{
  "$schema": "Tanso AI Pricing Finder snapshot",
  "snapshot_date": "2026-08-29",
  "description": "Frozen 2026-08-29 snapshot of the Tanso AI Pricing Finder: 96 companies across 19 categories (1 retired and kept for reference). 96 of 96 entries were read from the vendor's own pricing page or documentation. Every entry is first-party verified. This file is immutable — cite it rather than the live finder, which continues to change.",
  "company_count": 96,
  "category_count": 19,
  "retired_count": 1,
  "first_party_verified_count": 96,
  "not_first_party_verified": [],
  "companies": [
    {
      "id": "openai",
      "name": "OpenAI",
      "categoryId": "ai-api",
      "revenueGenerationId": "consumption",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "usage-based",
        "credit-based"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "soft-cap-overage",
      "valueMetricId": "tokens",
      "growthStrategyId": "api-first",
      "notes": "Industry standard for LLM pricing. Transparent token costs. Prepaid credits with spend caps available. Consumer lineup expanded in 2026: Free, Go ($8/mo), Plus ($20), Pro ($100 and $200 tiers), Business, Enterprise.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "capped",
        "creditRetentionDetails": "Prepaid credits carry forward but expire 1 year after purchase.",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "not-established",
        "capsDetails": "Configurable monthly spend caps. Usage stops when cap is hit unless auto-recharge enabled.",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "The cited sources establish an organization or workspace balance but do not establish teammate sharing under the Finder pooling definition."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "OpenAI Pricing",
          "url": "https://openai.com/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "OpenAI API Pricing (developer docs)",
          "url": "https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "OpenAI Usage Limits",
          "url": "https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/rate-limits"
        },
        {
          "label": "OpenAI Service Credit Terms (effective Jan 1, 2026)",
          "url": "https://openai.com/policies/service-credit-terms/"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://openai.com",
        "foundingYear": 2015,
        "fundingStage": "Late Stage - ~$180B total raised ($852B valuation, Mar 2026)",
        "employeeCount": "~4000-7000",
        "marketPosition": "leader"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0",
        "starter": "$20/mo (Plus)",
        "pro": "$100/mo (Pro) and $200/mo (Pro top tier)",
        "business": "$20/user/mo annual, $25/user/mo monthly (Business)",
        "enterprise": "Custom"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Community forums",
        "pro": "Email support",
        "enterprise": "Dedicated account manager + SLA 99.9%"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "ChatGPT Free: Limited GPT-5 access",
      "annualDiscountPct": "20% (Business annual: $20 vs $25/user/mo)",
      "contractMinimums": "None for Plus; Business min 2 seats",
      "history": [
        {
          "date": "2026-08",
          "change": "GPT-5.6 Sol cut to promotional pricing: input $5.00 → $4.00/M, cached input $0.50 → $0.40/M, output $30.00 → $20.00/M. Promo runs at least through Nov 21, 2026. Rates and the promo end date are from OpenAI's pricing page; OpenAI does not publish an announcement date, so only the month is recorded"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-04",
          "change": "Business seats cut $25 → $20/user/mo annual ($30 → $25 monthly); Pro $100 tier added Apr 9"
        }
      ],
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: organization-level billing alone is not treated as evidence of teammate allowance sharing."
    },
    {
      "id": "anthropic",
      "name": "Anthropic (Claude API)",
      "categoryId": "ai-api",
      "revenueGenerationId": "consumption",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "usage-based",
        "credit-based"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "credit-pool",
      "valueMetricId": "tokens",
      "growthStrategyId": "api-first",
      "notes": "Similar to OpenAI pricing. Prepaid credits system. Claude Pro is separate tiered subscription product.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "capped",
        "creditRetentionDetails": "Prepaid credits carry forward. Credits expire 1 year from purchase date.",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "not-established",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Credit terms associate credits with the customer account and do not establish teammate allowance sharing."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Anthropic Pricing",
          "url": "https://www.anthropic.com/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Claude Platform release notes (Aug 10, 2026 pricing entry)",
          "url": "https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/overview"
        },
        {
          "label": "Anthropic Credit Terms (effective Mar 4, 2024)",
          "url": "https://www.anthropic.com/legal/credit-terms"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://www.anthropic.com",
        "foundingYear": 2021,
        "fundingStage": "Series H - $965B valuation (May 2026, ~$130B total raised)",
        "employeeCount": "~1100",
        "marketPosition": "leader"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0",
        "starter": "$20/mo (Pro)",
        "pro": "$100/mo (Max 5x)",
        "business": "$200/mo (Max 20x)",
        "enterprise": "Custom"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Community forums",
        "pro": "Priority support",
        "enterprise": "Dedicated support + custom SLAs"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free: Limited daily messages; Pro: Higher limits",
      "annualDiscountPct": "~15%",
      "contractMinimums": "None for Pro; Enterprise custom",
      "history": [
        {
          "date": "2026-08-10",
          "change": "Claude Sonnet 5 $2/$10 per M input/output made the standard price; the scheduled Sept 1 increase to $3/$15 was cancelled"
        }
      ],
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: account-level credits without explicit teammate sharing are marked Not established for pooling."
    },
    {
      "id": "cursor",
      "name": "Cursor",
      "categoryId": "ai-coding",
      "revenueGenerationId": "subscription",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "tiered-subscription",
        "hybrid-subscription-usage"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "soft-cap-overage",
      "valueMetricId": "dollar-usage",
      "growthStrategyId": "plg",
      "notes": "Shifted from abstract \"fast requests\" to dollar-denominated included usage in June 2025. Paid plans can enable on-demand usage after the included amount is consumed. Individual, Teams, and Enterprise accounts can set monthly spend limits; AI usage stops when the applicable limit is reached.",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: the metric, paid overage, and spend-cap fields were aligned to Cursor billing documentation.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "topUps": false,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "capsDetails": "Monthly on-demand spend limits are available for individuals and teams. AI usage stops when the configured limit is reached.",
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Enterprise offers pooled usage shared across all users in a team; standard Teams usage is allocated per user."
      },
      "pricingModelDetails": {
        "revenueModel": "Subscription + usage overflow",
        "valueMetric": "Dollar-based credits (shifted from abstract \"fast requests\")",
        "overageStrategy": "Pay-as-you-go available when monthly credits exhausted at higher per-credit rates"
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Cursor Pricing",
          "url": "https://cursor.com/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Cursor June 2025 pricing update",
          "url": "https://cursor.com/blog/june-2025-pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Cursor Router changelog (Jul 22, 2026)",
          "url": "https://cursor.com/changelog/router"
        },
        {
          "label": "Cursor models and pricing docs",
          "url": "https://cursor.com/docs/models-and-pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Cursor spend limits",
          "url": "https://cursor.com/help/account-and-billing/spend-limits"
        },
        {
          "label": "Cursor Teams pooled usage (Aug 12, 2025)",
          "url": "https://cursor.com/en-US/blog/aug-2025-pricing-teams"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://cursor.com",
        "foundingYear": 2022,
        "fundingStage": "Series D - $29.3B valuation (Nov 2025)",
        "employeeCount": "~1400",
        "marketPosition": "leader"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0",
        "starter": "$20/mo (Pro)",
        "pro": "$60/mo (Pro+)",
        "business": "$200/mo (Ultra)",
        "enterprise": "$40/user/mo (Teams); Custom"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Community",
        "pro": "Email support",
        "enterprise": "Dedicated support + pooled usage"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free (Hobby): limited Agent requests and Tab completions",
      "annualDiscountPct": "20%",
      "contractMinimums": "Teams: centralized billing",
      "history": [
        {
          "date": "2026-07-22",
          "change": "Cursor Router launched and Auto began billing at the routed model's own rate rather than a flat Auto rate; the changelog names Balance and Intelligence, while the docs now describe all Auto modes this way. On Teams and Enterprise, third-party model requests also carry a Cursor Token Rate of $0.25/M — individual plans are not subject to it. Legacy Enterprise Auto keeps flat per-M-token pricing until Sept 7, 2026"
        },
        {
          "date": "2025-06",
          "change": "Repackaging: abstract fast requests → dollar-based credit pools; Free tier reframed from 2,000 completions to unquantified limited Agent/Tab usage"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "github-copilot",
      "name": "GitHub Copilot",
      "categoryId": "ai-coding",
      "revenueGenerationId": "subscription",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "tiered-subscription",
        "seat-based",
        "hybrid-subscription-usage"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "soft-cap-overage",
      "valueMetricId": "dollar-usage",
      "growthStrategyId": "hybrid",
      "notes": "Moved to usage-based GitHub AI Credits billing on June 1, 2026, replacing premium requests. Each plan includes a monthly AI Credit allotment (1 credit = $0.01); code completions and next-edit suggestions are unlimited on paid plans (Free is capped at 2,000 completions/mo), while chat, agents, code review and CLI draw from the credit pool. After the included amount, customers can set an additional spending budget and are billed at month-end. Business and Enterprise included credits are pooled at the billing-entity level; existing customers receive higher promotional pools for the first three months of usage-based billing (June 1 to September 1, 2026), after which included usage returns to the standard amounts. GitHub publishes monthly prices only, with no annual plan or annual discount. Monthly Pro and Pro+, Free, Business, and Enterprise moved on June 1, 2026; annual Pro and Pro+ subscribers remained on premium-request billing until their existing terms expired.",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: GitHub publishes monthly prices only for every Copilot plan, so the previously stated ~17% annual discount was removed rather than restated. The promotional pool window was corrected to the vendor's June 1 to September 1, 2026 wording.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "creditRetentionDetails": "Monthly AI Credit allotment resets each cycle (1 credit = $0.01). No rollover of unused credits.",
        "topUps": false,
        "topUpsDetails": "Additional AI Credits are not prepaid top-ups. Usage beyond the included allowance is billed at month-end after a spending budget is set.",
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Business and Enterprise licenses contribute included AI Credits to a shared organization or enterprise pool."
      },
      "pricingModelDetails": {
        "revenueModel": "Tiered subscription per seat",
        "valueMetric": "GitHub AI Credits per month (1 credit = $0.01); credits consumed by chat, agents, code review and CLI",
        "freeTierDetails": "Free tier: 2,000 completions/mo and limited chat/agent usage; unlimited completions on paid plans"
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "GitHub Copilot Pricing",
          "url": "https://github.com/features/copilot#pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Copilot moving to usage-based billing (Apr 27, 2026)",
          "url": "https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/github-copilot-is-moving-to-usage-based-billing/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Copilot billing launch (Jun 1, 2026)",
          "url": "https://github.blog/changelog/2026-06-01-updates-to-github-copilot-billing-and-plans/"
        },
        {
          "label": "GitHub AI Credits billing for organizations",
          "url": "https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/concepts/billing/usage-based-billing-for-organizations-and-enterprises"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://github.com/features/copilot",
        "foundingYear": 2021,
        "fundingStage": "Public (Microsoft)",
        "marketPosition": "leader"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0",
        "starter": "$10/mo (Pro)",
        "pro": "$39/mo (Pro+) / $100/mo (Max, 20,000 credits)",
        "business": "$19/user/mo (Business)",
        "enterprise": "$39/user/mo (Enterprise)"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Community forums",
        "pro": "Priority support",
        "enterprise": "24/7 support + dedicated CSM"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free: 2,000 completions/mo; limited chat and agent usage"
    },
    {
      "id": "windsurf",
      "name": "Windsurf (Codeium)",
      "categoryId": "ai-coding",
      "revenueGenerationId": "subscription",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "tiered-subscription",
        "hybrid-subscription-usage"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "credit-pool",
      "valueMetricId": "tokens",
      "growthStrategyId": "plg",
      "notes": "Windsurf replaced monthly credits with daily and weekly quotas in March 2026. The included budget and extra usage are calculated from model tokens at published API rates; displayed message counts are estimates, not the billing unit. Paid users can purchase a dollar balance for extra usage, and automatic refill remains documented for legacy or enterprise credit configurations. Windsurf is now branded as Devin Desktop under Cognition.",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: the token-based quota, prepaid extra-usage balance, and allowance reset were separated in the structured fields.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "unlimited",
        "creditRetentionDetails": "Included quotas reset daily and weekly. Legacy purchased add-on credits were converted to a dollar balance that remains usable or refundable; this retained purchased value is not recurring allowance rollover.",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
        "topUpsDetails": "Paid users can purchase extra usage at model API rates; legacy add-on credits were converted to a dollar balance. Automatic refill remains documented for legacy or enterprise credit configurations.",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Included quotas are per seat; Team and Enterprise add-on credits are pooled across team members."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Windsurf pricing-plan update (Mar 2026)",
          "url": "https://windsurf.com/blog/windsurf-pricing-plans"
        },
        {
          "label": "Windsurf quota documentation",
          "url": "https://docs.devin.ai/desktop/accounts/quota"
        },
        {
          "label": "Windsurf pooled add-on credits (Apr 21, 2025)",
          "url": "https://windsurf.com/blog/pricing-v2"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://windsurf.com",
        "foundingYear": 2021,
        "fundingStage": "Acquired (Cognition/Devin 2025; Google IP license $2.4B)",
        "employeeCount": "~150-300",
        "marketPosition": "challenger"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0",
        "starter": "$20/mo (Pro)",
        "pro": "$40/user/mo (Teams)",
        "business": "$200/mo (Max)",
        "enterprise": "Custom"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Community",
        "pro": "Email support",
        "enterprise": "Dedicated support"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free: light daily/weekly quota with limited model availability; unlimited inline edits and Tab completions",
      "contractMinimums": "None",
      "history": [
        {
          "date": "2026-03",
          "change": "Pricing overhaul: Pro $15 → $20/mo, Teams $30 → $40/user/mo, $200 Max tier added; credits replaced by daily/weekly quotas"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "replit",
      "name": "Replit",
      "categoryId": "ai-coding",
      "revenueGenerationId": "subscription",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "hybrid-subscription-usage",
        "credit-based",
        "tiered-subscription"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "soft-cap-overage",
      "valueMetricId": "dollar-usage",
      "growthStrategyId": "plg",
      "notes": "Effort-based credits power AI, deployments, and compute. Current Pro documentation says unused subscription credits roll over for two months; usage beyond included credits is billed separately with spend controls. In February 2026 Teams was replaced by Pro, and Core was repriced.",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: current Pro documentation establishes two-month rollover and tiered subscription credits. This current-only change is not backdated to the June snapshot. Updated August 30, 2026: pooling was left as Pooled and a sourced detail added, citing where the vendor documents sharing across team members.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "capped",
        "creditRetentionDetails": "Current Pro subscription credits roll over for two months. Purchased credit packs expire six months after purchase.",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
        "capsDetails": "Customer spending limits and budgets can control usage-based charges.",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Pro invites up to 15 builders who work from one pooled credit balance with no per-user fees; collaborative Workspaces draw pooled credits from the admin's account."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Replit Pricing",
          "url": "https://replit.com/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Replit Pro plan (Feb 2026)",
          "url": "https://replit.com/blog/pro-plan"
        },
        {
          "label": "Replit usage-based billing",
          "url": "https://replit.com/blog/flexible-credits-and-usage-based-billing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Replit Cloud Aug 2026 pricing updates",
          "url": "https://docs.replit.com/billing/aug-cloud-billing-updates"
        },
        {
          "label": "Replit credit-pack expiration",
          "url": "https://docs.replit.com/billing/managing-spend"
        },
        {
          "label": "Replit Pro credit tiers and rollover",
          "url": "https://docs.replit.com/billing/plans/replit-pro"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://replit.com",
        "foundingYear": 2016,
        "fundingStage": "Series D - $9B valuation (Mar 2026)",
        "employeeCount": "~200-500",
        "marketPosition": "challenger"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0",
        "starter": "$20/mo (Core)",
        "pro": "$100/mo (Pro, up to 15 builders)",
        "enterprise": "Custom"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Community",
        "pro": "Email support",
        "enterprise": "Dedicated support + custom onboarding"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free (Starter): publish 1 app; 2 GiB storage per app; limited daily Agent credits",
      "contractMinimums": "None",
      "history": [
        {
          "date": "2026-08-01",
          "change": "Cloud usage prices cut across all plans: Autoscale and scheduled compute $3.20 → $0.60 per M compute units, Autoscale requests $1.20 → $0.40 per M, outbound transfer $0.10 → $0.05/GiB, app storage $0.03 → $0.015 GiB/mo, basic ops $0.0006 → $0.0004 and advanced ops $0.0075 → $0.005 per thousand, DB storage $1.50 → $0.35 GiB/mo. Most Reserved VM tiers also fell (0.25 vCPU $0.014 → $0.0104, 0.5 vCPU $0.028 → $0.0208, dedicated 1 vCPU $0.055 → $0.0486, 2 vCPU $0.11 → $0.0694, 4 vCPU $0.22 → $0.1806). DB compute ($0.16/hr) and the $1/mo Autoscale base fee unchanged. Not uniformly down: the legacy 1 vCPU / 4 GiB Reserved VM rose $0.042 → $0.0486/hr. New 8 vCPU ($0.3611/hr) and 16 vCPU ($0.7222/hr) tiers added"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-02",
          "change": "Core $25 → $20/mo (annual/monthly split eliminated); Teams sunset, replaced by Pro $100/mo"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "v0",
      "name": "v0 (Vercel)",
      "categoryId": "ai-coding",
      "revenueGenerationId": "subscription",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "tiered-subscription",
        "credit-based"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "hard-cap",
      "valueMetricId": "dollar-usage",
      "growthStrategyId": "plg",
      "notes": "Credits for UI generations using a token-based system (v0 Mini/Pro/Max models with different per-token costs). Marketed lineup at v0.app/pricing is Free ($0, $5 included monthly credits), Plus ($30/user/mo), Business ($100/user/mo) and Enterprise (custom). Plus and Business include $30 of monthly credits per user plus $2 of free daily credits on login per user, and can purchase additional credits shared across the team. v0's docs also still list a legacy Premium plan at $20/mo with $20 of included credits. Part of the Vercel ecosystem.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "capped",
        "creditRetentionDetails": "Unused monthly credits roll over one cycle and expire after 65 days; purchased credits expire one year after purchase and require an active paid plan to use.",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": null,
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Monthly credits are individual per user; Shared Credit Pool credits are shared across the team and are used after individual monthly credits are exhausted (Plus, Business, Enterprise).",
        "capsDetails": "A finite monetary credit balance does not by itself establish a customer-configured spending cap."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "v0 Pricing",
          "url": "https://v0.app/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "v0 pricing docs (credit rollover and expiry)",
          "url": "https://v0.app/docs/pricing"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://v0.app",
        "foundingYear": 2023,
        "marketPosition": "challenger"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0 ($5 credits/mo)",
        "starter": "$20/mo (Premium)",
        "pro": "$30/user/mo (Plus)",
        "business": "$100/user/mo (Business)",
        "enterprise": "Custom"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Community",
        "pro": "Priority support",
        "enterprise": "Dedicated support"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free: $5 credits/mo; no top-up option",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: the marketed lineup is Free/Plus/Business/Enterprise with Plus at $30 per user per month; credits roll over one cycle and expire at 65 days, correcting a previous no-rollover claim. Source URLs moved from v0.dev to v0.app."
    },
    {
      "id": "figma",
      "name": "Figma",
      "categoryId": "ai-design",
      "revenueGenerationId": "seat-expansion",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "seat-based",
        "tiered-subscription",
        "credit-based",
        "hybrid-subscription-usage"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "soft-cap-overage",
      "valueMetricId": "credits",
      "growthStrategyId": "hybrid",
      "notes": "Figma AI uses monthly credit allowances. Included credits are assigned by seat; optional subscription credits form a shared pool, and pay-as-you-go can cover use beyond both balances up to an admin-set limit.",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: the AI-credit metric, paid overage, and non-rollover terms were aligned to first-party documentation.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "creditRetentionDetails": "Included seat credits and purchased subscription credits reset monthly and do not roll over.",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
        "topUpsDetails": "Additional AI credits are available through a plan-level shared subscription pool.",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Included allowances are personal to each seat; optional purchased subscription credits form a shared plan pool."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Figma Pricing",
          "url": "https://www.figma.com/pricing/"
        },
        {
          "label": "How Figma AI credits work",
          "url": "https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/articles/33459875669015-How-AI-credits-work"
        },
        {
          "label": "Manage Figma AI credits",
          "url": "https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/articles/35865276858647-Manage-AI-credits"
        },
        {
          "label": "Figma AI Credit Terms",
          "url": "https://www.figma.com/legal/ai-credit-terms/"
        },
        {
          "label": "AI credit updates FAQ (Aug 25, 2026)",
          "url": "https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/articles/42614902212887-AI-credit-updates-FAQ"
        },
        {
          "label": "Figma AI credit update (Dec 9, 2025)",
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        "marketPosition": "leader"
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      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free (Starter): 3 Figma design files; 3 FigJam files; 30-day version history; 150 AI credits/day (up to 500 AI credits/mo)",
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        {
          "date": "2026-08-25",
          "change": "AI credit add-on packages enlarged at unchanged cost: 2x more credits on Professional, 1.6x more on Organization and Enterprise, at the same subscription and pay-as-you-go price. Existing balances migrated the same day; already-invoiced customers received an adjustment line. Per-seat included credits unchanged. Figma published multipliers only, not new package sizes"
        }
      ]
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        "freemium",
        "credit-based"
      ],
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      "notes": "Pro $18/mo or $180/yr; Business $25/person/mo or $250/person/yr. Business is a separate plan rather than a renamed Teams: Canva Teams closed to new sign-ups while existing Teams subscribers keep their plan, pricing and features. AI is no longer a flat monthly credit count: paid plans draw on a shared allowance spanning Standard, Premium and Ultra AI tiers, with higher tiers consuming more of it, while Free shares an allowance across Standard and Premium only. Canva now publishes estimated monthly allowances per plan: Free up to 200 Standard or 20 Premium uses with no Ultra access; Pro up to 2,000 Standard, 200 Premium or 20 Ultra; Business and Enterprise up to 4,000 Standard, 400 Premium or 40 Ultra. Those are explicitly estimates showing what one tool type alone would buy, not a mixed-use budget. An AI Pass add-on to Pro or Business buys up to 40x more AI than Pro or 20x more than Business, at a price Canva does not publish.",
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      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Canva Pricing",
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        },
        {
          "label": "Meet Canva Business (Oct 29, 2025)",
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      ],
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        "marketPosition": "leader"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
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      },
      "supportTiers": {
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        {
          "label": "Purchasing Extra Fast Time",
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        "credit-based"
      ],
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      "valueMetricId": "credits",
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        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": null,
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      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Adobe Firefly Plans",
          "url": "https://www.adobe.com/products/firefly/plans.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "Adobe generative credits FAQ",
          "url": "https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/apps/generative-ai/generative-credits-faq.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "Adobe Shared Credits terms (effective Apr 9, 2026)",
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        },
        {
          "label": "Adobe Shared Credits launch (Mar 13, 2026)",
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      ],
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      },
      "pricingTiers": {
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      "supportTiers": {
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        }
      ],
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: the Firefly free tier is a limited number of daily generations with no published monthly credit figure; the previous 25 credits per month was Adobe's Creative Cloud Standard allocation, not Firefly Free. The March 2026 history entry was rewritten to what Adobe's own FAQ changelog records."
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        "tiered-subscription",
        "credit-based"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "hard-cap",
      "valueMetricId": "credits",
      "growthStrategyId": "plg",
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      "mechanics": {
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        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
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        {
          "label": "Runway Pricing",
          "url": "https://runwayml.com/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Runway workspace plan credits",
          "url": "https://help.runwayml.com/hc/en-us/articles/21664961171475-Which-plan-is-right-for-me"
        },
        {
          "label": "Runway article metadata (edited Jun 10, 2026)",
          "url": "https://help.runwayml.com/api/v2/help_center/en-us/articles/21664961171475.json"
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      ],
      "meta": {
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      "supportTiers": {
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        "enterprise": "Custom support + SLA"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free: 125 one-time credits; 720p; watermarked",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: the listed plan prices are the annual-billed rates and the month-to-month rates are now stated alongside them. Credit retention was corrected from unlimited: only purchased credits never expire, while Standard and Pro monthly credits reset. The Gen-4.5 figure was corrected to the vendor's 52 seconds."
    },
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      "id": "elevenlabs",
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        "credit-based",
        "tiered-subscription",
        "freemium"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "credit-pool",
      "valueMetricId": "credits",
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      "notes": "Self-serve users can buy a prepaid Pay As You Go balance without an upfront plan commitment; it can be topped up manually or automatically and expires 12 months after purchase. Enterprise and legacy eligible plans retain postpaid usage-based overage. Included subscription credits can roll into the next cycle up to 2x the normal quota while the customer remains on the same plan.",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: the direct PAYG purchasing path is classified as consumption; rollover remains a separate credit-retention rule. Updated August 30, 2026: pooling was left as Pooled and a sourced detail added, citing where the vendor documents sharing across team members.",
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        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
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      "sources": [
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          "label": "ElevenLabs Pricing",
          "url": "https://elevenlabs.io/pricing"
        },
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          "label": "ElevenLabs PAYG launch (May 7, 2026)",
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        {
          "label": "ElevenLabs Credit Rollover",
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        {
          "label": "ElevenLabs Pay As You Go",
          "url": "https://elevenlabs.io/docs/overview/administration/pay-as-you-go"
        },
        {
          "label": "ElevenLabs legacy usage-based billing",
          "url": "https://help.elevenlabs.io/hc/en-us/articles/27378406011409-What-is-usage-based-billing"
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      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://elevenlabs.io",
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        "marketPosition": "leader"
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      "pricingTiers": {
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      },
      "supportTiers": {
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        "enterprise": "Dedicated support + custom SLAs"
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    {
      "id": "synthesia",
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        "freemium"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "hard-cap",
      "valueMetricId": "video-minutes",
      "growthStrategyId": "hybrid",
      "notes": "Creator and Pro use fixed monthly video-credit allowances. When those self-serve credits are exhausted, users must wait for reset or upgrade; the cited self-serve documentation does not establish one-off top-up purchases. Enterprise customers can add credits through their CSM, AE or Support when usage reaches 100%.",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: the annual discount differs by plan rather than a single ~38%, and top-ups were corrected to true because Synthesia's cited enterprise credit article documents adding credits when usage reaches 100%.",
      "mechanics": {
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        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": false,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
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        "creditRetentionDetails": "Enterprise credits remain valid for the contract term, although monthly grants do not roll over.",
        "topUpsDetails": "Enterprise customers add credits through their CSM, AE or Support; self-serve Creator and Starter plans have no top-up path."
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        },
        {
          "label": "Synthesia self-serve credit limits",
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        },
        {
          "label": "Synthesia enterprise credits (Jul 28, 2026)",
          "url": "https://help.synthesia.io/en/articles/11825466-what-are-credits-and-how-do-they-work-for-enterprise-customers-in-synthesia"
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      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://www.synthesia.io",
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      },
      "pricingTiers": {
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      },
      "supportTiers": {
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      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free: 10 min video/mo (1,200 credits); 9 avatars; watermarked",
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    },
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        "freemium"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "credit-pool",
      "valueMetricId": "searches",
      "growthStrategyId": "plg",
      "notes": "Consumer Pro and Max are flat subscriptions; the vendor describes the free plan only as limited weekly usage rather than publishing a per-day search count. Enterprise seats are published at annual-billing rates only. API has separate pricing.",
      "mechanics": {
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        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
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        {
          "label": "Perplexity Enterprise pricing",
          "url": "https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/pricing?p=enterprise"
        },
        {
          "label": "Perplexity Enterprise credits (Jul 28, 2026)",
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      },
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      "freeTierLimits": "Free: limited weekly usage; access to basic AI models",
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      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: Enterprise seat prices were corrected to the vendor's published annual-billing rates of $34 and $271 per seat per month, and the unsourced 5 Pro searches per day was replaced with the vendor's own limited weekly usage wording."
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        "tiered-subscription"
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      "overageStrategyId": "credit-pool",
      "valueMetricId": "messages",
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      "notes": "Flat subscription with message limits; falls back to slower models when the limit is hit. Lineup now Free / Go ($8) / Plus ($20) / Pro ($100 = 5x Plus, $200 = 20x Plus) / Business / Enterprise. ChatGPT Business sells Standard seats at $20/user/mo annual or $25 monthly and Premium seats at $100/user/mo annual or $125 monthly, with Premium including 5x more usage than Standard and no 5-hour usage limit; a 2-seat minimum applies and seat types can be mixed. OpenAI's release notes date the $5/month seat price cut to April 2, 2026 and the new $100 Pro plan to April 9, 2026.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
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      },
      "sources": [
        {
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        },
        {
          "label": "Managing billing and seats in ChatGPT Business",
          "url": "https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8792536-managing-billing-and-seats-in-chatgpt-business"
        },
        {
          "label": "ChatGPT Business release notes (Apr 2, 2026 seat price change)",
          "url": "https://help.openai.com/en/articles/11391654-chatgpt-business-release-notes"
        },
        {
          "label": "ChatGPT release notes (Apr 9, 2026 Pro plan options)",
          "url": "https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6825453-chatgpt-release-notes"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://chat.openai.com",
        "foundingYear": 2022,
        "marketPosition": "leader"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
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        "enterprise": "Custom"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
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        "pro": "Priority access",
        "enterprise": "Enterprise controls + SSO"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free: Limited GPT-5 access",
      "annualDiscountPct": "~20% (Business annual)",
      "contractMinimums": "Business: 2-seat minimum per workspace",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: the Business 2-seat minimum was recorded (the row previously said none while its own tier string said otherwise), Premium seats were added, and the April 2026 dates are now cited to OpenAI's own release notes."
    },
    {
      "id": "claude-pro",
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      "pricingStructureIds": [
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        "tiered-subscription",
        "credit-based",
        "hybrid-subscription-usage"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "credit-pool",
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      "growthStrategyId": "plg",
      "notes": "Eligible Pro, Max, and Team plans can pre-purchase usage credits that draw down after the included allowance. Funds can be added manually or through auto-reload, and usage stops when no balance is available. The API is classified separately.",
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        "caps": true,
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        {
          "label": "Claude Pricing",
          "url": "https://claude.com/pricing"
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        {
          "label": "Manage usage credits for paid plans",
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        },
        {
          "label": "Claude usage bundles (May 18, 2026)",
          "url": "https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14246112-buy-usage-bundles"
        },
        {
          "label": "Claude Team usage credits (May 18, 2026)",
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        },
        {
          "label": "Claude Team plan pricing (Aug 18, 2026)",
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        },
        {
          "label": "Claude Enterprise billing (Jul 14, 2026)",
          "url": "https://support.claude.com/en/articles/11526368-how-am-i-billed-for-my-enterprise-plan"
        }
      ],
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        "website": "https://claude.ai",
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        "marketPosition": "leader"
      },
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      },
      "supportTiers": {
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        "enterprise": "Dedicated support"
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      "freeTierLimits": "Free: Limited messages/day; basic features",
      "annualDiscountPct": "~15-20%",
      "contractMinimums": "None"
    },
    {
      "id": "grammarly",
      "name": "Grammarly",
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        "tiered-subscription",
        "seat-based"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "hard-cap",
      "valueMetricId": "seats",
      "growthStrategyId": "plg",
      "notes": "Grammarly Pro includes 2,000 generative-AI prompts per member each month. Current first-party support documents that Pro prompts stop at zero until reset; Enterprise advertises unlimited prompts. The fixed allowance is not a customer-set budget cap.",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: unlimited writing suggestions were separated from the hard monthly cap on generative-AI prompts.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "topUps": false,
        "payGo": false,
        "caps": null,
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        "seatPooling": "per-seat"
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Grammarly Plans",
          "url": "https://www.grammarly.com/plans"
        },
        {
          "label": "Grammarly prompt-limit behavior",
          "url": "https://support.grammarly.com/hc/en-us/articles/17776038294285-Error-message-You-re-out-of-prompts"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://www.grammarly.com",
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        "employeeCount": "~1000-1600",
        "marketPosition": "leader"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0",
        "starter": "$12/mo (Pro annual)",
        "enterprise": "Custom"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Help center",
        "pro": "Priority support",
        "enterprise": "Dedicated account manager"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free: Basic grammar; 100 AI prompts/mo",
      "annualDiscountPct": "~60% (annual vs monthly)",
      "contractMinimums": "Enterprise: custom minimum"
    },
    {
      "id": "jasper",
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      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "tiered-subscription",
        "seat-based",
        "credit-based",
        "hybrid-subscription-usage"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "soft-cap-overage",
      "valueMetricId": "credits",
      "growthStrategyId": "hybrid",
      "notes": "Jasper combines a required platform subscription with credit-priced premium actions. Core Chat, Agents, Studio, and IQ remain unlimited, while API and MCP usage, Grid outputs, and advanced actions draw from one workspace credit bank. Business workspaces can purchase prepaid packs or enable postpaid overage with configurable limits.",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: the row now scopes its metric and mechanics to Jasper's premium credit-priced actions while preserving the unlimited core-product exception in the notes.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "capped",
        "creditRetentionDetails": "Prepaid credits expire at contract renewal or their stated expiration date.",
        "topUps": true,
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        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "capsDetails": "Admins can set workspace PAYG limits and per-user credit limits.",
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
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      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Jasper Pricing",
          "url": "https://www.jasper.ai/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Jasper unlimited-credit update",
          "url": "https://www.jasper.ai/blog/release-update-brand-voice"
        },
        {
          "label": "Jasper credits-based pricing scope",
          "url": "https://help.jasper.ai/hc/en-us/articles/46644376016923-Credits-Based-Pricing"
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      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://www.jasper.ai",
        "foundingYear": 2021,
        "fundingStage": "Series A - $1.5B valuation",
        "employeeCount": "~140",
        "marketPosition": "challenger"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "starter": "$59/seat/mo annual or $69 monthly (Pro)",
        "enterprise": "Custom (Business)"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Help center",
        "pro": "Email support",
        "enterprise": "Dedicated support + onboarding"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "7-day trial with limited features",
      "annualDiscountPct": "~20%",
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    },
    {
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        "tiered-subscription",
        "usage-based"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "soft-cap-overage",
      "valueMetricId": "tasks",
      "growthStrategyId": "hybrid",
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      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: paid overage, the 3x outer limit, account-level task pooling, and Enterprise workspace task caps were aligned to Zapier documentation.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
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        "topUps": false,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Team and Enterprise users draw from one account-level task pool.",
        "capsDetails": "Enterprise organizations can set an optional task limit per workspace; Zap workflows in that workspace are held when the limit is reached."
      },
      "pricingModelDetails": {
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        "valueMetric": "Tasks (automated workflow executions)",
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      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Zapier Pricing",
          "url": "https://zapier.com/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Zapier pay-per-task billing",
          "url": "https://help.zapier.com/hc/en-us/articles/15279018245901-How-pay-per-task-billing-works-in-Zapier"
        },
        {
          "label": "Zapier Team and Enterprise account pooling",
          "url": "https://help.zapier.com/hc/en-us/articles/8496291989645-Manage-your-Zapier-Team-or-Enterprise-account"
        },
        {
          "label": "Zapier workspace task limits (Jun 30, 2026)",
          "url": "https://help.zapier.com/hc/en-us/articles/36606829464973-How-billing-and-invoicing-work-in-organizations-and-workspaces"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://zapier.com",
        "foundingYear": 2011,
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        "employeeCount": "~1200",
        "marketPosition": "leader"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0",
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        "enterprise": "Custom"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Community + Email",
        "pro": "Live chat + email",
        "enterprise": "TAM + CSM + Premier Support"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free: 100 tasks/mo; 2-step Zaps only",
      "annualDiscountPct": "~33%",
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    },
    {
      "id": "clay",
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        "tiered-subscription",
        "credit-based",
        "usage-based"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "credit-pool",
      "valueMetricId": "credits",
      "growthStrategyId": "plg",
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      "mechanics": {
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        "creditRetentionDetails": "Data credits roll over up to 2x the monthly amount on Launch/Growth (for example, 2,500 monthly credits can accumulate to 5,000). Enterprise rollover is contract-specific. Top-up credits cost a 30% premium on Launch/Growth tiers.",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Workspace members and connected reps spend Clay credits from one workspace balance, with optional workspace-wide default and per-user credit limits."
      },
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: the scoped metric is Clay credits, usage-based billing is explicit, and the top-up premium wording was corrected. Updated August 30, 2026: pooling was left as Pooled and a sourced detail added, citing where the vendor documents sharing across team members.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Clay Pricing",
          "url": "https://www.clay.com/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Clay credit top-ups",
          "url": "https://www.clay.com/faq/how-can-i-get-more-credits-if-i-run-out"
        },
        {
          "label": "Clay pricing memo (Mar 11, 2026)",
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        },
        {
          "label": "Clay Actions and Data Credits",
          "url": "https://university.clay.com/docs/actions-data-credits"
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      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://www.clay.com",
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        "marketPosition": "challenger"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
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      },
      "supportTiers": {
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      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free: 100 credits/mo; 500 actions/mo; 200 rows/table",
      "annualDiscountPct": "~10%",
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      ]
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      "id": "twilio",
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      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "usage-based"
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      "overageStrategyId": "credit-pool",
      "valueMetricId": "messages",
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      "mechanics": {
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        "seatPooling": "not-established",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Console users hold roles on an account that bills usage centrally; the sources do not establish teammate sharing of a credit or usage allowance."
      },
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: prepaid-balance depletion and refill are classified as a credit pool; notification-only Usage Triggers are not spending caps. Updated August 30, 2026: pooling was reclassified to Not established because the vendor's own pages document account- or organization-level billing rather than a credit or usage allowance shared across team members.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Twilio Pricing",
          "url": "https://www.twilio.com/en-us/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "How Twilio pricing works",
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        },
        {
          "label": "Manually add funds and refill a Twilio balance",
          "url": "https://help.twilio.com/articles/360015760053-Manually-Add-Funds-and-Refill-your-Twilio-Project-Balance"
        },
        {
          "label": "Twilio Usage Triggers",
          "url": "https://www.twilio.com/docs/usage/api/usage-trigger"
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      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://www.twilio.com",
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        "fundingStage": "Public (NYSE: TWLO)",
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        "marketPosition": "leader"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
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      },
      "supportTiers": {
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      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Pay-as-you-go: no minimum",
      "contractMinimums": "Flex: $150/user/mo or $1/hr"
    },
    {
      "id": "stripe",
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        "platform-fee",
        "usage-based"
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        "payGo": true,
        "caps": null,
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        "seatPooling": "not-established",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Per-transaction billing does not by itself establish teammate sharing of a credit or usage allowance."
      },
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: unsupported top-up, spending-cap, and pooling claims were marked Not established.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Stripe Pricing",
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        }
      ],
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      },
      "supportTiers": {
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        "freemium"
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      "overageStrategyId": "soft-cap-overage",
      "valueMetricId": "bandwidth",
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        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "not-established",
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        "seatPoolingDetails": "Monthly credit and included usage are documented at the team plan level with seats billed separately; the sources do not establish teammate sharing of that allowance."
      },
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        }
      ],
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        "employeeCount": "~500",
        "marketPosition": "leader"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0 (Hobby)",
        "starter": "$20/user/mo (Pro)",
        "enterprise": "Custom (~$20-25K/yr min)"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Community",
        "pro": "Email support",
        "enterprise": "24/7 support + dedicated success"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Hobby: 100GB bandwidth; personal use only",
      "contractMinimums": "Enterprise: ~$20-25K annual minimum",
      "correctionNote": " Updated August 30, 2026: pooling was reclassified to Not established because the vendor's own pages document account- or organization-level billing rather than a credit or usage allowance shared across team members."
    },
    {
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        "hybrid-subscription-usage",
        "freemium"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "soft-cap-overage",
      "valueMetricId": "db-operations",
      "growthStrategyId": "plg",
      "notes": "Paid Supabase organizations require a base plan and add metered infrastructure usage. Usage can continue at published overage rates; the binary Spend Cap is based on vendor-set plan quotas rather than a customer-chosen budget.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "unlimited",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
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        "creditRetentionDetails": "Purchased top-up credits and qualifying cancellation credits do not expire.",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Included quotas apply to the organization across its projects; the sources do not establish teammate sharing of a credit or usage allowance."
      },
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        {
          "label": "Supabase Pricing",
          "url": "https://supabase.com/pricing"
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        {
          "label": "Supabase billing FAQ",
          "url": "https://supabase.com/docs/guides/platform/billing-faq"
        },
        {
          "label": "Supabase cost control",
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        },
        {
          "label": "Supabase credits",
          "url": "https://supabase.com/docs/guides/platform/credits"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://supabase.com",
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        "fundingStage": "Series F - $10.5B valuation",
        "employeeCount": "~200",
        "marketPosition": "challenger"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0",
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        "enterprise": "Custom"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Community",
        "pro": "Email support",
        "enterprise": "Dedicated support + HIPAA compliance"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free: 500MB DB; 50K MAUs; pauses after 7 days inactive",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: base-plan purchasing, paid continuation, credit validity, and the literal customer-set cap definition were aligned to current Supabase documentation. Updated August 30, 2026: pooling was reclassified to Not established because the vendor's own pages document account- or organization-level billing rather than a credit or usage allowance shared across team members."
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      "pricingStructureIds": [
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        "committed-spend"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "soft-cap-overage",
      "valueMetricId": "credits",
      "growthStrategyId": "sales-led",
      "notes": "Snowflake meters compute in credits. Usage beyond contracted capacity is billed monthly in arrears at on-demand rates; unused capacity may carry only under qualifying renewal terms.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "capped",
        "creditRetentionDetails": "Some capacity contracts permit unused capacity to move into a subsequent order when additional capacity is purchased at renewal; this is conditional contract retention.",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
        "topUpsDetails": "Customers may amend an existing agreement to purchase additional capacity or request an early renewal; this deliberate capacity addition is separate from postpaid overage.",
        "capsDetails": "Resource monitors can enforce customer-set credit quotas by suspending assigned warehouses at configured thresholds.",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Account capacity funds usage across the account; Snowflake also supports per-user quotas within that shared account usage."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Snowflake Pricing",
          "url": "https://www.snowflake.com/en/data-cloud/pricing-options/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Snowflake Q1 FY2027 Form 10-Q",
          "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1640147/000164014726000030/snow-20260430.htm"
        },
        {
          "label": "Snowflake resource monitors",
          "url": "https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/resource-monitors"
        },
        {
          "label": "Snowflake account budgets and per-user quotas",
          "url": "https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/budgets"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://www.snowflake.com",
        "foundingYear": 2012,
        "fundingStage": "Public (NYSE: SNOW)",
        "employeeCount": "~7000",
        "marketPosition": "leader"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0 (trial credits)",
        "starter": "$2-4/credit (On-demand)",
        "enterprise": "Volume discounts"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Community",
        "pro": "Standard support",
        "enterprise": "Premier support + TAM"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "30-day trial with $400 credits",
      "annualDiscountPct": "~40% (annual commitment)",
      "contractMinimums": "$25K+/yr for annual discounts",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: contracted-capacity discounts were separated from the monthly-in-arrears overage path."
    },
    {
      "id": "databricks",
      "name": "Databricks",
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        "usage-based",
        "committed-spend"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "soft-cap-overage",
      "valueMetricId": "compute",
      "growthStrategyId": "sales-led",
      "notes": "Databricks prices compute through Databricks Units (DBUs). Pay-as-you-go usage continues at published rates, and burst usage above a usage commitment is invoiced monthly in arrears.",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: the metric is compute, burst usage is a soft paid overage, and prepaid top-ups are Not established.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "creditRetentionDetails": "Standard usage commitments must be consumed during the order term; unused prepaid value is not established as carrying into a renewal.",
        "topUps": null,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
        "capsDetails": "Unity AI Gateway budgets can block scoped AI usage when shared or per-user thresholds are reached.",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Unity AI Gateway budgets can apply one shared usage threshold across selected users and workspaces."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Databricks Pricing",
          "url": "https://www.databricks.com/product/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Databricks Usage Commit Terms",
          "url": "https://www.databricks.com/legal/supplemental-terms-usage-commit"
        },
        {
          "label": "Databricks Genie budgets and shared thresholds (Aug 4, 2026)",
          "url": "https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/genie/budgets"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://www.databricks.com",
        "foundingYear": 2013,
        "fundingStage": "Late Stage - $134B valuation",
        "employeeCount": "~7000",
        "marketPosition": "leader"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0 (trial)",
        "starter": "$0.15/DBU (Jobs, AWS Premium); $0.30/DBU (Azure)",
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      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Community",
        "pro": "Standard support",
        "enterprise": "Premier support + TAM"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "14-day trial",
      "annualDiscountPct": "~37% (1-3 yr commitment)",
      "contractMinimums": "Commitment: varies"
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      "id": "salesforce",
      "name": "Salesforce",
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        "seat-based",
        "tiered-subscription",
        "usage-based",
        "credit-based",
        "hybrid-subscription-usage"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "soft-cap-overage",
      "valueMetricId": "credits",
      "growthStrategyId": "sales-led",
      "notes": "Per-seat enterprise pricing. Top AI tier rebranded from Einstein 1 to Agentforce 1 ($550/user/mo); Agentforce AI also sold as a $125/user/mo add-on. Editions: Starter Suite $25, Pro Suite $100, Enterprise $175, Unlimited $350, Agentforce 1 $550.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": false,
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Agentforce employee and department usage draws from an organization Flex Credit pool."
      },
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: Agentforce usage is denominated in Flex Credits and supports postpaid pay-as-you-go continuation rather than automatic seat or tier upgrade.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Salesforce Pricing",
          "url": "https://www.salesforce.com/products/pricing/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Agentforce Flex Credits Rate Card (Aug 18, 2026)",
          "url": "https://www.salesforce.com/en-us/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/assets/pdf/agentforce/Flex-Credits-Rate-Card-08.18.2026.pdf"
        },
        {
          "label": "Salesforce Agentforce pricing update (May 21, 2025)",
          "url": "https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/agentforce-updates-may-2025/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Agentforce Pricing",
          "url": "https://www.salesforce.com/agentforce/pricing/"
        },
        {
          "label": "New Agentforce payment options (Aug 19, 2025)",
          "url": "https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/new-agentforce-payment-options/"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://www.salesforce.com",
        "foundingYear": 1999,
        "fundingStage": "Public (NYSE: CRM)",
        "employeeCount": "~73000",
        "marketPosition": "leader"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "starter": "$25/user/mo (Starter Suite annual)",
        "pro": "$100/user/mo (Pro Suite annual)",
        "business": "$175/user/mo (Enterprise annual)",
        "enterprise": "$350/user/mo (Unlimited); $550/user/mo (Agentforce 1); Custom"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Help center (Trailhead)",
        "pro": "Standard support",
        "enterprise": "Premier support + dedicated CSM"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free trial available",
      "contractMinimums": "Annual commitment required",
      "history": [
        {
          "date": "2026-08-18",
          "change": "Flex Credits Rate Card (stamped \"updated as of\" this date) added four billable usage-type rows: Help Agent Resolutions at 400 credits in production and 0 in sandbox, Personalization Decisioning at 100 credits per 1,000 decisions in both production and sandbox, and Salesforce Record Operation (CRUD) plus Process Invocation, both marked TBA and limited to Headless 360 usage. Speech Foundations also gained a separate sandbox column. Agentforce action multipliers unchanged. Salesforce publishes the 400-credit multiplier and a $500 per 100k credits pack rate but no per-resolution dollar figure; the ~$2.00 that implies is derived, not published"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "hubspot",
      "name": "HubSpot",
      "categoryId": "crm",
      "revenueGenerationId": "seat-expansion",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "tiered-subscription",
        "seat-based",
        "credit-based",
        "usage-based",
        "hybrid-subscription-usage"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "auto-upgrade",
      "valueMetricId": "credits",
      "growthStrategyId": "hybrid",
      "notes": "Paid HubSpot seats provide an account-level AI credit allowance. Included-only accounts pause at zero. For accounts with an additional capacity pack, dated help and legal documentation support automatic capacity increases; HubSpot's current Credits page describes pay-as-you-go as the default overage setting. Both supported continuation paths are qualified here.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "HubSpot credits are held at account level, with permissioned users and features drawing from the account allowance."
      },
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: the annual discount is not a single rate: HubSpot's own page gives about 65% on Starter and 10% on Professional. The 2024 seats migration is now cited to HubSpot's own announcement, and unsourced bundle prices were dropped from the history entry.",
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        {
          "label": "HubSpot Pricing",
          "url": "https://www.hubspot.com/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "HubSpot Sales Hub pricing",
          "url": "https://www.hubspot.com/pricing/sales"
        },
        {
          "label": "Announcing upcoming changes to HubSpot's pricing (effective March 5, 2024)",
          "url": "https://www.hubspot.com/company-news/announcing-upcoming-changes-to-hubspots-pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "HubSpot product-specific terms (Apr 14, 2026)",
          "url": "https://legal.hubspot.com/product-specific-terms"
        },
        {
          "label": "Understand HubSpot credits and billing",
          "url": "https://knowledge.hubspot.com/account-management/understand-hubspot-credits-and-billing"
        },
        {
          "label": "HubSpot Credits",
          "url": "https://www.hubspot.com/products/artificial-intelligence/credits"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://www.hubspot.com",
        "foundingYear": 2006,
        "fundingStage": "Public (NYSE: HUBS)",
        "employeeCount": "~8000",
        "marketPosition": "leader"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0 (Free CRM)",
        "starter": "$7/seat/mo annual, $20 monthly (Sales/Service Hub Starter)",
        "pro": "$90/seat/mo annual, $100 monthly (Sales/Service Hub Professional)",
        "business": "$150/seat/mo (Sales Hub Enterprise, annual)",
        "enterprise": "Custom"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Community + Academy",
        "pro": "Phone + email",
        "enterprise": "Dedicated CSM + Premier support"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free: Basic CRM; limited marketing tools",
      "annualDiscountPct": "Varies by tier: about 65% on Starter ($7 vs $20/seat/mo) and 10% on Professional ($90 vs $100/seat/mo). HubSpot publishes no percentage.",
      "contractMinimums": "Professional: $1,500 onboarding; Enterprise: $3,500 onboarding",
      "history": [
        {
          "date": "2024-03",
          "change": "Seats-based pricing model introduced globally on March 5, 2024 (March 6 in Asia Pacific); seat minimums removed for Sales Hub and Service Hub; Core Seat and free View-Only Seat introduced"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "google-gemini",
      "name": "Google Gemini API",
      "categoryId": "ai-api",
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      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "usage-based",
        "freemium",
        "credit-based"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "soft-cap-overage",
      "valueMetricId": "tokens",
      "growthStrategyId": "api-first",
      "notes": "Free tier is Flash-only (Pro models moved behind billing as of April 2026, no free tier). Batch processing 50% discount. Gemini 3.1 Pro $2/$12 per M tokens (input/output), rising to $4/$18 above 200K-token prompts. Flash sits on dated promotional pricing: 3.7 Flash and 3.6 Flash are both $0.75/$3.75 per M through Dec 31, 2026, then move to $1.50/$7.50 on Jan 1, 2027 — a rare case of a vendor publishing the end of a discount up front.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "not-established",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "The cited sources establish project and billing-account level limits and credits but do not establish teammate sharing under the Finder pooling definition."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Gemini API Pricing",
          "url": "https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash (Aug 13, 2026)",
          "url": "https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-3-7-flash/"
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      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://ai.google.dev",
        "foundingYear": 2023,
        "fundingStage": "Public (NASDAQ: GOOG)",
        "employeeCount": "~180000 (Google)",
        "marketPosition": "leader"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0 (free tier)",
        "starter": "$0.10-$4/M tokens (usage-based)",
        "enterprise": "Custom"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Help center",
        "pro": "Standard support",
        "enterprise": "Premium support + SLAs"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free (Flash models only): 10-15 RPM; 250K TPM; daily request caps vary by model",
      "annualDiscountPct": "Batch: 50% discount",
      "contractMinimums": "None",
      "history": [
        {
          "date": "2026-08-13",
          "change": "Gemini 3.7 Flash launched at an introductory $0.75/M input, $3.75/M output — half of 3.6 Flash's launch price — and 3.6 Flash was moved onto the same rate from its own $1.50/$7.50. Both go to $1.50/$7.50 on Jan 1, 2027: a return to prior pricing for 3.6 Flash, but a first increase for 3.7 Flash, which never charged it"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-04",
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        {
          "date": "2025-12",
          "change": "Free-tier rate quotas reduced"
        }
      ],
      "correctionNote": " Updated August 30, 2026: pooling was reclassified to Not established because the vendor documents project-, account- or billing-level limits rather than a credit or usage allowance shared across team members."
    },
    {
      "id": "cohere",
      "name": "Cohere",
      "categoryId": "ai-api",
      "revenueGenerationId": "consumption",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "usage-based",
        "freemium",
        "credit-based"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "soft-cap-overage",
      "valueMetricId": "tokens",
      "growthStrategyId": "api-first",
      "notes": "Trial tier with strict limits (no commercial use). Command R: $0.15/$0.60 per M tokens (repriced with the 08-2024 model refresh). Enterprise custom deployment available.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "not-established",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "The cited sources establish team-level billing and shared API keys but do not establish a shared credit or usage allowance under the Finder pooling definition."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Cohere Pricing",
          "url": "https://cohere.com/pricing"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://cohere.com",
        "foundingYear": 2019,
        "fundingStage": "Series D - ~$7B valuation",
        "employeeCount": "~300",
        "marketPosition": "challenger"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0 (Trial)",
        "starter": "$0.04-$2.50/M input tokens (usage-based; R7B to Command A/R+)",
        "enterprise": "Custom"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Community",
        "pro": "Email support",
        "enterprise": "Dedicated support + custom deployment"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Trial: Strict limits; no commercial use",
      "contractMinimums": "Enterprise: custom",
      "history": [
        {
          "date": "2024-08",
          "change": "Command R $0.50/$1.50 → $0.15/$0.60 per M tokens (model refresh repricing)"
        }
      ],
      "correctionNote": " Updated August 30, 2026: pooling was reclassified to Not established because the vendor documents project-, account- or billing-level limits rather than a credit or usage allowance shared across team members."
    },
    {
      "id": "ai21-labs",
      "name": "AI21 Labs",
      "categoryId": "ai-api",
      "revenueGenerationId": "consumption",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "usage-based",
        "credit-based"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "soft-cap-overage",
      "valueMetricId": "tokens",
      "growthStrategyId": "api-first",
      "notes": "Trial with $10 credit for 7 days (no card needed). Jamba Large $2/$8 per M tokens, Jamba Mini $0.20/$0.40. 10 RPS, 200 RPM rate limits.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "An account is an organization with one or more members, and usage by all members draws on that organization's single billing and credit balance."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "AI21 Pricing",
          "url": "https://www.ai21.com/pricing"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://www.ai21.com",
        "foundingYear": 2017,
        "fundingStage": "Series D - $1.4B valuation",
        "employeeCount": "~200",
        "marketPosition": "challenger"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$10 credit (7 days)",
        "starter": "Usage-based",
        "enterprise": "Custom"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Community",
        "pro": "Email support",
        "enterprise": "Dedicated support"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Trial: $10 credit for 7 days",
      "contractMinimums": "None",
      "correctionNote": " Updated August 30, 2026: pooling was left as Pooled and a sourced detail added, citing where the vendor documents sharing across team members."
    },
    {
      "id": "mistral",
      "name": "Mistral AI",
      "categoryId": "ai-api",
      "revenueGenerationId": "consumption",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "usage-based",
        "tiered-subscription"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "soft-cap-overage",
      "valueMetricId": "tokens",
      "growthStrategyId": "hybrid",
      "notes": "Free consumer tier (Le Chat, now branded Vibe). API pricing in USD per million tokens, input/output: Mistral Medium 3.5 $1.5/$7.5, Mistral Small 4 $0.15/$0.6, Mistral Large 3 $0.5/$1.5, Ministral 3 $0.1/$0.1 (3B) to $0.2/$0.2 (14B), Codestral $0.3/$0.9. Consumer plans: Pro $14.99/mo including $30/mo of API credits, Team $24.99/user/mo with a $50/mo minimum, and a Student plan at $5.99/mo for verified students, capped at 12 months. Enterprise custom with zero data retention.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "not-established",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Credits and the monthly spending limit are held at the organization level and apply across workspaces, but no cited page states that members draw from that balance, so sharing is not established under the Finder pooling definition."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Mistral Pricing",
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      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://mistral.ai",
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        "marketPosition": "challenger"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0 (Vibe free; includes $10/mo API credits)",
        "starter": "$14.99/mo (Pro; $30/mo API credits)",
        "pro": "$24.99/user/mo (Team; $50/mo minimum)",
        "enterprise": "Custom (private deployments)"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Community",
        "pro": "Priority support",
        "enterprise": "Dedicated support + zero data retention"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free: limited Vibe access, web and mobile, $10/mo API credits, 100+ connectors, Studio access",
      "contractMinimums": "Team: $50/mo minimum; Enterprise: annual commitment",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: the API rate card was refreshed against Mistral's current pricing page (Mistral NeMo is no longer listed), and the Team plan minimum, the free plan's monthly API credits and the Student plan were added. Updated August 30, 2026: pooling was reclassified to Not established because the vendor documents project-, account- or billing-level limits rather than a credit or usage allowance shared across team members."
    },
    {
      "id": "together-ai",
      "name": "Together AI",
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      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "usage-based",
        "credit-based"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "credit-pool",
      "valueMetricId": "tokens",
      "growthStrategyId": "api-first",
      "notes": "Fully prepaid: no free trials, a $5 minimum credit purchase, and a positive credit balance is required to use the platform. Automatic credit purchases are supported when the balance falls below a set threshold (card payment methods only). Pay-per-token with model-dependent pricing across serverless inference, dedicated endpoints, fine-tuning and GPU clusters.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "unlimited",
        "creditRetentionDetails": "Purchased prepaid balance credits do not currently expire; this is prepaid-wallet validity rather than recurring allowance rollover.",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Organization members jointly purchase and spend one credit balance, and all member usage rolls up to a single organization bill."
      },
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: Together AI publishes no free trial and requires a $5 minimum credit purchase, so the previous free-tier and no-minimum claims were removed and the freemium structure dropped. Updated August 30, 2026: pooling was left as Pooled and a sourced detail added, citing where the vendor documents sharing across team members.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Together AI Pricing",
          "url": "https://www.together.ai/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Together AI credits and expiration",
          "url": "https://docs.together.ai/docs/billing-credits"
        },
        {
          "label": "Together AI payment methods and credit purchases",
          "url": "https://docs.together.ai/docs/billing-payment-methods"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://www.together.ai",
        "foundingYear": 2022,
        "fundingStage": "Series C - $800M (July 2026)",
        "employeeCount": "~200",
        "marketPosition": "challenger"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "None (no free trial)",
        "starter": "Usage-based",
        "enterprise": "Custom"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Community",
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        "enterprise": "Enterprise support"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "None - no free trials; $5 minimum credit purchase required",
      "contractMinimums": "$5 minimum credit purchase"
    },
    {
      "id": "groq",
      "name": "Groq",
      "categoryId": "ai-api",
      "revenueGenerationId": "consumption",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "usage-based",
        "freemium",
        "credit-based"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "soft-cap-overage",
      "valueMetricId": "tokens",
      "growthStrategyId": "api-first",
      "notes": "Free tier with low rate limits; the Developer tier is pay-as-you-go with increased capacity. The Batch API is a flat 50% discount off synchronous pricing and does not stack with prompt caching discounts. Purchased Service Credits expire one year after purchase or issuance. Known for inference speed. Nvidia struck a licensing and asset deal in December 2025 that acqui-hired leadership; GroqCloud continues to operate independently.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "capped",
        "creditRetentionDetails": "Purchased Service Credits expire one year after purchase or issuance.",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
        "capsDetails": "Customers can set automated spending limits and receive usage alerts at defined budget thresholds.",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Spend limits and rate limits apply organization-wide, and usage from any team member counts toward the same shared limit."
      },
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: groq.com/pricing no longer resolves to a pricing page, so sources were repointed to the GroqCloud console docs. The batch discount is documented as not stacking with prompt caching, and an unsourced cheaper-than-competitors claim was removed. Updated August 30, 2026: pooling was left as Pooled and a sourced detail added, citing where the vendor documents sharing across team members.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Groq Pricing",
          "url": "https://groq.com/pricing/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Groq Service Credit Terms",
          "url": "https://console.groq.com/docs/legal/service-credit-terms"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://groq.com",
        "foundingYear": 2016,
        "fundingStage": "Series D - $6.9B valuation",
        "employeeCount": "~300",
        "marketPosition": "challenger"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0 (Free Tier)",
        "starter": "Usage-based (Developer, pay-as-you-go)",
        "enterprise": "Custom (Business/Enterprise)"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Community",
        "pro": "Priority support",
        "enterprise": "Dedicated support + custom SLAs"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free: Low rate limits",
      "annualDiscountPct": "Batch: 50% off (does not stack with prompt caching)",
      "contractMinimums": "Enterprise: custom"
    },
    {
      "id": "fireworks-ai",
      "name": "Fireworks AI",
      "categoryId": "ai-api",
      "revenueGenerationId": "consumption",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "usage-based",
        "freemium",
        "credit-based"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "credit-pool",
      "valueMetricId": "tokens",
      "growthStrategyId": "api-first",
      "notes": "Free credits for new users. Cached tokens 50% discount. Batch processing 50% off. Enterprise dedicated endpoints.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "not-established",
        "creditRetentionDetails": "Current first-party documentation establishes a prepaid balance but does not state whether purchased credits expire or remain valid across periods.",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Usage by all users in an account draws on the same account-level quotas and bill; optional per-user spending caps sit inside that shared account."
      },
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: standard prepaid usage pauses at a zero balance unless credits are added or Auto Reload succeeds, so it is classified as a credit pool. Purchased-credit retention remains Not established because the current documentation does not state an expiry rule. Updated August 30, 2026: pooling was left as Pooled and a sourced detail added, citing where the vendor documents sharing across team members.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Fireworks Pricing",
          "url": "https://fireworks.ai/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Fireworks credit system",
          "url": "https://docs.fireworks.ai/faq/billing-pricing-usage/billing/credit-system"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://fireworks.ai",
        "foundingYear": 2022,
        "fundingStage": "Series C - $4B valuation",
        "employeeCount": "~100",
        "marketPosition": "challenger"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0 (free credits)",
        "starter": "Usage-based",
        "enterprise": "Custom"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
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        "enterprise": "Dedicated endpoints + support"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free credits for new users",
      "annualDiscountPct": "Batch: 50% off",
      "contractMinimums": "None"
    },
    {
      "id": "amazon-bedrock",
      "name": "Amazon Bedrock",
      "categoryId": "ai-api",
      "revenueGenerationId": "consumption",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "usage-based"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "soft-cap-overage",
      "valueMetricId": "tokens",
      "growthStrategyId": "api-first",
      "notes": "Pay-as-you-go with no minimum. Multiple model providers. Batch 50% off. Provisioned throughput for committed use.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "not-established",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Usage is billed to the AWS account with no seat construct; the sources do not establish teammate sharing of a credit or usage allowance."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Bedrock Pricing",
          "url": "https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/"
        },
        {
          "label": "GPT-5.6 Sol reduced pricing on Bedrock",
          "url": "https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/08/bedrock-openai-gpt-56-sol-reduced-pricing/"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock",
        "foundingYear": 2023,
        "fundingStage": "Public (NASDAQ: AMZN)",
        "marketPosition": "leader"
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      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0 (pay-as-you-go)",
        "starter": "Per-token (varies by model)",
        "enterprise": "Provisioned Throughput"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "AWS Support",
        "pro": "AWS Support",
        "enterprise": "AWS Enterprise Support"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Pay-as-you-go: no minimum",
      "annualDiscountPct": "Batch: 50% off",
      "contractMinimums": "Provisioned: hourly commitment",
      "history": [
        {
          "date": "2026-08-21",
          "change": "GPT-5.6 Sol on-demand pricing reduced: AWS states 20% lower input and 33.3% lower output, bringing Global CRIS to $4/M input and $20/M output, available at least through Nov 21, 2026. AWS publishes the percentages rather than the prior prices. The $4/$20 rate is Global CRIS only — In-Region and Geo CRIS are $4.40/$22.00"
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      ],
      "correctionNote": " Updated August 30, 2026: pooling was reclassified to Not established because the vendor's own pages document account- or organization-level billing rather than a credit or usage allowance shared across team members."
    },
    {
      "id": "azure-openai",
      "name": "Azure OpenAI",
      "categoryId": "ai-api",
      "revenueGenerationId": "consumption",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "usage-based"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "soft-cap-overage",
      "valueMetricId": "tokens",
      "growthStrategyId": "api-first",
      "notes": "OpenAI models on Azure. Pay-as-you-go or Provisioned Throughput Units (PTUs). Batch 50% off. Enterprise compliance.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "not-established",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Quota is allocated to the Azure subscription per region and model and shared across deployments; the sources do not establish teammate sharing of a usage allowance."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Azure OpenAI Pricing",
          "url": "https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/cognitive-services/openai-service/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Foundry model deployment pricing update (Jul 9, 2026)",
          "url": "https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/microsoft-foundry-model-deployment-pricing-update/4535385"
        },
        {
          "label": "Azure prompt caching (cache-write billing)",
          "url": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/openai/how-to/prompt-caching"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://azure.microsoft.com/services/openai-service",
        "foundingYear": 2023,
        "fundingStage": "Public (NASDAQ: MSFT)",
        "marketPosition": "leader"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0 (pay-as-you-go)",
        "starter": "Per-token (varies by model)",
        "enterprise": "Provisioned (PTUs)"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Azure Support",
        "pro": "Azure Support",
        "enterprise": "Azure Enterprise Support"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Pay-as-you-go: no minimum",
      "annualDiscountPct": "Batch: 50% off",
      "contractMinimums": "PTU: hourly commitment",
      "history": [
        {
          "date": "2026-07-09",
          "change": "Regional deployment prices rise Sept 1, 2026. Global is unchanged. EU Data Zone increases by 9%, taking it to 20% above Global; regional deployments outside the US increase by 7–16%, taking them to 25–50% above Global; a new APAC Data Zone launches at 20% above Global. US Data Zone and US regional stay at 10% above Global. For pay-as-you-go the premiums apply only to models launched on or after Sept 1; for Provisioned Throughput the increase applies to all EU Data Zone and non-US regional PTU customers. Separately, cache writes can incur charges on GPT-5.6 and later families, where earlier models charged nothing to write to cache"
        }
      ],
      "correctionNote": " Updated August 30, 2026: pooling was reclassified to Not established because the vendor's own pages document account- or organization-level billing rather than a credit or usage allowance shared across team members."
    },
    {
      "id": "tabnine",
      "name": "Tabnine",
      "categoryId": "ai-coding",
      "revenueGenerationId": "subscription",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "tiered-subscription",
        "seat-based",
        "usage-based"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "credit-pool",
      "valueMetricId": "tokens",
      "growthStrategyId": "hybrid",
      "notes": "Paid plans are annual seat subscriptions. Tabnine-provided model access uses a reserved token quota; customers add payment for reserved token consumption quota at actual LLM provider prices plus a 5% handling fee. Current first-party pages still do not establish refill timing, billing timing, or carry behavior. Bring-your-own-model usage is unmetered.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "not-established",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": null,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
        "creditRetentionDetails": "Current first-party documentation does not establish carry or expiry for the reserved token quota.",
        "capsDetails": "Admins can set organization, team, and user token-cost caps that block further use when reached.",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Tabnine documents shared organization usage with organization, team, and user controls.",
        "topUpsDetails": "Customers can add payment for a reserved token consumption quota when using Tabnine-provided LLM access, priced at actual LLM provider prices plus a 5% handling fee."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Tabnine Pricing",
          "url": "https://www.tabnine.com/pricing/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Tabnine billing settings (Apr 13, 2026)",
          "url": "https://docs.tabnine.com/main/getting-started/tabnine-cli/features/settings/settings-reference"
        },
        {
          "label": "Tabnine cost controls (Jul 8, 2026)",
          "url": "https://docs.tabnine.com/main/administering-tabnine/managing-your-team/settings/agent-settings"
        },
        {
          "label": "Tabnine Agent usage reporting",
          "url": "https://docs.tabnine.com/main/administering-tabnine/managing-your-team/reporting/agent-usage-page"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://www.tabnine.com",
        "foundingYear": 2018,
        "fundingStage": "Series B",
        "employeeCount": "~150",
        "marketPosition": "challenger"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "starter": "$39/user/mo (Code Assistant)",
        "enterprise": "$59/user/mo (Agentic Platform)"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Help center",
        "pro": "Email support",
        "enterprise": "Dedicated support + air-gapped deployment"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "No free tier; 14-day free trial (no credit card); plans are annual-only",
      "contractMinimums": "Enterprise: custom commitment",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: Tabnine's pricing page documents paid continuation via a purchased reserved token quota at provider prices plus a 5% handling fee, so top-ups and the overage strategy are no longer recorded as not established. Pay-as-you-go stays not established because the vendor describes a pre-committed reserved quota rather than metered usage."
    },
    {
      "id": "amazon-q-developer",
      "name": "Amazon Q Developer",
      "categoryId": "ai-coding",
      "revenueGenerationId": "subscription",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "tiered-subscription",
        "freemium"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "hard-cap",
      "valueMetricId": "code-completions",
      "growthStrategyId": "hybrid",
      "notes": "The scoped assistant is limited by monthly agentic requests and inference calls; the Pro plan raises those limits but does not publish paid continuation for the assistant itself. Amazon Q Developer transformation is a separate LOC-metered feature with pooled postpaid overage and is excluded from this row's mechanics.",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: assistant request limits were separated from the distinct LOC-based transformation overage. Vendor-set allowances are not classified as customer spending caps.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "topUps": false,
        "payGo": false,
        "caps": null,
        "seatPooling": "per-seat",
        "capsDetails": "The cited source establishes a vendor-set allowance or quota, not a customer-configured spending cap."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Amazon Q Pricing",
          "url": "https://aws.amazon.com/q/developer/pricing/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Amazon Q Developer FAQ",
          "url": "https://aws.amazon.com/q/developer/faqs/"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://aws.amazon.com/q/developer",
        "foundingYear": 2023,
        "fundingStage": "Public (NASDAQ: AMZN)",
        "marketPosition": "challenger"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0 (Free Tier)",
        "starter": "$19/user/mo (Pro)"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "AWS Support",
        "pro": "AWS Support (Pro)",
        "enterprise": "AWS Enterprise Support"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free: 50 agentic requests/mo; 1,000 lines of code/mo (Java upgrades)",
      "contractMinimums": "None"
    },
    {
      "id": "sourcegraph-cody",
      "name": "Sourcegraph Cody",
      "categoryId": "ai-coding",
      "revenueGenerationId": "subscription",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "seat-based"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "soft-cap-overage",
      "valueMetricId": "seats",
      "growthStrategyId": "sales-led",
      "notes": "Enterprise starts at $16K and includes AI-feature credits that scale with team size; the vendor does not state a billing period alongside that figure. Credits are allocated to the full contract term rather than a monthly cycle and carry forward with contract renewals. Usage is not blocked at the credit allocation: admins choose between pre-negotiated credit buckets at volume discounts and continuing at the on-demand rate. Free and Pro were discontinued in July 2025.",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: Sourcegraph states usage is not blocked at the credit allocation, so the overage strategy was corrected from hard cap and caps to Not established. Credit retention was corrected to carry with expiry not established, the unsupported per-year framing of the $16K figure was removed, and the free support tier was dropped because no free plan exists.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "carry-expiry-not-established",
        "creditRetentionDetails": "Credits are allocated to the full contract term rather than a monthly cycle, and the balance carries forward with contract renewals. The vendor lists no monthly credit expiry and rollover on renewal; ultimate expiry at contract end is not stated.",
        "topUps": true,
        "topUpsDetails": "Enterprise customers can purchase volume credit buckets as an add-on.",
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": null,
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Enterprise AI credits are described as an organization-level pool.",
        "capsDetails": "The vendor states usage is not blocked at the credit allocation; admins choose between pre-negotiated credit buckets and on-demand consumption. No customer-configured spending cap is documented."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Sourcegraph Pricing",
          "url": "https://sourcegraph.com/pricing"
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      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://sourcegraph.com",
        "foundingYear": 2013,
        "fundingStage": "Late Stage",
        "employeeCount": "~250",
        "marketPosition": "challenger"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "pro": "Enterprise: starting at $16K (billing period not stated); includes credits for AI features, scales with team size",
        "enterprise": "Custom"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "enterprise": "24x5 support; customer success manager and premium support optional"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free/Pro discontinued; use Amp instead",
      "contractMinimums": "Enterprise: annual commitment"
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    {
      "id": "framer",
      "name": "Framer",
      "categoryId": "ai-design",
      "revenueGenerationId": "subscription",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "tiered-subscription",
        "freemium",
        "credit-based"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "hard-cap",
      "valueMetricId": "credits",
      "growthStrategyId": "plg",
      "notes": "Site plans are priced per site, and editor seats are billed separately at $20 per editor per month, with content editors at $10 per editor per month. AI credits scale per site: a workspace with two projects on Basic receives 2,000 AI credits per month. Credits do not carry over. Listed plan prices are the yearly-billing rates.",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: plan prices are per site at the yearly-billing rate, with editor seats billed separately at $20 (or $10 for content editors), and the free tier's 500 Agent credits were added.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "topUps": true,
        "topUpsDetails": "Paid plans can purchase additional AI-credit packs, starting at 1,000 credits.",
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Included AI credits are shared at workspace level and stack across site plans in that workspace."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Framer Pricing",
          "url": "https://www.framer.com/pricing/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Framer AI credits update (Jun 16, 2026)",
          "url": "https://www.framer.com/blog/ai-credits-simpler-plans-and-lower-prices/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Framer AI credits and Agent pricing",
          "url": "https://www.framer.com/help/articles/how-ai-credits-and-agents-pricing-work/"
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      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://www.framer.com",
        "foundingYear": 2013,
        "fundingStage": "Series C",
        "employeeCount": "~200",
        "marketPosition": "challenger"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0 (500 AI credits to try Agents)",
        "starter": "$10/site/mo (Basic, yearly billing)",
        "pro": "$30/site/mo (Pro, yearly billing)",
        "enterprise": "Custom"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Help center",
        "pro": "Priority support",
        "enterprise": "Dedicated support + SSO"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free: 500 AI credits to try Agents; up to 3 editors; 1000 pages; 10 CMS collections; Framer subdomain",
      "annualDiscountPct": "Free domain w/ annual",
      "contractMinimums": "None"
    },
    {
      "id": "uizard",
      "name": "Uizard",
      "categoryId": "ai-design",
      "revenueGenerationId": "subscription",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "tiered-subscription",
        "freemium"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "hard-cap",
      "valueMetricId": "generations",
      "growthStrategyId": "plg",
      "notes": "Acquired by Miro (May 2024). Free: 2 projects, 3 AI generations/mo. Pro: 100 projects. Business: 5000 AI gen/mo.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "topUps": false,
        "payGo": false,
        "caps": null,
        "seatPooling": "per-seat",
        "capsDetails": "The cited source establishes a vendor-set allowance or quota, not a customer-configured spending cap."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Uizard Pricing",
          "url": "https://uizard.io/pricing/"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://uizard.io",
        "foundingYear": 2018,
        "fundingStage": "Acquired (Miro 2024)",
        "employeeCount": "~50",
        "marketPosition": "niche"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0",
        "starter": "$12/mo (Pro annual)",
        "pro": "$39/mo (Business)",
        "enterprise": "Custom"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Help center",
        "pro": "Email support",
        "enterprise": "Whiteglove onboarding"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free: 2 projects; 3 AI generations/mo",
      "contractMinimums": "None",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: Vendor-set allowances are not classified as customer spending caps."
    },
    {
      "id": "descript",
      "name": "Descript",
      "categoryId": "ai-video",
      "revenueGenerationId": "subscription",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "tiered-subscription",
        "credit-based"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "hard-cap",
      "valueMetricId": "media-minutes",
      "growthStrategyId": "plg",
      "notes": "Moved to media-minute billing (Sept 2025). Credits no longer roll over. Free: 60 min/mo + 100 one-time AI credits. Hobbyist: 10 media hours + 400 AI credits/mo. Creator: 30 media hours + 800 AI credits/mo. Business: 40 media hours + 1,500 AI credits/mo. Prices are per person per month; additional seats are billed separately.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": null,
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Each Editor seat contributes to a shared Drive pool available to Editors.",
        "capsDetails": "The cited source establishes a vendor-set allowance or quota, not a customer-configured spending cap."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Descript Pricing",
          "url": "https://www.descript.com/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Descript shared Drive credits",
          "url": "https://help.descript.com/billing-payments-plans/track-and-understand-your-media-minutes-and-ai-credits"
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      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://www.descript.com",
        "foundingYear": 2017,
        "fundingStage": "Series D",
        "employeeCount": "~200",
        "marketPosition": "challenger"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0",
        "starter": "$16/mo (Hobbyist, billed annually; $24/mo billed monthly)",
        "pro": "$24/mo (Creator, billed annually; $35/mo billed monthly)",
        "business": "$50/mo (Business, billed annually; $65/mo billed monthly)",
        "enterprise": "Custom"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Help center",
        "pro": "Priority support",
        "enterprise": "Dedicated rep + SSO"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free: 60 media minutes/mo; 100 AI credits one-time",
      "annualDiscountPct": "~23-33% (derived from vendor list prices: 33% Hobbyist, 31% Creator, 23% Business)",
      "contractMinimums": "None",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: the listed prices are the annual-billed rates and the monthly-billed rates are now stated alongside them. The per-plan AI credit allowances were added, and the annual discount is now derived from the vendor's own list prices rather than an unsourced 35% figure."
    },
    {
      "id": "pika",
      "name": "Pika",
      "categoryId": "ai-video",
      "revenueGenerationId": "subscription",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "tiered-subscription",
        "credit-based",
        "freemium"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "hard-cap",
      "valueMetricId": "credits",
      "growthStrategyId": "plg",
      "notes": "Basic $0: 80 credits/mo (480p Pika 2.5, image-to-video only, no commercial use). Standard $8/mo: 700 credits. Pro $28/mo: 2,300 credits. Fancy $76/mo: 6,000 credits. All listed prices are billed yearly at 20% off; monthly and weekly options exist but their rates are client-rendered and not published in the served page.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "carry-expiry-not-established",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": null,
        "seatPooling": "per-seat",
        "capsDetails": "The cited source establishes a vendor-set allowance or quota, not a customer-configured spending cap.",
        "creditRetentionDetails": "Every tier, including the free Basic plan, lists purchasable roll-over video credits; the vendor does not publish an expiry for them."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Pika Pricing",
          "url": "https://pika.art/pricing"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://pika.art",
        "foundingYear": 2023,
        "fundingStage": "Series A",
        "employeeCount": "~50",
        "marketPosition": "challenger"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0 (Basic, 80 credits/mo)",
        "starter": "$8/mo (Standard, 700 credits, billed yearly)",
        "pro": "$28/mo (Pro, 2,300 credits, billed yearly)",
        "business": "$76/mo (Fancy, 6,000 credits, billed yearly)"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Community",
        "pro": "Email support"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free: 80 credits/mo; Pika 2.5 480p only; no commercial",
      "annualDiscountPct": "20%",
      "contractMinimums": "None",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: the $0 plan is named Basic, the listed prices are the billed-yearly rates at a published 20% discount, and credit retention was corrected because every tier offers roll-over credits."
    },
    {
      "id": "play-ht",
      "name": "Play.ht",
      "retired": "Acquired by Meta, July 2025; wound down through early 2026",
      "categoryId": "ai-voice",
      "revenueGenerationId": "subscription",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "tiered-subscription",
        "freemium"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "hard-cap",
      "valueMetricId": "characters",
      "growthStrategyId": "plg",
      "notes": "No longer sold, but the wind-down is partial rather than a clean shutdown. As of Aug 28, 2026 the apex, www, app and api hosts do not resolve, while docs.play.ht still returns HTTP 200 and serves the PlayHT TTS API documentation with no deprecation or shutdown notice anywhere on it. The acquisition is confirmed from infrastructure as well as press: whois puts the domain on Meta nameservers (b.ns.facebook.com, c.ns.facebook.com) via registrar Com Laude, status active, updated Apr 15 2026 — the domain was absorbed, not abandoned. Bloomberg (Jul 11, 2025) and TechCrunch (Jul 13, 2025) reported the deal, Bloomberg framing it as \"continuing to add talent\": the team joined Meta rather than the product being bought to keep running. The Dec 31, 2025 shutdown date repeated across third-party tool directories is not merely unsourced but contradicted — Internet Archive captures of play.ht kept returning HTTP 200 into 2026, the last on Mar 10, 2026 — so the decay looks gradual and ending around March 2026. Pricing below is a historical record, not a current quote: Free 12.5K chars/mo (attribution required), Creator $39/mo, Unlimited $99/mo.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "per-seat"
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      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Meta acquires PlayAI (Bloomberg, Jul 11 2025)",
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        },
        {
          "label": "Meta acquires voice startup Play AI (TechCrunch, Jul 13 2025)",
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          "url": "https://docs.play.ht/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Play.ht Pricing (dead link, retained for provenance)",
          "url": "https://play.ht/pricing/"
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      ],
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        "website": "https://play.ht",
        "foundingYear": 2016,
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      },
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        "enterprise": "Custom"
      },
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        "free": "Help center",
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        "enterprise": "Enterprise support"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free: 12.5K chars/mo; 1 voice clone; attribution required (historical, as of the 2025 acquisition)",
      "contractMinimums": "None",
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        {
          "date": "2025-07-11",
          "change": "Meta acquired PlayAI, the whole team joining Meta (Bloomberg, corroborated by TechCrunch Jul 13 and by whois showing the domain on Meta nameservers). A talent acquisition rather than a product one, after which the service stopped being actively sold and decayed host by host into early 2026. Entry retained as a historical record of its pricing rather than removed, so references to it stay resolvable"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "murf-ai",
      "name": "Murf.ai",
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        "tiered-subscription",
        "seat-based"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "hard-cap",
      "valueMetricId": "voice-minutes",
      "growthStrategyId": "hybrid",
      "notes": "Four paid plans, two tiers each, all flat per workspace rather than per seat. Monthly billing: Creator Lite $29, Creator Plus $49, Business Lite $99, Business Plus $199. Annual billing: $276, $468, $948 and $1,908 per year (= $23, $39, $79 and $159/mo). Creator plans are exactly 1 user; Business plans allow 1-3 users plus 5 viewers. Enterprise is custom. Included Voice Generation Time: Creator Lite 2 hrs/mo, Creator Plus 4, Business Lite 8, Business Plus 20. API pay-as-you-go: $0.03 per 1,000 characters.",
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        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": null,
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        "capsDetails": "The cited source establishes a vendor-set allowance or quota, not a customer-configured spending cap.",
        "creditRetentionDetails": "Unused Voice Generation Time carries forward exactly one billing cycle (one month on monthly plans, one year on yearly). Carried-forward VGT is lost on cancellation but preserved if the subscription is paused."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Murf pricing plans (vendor pricing endpoint that murf.ai/pricing renders from)",
          "url": "https://murf.ai/Prod/ping/new-pricing-plans/true"
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          "label": "Murf API pricing endpoint",
          "url": "https://api.murf.ai/Prod/ping/api-pricing-plans"
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        {
          "label": "Murf: VGT carry forward",
          "url": "https://help.murf.ai/vgt-carry-forward"
        },
        {
          "label": "Murf Pricing",
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        "website": "https://murf.ai",
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      },
      "supportTiers": {
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    },
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      "id": "otter-ai",
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        "freemium"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "hard-cap",
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      "growthStrategyId": "plg",
      "notes": "Free: 300 min/mo, 30 min max per conversation. Pro: 1,200 min/mo, 90 min max per meeting, 1,200 min/user imported-file limit. Business: unlimited meeting transcription, 4-hour cap per meeting, 6,000 min/user imported-file limit. Annual billing saves 51% on Pro and 33% on Business. The Business monthly card shows a promotional $24 rate for the first three months; $30 is the standing monthly rate.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "topUps": false,
        "payGo": false,
        "caps": null,
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      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Otter Pricing",
          "url": "https://otter.ai/pricing"
        }
      ],
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        "website": "https://otter.ai",
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        "fundingStage": "Series D",
        "employeeCount": "~200",
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      },
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      },
      "supportTiers": {
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      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free: 300 min/mo; 30 min max/conversation; 3 file uploads lifetime",
      "annualDiscountPct": "51% (Pro), 33% (Business)",
      "contractMinimums": "None",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: the annual discount differs by plan (51% Pro, 33% Business) rather than a single ~50%, the monthly-billed rates were added, and the per-meeting and imported-file caps are now recorded."
    },
    {
      "id": "you-com",
      "name": "You.com",
      "categoryId": "ai-search",
      "revenueGenerationId": "consumption",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "tiered-subscription",
        "freemium"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "hard-cap",
      "valueMetricId": "api-calls",
      "growthStrategyId": "plg",
      "notes": "You.com's published pricing is now API-only: Web Search API free tier of 100 queries/day, then $5.00 per 1,000 calls; Contents API $1.00 per 1,000 pages; Answer API $5.00 per 1,000 calls; Research API $12.00 per 1,000 calls; Finance Research API $110.00 per 1,000 calls. $100 free credit to get started. Pay-as-you-go credit balance with configurable auto top-up. The vendor states there are no spending caps; monthly caps, frequency limits and per-charge maximums are planned but not yet exposed.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": null,
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
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        "capsDetails": "The vendor states spending caps are not available; monthly caps, frequency limits and per-charge maximums are planned but not yet exposed.",
        "topUpsDetails": "Auto Top-Up automatically purchases credits when the balance falls below a configured threshold."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "You.com API pricing",
          "url": "https://you.com/plans"
        },
        {
          "label": "You.com billing administration docs",
          "url": "https://you.com/docs/administration/billing"
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      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://you.com",
        "foundingYear": 2020,
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        "marketPosition": "niche"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0 (Web Search API, 100 queries/day)",
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        "pro": "$12.00 / 1,000 Research API calls",
        "enterprise": "Custom"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Community",
        "pro": "Priority support",
        "enterprise": "24/7 support + Private RAG"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Web Search API: 100 queries/day; $100 free credit to get started",
      "contractMinimums": "Enterprise: custom commitment",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: You.com's published pricing is now API-only, so the previous consumer Pro and Max tiers were replaced with the vendor's per-1,000-call rates. Caps was corrected to Not established because the vendor states spending caps do not exist, and top-ups and pay-as-you-go were corrected to true."
    },
    {
      "id": "mem",
      "name": "Mem",
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      "revenueGenerationId": "subscription",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "tiered-subscription",
        "freemium"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "hard-cap",
      "valueMetricId": "notes",
      "growthStrategyId": "plg",
      "notes": "AI-native notes app, metered on every tier - nothing is unlimited. Free: 25 messages to Mem, 25 new notes/mo, 3 hours of Voice Mode. Paid plans are flat and monthly-billed: Mem Plus $9, Mem Pro $29, Mem Pro 2x $49, Mem Pro 5x $99, Mem Pro 10x $149, Mem Pro 20x $199. Dimensions scale together across tiers: messages and new notes 25-2,000/mo, tracked notes 25-2,000, open tasks/projects 15-1,000, custom routines 0-20, routine executions 0-1,000, connections 0-20, and Voice Mode 3-500 hours/mo. An Extra Usage add-on adds a fixed block of capacity for $50/month per unit. Monthly activity resets each billing period. No team or enterprise tier.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": false,
        "caps": null,
        "seatPooling": "per-seat",
        "capsDetails": "The cited source establishes a vendor-set allowance or quota, not a customer-configured spending cap.",
        "topUpsDetails": "Extra Usage add-on: each $50/month unit adds a fixed block of messages, notes, tracked notes, tasks, routines, connections, and 125 Voice Mode hours."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Mem Pricing",
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        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://get.mem.ai",
        "foundingYear": 2019,
        "fundingStage": "Series A",
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        "marketPosition": "niche"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
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      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Help center",
        "pro": "Email support",
        "enterprise": "Priority support + dedicated success"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free: 25 messages to Mem; 25 new notes/mo; 3 hours of Voice Mode",
      "contractMinimums": "None",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: the $12 Pro tier and the 'unlimited' claims were not on Mem's pricing page; the real lineup runs Plus $9 through Pro 20x $199, every tier is metered, and an Extra Usage add-on is purchasable."
    },
    {
      "id": "make",
      "name": "Make",
      "categoryId": "automation",
      "revenueGenerationId": "subscription",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "tiered-subscription",
        "freemium",
        "usage-based",
        "credit-based"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "credit-pool",
      "valueMetricId": "credits",
      "growthStrategyId": "plg",
      "notes": "Make bills automation in credits. Paid plans can continue beyond the included allowance by purchasing prepaid credit blocks manually or automatically. Usage draws down that refillable balance and pauses if no credits remain.",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: Enterprise team credit limits are recorded as customer-set caps, and the free allowance unit is credits.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "topUps": true,
        "topUpsDetails": "Paid plans can purchase additional credit blocks; automatic blocks are available under the published plan rules.",
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Enterprise credits are held at organization level and can be allocated or reallocated across teams.",
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      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Make Pricing",
          "url": "https://www.make.com/en/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Make plan and overage adjustments",
          "url": "https://help.make.com/adjustments-to-plans-and-pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Make credits per team management",
          "url": "https://help.make.com/credits-per-team-management"
        },
        {
          "label": "Updated AI Provider token pricing (Aug 25, 2026)",
          "url": "https://help.make.com/more-value-for-your-credits-updated-makes-ai-provider-token-pricing-model"
        },
        {
          "label": "Make team credit management launch (Feb 7, 2025)",
          "url": "https://help.make.com/enhanced-notes-and-team-level-operations-management"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://www.make.com",
        "foundingYear": 2012,
        "fundingStage": "Late Stage",
        "employeeCount": "~500",
        "marketPosition": "challenger"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0",
        "starter": "$12/mo (Core)",
        "pro": "$21/mo (Pro)",
        "business": "$38/mo (Teams)",
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      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Community",
        "pro": "Email + chat",
        "enterprise": "TAM + 24/7 support"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free: 1,000 credits/mo; 15-minute intervals",
      "contractMinimums": "Enterprise: annual commitment",
      "history": [
        {
          "date": "2026-08-25",
          "change": "AI Provider token billing split into separate input and output credit rates, replacing a single total-token rate. Small and Medium went from 5,000 and 3,500 tokens per credit to 18,080 input / 2,260 output; Large from 1,500 to 3,616 / 452. Make's own example puts 2,000 input + 100 output tokens on the medium tier at ~0.6 → ~0.16 credits, a 73% reduction. Small and medium now share an identical rate. Does not affect users on their own API keys"
        }
      ]
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        "freemium",
        "credit-based"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "hard-cap",
      "valueMetricId": "credits",
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      "notes": "Free self-hosted with unlimited executions. Cloud Starter EUR 20/mo billed annually: 2.5K executions + 2,300 AI credits/mo. Pro EUR 50/mo billed annually: 10K executions + up to 13,700 AI credits/mo. Business EUR 667/mo billed annually: 40K executions, self-hosted, adds SSO/SAML/LDAP. AI Assistant is listed as preview on Business and not yet available on Enterprise. AI credits refresh monthly, do not roll over, and cannot be topped up separately. All plans include unlimited users and workflows, so pricing is flat rather than per-seat. 17% annual discount.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "topUps": false,
        "payGo": false,
        "caps": null,
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        "capsDetails": "The cited plan allowance is provider-set and does not establish a customer-configured spending cap.",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Execution allowances are set per plan and instance with unlimited unpriced users; the sources do not establish documented sharing of an allowance across seats."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
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      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://n8n.io",
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      },
      "supportTiers": {
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        "pro": "Email support",
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      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Community: Free self-hosted; unlimited executions",
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        {
          "date": "2026-07",
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        }
      ],
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: n8n publishes its plan prices in euros, not dollars, and the figures shown are the annual-billed rates. The AI Assistant availability and the funding stage were also brought up to date. Updated August 30, 2026: pooling was reclassified to Not established because the vendor's own pages document account- or organization-level billing rather than a credit or usage allowance shared across team members."
    },
    {
      "id": "airtable",
      "name": "Airtable",
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      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "tiered-subscription",
        "seat-based",
        "freemium",
        "credit-based",
        "hybrid-subscription-usage"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "credit-pool",
      "valueMetricId": "credits",
      "growthStrategyId": "plg",
      "notes": "Free: 1000 records/base, 1GB attachments. Team $20/user: 50K records. Business $45/user: 125K records. ~17% annual discount.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": null,
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        "capsDetails": "No customer-configured spending stop is established by the cited sources."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Airtable Pricing",
          "url": "https://www.airtable.com/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Airtable AI team credits (Mar 26, 2024)",
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        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://airtable.com",
        "foundingYear": 2012,
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        "employeeCount": "~1000",
        "marketPosition": "leader"
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      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0",
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      },
      "supportTiers": {
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      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free: 1000 records/base; 1GB attachments; 100 automation runs",
      "annualDiscountPct": "~17%",
      "contractMinimums": "Business/Enterprise: private email domain required",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: Airtable AI is scoped as seat expansion with a shared, purchasable credit pool; unsupported spending caps are marked Not established."
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      "id": "mongodb-atlas",
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      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "usage-based",
        "freemium"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "not-established",
      "valueMetricId": "db-operations",
      "growthStrategyId": "plg",
      "notes": "Free M0: 512MB storage shared. Flex 5GB storage, $8/mo (0-100 ops/s) scaling to a $30/mo cap (400-500 ops/s). Dedicated M10+ (~$57/mo) for production.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": null,
        "seatPooling": "not-established",
        "capsDetails": "The Flex tier has a vendor-set $30 monthly ceiling; this is not a customer-configured spending cap, and paid continuation beyond it is not established.",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Credits and billing are held at the organization level across projects; the sources do not establish teammate sharing of a credit or usage allowance."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "MongoDB Pricing",
          "url": "https://www.mongodb.com/pricing"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://www.mongodb.com/atlas",
        "foundingYear": 2007,
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        "employeeCount": "~5000",
        "marketPosition": "leader"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0 (M0/Free)",
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      },
      "supportTiers": {
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      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free M0: 512MB storage shared; 5GB storage applies to the Flex tier, not Free",
      "contractMinimums": "Dedicated: varies by cluster",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: the vendor-set Flex ceiling is not classified as a customer spending cap, and the overage mechanic is Not established. Updated August 30, 2026: pooling was reclassified to Not established because the vendor's own pages document account- or organization-level billing rather than a credit or usage allowance shared across team members."
    },
    {
      "id": "bigquery",
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      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "usage-based",
        "freemium",
        "committed-spend"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "soft-cap-overage",
      "valueMetricId": "compute",
      "growthStrategyId": "api-first",
      "notes": "BigQuery charges for compute and storage. On-demand analysis includes the first 1 TiB processed per month at no charge, then $6.25/TiB. Capacity commitments provide term discounts but do not replace the paid continuation path.",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: metric, post-allowance behavior, committed-spend structure, top-up status, and binary storage/query units were aligned to BigQuery documentation. Updated August 30, 2026: pooling was reclassified to Not established because the vendor's own pages document account- or organization-level billing rather than a credit or usage allowance shared across team members.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "creditRetentionDetails": "Capacity commitments reserve slots for a fixed term; idle capacity is not banked for a later billing period.",
        "topUps": null,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "not-established",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Reserved slots are shared across projects and queries within a reservation; the sources do not establish teammate sharing of a credit or usage allowance."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "BigQuery Pricing",
          "url": "https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "BigQuery capacity commitments",
          "url": "https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reservations-details"
        },
        {
          "label": "BigQuery editions cost controls (Jan 11, 2024)",
          "url": "https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/optimizing-computational-analysis-costs-with-bigquery-editions/"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://cloud.google.com/bigquery",
        "foundingYear": 2011,
        "fundingStage": "Public (NASDAQ: GOOG)",
        "marketPosition": "leader"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0 (free tier)",
        "starter": "$6.25/TiB (on-demand analysis)",
        "pro": "Capacity-based",
        "enterprise": "Custom (Editions)"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Community",
        "pro": "Standard support",
        "enterprise": "Premium support + SLAs"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free: 10 GiB storage; 1 TiB query data processed/mo",
      "annualDiscountPct": "Capacity commitments: 20% (1-yr), up to 40% (3-yr)",
      "contractMinimums": "Capacity: 1-3 year commitments"
    },
    {
      "id": "pipedrive",
      "name": "Pipedrive",
      "categoryId": "crm",
      "revenueGenerationId": "seat-expansion",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "tiered-subscription",
        "seat-based",
        "credit-based"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "hard-cap",
      "valueMetricId": "credits",
      "growthStrategyId": "plg",
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        "payGo": true,
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        {
          "label": "Pipedrive Pricing",
          "url": "https://www.pipedrive.com/en/pricing"
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        {
          "label": "Pipedrive data-enrichment credits (Mar 4, 2026)",
          "url": "https://support.pipedrive.com/en/article/data-enrichment-credits-and-top-ups"
        },
        {
          "label": "Pipedrive data enrichment (Mar 23, 2026)",
          "url": "https://support.pipedrive.com/en/article/data-enrichment"
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      ],
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: data enrichment is measured in proprietary credits, stops at exhaustion unless a top-up is purchased, and supports paid top-ups."
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    {
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        "usage-based",
        "credit-based"
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      "valueMetricId": "tokens",
      "growthStrategyId": "hybrid",
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        "payGo": true,
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      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Zia Agents model configuration",
          "url": "https://www.zoho.com/agents/resources/help/platform-reference/model-configuration.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "Zia Agents settings and credit purchase",
          "url": "https://www.zoho.com/agents/resources/help/platform-reference/settings.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "Zia Agents pricing",
          "url": "https://www.zoho.com/agents/pricing.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "Zoho CRM pricing",
          "url": "https://www.zoho.com/crm/zohocrm-pricing.html"
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      "annualDiscountPct": "~30%",
      "contractMinimums": "None",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: current-only Zia Agent mechanics were scoped separately from general CRM seats and API quotas."
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    {
      "id": "heygen",
      "name": "HeyGen",
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        "credit-based",
        "freemium"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "credit-pool",
      "valueMetricId": "credits",
      "growthStrategyId": "plg",
      "notes": "AI avatar video platform. Free: 3 videos/mo (watermarked, up to 1080p, 1 min max). Creator $29/mo ($24 annual, 600 credits). Pro $49/mo (1,000 credits, 4K). Business $149/mo + $20/seat (1,500 credits). Legacy Team plan deprecated Jan 2026.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "capped",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
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        "creditRetentionDetails": "Monthly credits can carry into one following cycle, while annual credits accumulate only within the annual subscription term."
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        {
          "label": "HeyGen Pricing",
          "url": "https://www.heygen.com/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "HeyGen subworkspaces (Feb 13, 2026)",
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        },
        {
          "label": "HeyGen credit-based pricing (Aug 28, 2026)",
          "url": "https://help.heygen.com/en/articles/15125761-heygen-credit-based-pricing-plans-subscriptions-explained"
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      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://www.heygen.com",
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      "supportTiers": {
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      "annualDiscountPct": "~17%",
      "contractMinimums": "None (Team plan deprecated Jan 2026; Business is $149/mo base + per-seat add-ons)",
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    },
    {
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        "tiered-subscription"
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      "overageStrategyId": "hard-cap",
      "valueMetricId": "searches",
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      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "topUps": false,
        "payGo": false,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "per-seat"
      },
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        {
          "label": "Kagi Pricing",
          "url": "https://kagi.com/pricing"
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        {
          "label": "Kagi API Pricing",
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      "pricingTiers": {
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      "supportTiers": {
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      "freeTierLimits": "Trial: 100 searches + 100 AI; Starter: 300 searches/mo",
      "annualDiscountPct": "~10%",
      "contractMinimums": "None",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: the API rate was corrected to Kagi's published $12 per 1,000 Search API requests (and $4 per 1,000 Extract API pages) from an incorrect $25 per 1,000, and the API pricing page was added as a source."
    },
    {
      "id": "fireflies-ai",
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      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "tiered-subscription",
        "seat-based",
        "freemium"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "soft-cap-overage",
      "valueMetricId": "transcription-minutes",
      "growthStrategyId": "plg",
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      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: Enterprise has a published price of $39 per seat per month billed annually, so the Custom label and the duplicated tier key were replaced.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "topUps": false,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": null,
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Workspace teammates can share transcription credits; paid upload usage is also governed by a team cap.",
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      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Fireflies Pricing",
          "url": "https://fireflies.ai/pricing"
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        {
          "label": "Fireflies transcription-credit guide",
          "url": "https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/1055386295-learn-about-transcription-credits"
        },
        {
          "label": "Fireflies rate-limit guide",
          "url": "https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/1290523833-learn-about-rate-limits"
        },
        {
          "label": "Fireflies shared workspace credits (Apr 20, 2026)",
          "url": "https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/4027724828-learn-about-the-fireflies-free-plan"
        },
        {
          "label": "Fireflies free-plan features (Jun 30, 2026)",
          "url": "https://guide.fireflies.ai/articles/6176608577-learn-about-fireflies-free-plan-features"
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      "meta": {
        "website": "https://fireflies.ai",
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        "fundingStage": "Late Stage - $1B valuation",
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        "marketPosition": "challenger"
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      "supportTiers": {
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      "freeTierLimits": "Free: storage allowance Not established because current first-party pages conflict; unlimited transcription; 20 AI credits per seat (cadence Not established)",
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      "contractMinimums": "None"
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      "id": "hugging-face",
      "name": "Hugging Face",
      "categoryId": "ai-api",
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      "pricingStructureIds": [
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        "credit-based",
        "freemium"
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      "overageStrategyId": "credit-pool",
      "valueMetricId": "dollar-usage",
      "growthStrategyId": "plg",
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      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: purchased-credit retention is marked Not established because first-party billing documentation does not state an expiry rule.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "not-established",
        "creditRetentionDetails": "Included monthly credits refresh each month, but the cited sources do not establish an expiration rule for purchased credits.",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
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      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Hugging Face Pricing",
          "url": "https://huggingface.co/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Inference Providers billing launch",
          "url": "https://huggingface.co/blog/inference-providers"
        },
        {
          "label": "Inference Providers pricing and billing",
          "url": "https://huggingface.co/docs/inference-providers/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Hugging Face billing and automatic recharge",
          "url": "https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/billing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Inference Providers pricing snapshot (Apr 20, 2026)",
          "url": "https://github.com/huggingface/hub-docs/blob/c4bc48cc1af6ea4912de5e201d1de1da4d1288b0/docs/inference-providers/pricing.md"
        },
        {
          "label": "Hugging Face storage limits",
          "url": "https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/storage-limits"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://huggingface.co",
        "foundingYear": 2016,
        "fundingStage": "Series D - $4.5B valuation",
        "employeeCount": "~220",
        "marketPosition": "leader"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0 (Free Hub)",
        "starter": "$9/mo (PRO)",
        "pro": "$20/mo per user (Team)",
        "business": "$50+/user/mo (Enterprise)",
        "enterprise": "Custom"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Community",
        "pro": "Priority support",
        "enterprise": "Dedicated support + custom SLAs"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free: 100GB private storage; $0.10/mo Inference Providers credit (subject to change)",
      "contractMinimums": "Enterprise: annual commitment"
    },
    {
      "id": "replicate",
      "name": "Replicate",
      "categoryId": "ai-api",
      "revenueGenerationId": "consumption",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "usage-based",
        "freemium"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "soft-cap-overage",
      "valueMetricId": "compute",
      "growthStrategyId": "api-first",
      "notes": "Model hosting platform. Acquired by Cloudflare (2025). Pay-per-second usage on prepaid credits. Select models can be run free until billing setup is required. 600 predictions/min rate limit.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "capped",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": null,
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
        "creditRetentionDetails": "Purchased prepaid credits have a stated validity window rather than expiring at a recurring monthly reset.",
        "capsDetails": "No customer-configurable budget cap is documented. Auto reload is a top-up trigger, not a spending stop, and the zero-balance halt is vendor-imposed.",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Runs made as the organization bill to the organization's shared payment method rather than the member's personal account."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Replicate Pricing",
          "url": "https://replicate.com/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Replicate billing documentation",
          "url": "https://replicate.com/docs/topics/billing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Replicate prepaid credit (1-year validity)",
          "url": "https://replicate.com/docs/topics/billing/prepaid-credit"
        },
        {
          "label": "Replicate prediction rate limits",
          "url": "https://replicate.com/docs/topics/predictions/rate-limits"
        },
        {
          "label": "Replicate organizations (shared billing)",
          "url": "https://replicate.com/docs/topics/organizations"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://replicate.com",
        "foundingYear": 2019,
        "fundingStage": "Acquired by Cloudflare (2025)",
        "employeeCount": "~50",
        "marketPosition": "challenger"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "starter": "Pay-per-second usage",
        "enterprise": "Volume discounts"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Community",
        "pro": "Email support",
        "enterprise": "Dedicated support + higher limits"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Select models run free until you are asked to set up billing; prepaid credit is valid 1 year from purchase; work stops when the balance hits zero",
      "contractMinimums": "None",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: Replicate documents running select models free before billing setup, so the no-free-tier claim was removed. Caps was corrected to Not established because auto reload is a top-up trigger rather than a customer-set budget cap, and the credit-validity and rate-limit claims were repointed to the pages that actually state them."
    },
    {
      "id": "notion",
      "name": "Notion",
      "categoryId": "collaboration",
      "revenueGenerationId": "seat-expansion",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "seat-based",
        "tiered-subscription",
        "freemium",
        "credit-based",
        "hybrid-subscription-usage"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "credit-pool",
      "valueMetricId": "credits",
      "growthStrategyId": "plg",
      "notes": "Per-member workspace pricing. AI bundled into Business/Enterprise (mid-2025). Free tier generous for individuals. Plus for small teams. Custom Agents (Business/Enterprise only) now use paid Notion credits as of May 4, 2026: $10 per 1,000 credits, workspace-pooled, reset monthly, no rollover. Business and Enterprise also carry a usage allowance on Notion AI: the personal Notion Agent, image generation and page translation are metered against both a six-hour window and a monthly window resetting with the billing cycle. AI Meeting Notes is exempt (separate 10-hour daily cap), as are Custom Agents and Workers, which run on credits. Admins can opt the workspace into spending credits once the allowance is hit; off by default. Notion publishes no date for this, so it is recorded as current state rather than a dated change.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Custom Agents draw from one workspace credit limit shared across agents created by members and groups.",
        "topUpsDetails": "Workspace admins can purchase additional Custom Agent credits."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Notion Pricing",
          "url": "https://www.notion.com/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Notion Custom Agent admin controls (May 5, 2026)",
          "url": "https://www.notion.com/releases/2026-05-05"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://www.notion.so",
        "foundingYear": 2013,
        "fundingStage": "Series D - $10B valuation",
        "employeeCount": "~800-1000",
        "marketPosition": "leader"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0",
        "starter": "$10/member/mo annual, $12/mo monthly (Plus)",
        "pro": "$20/member/mo annual, $24/mo monthly (Business)",
        "enterprise": "Custom"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Help center",
        "pro": "Email support",
        "enterprise": "Dedicated CSM + SSO"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free: Unlimited pages for individuals; limited blocks for 2+ member teams; 5MB upload; 7-day history",
      "annualDiscountPct": "~20%",
      "contractMinimums": "Business: annual recommended",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: Custom Agent usage is measured in purchasable workspace credits and classified as a prepaid credit pool."
    },
    {
      "id": "linear",
      "name": "Linear",
      "categoryId": "collaboration",
      "revenueGenerationId": "seat-expansion",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "seat-based",
        "freemium"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "credit-pool",
      "valueMetricId": "dollar-usage",
      "growthStrategyId": "plg",
      "notes": "Per-user project management. Free tier is generous on member count but capped at 2 teams and 250 issues. AI agents included on all plans.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
        "topUpsDetails": "Customers can add paid usage funds for coding sessions.",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Coding-session usage draws from the workspace-level paid balance."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Linear Pricing",
          "url": "https://linear.app/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Linear changelog: coding sessions (Aug 20, 2026)",
          "url": "https://linear.app/changelog/2026-08-20-coding-environments"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://linear.app",
        "foundingYear": 2019,
        "fundingStage": "Series C - $1.25B valuation",
        "employeeCount": "~80",
        "marketPosition": "challenger"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0",
        "starter": "$10/user/mo (Basic annual)",
        "pro": "$16/user/mo (Business annual)",
        "enterprise": "Custom"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Community",
        "pro": "Email support",
        "enterprise": "Dedicated support + SSO"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free: Unlimited members; 2 teams max; 250 non-archived issues; 10MB file uploads",
      "contractMinimums": "None",
      "history": [
        {
          "date": "2026-08-20",
          "change": "Coding sessions repriced: model tokens billed at the provider's published rates with no markup, plus sandbox runtime at $0.25 per 20-minute block. Admins gained workspace-wide and per-user spend limits resetting daily, weekly or monthly. The changelog is silent on seat pricing, so no claim is made about it"
        }
      ],
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: coding-session usage is recorded as dollar-denominated workspace balance with paid refill and shared use."
    },
    {
      "id": "slack",
      "name": "Slack",
      "categoryId": "collaboration",
      "revenueGenerationId": "seat-expansion",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "seat-based",
        "tiered-subscription",
        "freemium",
        "usage-based",
        "credit-based",
        "hybrid-subscription-usage"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "credit-pool",
      "valueMetricId": "credits",
      "growthStrategyId": "plg",
      "notes": "Slackbot usage draws from a workspace or organization Flex Credit balance. Flex Credits are sold under two buying models, PayGo and Pre-Commit; the row uses credit-pool because a refillable prepaid balance is an explicit supported path.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": null,
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
        "capsDetails": "No customer-configured spending stop is established by the cited pricing source.",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Agent credits are purchased and consumed at the workspace or organization level."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Slack Pricing",
          "url": "https://slack.com/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Slackbot Flex Credits",
          "url": "https://slack.com/help/articles/54291336348051-Set-up-Flex-Credits-for-Slackbot-usage"
        },
        {
          "label": "Salesforce Flex Credits pricing",
          "url": "https://www.salesforce.com/agentforce/pricing/"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://slack.com",
        "foundingYear": 2013,
        "fundingStage": "Acquired (Salesforce 2021, $27.7B)",
        "employeeCount": "~3000",
        "marketPosition": "leader"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0",
        "starter": "$7.25/user/mo annual, $8.75/mo monthly (Pro)",
        "pro": "$15/user/mo annual, $18/mo monthly (Business+)",
        "enterprise": "Custom (Enterprise+)"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Help center",
        "pro": "Priority support",
        "enterprise": "24/7 support + dedicated CSM"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free: 90-day message history; up to 10 app integrations; 1-on-1 huddles; 1:1 Slack Connect messages",
      "annualDiscountPct": "~17-20%",
      "contractMinimums": "None",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: the Pro 3-user minimum was removed: that threshold is an eligibility rule for paying by invoice, not a plan minimum. Flex Credits are documented as two buying models rather than three, and an unsourced 5GB free storage figure was dropped."
    },
    {
      "id": "loom",
      "name": "Loom",
      "categoryId": "video-comms",
      "revenueGenerationId": "subscription",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "seat-based",
        "tiered-subscription",
        "freemium"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "hard-cap",
      "valueMetricId": "seats",
      "growthStrategyId": "plg",
      "notes": "Video messaging with generous free tier (50 members). Free limited to 25 videos per person, 5-min max. Business + AI tier at $20/user/mo annual ($24 monthly) adds AI features.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "topUps": false,
        "payGo": false,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "per-seat"
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Loom Pricing",
          "url": "https://www.loom.com/pricing"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://www.loom.com",
        "foundingYear": 2015,
        "fundingStage": "Acquired (Atlassian 2023, $975M)",
        "employeeCount": "~300",
        "marketPosition": "leader"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0 (Starter)",
        "starter": "$15/user/mo annual, $18/mo monthly (Business)",
        "pro": "$20/user/mo annual, $24/mo monthly (Business + AI)",
        "enterprise": "Custom"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Help center",
        "pro": "Priority support",
        "enterprise": "Dedicated support + SSO"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free: Up to 50 members; 25 videos/person; 5-min max recording; 720p",
      "annualDiscountPct": "~17%",
      "contractMinimums": "None"
    },
    {
      "id": "shopify",
      "name": "Shopify",
      "categoryId": "ecommerce",
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      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "tiered-subscription",
        "platform-fee"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "soft-cap-overage",
      "valueMetricId": "transactions",
      "growthStrategyId": "plg",
      "notes": "Subscription + transaction fees. Lower transaction fees at higher tiers. $1/mo for first 3 months promotional pricing. Additional staff accounts: none on Basic, 5 on Grow, 15 on Advanced, unlimited on Plus. POS Pro add-on $89/mo per location.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "topUps": false,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": false,
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "The store-wide AI image-generation limit is shared by everyone working in the store."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Shopify Pricing",
          "url": "https://www.shopify.com/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Shopify Plus Pricing",
          "url": "https://www.shopify.com/plus/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Shopify Sidekick image limits",
          "url": "https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/ai-powered-tools/sidekick/generate-content"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://www.shopify.com",
        "foundingYear": 2006,
        "fundingStage": "Public (NYSE: SHOP)",
        "employeeCount": "~12000",
        "marketPosition": "leader"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$5/mo (Starter)",
        "starter": "$39/mo (Basic, 2.9% + $0.30)",
        "pro": "$105/mo (Grow, 2.7% + $0.30)",
        "business": "$399/mo (Advanced, 2.5% + $0.30)",
        "enterprise": "$2,500/mo on a 1-year term or $2,300/mo on a 3-year term (Plus)"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Help center",
        "pro": "24/7 chat + email",
        "enterprise": "Dedicated support + launch engineer"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "3-day free trial; then $1/mo for first 3 months promo",
      "annualDiscountPct": "~25%",
      "contractMinimums": "Plus: 1-year or 3-year term",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: Shopify Plus publishes both a 1-year term at $2,500/mo and a 3-year term at $2,300/mo, so the 3-year-only minimum was corrected. Basic includes no additional staff accounts rather than one."
    },
    {
      "id": "intercom",
      "name": "Intercom",
      "categoryId": "customer-support",
      "revenueGenerationId": "consumption",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "seat-based",
        "usage-based",
        "outcome-based"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "soft-cap-overage",
      "valueMetricId": "outcomes",
      "growthStrategyId": "hybrid",
      "notes": "Per-seat SaaS plus outcome-based AI fees. Fin bills four published outcome types, and only one per conversation however many actions Fin takes: Resolution, Procedure handoff and Disqualification at $0.99 each, and Qualification at $9.99 - ten times the headline rate, documented only in the help centre, while the public pricing page's plan cards say \"From $0.99 per Fin outcome\" and its own FAQ says \"Fin is priced at $0.99 per outcome\". Works with Zendesk, Salesforce, HubSpot. Usage-based charges for WhatsApp, SMS, email campaigns.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Fin Operator Pro credits are a workspace allowance that permissioned teammates can use. This current-only mechanic took effect August 6, 2026.",
        "capsDetails": "Customers can toggle on a hard usage Limit for Fin outcomes, Pro conversations, Operator credits and Fin Voice outcomes; when the Fin outcome limit is reached, Fin AI Agent is disabled for the rest of the billing period. The limit cannot be set below the amount included in the subscription.",
        "topUpsDetails": "Fin Operator Pro includes a monthly Operator credit allowance; customers can purchase additional usage beyond it."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Intercom Pricing",
          "url": "https://www.intercom.com/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Fin AI Agent outcomes",
          "url": "https://www.intercom.com/help/en/articles/8205718-fin-ai-agent-outcomes"
        },
        {
          "label": "Fin Operator FAQs (Aug 6, 2026)",
          "url": "https://www.intercom.com/help/en/articles/14786093-fin-operator-faqs"
        },
        {
          "label": "Manage Fin Operator usage",
          "url": "https://www.intercom.com/help/en/articles/8991894-how-to-see-and-manage-your-usage"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://www.intercom.com",
        "foundingYear": 2011,
        "fundingStage": "Series D",
        "employeeCount": "~1200",
        "marketPosition": "leader"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "starter": "$29/seat/mo annual, $39/mo monthly (Essential)",
        "pro": "$85/seat/mo annual, $99/mo monthly (Advanced)",
        "business": "$132/seat/mo annual, $139/mo monthly (Expert)",
        "enterprise": "Fin AI standalone: $0.99 per resolution, procedure handoff or disqualification; $9.99 per qualification"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "pro": "Standard support",
        "enterprise": "Priority support + dedicated CSM"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "14-day free trial only; no free tier",
      "annualDiscountPct": "~5-26% by tier",
      "contractMinimums": "1 full seat minimum; Fin with an existing helpdesk carries a minimum monthly commitment (the vendor's example is 50 outcomes)",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: caps and top-ups were both corrected to true against Intercom's own cited help articles, which document a customer-set usage limit and the purchase of additional usage. The outcome minimum is the vendor's example for the existing-helpdesk path, not a flat rule."
    },
    {
      "id": "gong",
      "name": "Gong",
      "categoryId": "revenue-intelligence",
      "revenueGenerationId": "seat-expansion",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "seat-based",
        "credit-based",
        "hybrid-subscription-usage"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "credit-pool",
      "valueMetricId": "credits",
      "growthStrategyId": "sales-led",
      "notes": "Core seats contribute annual Gong Credits to one company-wide balance for advanced AI features. Purchased credits remain usable through the contract term; usage stops at zero unless credits are added manually or by automatic top-up.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "capped",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
        "creditRetentionDetails": "Purchased credits remain available through the current contract term but do not roll into a renewal; included annual credits reset.",
        "capsDetails": "Admins can set a monthly Gong Credit cap per team member; eligible usage pauses when the cap is reached.",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Credits contributed by core seats form a company-wide balance shared across supported AI features."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "About Gong Credits (Jan 12, updated Aug 10, 2026)",
          "url": "https://help.gong.io/docs/about-gong-credits"
        },
        {
          "label": "Configure Gong credit controls (Aug 10, 2026)",
          "url": "https://help.gong.io/v1/docs/configure-gong-credit-controls"
        },
        {
          "label": "Gong Credits launch (May 26, 2026)",
          "url": "https://www.gong.io/blog/scaling-revenue-ai-gong-credits"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://www.gong.io",
        "foundingYear": 2015,
        "fundingStage": "Series E - $7.25B valuation",
        "employeeCount": "~1800",
        "marketPosition": "leader"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "enterprise": "Custom per-user licenses plus a platform fee"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "pro": "Standard support",
        "enterprise": "Dedicated CSM + custom onboarding"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "No free tier; no trial",
      "contractMinimums": "Custom proposal; public minimum not established",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: the row now reflects Gong Credits and removes unsupported third-party price estimates."
    },
    {
      "id": "posthog",
      "name": "PostHog",
      "categoryId": "analytics",
      "revenueGenerationId": "consumption",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "usage-based",
        "freemium"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "soft-cap-overage",
      "valueMetricId": "events",
      "growthStrategyId": "plg",
      "notes": "Usage-based with generous free tiers per product. No per-seat fees. Open-source core. Free: 1M events, 5K recordings, 1M feature flag requests. Volume discounts up to ~82% at scale. Most startups stay on free tier. Optional platform packages (Boost $250/mo, Scale $750/mo, Enterprise $2,000/mo) gate SSO, RBAC and SLAs on top of the usage bill.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "topUps": false,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": false,
        "seatPooling": "not-established",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "The cited sources establish organization-level, per-product usage metering with unlimited team members but do not establish teammate sharing of an allowance under the Finder pooling definition."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "PostHog Pricing",
          "url": "https://posthog.com/pricing"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://posthog.com",
        "foundingYear": 2020,
        "fundingStage": "Series B",
        "employeeCount": "~50",
        "marketPosition": "challenger"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0 (1M events, 5K recordings)",
        "starter": "$0.00005/event above free tier",
        "pro": "Platform packages: Boost $250/mo, Scale $750/mo, Enterprise $2,000/mo (atop usage)",
        "enterprise": "Volume discounts (up to ~82% off at 250M+ events)"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Community + Slack",
        "pro": "Email support",
        "enterprise": "Dedicated support + custom SLAs"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free: 1M events/mo; 5K session recordings; 1M feature flag requests; unlimited seats",
      "contractMinimums": "None",
      "correctionNote": " Updated August 30, 2026: pooling was reclassified to Not established because the vendor documents organization- or workspace-level metering rather than a credit or usage allowance shared across team members."
    },
    {
      "id": "amplitude",
      "name": "Amplitude",
      "categoryId": "analytics",
      "revenueGenerationId": "consumption",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "tiered-subscription",
        "freemium"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "hard-cap",
      "valueMetricId": "events",
      "growthStrategyId": "hybrid",
      "notes": "Event-based plan pricing. Free: 2M events/month forever, no credit card, including 10K monthly session replays and 2,000 AI feedback records. Plus starts at $0 with the first 2M events/month free, scaling to 70M events, 20 behavioral cohorts and 2-year retention. Growth and Enterprise are custom-quoted. MTU remains a defined term in Amplitude's docs, but the published plan cards are stated in events.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "topUps": false,
        "payGo": false,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "not-established",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "The cited sources establish an organization-level event volume limit with unlimited seats but do not establish teammate sharing of an allowance under the Finder pooling definition."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Amplitude Pricing",
          "url": "https://amplitude.com/pricing"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://amplitude.com",
        "foundingYear": 2012,
        "fundingStage": "Public (NASDAQ: AMPL)",
        "employeeCount": "~1000",
        "marketPosition": "leader"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0 (2M events/month forever)",
        "starter": "Starts at $0 (Plus; first 2M events/month free, scales to 70M events)",
        "pro": "Custom (Growth)",
        "enterprise": "Custom (Enterprise)"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Help center",
        "pro": "Standard support",
        "enterprise": "Premium support + dedicated CSM"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free: 2M events/month forever; 10K monthly session replays; 2,000 AI feedback records; limited Experiments, Guides & Surveys",
      "contractMinimums": "Growth/Enterprise: annual commitment",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: the published plan cards are event-based; the previous MTU-based tiers and the $49/mo Plus entry point are no longer on Amplitude's pricing page. Updated August 30, 2026: pooling was reclassified to Not established because the vendor documents organization- or workspace-level metering rather than a credit or usage allowance shared across team members."
    },
    {
      "id": "segment",
      "name": "Segment (Twilio)",
      "categoryId": "analytics",
      "revenueGenerationId": "consumption",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "usage-based",
        "freemium"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "soft-cap-overage",
      "valueMetricId": "events",
      "growthStrategyId": "hybrid",
      "notes": "CDP by Twilio. Connections pricing: Free 1K visitors, Team ~$120/mo for 10K visitors. CDP (Unify, Engage) is fully custom. Enterprise deals typically 50-72% off list price. Additional volume billed per 1K visitors.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "topUps": false,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": false,
        "seatPooling": "not-established",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "The cited sources establish workspace-level MTU metering with unlimited seats but do not establish teammate sharing of an allowance under the Finder pooling definition."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Segment Pricing",
          "url": "https://segment.com/pricing/"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://segment.com",
        "foundingYear": 2011,
        "fundingStage": "Acquired (Twilio 2020, $3.2B)",
        "employeeCount": "~500",
        "marketPosition": "leader"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0 (1K visitors/mo)",
        "starter": "~$120/mo (Team: 10K visitors)",
        "enterprise": "Custom (Business + CDP)"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Help center",
        "pro": "Email support",
        "enterprise": "Dedicated support + custom SLAs"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free: 1K visitors/mo; limited sources; 1 data warehouse destination",
      "contractMinimums": "Business/CDP: annual commitment",
      "correctionNote": " Updated August 30, 2026: pooling was reclassified to Not established because the vendor documents organization- or workspace-level metering rather than a credit or usage allowance shared across team members."
    },
    {
      "id": "bolt-new",
      "addedAt": "2026-06-23",
      "name": "Bolt.new (StackBlitz)",
      "categoryId": "ai-coding",
      "revenueGenerationId": "subscription",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "tiered-subscription",
        "credit-based",
        "freemium"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "credit-pool",
      "valueMetricId": "tokens",
      "growthStrategyId": "plg",
      "notes": "In-browser AI agent for full-stack web app generation billed by AI tokens; larger projects consume more tokens per message due to file system sync overhead. Paid plan tokens roll over for one additional month, valid up to two months in total, and are consumed first-in first-out. Token reloads are restricted to the highest individual monthly Pro plan and all annual Pro plans, and reload tokens never expire. Teams is billed per member, and tokens are not shared among team members.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "capped",
        "creditRetentionDetails": "Paid-subscription tokens roll over for one additional month, valid up to two months in total, and only while the paid subscription stays active; consumed first-in first-out, oldest bucket first. Free plan tokens do not roll over. Separately purchased Reload tokens do not expire.",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "per-seat",
        "topUpsDetails": "Token reloads are restricted to the highest individual monthly Pro plan and all annual Pro plans; the price per 10M tokens falls as the annual tier rises, and reload tokens never expire.",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Teams is billed per member and each paid member receives their own monthly token allotment; tokens are not shared among team members."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Bolt.new Pricing",
          "url": "https://bolt.new/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Bolt: tokens, rollover and reloads",
          "url": "https://support.bolt.new/account-and-subscription/tokens"
        },
        {
          "label": "Bolt: billing",
          "url": "https://support.bolt.new/account-and-subscription/billing"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://bolt.new",
        "foundingYear": 2023,
        "fundingStage": "Growth (StackBlitz product)",
        "employeeCount": "~50",
        "marketPosition": "challenger"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0 (1M tokens/mo; 300K daily limit)",
        "starter": "$25/mo (Pro)",
        "pro": "$30/user/mo (Teams)",
        "enterprise": "Custom"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Community (Discord)",
        "pro": "Email support (Mon-Fri business hours)",
        "enterprise": "Dedicated account manager & 24/7 priority support"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free: 1M tokens/mo; 300K daily limit; no token rollover on free tier",
      "contractMinimums": "None",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: the published annual discount was added and the token rollover, reload and per-member seat rules were recorded from Bolt's own support docs.",
      "annualDiscountPct": "up to 28% (pricing page). Bolt's billing help article states 10% instead; the pricing page figure is corroborated by its own worked example of $216/yr vs $25/mo."
    },
    {
      "id": "deepseek",
      "addedAt": "2026-06-23",
      "name": "DeepSeek",
      "categoryId": "ai-api",
      "revenueGenerationId": "consumption",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "usage-based",
        "freemium"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "soft-cap-overage",
      "valueMetricId": "tokens",
      "growthStrategyId": "api-first",
      "notes": "Chinese open-source LLM lab backed by High-Flyer Quant; sparked the 2026 AI price war, though an August 2026 increase narrowed the gap to US rivals. Now prices on a peak/off-peak split: off-peak is half the peak rate, peak hours are 01:00–04:00 and 06:00–10:00 UTC Mon–Fri. V4 Flash cache-miss input $0.22/M off-peak, $0.44/M peak; output $0.66/M off-peak, $1.32/M peak. Cache hits ~97% off input. Consumer chat app is free.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "not-established",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "The cited documentation describes an account balance but does not establish cross-user sharing."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "DeepSeek API Pricing",
          "url": "https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://www.deepseek.com",
        "foundingYear": 2023,
        "fundingStage": "Corporate (High-Flyer Quant)",
        "employeeCount": "~200",
        "marketPosition": "challenger"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0 (5M tokens on signup)",
        "starter": "Usage-based (V4 Flash: $0.22/M input off-peak, $0.44/M peak; $0.66/M output off-peak, $1.32/M peak)",
        "pro": "Usage-based (V4 Pro: $0.66/M input off-peak, $1.32/M peak; $1.98/M output off-peak, $3.96/M peak)",
        "enterprise": "Custom"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Documentation",
        "pro": "Email support",
        "enterprise": "Enterprise support"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "New users: 5M tokens on signup; no credit card required",
      "annualDiscountPct": "Cache hit: ~97% off input token price; off-peak: 50% off peak rates",
      "history": [
        {
          "date": "2026-08",
          "change": "Prices raised and split into peak/off-peak. V4 Flash input $0.14/M → $0.22/M off-peak and $0.44/M peak; output $0.28/M → $0.66/M off-peak and $1.32/M peak. V4 Pro input $0.435/M → $0.66/M off-peak and $1.32/M peak; output $0.87/M → $1.98/M off-peak and $3.96/M peak. Current rates are read off DeepSeek's pricing page; DeepSeek publishes no dated changelog, so only the month is recorded"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "kling-ai",
      "addedAt": "2026-06-23",
      "name": "Kling AI",
      "categoryId": "ai-video",
      "revenueGenerationId": "subscription",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "tiered-subscription",
        "credit-based",
        "freemium"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "hard-cap",
      "valueMetricId": "credits",
      "growthStrategyId": "plg",
      "notes": "AI video generation from Kuaishou; credits billed per second of video (Kling 3.0: 6–12 credits/sec). Free daily credits expire in 24 hours; no rollover on subscription credits. Native 4K video available. The developer API is sold separately as prepaid unit packages at a $0.14 list unit price, from $700/5,000 units to $7,560/60,000 units, with the three largest discounted 10% to $0.126/unit; packages carry 180-day validity, no rollover or extension, and 20 concurrency. API billing is per second and varies by resolution — Kling 3.0 without native audio is 0.6 units/s at 720p, 0.8 at 1080p and 3.0 at 4K. Consumer subscription tiers below were last verified Jun 23, 2026; Kling serves those from an app subdomain that blocks automated reads, so they could not be re-checked.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "capped",
        "creditRetentionDetails": "Kling credits have stated expiration windows; retention is time-limited rather than absent.",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Team plans provide a Team Credit balance for members."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Kling AI Membership Plans",
          "url": "https://kling.ai/app/membership/membership-plan"
        },
        {
          "label": "Kling API Pricing",
          "url": "https://kling.ai/dev/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Kling Team membership plan",
          "url": "https://app.klingai.com/global/membership/team-membership-plan"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://kling.ai",
        "foundingYear": 2024,
        "fundingStage": "Kuaishou subsidiary (HKEX: 1024)",
        "marketPosition": "challenger"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0 (66 credits/day; 24h expiry)",
        "starter": "$10/mo (Standard: 660 credits)",
        "pro": "$37/mo (Pro: 3,000 credits)",
        "business": "$92/mo (Premier: 8,000 credits)",
        "enterprise": "$180/mo (Ultra: 26,000 credits)"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Help center",
        "pro": "Email support",
        "enterprise": "Priority support"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free: 66 credits/day; expire in 24h; watermarked",
      "annualDiscountPct": "~34% (Standard–Premier; no annual option for Ultra)",
      "contractMinimums": "None",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: stated credit-validity windows are recorded as capped retention."
    },
    {
      "id": "lovable",
      "addedAt": "2026-06-23",
      "name": "Lovable",
      "categoryId": "ai-coding",
      "revenueGenerationId": "subscription",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "tiered-subscription",
        "credit-based",
        "freemium"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "hard-cap",
      "valueMetricId": "credits",
      "growthStrategyId": "plg",
      "notes": "Full-stack vibe coding platform (formerly GPT Engineer). One credit = one AI message; simple edits ~0.5 credits, complex features cost more. Cloud hosting and AI usage are billed separately. Top-ups are Pro and Business only, priced per plan at $15 per 50 credits on Pro and $30 per 50 credits on Business, and valid 12 months.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "capped",
        "creditRetentionDetails": "Monthly plan credits expire two months after issue. Annual plan credits expire one month after the annual period ends. Top-up credits last 12 months from purchase. Daily build credits and the monthly Cloud and AI grants expire at end of day or end of cycle and do not roll over.",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Workspaces support unlimited members on all plans and are priced by included credits, not seats; everyone in the workspace draws from one shared balance. Owners and admins can set a default monthly credit limit and per-member overrides.",
        "topUpsDetails": "Top-ups are Pro and Business only: Pro $15 per 50 credits ($0.30/credit), Business $30 per 50 credits ($0.60/credit), charged one-time and valid 12 months. Auto top-up is available on the same plans."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Lovable Pricing",
          "url": "https://lovable.dev/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Lovable docs: credits and usage",
          "url": "https://docs.lovable.dev/introduction/credits-and-usage"
        },
        {
          "label": "Lovable docs: subscription plans",
          "url": "https://docs.lovable.dev/introduction/subscription-plans"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://lovable.dev",
        "foundingYear": 2023,
        "fundingStage": "Series B - $330M raised at $6.6B valuation (Dec 2025)",
        "employeeCount": "~146",
        "marketPosition": "challenger"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0 (5 build credits/day, 30/mo cap; 20 Cloud + 4 AI credits/mo)",
        "starter": "$25/mo (Pro, 100 credits/mo; $250/yr)",
        "business": "$50/mo (Business, 100 credits/mo; $500/yr)",
        "enterprise": "Custom (volume-based credits)"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Community support",
        "pro": "Email support (Pro); priority support on Business",
        "enterprise": "Dedicated support + onboarding services"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free: 5 build credits/day capped at 30 per calendar month, plus a monthly grant of 20 Cloud credits and a monthly grant of 4 AI credits for AI features in deployed apps. No monthly subscription credits, no rollover, no top-ups.",
      "annualDiscountPct": "~17% (Pro 100 credits: $25/mo billed monthly vs $250/yr, about $21/mo)",
      "contractMinimums": "None",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: the free tier's Cloud and AI credit grants were added, the full credit expiry rules recorded (monthly two months, annual one month past the period, top-ups 12 months), and top-up rates and the annual discount are now sourced to Lovable's own docs."
    },
    {
      "id": "luma-ai",
      "addedAt": "2026-06-23",
      "name": "Luma AI (Dream Machine)",
      "categoryId": "ai-video",
      "revenueGenerationId": "subscription",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "tiered-subscription",
        "credit-based",
        "freemium"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "hard-cap",
      "valueMetricId": "credits",
      "growthStrategyId": "plg",
      "notes": "AI video, image and audio generation (Dream Machine). Credits are consumed per generation at published per-model rates. Luma Agents is not a separate plan: it is a usage multiplier inside the existing tiers, with Pro getting 4x usage and Ultra 15x. There is no free plan; Plus at $30/mo is the entry point.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Team members use the same team credit balance."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Luma AI Pricing",
          "url": "https://lumalabs.ai/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Luma Teams (Apr 1, 2026)",
          "url": "https://lumalabs.ai/news/luma-teams"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://lumalabs.ai",
        "foundingYear": 2021,
        "fundingStage": "Series C (Nov 2025)",
        "employeeCount": "~193",
        "marketPosition": "challenger"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "starter": "$30/mo (Plus; $300/yr - 10,000 credits/mo)",
        "pro": "$90/mo (Pro; $900/yr - 40,000 credits/mo)",
        "business": "$300/mo (Ultra; $3,000/yr - 150,000 credits/mo)",
        "enterprise": "Custom (Team & Enterprise)"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Help center",
        "pro": "Priority support",
        "enterprise": "Dedicated support"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "None - no free plan; Plus at $30/mo is the entry point",
      "contractMinimums": "None",
      "annualDiscountPct": "Vendor advertises up to 20%; computes to 16.7% at every published tier ($300 vs $360, $900 vs $1,080, $3,000 vs $3,600)",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: Luma publishes no free plan, so the previous free tier was removed and Plus recorded as the entry point. Annual pricing and per-tier credit allowances were added, and Luma Agents was corrected from a separate plan family to a usage multiplier inside the existing tiers."
    },
    {
      "id": "suno",
      "addedAt": "2026-06-23",
      "name": "Suno",
      "categoryId": "ai-voice",
      "revenueGenerationId": "subscription",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "tiered-subscription",
        "credit-based",
        "freemium"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "hard-cap",
      "valueMetricId": "credits",
      "growthStrategyId": "plg",
      "notes": "AI music and song generation platform. Free credits renew daily (non-commercial); paid plans include a commercial use license. No credit rollover; add-on credit packs are purchasable on Pro/Premier.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "creditRetentionDetails": "Free credits renew daily. Paid plan credits reset monthly with no rollover. Add-on credit packs purchasable on Pro/Premier.",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "per-seat"
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Suno Pricing",
          "url": "https://suno.com/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Suno ToS and download limits update (Aug 10, 2026)",
          "url": "https://suno.com/blog/suno-updates-tos"
        },
        {
          "label": "Suno download limits help article",
          "url": "https://help.suno.com/en/articles/13614785"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://suno.com",
        "foundingYear": 2022,
        "fundingStage": "Series C - ~$2.45B valuation (Nov 2025)",
        "employeeCount": "~200",
        "marketPosition": "leader"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0 (50 credits/day; ~10 songs; non-commercial)",
        "starter": "$10/mo monthly, $8/mo annual (Pro: 2,500 credits ~500 songs/mo)",
        "pro": "$30/mo monthly, $24/mo annual (Premier: 10,000 credits ~2,000 songs/mo)"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Help center",
        "pro": "Email support",
        "enterprise": "Dedicated support"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free: 50 credits/day (daily reset); ~10 songs/day; non-commercial use only; from Sept 3, 2026 capped at 7 lifetime trial downloads",
      "annualDiscountPct": "~20%",
      "contractMinimums": "None",
      "history": [
        {
          "date": "2026-08-10",
          "change": "Announced the end of unlimited downloads, effective Sept 3, 2026: Free goes to 7 lifetime trial downloads (non-commercial), Pro to 20/mo, Premier to 60/mo; Premier + Suno Studio stays unlimited. Unused downloads do not carry over and the caps apply retroactively to songs created before that date. Suno makes no statement about prices or credit allowances alongside this change, so none is recorded. The 7-download figure appears in the blog and help centre, not on the pricing page, which shows only \"no monthly song downloads\" for Free"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "xai",
      "addedAt": "2026-06-23",
      "name": "xAI (Grok API)",
      "categoryId": "ai-api",
      "revenueGenerationId": "consumption",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "usage-based",
        "freemium"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "soft-cap-overage",
      "valueMetricId": "tokens",
      "growthStrategyId": "api-first",
      "notes": "Elon Musk AI lab; current flagship is Grok 4.6. Text models are priced per million tokens with a separate discounted cached-input rate, and every rate doubles for prompts of 200k tokens or more: grok-4.6 $2.00 input / $0.50 cached / $6.00 output under 200k and $4.00 / $1.00 / $12.00 at or above 200k; grok-4.5 $2.00/$0.30/$6.00; grok-4.3 $1.25/$0.20/$2.50; grok-build-0.1 $1.00/$0.20/$2.00. Server-side tools are billed per 1,000 calls: web search $5, code execution $5, collections search $2.50, file attachments $10. Billing is prepaid credits with an invoiced-billing limit that defaults to $0, which rejects requests once credits are depleted; auto top-ups are available with a $25 minimum top-up.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "creditRetentionDetails": "Prepaid usage with no rollover. xAI does not publish an expiry rule for purchased prepaid credits.",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
        "capsDetails": "Customers set an invoiced-billing limit, which defaults to $0 and rejects API requests once prepaid credits are depleted.",
        "topUpsDetails": "Auto top-ups are available, with a $25 minimum top-up amount.",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Prepaid credits are purchased for and assigned to a team, and API consumption by the users in that team is deducted from that team balance."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "xAI API Pricing",
          "url": "https://docs.x.ai/developers/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "xAI Models",
          "url": "https://docs.x.ai/developers/models"
        },
        {
          "label": "xAI Console Billing",
          "url": "https://docs.x.ai/console/billing"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://x.ai",
        "foundingYear": 2023,
        "fundingStage": "Series E - ~$230B valuation (Jan 2026)",
        "employeeCount": "~5000",
        "marketPosition": "challenger"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "None (prepaid credits required)",
        "starter": "$2.00/M input, $0.50/M cached input, $6.00/M output (grok-4.6, prompts under 200k tokens); $4.00 / $1.00 / $12.00 per M at 200k tokens or more",
        "enterprise": "Custom"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Documentation",
        "pro": "Email support",
        "enterprise": "Dedicated support"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "None documented; prepaid credits must be purchased before API access",
      "contractMinimums": "None",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: the headline rate now reflects the current grok-4.6 flagship and records the cached-input rate and the doubled pricing at 200k-plus prompt tokens. A previously listed one-time $25 signup credit was removed as unsourced; $25 is xAI's minimum auto top-up amount. Source URLs moved off the legacy docs path. Updated August 30, 2026: pooling was left as Pooled and a sourced detail added, citing where the vendor documents sharing across team members."
    },
    {
      "id": "cerebras",
      "addedAt": "2026-06-23",
      "name": "Cerebras Inference",
      "categoryId": "ai-api",
      "revenueGenerationId": "consumption",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "usage-based",
        "freemium"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "soft-cap-overage",
      "valueMetricId": "tokens",
      "growthStrategyId": "api-first",
      "notes": "WSE-powered (wafer-scale engine) inference reaching over 2,000 tokens/sec. The public rate card lists exactly two models: GPT-OSS-120B at $0.35/$0.75 per M tokens and Gemma 4 31B at $0.99/$1.49. A GLM-4.7 rate of $2.25/$2.75 was previously recorded here and is removed: GLM appears only under Dedicated Endpoints, quoted on request with no published per-token price, so the figure could not be sourced to Cerebras at all. Speed advantage suits latency-sensitive agentic workflows. Verified first-party Aug 28, 2026.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "capped",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "not-established",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "The cited documentation describes organization members and billing but does not establish a shared credit balance.",
        "creditRetentionDetails": "The $5 free-trial credit expires 30 days after it is granted. Cerebras publishes no expiry for purchased pay-as-you-go credits."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Cerebras Pricing",
          "url": "https://www.cerebras.ai/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Cerebras Inference",
          "url": "https://www.cerebras.ai/inference"
        },
        {
          "label": "Cerebras Rate Limits & Free Trial",
          "url": "https://inference-docs.cerebras.ai/support/rate-limits"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://www.cerebras.ai",
        "foundingYear": 2016,
        "fundingStage": "Public (NASDAQ: CBRS) - IPO May 2026, ~$56B valuation",
        "employeeCount": "~708",
        "marketPosition": "challenger"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0 free trial only ($5 credits, 30-day expiry, verified payment method required; 1M tokens/day per model)",
        "starter": "$0.35/M input, $0.75/M output (GPT-OSS-120B); $0.99/$1.49 (Gemma 4 31B)",
        "enterprise": "Custom (volume discounts)"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Community",
        "pro": "Email support",
        "enterprise": "Dedicated support"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free Trial only, not a permanent free tier: $5 in credits that expire 30 days after they are granted, and only after adding a verified payment method (Playground and API stay inactive without one). Rate limits per model: 5 RPM, 30K TPM, 1M TPH, 1M TPD for both gpt-oss-120b and gemma-4-31b.",
      "contractMinimums": "None",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: the free trial is time- and credit-bounded rather than a permanent free tier: the $5 credit expires after 30 days and requires a verified payment method, so credit retention is capped rather than none."
    },
    {
      "id": "runware",
      "addedAt": "2026-06-23",
      "name": "Runware",
      "categoryId": "ai-api",
      "revenueGenerationId": "consumption",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "usage-based",
        "freemium"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "credit-pool",
      "valueMetricId": "images",
      "growthStrategyId": "api-first",
      "notes": "Multi-modal AI inference API offering image, video, audio, LLM, and 3D generation via a single endpoint. Image prices from $0.0006 (FLUX Schnell) to $0.24 for premium models. Video from $0.14/video (62% cheaper than competitors). $2 free credits for new users. $50M Series A raised December 2025.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "unlimited",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": false,
        "seatPooling": "not-established",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "The cited documentation describes an organization balance and shared keys but does not establish cross-user credit sharing.",
        "creditRetentionDetails": "Purchased prepaid account balance does not expire; this is wallet validity rather than recurring allowance rollover."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Runware Pricing",
          "url": "https://runware.ai/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Runware Docs: Pricing",
          "url": "https://runware.ai/docs/platform/pricing"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://runware.ai",
        "foundingYear": 2023,
        "fundingStage": "Series A - $50M (Dec 2025)",
        "employeeCount": "~25",
        "marketPosition": "niche"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$2 in free credits for new users",
        "starter": "From $0.0006/image (FLUX Schnell)",
        "enterprise": "Volume discounts"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Community",
        "pro": "Email support",
        "enterprise": "Dedicated support + volume pricing"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free: $2 in credits for new users",
      "contractMinimums": "None",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: prepaid balance depletion, manual top-up, and Auto-Reload are classified as a credit pool; purchased balance does not expire."
    },
    {
      "id": "hume-ai",
      "addedAt": "2026-06-23",
      "name": "Hume AI",
      "categoryId": "ai-voice",
      "revenueGenerationId": "subscription",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "tiered-subscription",
        "usage-based",
        "freemium"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "soft-cap-overage",
      "valueMetricId": "voice-minutes",
      "growthStrategyId": "api-first",
      "notes": "Empathic Voice Interface (EVI) that measures and responds to emotional cues in real-time voice calls. Free: 5 EVI minutes/mo. Paid-tier overage runs from $0.07/min down to $0.04/min depending on tier.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "creditRetentionDetails": "Included EVI minutes reset monthly. No rollover.",
        "topUps": false,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": false,
        "seatPooling": "per-seat"
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Hume AI Pricing",
          "url": "https://www.hume.ai/pricing"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://www.hume.ai",
        "foundingYear": 2022,
        "fundingStage": "Series B",
        "employeeCount": "~50",
        "marketPosition": "niche"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0 (5 EVI min/mo)",
        "starter": "$3/mo (Starter: 40 min, $0.07/min overage)",
        "pro": "$14/mo (Creator: 200 min, $0.07/min overage)",
        "business": "$70/mo (Pro: 1,200 min, $0.06/min) / $200/mo (Scale: 5,000 min, $0.05/min)",
        "enterprise": "$500/mo (Business, $0.04/min overage); Custom (Enterprise)"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Community",
        "pro": "Email support",
        "enterprise": "Dedicated support + custom SLAs"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free: 5 EVI minutes/mo; limited API calls",
      "contractMinimums": "None"
    },
    {
      "id": "vapi",
      "addedAt": "2026-06-23",
      "name": "Vapi",
      "categoryId": "ai-voice",
      "revenueGenerationId": "consumption",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "usage-based"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "credit-pool",
      "valueMetricId": "voice-minutes",
      "growthStrategyId": "api-first",
      "notes": "Developer platform for building AI voice agents. $0.05/min platform orchestration fee; effective total cost varies with the STT/LLM/TTS/telephony providers you choose. 10 concurrent call lines included. HIPAA compliance available as a $2K/mo add-on; Zero Data Retention is a separate $1K/mo add-on.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": false,
        "seatPooling": "not-established",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "The cited documentation describes organization funding but does not establish cross-user credit sharing."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Vapi Pricing",
          "url": "https://vapi.ai/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Vapi billing and credits",
          "url": "https://docs.vapi.ai/billing/manage-billing-and-credits"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://vapi.ai",
        "foundingYear": 2023,
        "fundingStage": "Seed",
        "employeeCount": "~50",
        "marketPosition": "niche"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "starter": "$0.05/min (platform fee only, excl. STT/LLM/TTS)",
        "enterprise": "Custom (volume discounts)"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Community",
        "pro": "Email support",
        "enterprise": "Dedicated support"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "No recurring free tier; $10 one-time signup credit (no credit card)",
      "contractMinimums": "None",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: purchased credits, Auto Reload, and insufficient-balance call blocking are classified as a prepaid credit pool."
    },
    {
      "id": "ideogram",
      "addedAt": "2026-06-23",
      "name": "Ideogram",
      "categoryId": "ai-design",
      "revenueGenerationId": "subscription",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "tiered-subscription",
        "credit-based",
        "freemium"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "hard-cap",
      "valueMetricId": "images",
      "growthStrategyId": "plg",
      "notes": "AI image generator known for strong text rendering in images. Free tier posts generations to a public gallery. API access is billed separately from subscription plans.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "capped",
        "creditRetentionDetails": "Unused top-up credits carry over month to month while the subscription is active, and expire a year from purchase.",
        "topUps": true,
        "topUpsDetails": "Top-up credit packs (Plus $4 = 150 credits, Pro $4 = 250 credits) that roll over month-to-month.",
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Team members share API credits and billing."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Ideogram Pricing",
          "url": "https://ideogram.ai/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Ideogram Plans Docs",
          "url": "https://docs.ideogram.ai/plans-and-pricing/available-plans"
        },
        {
          "label": "Ideogram team API setup",
          "url": "https://developer.ideogram.ai/ideogram-api/api-setup"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://ideogram.ai",
        "foundingYear": 2022,
        "fundingStage": "Series A - ~$80M raised (Feb 2024, led by a16z)",
        "employeeCount": "~50",
        "marketPosition": "challenger"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0 (limited slow credits; public gallery)",
        "starter": "$8/mo (Basic: 400 credits) / $20/mo (Plus: 1,000 priority credits)",
        "pro": "$60/mo (Pro: 3,500 priority credits)",
        "business": "$30/user/mo (Team: 1,500 credits/user)",
        "enterprise": "Custom"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Help center",
        "pro": "Email support",
        "enterprise": "Dedicated support"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free: limited slow credits; public gallery only",
      "annualDiscountPct": "Up to 33% (as stated on the pricing page; Plus computes to 25%, Pro to 30%)",
      "contractMinimums": "None",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: Ideogram's own cited plans doc states top-up credits expire a year from purchase, so credit retention is capped rather than carry with expiry not established."
    },
    {
      "id": "kiro",
      "addedAt": "2026-06-23",
      "name": "Kiro",
      "categoryId": "ai-coding",
      "revenueGenerationId": "subscription",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "tiered-subscription",
        "credit-based",
        "freemium"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "soft-cap-overage",
      "valueMetricId": "credits",
      "growthStrategyId": "plg",
      "notes": "Amazon's agentic IDE uses abstract credits that reset monthly. Self-serve paid users can buy prepaid add-on packs at $0.04 per credit; Enterprise admins can separately enable postpaid overages at the same rate. Purchased add-on credits roll over for up to 12 months.",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: all paid tiers are priced per user per month rather than flat.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "capped",
        "creditRetentionDetails": "Included credits reset monthly. Purchased add-on credits roll over and expire 12 months after purchase.",
        "topUps": true,
        "topUpsDetails": "Self-serve paid users can purchase prepaid add-on packs at $0.04 per credit.",
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "capsDetails": "Self-serve usage pauses when plan and add-on credits are exhausted. Enterprise overages are disabled by default and must be enabled by an admin.",
        "seatPooling": "per-seat"
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Kiro Pricing",
          "url": "https://kiro.dev/pricing/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Kiro Billing Docs",
          "url": "https://kiro.dev/docs/billing/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Kiro add-on credits",
          "url": "https://kiro.dev/docs/billing/add-on-credits/"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://kiro.dev",
        "foundingYear": 2025,
        "fundingStage": "Public (NASDAQ: AMZN)",
        "marketPosition": "challenger"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0 (50 credits/mo)",
        "starter": "$20/user/mo (Pro: 1,000 credits)",
        "pro": "$40/user/mo (Pro+: 2,000 credits)",
        "business": "$100/user/mo (Pro Max: 5,000 credits); $200/user/mo (Power: 10,000 credits)",
        "enterprise": "Custom"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Community + AWS Support",
        "pro": "AWS Support",
        "enterprise": "AWS Enterprise Support"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free: 50 credits/mo; first paid upgrade includes a one-time $20 subscription credit"
    },
    {
      "id": "lindy-ai",
      "addedAt": "2026-06-23",
      "name": "Lindy AI",
      "categoryId": "ai-agents",
      "revenueGenerationId": "subscription",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "tiered-subscription",
        "credit-based",
        "reverse-trial"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "soft-cap-overage",
      "valueMetricId": "credits",
      "growthStrategyId": "plg",
      "notes": "No-code AI agent builder with a shared workspace credit pool. Each seat contributes credits to the pool. The public pricing page describes pausing when the pool is empty; account documentation separately allows admins to buy one-time top-ups or enable optional postpaid overage at twice the plan credit rate.",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: Pro and Max are priced per user, not flat, which had understated cost for multi-seat teams. Per-tier credit allotments and the $10 per 1,000 top-up rate were added.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "unlimited",
        "creditRetentionDetails": "Monthly plan credits reset each billing cycle. Purchased top-up credits carry over and do not expire.",
        "topUps": true,
        "topUpsDetails": "Admins can buy top-ups at $10 per 1,000 credits, in 1,000-credit blocks; top-ups never draw down base plan credits. Overage, where enabled, bills at 2x the regular credit rate.",
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "capsDetails": "Admins can set per-teammate usage limits against the shared workspace pool.",
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "One shared workspace credit pool; every seat adds its tier's allotment, so a Plus seat adds 3,000 credits and a Pro seat 15,000."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Lindy Pricing",
          "url": "https://www.lindy.ai/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Lindy usage and overage documentation",
          "url": "https://docs.lindy.ai/account-billing/usage"
        },
        {
          "label": "Lindy top-up retention",
          "url": "https://docs.lindy.ai/pricing"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://www.lindy.ai",
        "foundingYear": 2023,
        "fundingStage": "Series A",
        "employeeCount": "~50",
        "marketPosition": "challenger"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "7-day free trial of Plus",
        "starter": "$29.99/user/mo (Plus, 3k credits/user/mo)",
        "pro": "$99.99/user/mo (Pro, 15k credits/user/mo)",
        "business": "$199.99/user/mo (Max, 35k credits/user/mo)",
        "enterprise": "Custom (contact sales)"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Community",
        "pro": "Priority support",
        "enterprise": "Dedicated support"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "7-day free trial of Plus; no perpetual free plan",
      "contractMinimums": "None"
    },
    {
      "id": "relevance-ai",
      "addedAt": "2026-06-23",
      "name": "Relevance AI",
      "categoryId": "ai-agents",
      "revenueGenerationId": "subscription",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "tiered-subscription",
        "usage-based",
        "freemium"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "credit-pool",
      "valueMetricId": "tasks",
      "growthStrategyId": "plg",
      "notes": "No-code AI workforce platform with a dual pricing metric: Actions (tool runs per agent step) plus Vendor Credits (LLM costs passed through at exact cost with no markup). Vendor Credits roll over indefinitely while subscribed, while plan Actions reset at each renewal. BYOK bypasses Vendor Credits entirely. The Business plan was sunset on 8 September 2025; Business customers moved to Team at their first renewal on or after 1 December 2025. Self-serve prices are no longer shown on relevanceai.com/pricing but remain published in Relevance's docs.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "capped",
        "creditRetentionDetails": "Vendor Credits roll over indefinitely while subscribed. Plan Actions reset to the plan default at each renewal; only purchased Action top-ups carry over.",
        "topUps": true,
        "topUpsDetails": "Action top-ups ($80/1,000 Actions) and Vendor Credit top-ups ($20/10,000 credits) available. BYOK supported on paid plans to bypass Vendor Credits entirely.",
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": false,
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Team plan includes 5 build users and 45 end users sharing a single credit pool."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Relevance AI Pricing (docs)",
          "url": "https://relevanceai.com/docs/get-started/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Relevance AI: new pricing and Business plan sunset",
          "url": "https://relevanceai.com/docs/admin/subscriptions/new-pricing"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://relevanceai.com",
        "foundingYear": 2020,
        "fundingStage": "Series B",
        "employeeCount": "~80",
        "marketPosition": "challenger"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0/mo (200 Actions/mo)",
        "starter": "$19/mo billed annually (Pro; $29/mo month-to-month), 30,000 Actions/yr",
        "pro": "$234/mo billed annually (Team; $349/mo month-to-month), 84,000 Actions/yr, 5 build + 45 end users",
        "enterprise": "Custom (SSO, RBAC, multi-region)"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Community",
        "pro": "Priority support",
        "enterprise": "Premier support + dedicated CSM"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free: 200 Actions/mo; 1000 Vendor Credits one-time on signup",
      "annualDiscountPct": "~33% (annual vs month-to-month)",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: relevanceai.com/pricing no longer lists self-serve prices, so sources were repointed to Relevance's docs, which still publish them. The Team rate is the annual-billing figure, with the month-to-month rate now stated, and the Business plan sunset was recorded."
    },
    {
      "id": "google-antigravity",
      "addedAt": "2026-07-01",
      "name": "Google Antigravity",
      "categoryId": "ai-coding",
      "revenueGenerationId": "subscription",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "tiered-subscription",
        "credit-based",
        "freemium"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "soft-cap-overage",
      "valueMetricId": "credits",
      "growthStrategyId": "plg",
      "notes": "Google's agentic coding IDE, launched November 18, 2025; Antigravity 2.0 plus the CLI and SDK shipped at Google I/O 2026 (May 19, 2026) alongside a new $100/mo AI Ultra tier and a cut of the top tier from $250 to $200. Offers multi-model access (Gemini, Claude, GPT) via desktop app, CLI, and SDK with parallel managed agents. AI credits serve as an overage mechanism after monthly plan quotas are exhausted.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "topUps": true,
        "topUpsDetails": "AI credits purchasable in bulk ($199 for 20,000 credits; ~$0.01 each). Used only as overage beyond monthly plan quota; not included in base subscription.",
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Quota is expressed as a per-user monthly amount but enforced on a rolling seven-day basis as a shared project-wide pool: the per-user monthly value divided by four, multiplied by the project's purchased licensed seats."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Google Antigravity Pricing",
          "url": "https://antigravity.google/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Google I/O 2026 Developer Highlights",
          "url": "https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/google-io-2026-developer-highlights/"
        },
        {
          "label": "TechCrunch: Google Antigravity 2.0 Launch",
          "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-launches-antigravity-2-0-with-an-updated-desktop-app-and-cli-tool-at-io-2026/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Google AI developer tools quotas (Aug 26, 2026)",
          "url": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini/enterprise/docs/quotas-and-overages"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://antigravity.google",
        "foundingYear": 2025,
        "fundingStage": "Public (NASDAQ: GOOG)",
        "employeeCount": "~180000 (Google)",
        "marketPosition": "challenger"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0 (rate-limited daily/weekly quotas; no credit card required)",
        "starter": "$20/mo (Pro)",
        "pro": "$100/mo (Google AI Ultra; ~5x Pro token limits)",
        "business": "$200/mo (Google AI Ultra; ~20x Pro token limits)",
        "enterprise": "Custom"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Help center",
        "pro": "Standard support",
        "enterprise": "Google Cloud support"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Free: Rate-limited access to all models; daily and weekly agent request ceilings apply; no credit card required",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: there is no tier named AI Ultra Max: Google names both the $100 and $200 tiers Google AI Ultra. The launch date was corrected to November 18, 2025, with Antigravity 2.0 shipping at Google I/O 2026, and the pooling rule restated as Google documents it."
    },
    {
      "id": "qodo",
      "addedAt": "2026-07-01",
      "name": "Qodo",
      "categoryId": "ai-coding",
      "revenueGenerationId": "subscription",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "tiered-subscription",
        "usage-based"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "soft-cap-overage",
      "valueMetricId": "credits",
      "growthStrategyId": "hybrid",
      "notes": "AI code review and verification platform (formerly CodiumAI) focused on multi-agent PR review, test generation, and governance. No permanent free tier - every workspace starts with a 14-day free trial with unlimited usage. Pro Team is $30/mo flat (not per-seat), monthly billing with no commitment, designed for up to 30 users. Credits are pooled at the workspace level at $0.012/credit, with credit packs of roughly 2,500 / 5,000 / 20,000 credits. Usage past included credits continues at the same per-credit rate against a customer-set monthly spending cap. Enterprise (30+ users) is custom-quoted on annual contracts. Raised $70M Series B in March 2026 ($120M total).",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Credits are shared at the workspace level with no per-user provisioning.",
        "topUpsDetails": "Customers add or switch credit packs at any time (roughly 2,500 / 5,000 / 20,000 credits) at $0.012 per credit."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Qodo Pricing",
          "url": "https://www.qodo.ai/pricing/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Qodo Subscription Plans Docs",
          "url": "https://docs.qodo.ai/subscription-plans"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://www.qodo.ai",
        "foundingYear": 2022,
        "fundingStage": "Series B - $120M total raised (March 2026)",
        "employeeCount": "~100",
        "marketPosition": "challenger"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "None (14-day free trial with unlimited usage)",
        "starter": "$30/mo flat, monthly billing, up to 30 users (Pro Team); credits at $0.012/credit",
        "enterprise": "Custom (30+ users, annual contract)"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Community",
        "pro": "Priority support",
        "enterprise": "Dedicated CSM + priority SLA"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "No free tier. 14-day free trial with unlimited reviews and unlimited credits, no credit card required.",
      "annualDiscountPct": "None on Pro Team (monthly billing, no commitment); Enterprise is negotiated on annual contracts",
      "contractMinimums": "Enterprise: 30+ users, annual contract",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: the permanent free tier is gone, Pro Team is a $30/mo flat usage-based plan rather than a per-seat one, and top-ups and pay-as-you-go are documented on Qodo's own pricing page and subscription docs."
    },
    {
      "id": "gorgias",
      "addedAt": "2026-07-21",
      "name": "Gorgias",
      "categoryId": "customer-support",
      "revenueGenerationId": "subscription",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "tiered-subscription",
        "usage-based",
        "outcome-based"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "soft-cap-overage",
      "valueMetricId": "outcomes",
      "growthStrategyId": "hybrid",
      "notes": "AI Agent is a paid add-on to Gorgias Helpdesk, so the required commercial relationship is classified as subscription. AI Agent is priced per resolved interaction rather than per seat or message: most plans are $0.90 per resolved interaction and Starter begins at $1. Plans include roughly 90 to 2,500+ automated interactions per month, with per-interaction overage that varies by tier and billing term. Gorgias states that human-agent seats are unlimited.",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: plan pricing and the revenue classification were aligned to the current Helpdesk plus AI Agent purchasing path; spending caps remain Not established.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "topUps": false,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": null,
        "capsDetails": "No customer-set spending cap is described in the cited pricing sources.",
        "seatPooling": "not-established",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "The cited outcome allowance is consumed by customer resolutions; cross-user sharing is not established."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Gorgias Pricing",
          "url": "https://www.gorgias.com/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Gorgias AI Agent pricing explanation",
          "url": "https://www.gorgias.com/blog/ai-agent-pricing"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://www.gorgias.com",
        "foundingYear": 2015,
        "fundingStage": "Series C",
        "employeeCount": "~500",
        "marketPosition": "challenger"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "starter": "AI Agent Starter: from $1 per resolved interaction",
        "pro": "Most AI Agent plans: $0.90 per resolved interaction",
        "business": "About 90 to 2,500+ included automated interactions/mo; tier-specific overage",
        "enterprise": "Custom interaction allowance and pricing"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "No free tier",
      "annualDiscountPct": "Annual pricing is lower; discount varies by plan",
      "contractMinimums": "None stated"
    },
    {
      "id": "workable",
      "addedAt": "2026-07-21",
      "name": "Workable",
      "categoryId": "ai-productivity",
      "revenueGenerationId": "subscription",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "tiered-subscription",
        "credit-based"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "credit-pool",
      "valueMetricId": "credits",
      "growthStrategyId": "hybrid",
      "notes": "No HR/recruiting category or value metric exists in our taxonomy; categorized under ai-productivity and seats (employee-count tier) as closest fit — actual billing basis is company employee-count band, not per-seat. Standard $299/mo ($3,588/yr): recruiting + HRIS. Premier $599/mo ($7,188/yr): adds texting, video interviews, assessments, referrals, performance module. Enterprise $719/mo ($8,628/yr, fixed-price named tier, not a custom contact-sales plan). Workable Agent (AI) sold separately as prepaid credit packs on any plan: 5,000 credits at $0.12 each ($600), 10,000 at $0.10 ($1,000), 50,000 at $0.095 ($4,750). Free Agent credits are an unresolved conflict between two of Workable's own pages, and are recorded as such rather than reconciled. The pricing page puts \"3,000 free AI credits\" directly under a \"Workable Agent\" heading on every paid plan; the Agent GA announcement says every paid Recruiting account \"starts with 1,000 free credits\", one credit per candidate the Agent processes. Same product, same unit, two numbers, and neither page mentions a second pool. The pricing page is the likelier current value, being continuously maintained where the GA post is fixed-date, but Workable has not reconciled them. An earlier version of this entry asserted these were two distinct pools; no vendor page supports that. Purchased credits expire 1 year from purchase.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "capped",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Search with AI credits are explicitly shared across all users on the account; Workable Agent credits are documented only as an account-level balance."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Workable Pricing",
          "url": "https://www.workable.com/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Workable Agent GA (1,000 Agent credits)",
          "url": "https://resources.workable.com/workable-agent-ga"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://www.workable.com",
        "foundingYear": 2012,
        "fundingStage": "Private (last raise 2018)",
        "employeeCount": "~400",
        "marketPosition": "challenger"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "starter": "$299/mo (Standard)",
        "pro": "$599/mo (Premier)",
        "enterprise": "$719/mo (Enterprise)"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "No free tier; free Workable Agent credits stated as 3,000 on the pricing page and 1,000 in the Agent GA post (unreconciled by the vendor); 1 credit = 1 candidate worked",
      "annualDiscountPct": "~20%",
      "contractMinimums": "None stated",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: a history entry claiming free Agent credits fell from 3,000 to 1,000 in July 2026 was removed: the only vendor-dated event is the Agent GA post of June 16, 2026, which states 1,000, while the continuously maintained pricing page states 3,000. The conflict is now recorded in the free-tier field rather than resolved into an unsupported change. Updated August 30, 2026: pooling was left as Pooled and a sourced detail added, citing where the vendor documents sharing across team members."
    },
    {
      "id": "meta-muse-spark",
      "addedAt": "2026-07-24",
      "name": "Meta Muse Spark API",
      "categoryId": "ai-api",
      "revenueGenerationId": "consumption",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "usage-based"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "soft-cap-overage",
      "valueMetricId": "tokens",
      "growthStrategyId": "api-first",
      "notes": "Meta launched Muse Spark 1.1 through the Meta Model API in public preview in July 2026, and the rate card now also lists Muse Spark 1.2. Rate card: Standard (muse-spark-1.1 and 1.2) at $1.25/M input, $4.25/M output and $0.15/M cached input; a Contributor tier (muse-spark-1.2-contributor) at $0.10/M input, $0.20/M output and $0.002/M cached input. Web search grounding is $2.50 per 1,000 search queries, and Muse Image is $0.01 per generated image. Current first-party pages establish token-based pay-as-you-go pricing but do not establish balance retention, prepaid top-ups, customer-set spending caps, or cross-user pooling.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "not-established",
        "topUps": null,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": null,
        "seatPooling": "not-established",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Current first-party Meta documentation does not establish cross-user sharing.",
        "creditRetentionDetails": "Current first-party Meta documentation does not establish whether any balance carries forward.",
        "capsDetails": "Current first-party Meta documentation does not establish a customer-set hard spending cap."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Meta: Introducing Muse Spark 1.1 (Jul 9, 2026)",
          "url": "https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-spark-meta-model-api/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Meta Model API pricing and rate limits",
          "url": "https://ai.developer.meta.com/docs/pricing-rate-limits/"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://ai.meta.com",
        "foundingYear": 2004,
        "fundingStage": "Public (NASDAQ: META)",
        "employeeCount": "~75000 (Meta)",
        "marketPosition": "challenger"
      },
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: Meta's published rate card was added, including the Contributor tier and web search grounding. foundingYear was corrected to Meta Platforms' 2004 rather than the product's launch year, and a cited billing page that supported no claim in the row was removed.",
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "None (paid API only)",
        "starter": "$0.10/M input, $0.20/M output, $0.002/M cached input (muse-spark-1.2-contributor)",
        "pro": "$1.25/M input, $4.25/M output, $0.15/M cached input (muse-spark-1.1 / 1.2, Standard)",
        "enterprise": "Custom"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "macroscope",
      "addedAt": "2026-07-24",
      "name": "Macroscope",
      "categoryId": "ai-coding",
      "revenueGenerationId": "consumption",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "usage-based",
        "credit-based"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "credit-pool",
      "valueMetricId": "credits",
      "growthStrategyId": "plg",
      "notes": "AI code review and PR-agent tool for GitHub. Three usage-based lanes draw from one prepaid workspace balance: Agent runs (1 credit = $0.01; credit cost is raw LLM cost x 1.05 markup, divided by $0.01), Code Review, and Status ($0.05/commit processed). Code Review is priced per KB of diff by detection mode: Budget $0.025/KB, Balanced (default) $0.05/KB, Precise $0.06/KB, Ultra $0.20/KB, all with a 10 KB minimum charge per review, so the per-review floor is $0.25 on Budget, $0.50 on Balanced, $0.60 on Precise and $2.00 on Ultra. Precise is temporarily discounted to $0.05/KB until September 25, 2026. New workspaces get $100 in one-time free usage; Agent additionally includes 1,000 free credits/mo that do not roll over. Hard, non-overridable monthly spend limit plus configurable per-review ($10 default) and per-PR ($50 default) caps; the prepaid balance itself does not expire.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "unlimited",
        "creditRetentionDetails": "Split retention: the purchased/prepaid workspace balance never expires (Macroscope's docs answer \"Does my balance expire?\" with \"No\"), while the monthly 1,000 free Agent credits do not roll over. Recorded as unlimited because it describes the credits a customer actually buys; the free monthly grant is the exception.",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "capsDetails": "Hard monthly spend limit (non-overridable) plus default $10 per-review and $50 per-PR caps.",
        "seatPooling": "pooled",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Single workspace balance shared across Agent, Code Review, and Status features."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Macroscope Pricing",
          "url": "https://docs.macroscope.com/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Macroscope: AI Agent Pricing — $0.01 Per Credit, Usage-Based",
          "url": "https://macroscope.com/blog/agent-pricing-update"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://macroscope.com",
        "foundingYear": 2023,
        "fundingStage": "Series A - $40M total raised",
        "employeeCount": "~20",
        "marketPosition": "niche"
      },
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: Code Review is priced by detection mode rather than at a single rate, so all four modes and their per-review minimums are now recorded."
    },
    {
      "id": "moonshot-ai",
      "addedAt": "2026-08-01",
      "name": "Moonshot AI (Kimi)",
      "categoryId": "ai-api",
      "revenueGenerationId": "consumption",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "usage-based",
        "freemium",
        "credit-based"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "credit-pool",
      "valueMetricId": "tokens",
      "growthStrategyId": "api-first",
      "notes": "Beijing-based lab behind the Kimi chatbot and open-weight model family; released the 2.8T-parameter Kimi K3 in July 2026 with a 1.05M-token context window, sparking comparisons to frontier US models. K3 API: $3/M input on a cache miss, $0.30/M on a cache hit, $15/M output, verified first-party Aug 28, 2026 (the docs moved from platform.moonshot.ai to platform.kimi.ai). The CNY rate card is a separate schedule rather than a conversion: hit 2 yuan, miss 20 yuan, output 100 yuan per M tokens. Kimi consumer chat app and the Kimi Code CLI (open-source coding agent) are free; only API usage is billed.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "not-established",
        "creditRetentionDetails": "Purchased-balance expiration was not established by evidence effective on August 29, 2026; later-effective no-expiry terms are not backdated.",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": true,
        "seatPooling": "not-established",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "The cited pricing sources do not establish cross-user credit sharing.",
        "topUpsDetails": "Users and organizations can add funds to the Kimi platform balance.",
        "capsDetails": "Organization projects can set daily and monthly spending budgets that reject requests when reached."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Kimi Platform Pricing Docs",
          "url": "https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Kimi K3 pricing",
          "url": "https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/chat-k3"
        },
        {
          "label": "Kimi account and payments",
          "url": "https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/guide/account-and-payments"
        },
        {
          "label": "Kimi API balance",
          "url": "https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/api/balance"
        },
        {
          "label": "Kimi organization best practices",
          "url": "https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/guide/org-best-practice"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://www.moonshot.ai",
        "foundingYear": 2023,
        "fundingStage": "Late-stage - ~$3.77B total raised; ~$20B valuation (May 2026 round led by Meituan)",
        "marketPosition": "challenger"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "$0 (Kimi consumer chat app; Kimi Code CLI, open-source)",
        "starter": "Usage-based (Kimi K3: $3/M input cache miss, $0.30/M cache hit, $15/M output)",
        "enterprise": "Custom (volume/enterprise agreements)"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Documentation + community",
        "enterprise": "Custom support agreements"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "Kimi chat app: free, unlimited for individual use; Kimi Code CLI: free and open-source; no published free API token grant",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: the funded balance is classified as a prepaid credit pool; top-ups and project budgets are documented, while retention remains Not established for this date."
    },
    {
      "id": "retell-ai",
      "addedAt": "2026-08-01",
      "name": "Retell AI",
      "categoryId": "ai-voice",
      "revenueGenerationId": "consumption",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "usage-based"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "credit-pool",
      "valueMetricId": "voice-minutes",
      "growthStrategyId": "api-first",
      "notes": "Pure usage pricing with no mandatory platform subscription: voice agents are $0.07-$0.31 per minute and chat agents start at $0.002 per message. Newer workspaces use prepaid credits; legacy workspaces are billed after use. Credit-based workspaces can buy credits or enable auto recharge, and new calls stop at a zero balance. New accounts receive $10 in trial credits and 20 concurrent calls.",
      "correctionNote": "Updated August 29, 2026: credit retention and prepaid-balance mechanics were verified; zero-balance exhaustion is not classified as a spending cap.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "unlimited",
        "creditRetentionDetails": "Purchased credits never expire, though they are non-refundable. This describes prepaid-balance validity rather than monthly allowance rollover.",
        "topUps": true,
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": null,
        "capsDetails": "Stopping at a zero prepaid balance is credit-pool exhaustion, not a separately customer-set spending cap.",
        "seatPooling": "not-established",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "The cited documentation describes workspace billing but does not establish cross-user credit sharing."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Retell AI Pricing",
          "url": "https://www.retellai.com/pricing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Retell billing and prepaid credits",
          "url": "https://docs.retellai.com/accounts/billing"
        },
        {
          "label": "Retell concurrency limits",
          "url": "https://docs.retellai.com/deploy/concurrency"
        },
        {
          "label": "Retell workspace access control",
          "url": "https://docs.retellai.com/accounts/access-control"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://www.retellai.com",
        "foundingYear": 2023,
        "fundingStage": "Seed - ~$14M total raised (Y Combinator, Alt Capital)",
        "employeeCount": "~140",
        "marketPosition": "niche"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "free": "No perpetual free tier ($10 signup credit)",
        "starter": "$0.07-$0.31/min pay-as-you-go (varies by LLM/TTS/telephony stack)",
        "enterprise": "Custom pricing (no published minimum)"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "free": "Community",
        "enterprise": "Dedicated support + private Slack channel"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "No perpetual free tier; $10 signup credit and 20 free concurrent call lines",
      "contractMinimums": "None for pay-as-you-go; Enterprise custom, no published minimum"
    },
    {
      "id": "zendesk",
      "addedAt": "2026-08-27",
      "name": "Zendesk",
      "categoryId": "customer-support",
      "revenueGenerationId": "seat-expansion",
      "pricingStructureIds": [
        "seat-based",
        "outcome-based"
      ],
      "overageStrategyId": "soft-cap-overage",
      "valueMetricId": "outcomes",
      "growthStrategyId": "sales-led",
      "notes": "Per-agent seats plus outcome-based AI billing: AI agents are billed per \"automated resolution\" — a request the agent resolves with no human intervention, counted after a quiet period that differs by channel: 72 hours after the last email, 2 hours by default for messaging (configurable up to 72), and immediately on hangup for voice. Zendesk publishes $1.50 per automated resolution as its example rate, though that figure appears in its blog rather than on the pricing page, and its docs describe a newer resolution-tier model where a prepaid \"resolution allowance\" pool funds resolutions at tiered rates. Treat $1.50 as indicative, not a universal list price.",
      "mechanics": {
        "creditRetention": "none",
        "topUps": true,
        "topUpsDetails": "Resolution allowance is a prepaid account-level pool that funds automated resolutions beyond the included allowance.",
        "payGo": true,
        "caps": false,
        "seatPooling": "not-established",
        "seatPoolingDetails": "Agent seat count sizes the included automated resolution allowance and the balance is held at account level, but the vendor does not establish teammate sharing of an allowance under the Finder pooling definition."
      },
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "Zendesk Pricing",
          "url": "https://www.zendesk.com/pricing/"
        },
        {
          "label": "Zendesk on outcome-based pricing ($1.50/automated resolution)",
          "url": "https://www.zendesk.com/blog/ai/agentic-ai/outcome-based-pricing/"
        },
        {
          "label": "About automated resolutions (per-channel quiet periods)",
          "url": "https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/5352026794010-About-automated-resolutions-for-AI-agents"
        },
        {
          "label": "About automated resolution tiers",
          "url": "https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/9570369117338-About-automated-resolution-tiers"
        }
      ],
      "meta": {
        "website": "https://www.zendesk.com",
        "foundingYear": 2007,
        "fundingStage": "Private (Hellman & Friedman / Permira, 2022)",
        "employeeCount": "~6000",
        "marketPosition": "leader"
      },
      "pricingTiers": {
        "starter": "$19/agent/mo annual (Support Team)",
        "pro": "$55/agent/mo annual (Suite Team)",
        "business": "$115/agent/mo annual (Suite Professional)",
        "enterprise": "Custom (Suite Enterprise + Copilot); AI agents ~$1.50 per automated resolution"
      },
      "supportTiers": {
        "pro": "Standard support",
        "enterprise": "Advanced security, governance, and approval workflows"
      },
      "freeTierLimits": "14-day free trial (Suite Professional, Copilot included); no free tier",
      "annualDiscountPct": "Annual billing discounted vs monthly; percentage not published",
      "contractMinimums": "Month-to-month, annual, or multi-year available",
      "correctionNote": " Updated August 30, 2026: pooling was reclassified to Not established because the vendor documents organization- or workspace-level metering rather than a credit or usage allowance shared across team members."
    }
  ]
}