices above were captured from a session that resolved to India and rendered in ₹ (INR) — Box’s pricing page has no manual currency switcher and appears to price by visitor IP/geo. Box’s last independently confirmed USD list prices (from a March 2026 capture) were $15, $25, $35, and $50 per user/month billed annually for Business, Business Plus, Enterprise, and Enterprise Plus respectively — the same three-way ratio visible in the India-geo prices above, and unchanged from the earliest tracked capture in January 2022 (Enterprise Plus since it gained a fixed price in January 2025).

Box Platform (developer API add-ons)

Sales motions across products: PLG/self-serve for Business, Business Plus, Enterprise, and Enterprise Plus (all carry “Buy now”/“Try for free” CTAs); sales-led for Enterprise Advanced and every Platform add-on (Core APIs, AI Units, Document Generation APIs, Sign APIs), each gated behind a “Contact us” quote form.

Box MCP Server billing mechanics

Per Box’s developer documentation, MCP Server usage is metered independently of the seat-plan price. API calls are free only when both conditions hold: the calling app is published in the Box Integrations Center, and the end user logs in with their own Box account (OAuth) — the standard end-user case (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, Figma-style integrations). Every other use — non-published/custom integrations, service accounts, and scaled/shared workflows — is billed per API call, with AI tool invocations additionally consuming Box AI Units (scaled by model tier and document length), and DocGen/Sign tool calls billed against plan-based allowances plus per-unit overage.

Hidden costs : What Box’s plan cards don’t put a number on

Box’s Business tier publishes a clean per-seat price, but two of its biggest real-world cost levers — external collaborator seats and AI Units overage — have no published rate anywhere on the public pricing page.

A 15-person Business team collaborating with 5 outside partners

Box’s entry-level Business plan is the only seat tier that doesn’t bundle unlimited external collaboration: the plan-comparison table lists external collaborators as “Required paid accounts,” and each outside partner invited into a shared folder consumes a full paid Business seat at the standard rate — not a discounted “guest” rate.

The 5 outside collaborators add exactly 33% to the bill that a “15-person team” headline price would suggest — and Business Plus (which bundles unlimited external collaborators for $25/user/month, one tier up) breaks even at just 5 outside collaborators, which is likely why Box product-markets Business Plus as the default upgrade path for any team that works with agencies, clients, or contractors.

A 50-person Enterprise Plus team that exceeds its bundled Box AI Units

Enterprise Plus bundles 2,000 Box AI Units per month (an organization-wide pool, not per-seat), covering document Q&A, content generation, and Box Hubs AI features. Once that pool is exhausted, additional AI Units must be purchased — but Box does not publish a per-unit or per-1,000-unit overage rate anywhere on its pricing page.

A team that leans on Box AI Agents for document-heavy workflows can hit that 2,000-unit ceiling well before month-end, at which point the true monthly cost becomes unknowable from the pricing page alone — precisely the kind of AI bill-shock scenario that undisclosed overage rates create, and the same disclosure gap that shows up in Box’s Areas to improve below.

Want to estimate your own Box bill? Use the Box pricing calculator to model your monthly cost across seats, external collaborators, and API/AI Unit volume.

Pricing evolution : Four years of flat seat prices, then a new AI-metered layer

Cadence

Tracked range: 2022 Q1–2026 Q3. Quarters not listed above were verified stable (0 price changes, 0 SKU additions). Box’s core Business, Business Plus, and Enterprise per-seat list prices ($15, $25, $35/user/month annually) have not moved in any tracked capture since the earliest one in January 2022.

Notable changes

• 2022-01 through 2024-06 — Business, Business Plus, and Enterprise hold at $15/$25/$35 per user/month (annual billing); Enterprise Plus remains fully custom/quote-only across every capture in this window.
• 2024-12-04 — Enterprise Advanced first appears on the pricing page as a “Coming in Q1 2025” teaser banner.
• 2025-01-05 — Enterprise Plus receives a fixed $50/user/month public price for the first time, nine days before Enterprise Advanced’s launch.
• 2025-01-14 — Enterprise Advanced officially launches (per blog.box.com), quote-only, positioned as “all Enterprise Plus capabilities included” plus Box Apps, Box AI Studio, and Box Doc Gen.
• 2025-02-19 — Box announces Box AI Units as its new consumption-based AI pricing metric.
• 2025-06 — Box AI Q&A and content-generation features roll down into Business and Business Plus at no stated unit cap; Box AI Units allowances become visible on Enterprise Plus (2,000/mo) and Enterprise Advanced (20,000/mo).
• 2025-10-20 — Per Box’s own support documentation, AI Units formally expand to Business, Business Plus, and Enterprise: the two lower tiers get zero included units (purchase-only), Enterprise gets 1,000/month included.
• 2026-03 — Enterprise Advanced’s 35-user minimum becomes visible in the plan-comparison table for the first time; Extract Agents (API) added across all tiers.

Enterprise Plus’s opacity-to-transparency reveal, in detail

Enterprise Plus is the clearest single inflection point in Box’s tracked pricing history. From the earliest capture in January 2022 through at least December 2024, every archived snapshot of box.com/pricing shows Enterprise Plus as “Custom,” gated behind a “Contact us” button with no numeric price anywhere on the page — while Business, Business Plus, and Enterprise all published full per-user list prices the entire time. Then, in a capture dated January 5, 2025 — nine days before Enterprise Advanced’s official launch — Enterprise Plus appears with a fixed $50/user/month annual price and a “NOW WITH BOX AI” badge advertising AI-powered document insights and Box Hubs. The timing suggests Box wanted a credible, self-serve-priced “AI tier” in market before it introduced Enterprise Advanced as the true sales-gated ceiling above it, rather than launching a brand-new AI tier directly into an already-opaque top of the ladder.

What’s unique : Four-year price stability wrapped around a brand-new AI meter

Box monetized its entire AI roadmap without touching a single existing list price. Business, Business Plus, and Enterprise have priced at $15, $25, and $35 per user/month (annual billing) in every archived capture from January 2022 through at least March 2026 — a four-year-plus run of flat core pricing that spans Box’s full AI product buildout (Box AI, Box AI Agents, Box Hubs, Box AI Studio). Instead of a blanket seat-price increase, Box captured AI willingness-to-pay through two new structures layered on top: a new top tier (Enterprise Advanced) and a new metered currency (Box AI Units).

Enterprise Plus moved from opaque to transparent, not the other way around. Most vendors in this corpus drift toward sales-gating previously-published prices as they add enterprise features; Box did the reverse. Enterprise Plus sat behind a “Contact us” button with zero list price for at least three years before Box gave it a fixed $50/user/month price in January 2025 — the same month it introduced a new sales-gated tier (Enterprise Advanced) above it. See Pricing evolution for the full timeline.

AI Units are a side-car metered SKU, not a seat-price surcharge. Rather than repricing Enterprise or Enterprise Plus seats to fund AI compute, Box introduced Box AI Units as an entirely separate consumption currency (announced February 2025, formally expanded to lower tiers October 2025). Business and Business Plus get zero included units and must buy them; Enterprise, Enterprise Plus, and Enterprise Advanced get escalating bundled allotments (1,000 / 2,000 / 20,000 per month) that function like a credit-based billing pool — the same entitlement-to-credits shift playing out across AI-adjacent SaaS. This is a textbook example of the hybrid pricing model pattern: keep the seat subscription as the anchor, meter the marginal-cost feature separately.

Business is the only tier that taxes external collaboration. Every tier from Business Plus upward bundles unlimited external collaborators; Business alone requires every outside partner to consume a full paid seat, with no discounted “guest” rate published anywhere. It’s a deliberate upsell lever rather than an oversight — see Hidden costs for the arithmetic.

One domain, three independently-gated pricing surfaces. box.com/pricing splits into “Individuals and Teams” (self-serve, Cloudflare-walled against automated access), “Businesses” (fully self-serve, publishes list prices), and “Platform” (100% quote-only for every developer API product). Three audiences, three distinct trust/transparency postures, on one page.

Strengths & weaknesses

Billing UX : Tab switcher, annual toggle, and expandable comparison table

• “Businesses” / “Individuals and Teams” tab switcher — a top-of-page pill toggle that swaps the entire plan grid between the small-team/business plan family and a separate consumer/individual plan family (Free / Personal Pro / Business Starter); the latter tab returns a Cloudflare bot-verification wall to automated capture, an inconsistent bot-defense posture versus the neighboring “Businesses” tab.
• “Monthly” / “Annually” toggle with a “Save 20%” badge — defaults to Annually; when active, each plan card shows both the crossed-out monthly-equivalent rate and the discounted annual rate simultaneously rather than replacing one with the other.
• “Show more features” expandable comparison table — a collapsed-by-default, checkmark-style matrix beneath the plan cards (Storage & File Upload, Users & Admin Controls, and more) that expands into a fuller feature diff across all five Business-tier plans.
• Dual “Buy now” / “Try for free” CTAs per plan — every seat-priced tier, including the newly launched Enterprise Advanced, exposes both a direct self-serve purchase path and a free-trial path side by side.
• “See developer pricing” cross-link — routes from the Business plan grid to the separate Platform Add-Ons page, keeping the seat-based and API-consumption pricing surfaces editorially and visually distinct.

Strategic wins : How Box funded its AI roadmap without repricing the base

1. Revealing Enterprise Plus’s price right before launching a costlier tier above it

Turning “Custom” into a fixed $50/user/month list price on January 5, 2025 — nine days before Enterprise Advanced’s launch — gave prospects a self-serve anchor at the AI-enabled tier while Box simultaneously introduced the true sales-gated ceiling above it. That sequencing meant Box didn’t have to defend a sudden price increase on Enterprise Plus; it simply made a number public that had always existed as a negotiated quote, then sold the AI premium as a brand-new product one rung higher.

2. Metering AI through a new tier and a new unit, not a seat-price hike

Business, Business Plus, and Enterprise customers saw zero list-price movement throughout Box’s entire AI buildout (Box AI, Box AI Agents, Box Hubs, Box AI Studio) — a contrast with the broader shift away from flat per-user licenses many AI-adjacent vendors are making. Instead, Box captured AI willingness-to-pay through Enterprise Advanced’s 30-40% per-seat premium over Enterprise Plus (per Box’s own Q4 FY26 earnings commentary) and through Box AI Units as a side-car metered SKU. This protects renewal economics on the existing installed base — a pattern worth studying alongside our guide to usage entitlements and grants — while still monetizing the buyers who want the new capability.

3. Staging the AI Units rollout over roughly eight months

Box announced Box AI Units conceptually in February 2025, surfaced the allocations in the plan-comparison UI by June 2025, and only formally expanded AI Units access and included allotments to Business, Business Plus, and Enterprise on October 20, 2025. That gap gave customers time to see the mechanic — and adjust workflows — before it could show up as a surprise line item, a meaningfully lower-trust-risk sequencing than the hard-cutover metering changes covered in our usage-based billing thresholds guide.

4. Lowering the Enterprise Advanced seat minimum back to the standard floor

A March 2026 capture showed Enterprise Advanced carrying an elevated 35-user minimum in the plan-comparison table — a threshold no other Business-tier plan enforced. The most recent independently confirmed snapshot (Wayback Machine, 2026-08-27) shows that minimum lowered back to 3 users, matching every other tier. Removing a seat-count floor that could have disqualified smaller teams from Box’s highest-priced, highest-AI-allocation tier widens the buyer pool for the plan carrying a 30-40% per-seat premium over Enterprise Plus (per Box’s own Q4 FY26 earnings commentary) — without touching a single list price.

Areas to improve : The two rates Box still won’t publish

1. Publish the external-collaborator and AI Units overage rates

Box discloses the existence of both charges (“pay per each” for Business-tier collaborators, “additional volume available for purchase” for AI Units) without disclosing the rate for either. Fix: add a per-seat collaborator price and a per-1,000-unit AI Units overage price to the plan-comparison footnotes, the same way many companies in this corpus publish per-unit overage math — see our usage-based pricing guide for the self-serve-calculation pattern buyers expect.

2. Add a manual currency switcher

Box’s pricing page prices entirely by visitor IP with no override — this review’s session from India saw only ₹ figures with no path to a USD reference price. A manual currency selector (common among competitors) would let global buyers, procurement teams, and price-comparison tools see a consistent baseline regardless of egress location.

3. Loosen the Cloudflare wall on the Individuals and Teams tab

The consumer/small-team tab returned a bot-verification challenge on every automated capture attempt in this research pass, while the neighboring Businesses tab captured normally. Blocking legitimate research and price-comparison traffic on a public pricing page pushes evaluators toward third-party aggregators instead of Box’s own canonical numbers — a self-inflicted transparency gap.

4. Publish a list price for Enterprise Advanced

Every tier below it — including Enterprise Plus, which itself moved from “Custom” to a fixed $50/user/month price in January 2025 — now carries a public per-seat number, but Enterprise Advanced has stayed quote-only (“Contact us”) in every capture since its January 14, 2025 launch through the current live session. Box has already shown it’s willing to publish a list price for a premium AI-enabled tier once demand is proven; extending that same move to Enterprise Advanced would let buyers self-qualify on price the way they already can for Business through Enterprise Plus, instead of needing a sales conversation just to see a number.

Key takeaways

1. Hold your renewal base’s prices flat while you monetize the new thing separately. Box kept its core $15/$25/$35 seat ladder untouched for four-plus years while building an entirely parallel AI monetization track (a new tier plus a new metered unit) — see our guide to usage entitlements and grants for how to structure this split.
2. A quote-only price can go public without going cheap. Enterprise Plus’s jump from “Custom” to a fixed $50/month shows opacity-to-transparency is a legitimate go-to-market lever, not something that only flows the other direction as companies mature.
3. Stage usage-metering rollouts in public view before they hit invoices. The roughly eight-month gap between Box’s AI Units announcement and its first formal billing impact gave customers time to adjust, which our usage-based billing thresholds guide identifies as a key trust-preserving pattern for any consumption-metered feature.
4. An undisclosed “pay per each” clause is a disclosure gap, not a pricing strategy. Box’s uncosted external-collaborator seats and AI Units overage are exactly the kind of hidden-fee pattern that drives billing complaints in public reviews — publishing the rate costs nothing and removes a recurring trust tax.
5. Geo-priced pages need a manual override. Pure IP-based currency detection with zero manual switcher actively degrades self-serve evaluation for researchers, price-comparison tools, and genuine global buyers outside the primary market.

UBP implications

1. Hybrid migrations don’t require restructuring the core subscription. Box phased usage-based AI pricing in through a side-car metered unit (Box AI Units) rather than converting seats into consumption billing — a lower-risk usage-based pricing migration path for any incumbent with a large installed base that can’t tolerate broad repricing.
2. Box’s Enterprise Advanced 30-40% per-seat uplift is a live data point on AI-native tier pricing. Disclosed by Box itself on its Q4 FY26 earnings call, it’s a useful benchmark for how much premium buyers currently tolerate at the tier level versus the per-unit-consumption level — relevant to the pricing trends corpus tracking outcome- and value-based pricing.
3. A fully quote-only developer/API layer persisting alongside an increasingly AI-metered seat product is a live counterexample to the industry’s drift toward published API pricing. Box’s Platform (Core APIs, AI Units, Doc Gen, Sign) has never published a list price in any tracked capture, even as the adjacent seat-based product became progressively more usage-metered — worth watching for whether Box eventually publishes Platform rates as competitive pressure increases.

Sources

• Box Pricing (accessed 2026-09-04)
• Box Business Pricing (accessed 2026-09-04)
• Box Platform Pricing (accessed 2026-09-04)
• Box Enterprise Quote (accessed 2026-09-04)
• Box Platform Quote (accessed 2026-09-04)
• Box MCP Server Pricing Docs (accessed 2026-09-04)
• Welcome to Enterprise Advanced — Box Blog (accessed 2026-09-04)
• AI Consumption-Based Pricing, Explained — Box Blog (accessed 2026-09-04)
• Introducing the Box Enterprise Advanced Plan — Box Support (accessed 2026-09-04)
• Expanded AI API Access and AI Units for Business, Business Plus, and Enterprise Plans (Oct 2025) — Box Support (accessed 2026-09-04) — independent second-source validation confirming Enterprise 1,000 / Enterprise Plus 2,000 / Enterprise Advanced 20,000 Box AI Units per month
• Box Pricing — Wayback Machine snapshot, 2026-08-27 (accessed 2026-09-04) — independent second-source validation: CAD-geo capture cross-confirms the $15/$25/$35/$50 and $10/$5 USD list prices via a consistent ~1.40 CAD/USD ratio, and shows Enterprise Advanced’s minimum-user requirement back at 3, not 35

Bottom line

Box’s headline story isn’t a price increase — it’s restraint. Four-plus years of unchanged $15/$25/$35 seat prices sit underneath an entirely new AI monetization layer (Enterprise Advanced’s 30-40% tier premium, Box AI Units’ metered consumption) that Box built without repricing a single existing customer’s base plan. The trade-off is disclosure: external-collaborator seat costs and AI Units overage rates remain published only as “pay per each,” a genuine hidden-cost gap for buyers trying to model their real monthly bill before talking to sales.

Want to compare Box against other cloud-content-management pricing? Browse the pricing blueprint.

Pricing timeline : Major events on a vertical axis

Each milestone below corresponds to a public pricing change, product launch, or material adjustment. Major events use a filled marker; minor adjustments use a faded one.

Current capture: India-geo pricing, Individuals and Teams tab Cloudflare-blocked

Sep 2026

Live capture of Box's current five-tier Business plan grid (Business, Business Plus, Enterprise, Enterprise Plus billed per user/month with annual discount shown, resolved to India/INR in this session; Enterprise Advanced quote-only), the quote-only Platform Add-Ons page (Core APIs, AI Units, Document Generation APIs, Sign APIs), and Box MCP Server billing mechanics from Box's developer docs. Price ratios match the confirmed USD structure from March 2026 exactly. The separate 'Individuals and Teams' plan tab could not be captured live — Cloudflare blocked repeated automated attempts — but its most recent confirmed USD prices (October 2025) are documented under Pricing by product.

Extract Agents (API) added; Enterprise Advanced's 35-user minimum made explicit; prices still unchanged

Mar 2026

A March 2026 capture — the last archived snapshot to show plain-USD pricing before later captures resolve to Canadian dollars via IP-geo detection — adds an 'Extract Agents (API)' line to every tier, states a 14-day free trial explicitly, and shows Enterprise Advanced's minimum-user requirement (35) in the plan-comparison table for the first time. Business, Business Plus, Enterprise, and Enterprise Plus list prices remain $15/$25/$35/$50/user/month annually — unchanged since January 2022 (2025 for Enterprise Plus).

AI Units formally expanded to Business, Business Plus, and Enterprise

Oct 2025

Per Box's own support article ('Expanded AI API Access and AI Units for Business, Business Plus, and Enterprise Plans (Oct 2025)'), Business and Business Plus gain API access to Box AI Foundation Agents but include zero AI Units — they must purchase AI Units as one-time or recurring SKUs to use them at all — while Enterprise gains the same API access plus 1,000 included AI Units/month. Enterprise Plus and Enterprise Advanced are explicitly unchanged by this update.

AI Q&A and content generation roll down to Business and Business Plus; AI Units allocations become visible

Jun 2025

The plan-comparison table shows Business and Business Plus gaining Box AI Q&A (single doc/image) and Box AI content generation as included checkmarks (no unit cap shown), while Enterprise Plus displays a 2,000 Box AI Units/month allowance and the newly-launched Enterprise Advanced shows 20,000/month. Box Platform also becomes its own top-level tab alongside Individuals and Teams and Businesses, rather than a page linked from the Business tab.

Box announces Box AI Units consumption-based pricing

Feb 2025

Box announces it will track and bill AI API usage via a new metered unit called Box AI Units, alongside new Box AI Extract Agents and Box AI Studio custom agents (per Constellation Research's coverage of the announcement and Box's own blog post explaining consumption-based AI pricing). No unit allocations or per-unit rates are published at this stage.

Enterprise Advanced launches

Jan 2025

Box officially launches Enterprise Advanced (Box Apps, Box AI Studio, Box Doc Gen API, 500GB uploads, all Enterprise Plus capabilities included), per blog.box.com/welcome-enterprise-advanced-new-era-apps-automation-and-ai and support.box.com's companion article. The plan ships quote-only; a February 2025 capture shows it flipped from 'Coming in Q1 2025' to 'NOW AVAILABLE' with no list price ever published for it.

Enterprise Plus gets a fixed public price for the first time

Jan 2025

Nine days before Enterprise Advanced's official launch, Enterprise Plus — custom/quote-only in every capture since January 2022 — appears with a fixed $50/user/month annual price and a new 'NOW WITH BOX AI' badge (AI-powered document insights, Box Hubs content portals). Business, Business Plus, and Enterprise remain unchanged at $15/$25/$35.

Enterprise Advanced teased as 'Coming in Q1 2025'

Dec 2024

A redesigned pricing page introduces a new promotional banner for an 'Enterprise Advanced' plan ('Coming in Q1 2025') describing unlimited no-code apps, custom AI agents, and a 500GB upload cap. Price digits for the existing four tiers did not render in this archived capture (a client-side rendering gap in the archive, not a real depricing) — see the January 2025 entry below for confirmed figures either side of the launch.

Earliest tracked pricing: four-tier Business ladder, Enterprise Plus quote-only

Jan 2022

Earliest archived capture of box.com/pricing shows a four-tier Business ladder (Business $20→$15/user/mo annually, Business Plus $33→$25, Enterprise $47→$35, Enterprise Plus fully custom/quote-only) plus a separate Business Starter tier (3-10 users) inside the Individuals and Teams family. These exact $15/$25/$35 figures for Business, Business Plus, and Enterprise persisted unchanged in every subsequent capture through March 2026.