Pricing activity

Pricing activity is a running log of the material changes we track across the Blueprint — price moves, packaging and plan changes, and product launches. Newest first, each linked to the company it affects.

Updated

August 2026

  • Deprecation
    Unbabel

    Widn.ai decommissioned, replaced by GlobalLink Now

    Unbabel's self-serve AI-translation product Widn.ai is scheduled to be decommissioned on 2026-08-27 and replaced by TransPerfect's GlobalLink Now. Widn.ai was Unbabel's only public price ladder (Free / $19 / $90 / Custom); its retirement returns the company to a fully sales-gated posture under the GlobalLink brand following the August 2025 TransPerfect acquisition.

June 2026

  • Packaging
    Sourcegraph Cody

    Sourcegraph retires standalone Cody plans into one Enterprise platform

    sourcegraph.com/pricing now shows a single Enterprise plan starting at 6K with seat-scaled, org-wide pooled AI credits. The self-serve Cody consumer tiers are gone, and the standalone agentic successor Amp was spun out to ampcode.com with separate billing.

  • Deprecation
    Phind

    Phind pricing page returns DEPLOYMENT_NOT_FOUND

    Phind shut down its AI developer search service on 2026-01-16 (data deleted 2026-01-30, prorated Pro refunds) — roughly six weeks after a ~$10.4M raise (Bessemer + YC, reported 2025-12-03). As of 2026-06-08 phind.com/plans returns a Vercel 404 DEPLOYMENT_NOT_FOUND. Final plan prices are third-party indicative (Free $0; Pro ~$20/mo; Business ~$40/user/mo) because the app rendered prices from a runtime API web archives never captured.

  • Packaging
    Clipdrop

    Clipdrop API pricing de-listed, folded into Jasper contact form

    Clipdrop's developer API pricing page (clipdrop.co/apis/pricing) no longer publishes per-call or credit rates. It now renders a Jasper Contact-us form to request additional credits or migrate to Jasper's API services, reflecting Jasper's ownership of the product. Consumer Free and flat-fee Pro tiers remain self-serve on clipdrop.co/pricing.

  • Price change
    Oxylabs

    Oxylabs runs 40% off Web Unblocker for six months (code WU40)

    Oxylabs is discounting Web Unblocker by 40% for six months via coupon code WU40 at checkout, cutting the entry Micro plan from .40/GB (5/mo) to .64/GB (5/mo) and applying across all Regular and Enterprise Web Unblocker tiers.

  • Packaging
    ScraperAPI

    ScraperAPI acquires Traject Data, folding SERP and e-commerce APIs into its credit economy

    ScraperAPI acquired Traject Data, bringing dedicated SERP and e-commerce data APIs into its product line and extending the same API-credit metering across structured search-results and marketplace data.

  • Packaging
    WellSaid Labs

    WellSaid Labs migrates canonical domain to wellsaid.io

    WellSaid Labs moved its canonical domain and pricing surface from wellsaidlabs.com to wellsaid.io (the old domain 301-redirects). The live plan lineup on /ai-voice-pricing is Trial (free 7-day) / Creative ($50/mo/user annual, $55 monthly) / Business ($160/mo/user) / Enterprise (custom), each with a fixed annual download quota.

  • Packaging
    Murf AI

    Creator/Business rebrand; Murf API and Murf Dub launch

    Murf renames its Studio plans to Creator and Business and ships the Murf API and Murf Dub as separate usage-billed products.

  • Price change
    You.com

    Research Lite raised to $12; Finance Research API launches

    You.com raises Research Lite to $12 per 1k and ships a dedicated Finance Research API, extending its 2026 API repricing.

May 2026

  • Packaging
    Ideogram

    New plan grid: Free / Plus $15 / Pro $42 / Team $20 per user

    Ideogram sets a four-tier subscription grid plus a per-image pay-as-you-go API from $0.025.

  • Price change
    Synthesia

    Plans cut ~34% — entry tier now $14/mo

    Synthesia lowers prices across its lineup, with self-serve plans now starting at $14/mo.

  • Launch
    Anthropic

    Claude 4.x lineup lands with a $200 Max plan

    Anthropic refreshes Claude.ai with the Claude 4.x family and adds a $200/mo Max tier above Pro.

  • Launch
    Cerebras

    Cerebras Code subscriptions launch; rate card narrows

    Cerebras introduces fixed-price Cerebras Code coding subscriptions alongside a tightened public inference rate card.

  • Packaging
    HeyGen

    Cutover to a unified credit-based model

    HeyGen moves every plan onto a single credit currency spanning avatars, dubbing and video.

  • Packaging
    Character.ai

    Legacy chat styles move behind the c.ai+ paywall

    Character.ai removes legacy chat styles for free users and soft-launches them behind its c.ai+ subscription.

  • Price change
    ElevenLabs

    Conversational AI (Agents) price cut

    ElevenLabs cuts Conversational AI pricing again as it leans further into pay-as-you-go agent usage.

  • Packaging
    HeyGen

    Generative Credits renamed Premium Credits; dubbing made unlimited

    HeyGen renames its core credit and makes audio dubbing unlimited ahead of the credit-model cutover.

  • Packaging
    Mistral AI

    Le Chat rebrands to Vibe; $5.99 student plan added

    Mistral renames Le Chat to Vibe, repositioning it as a work-and-code agent, and introduces a $5.99/mo student plan.

  • Launch
    OpenAI

    GPT-5.x flagship line goes live

    OpenAI ships the GPT-5 family — GPT-5.5 at $5/$30 and GPT-5.4 at $2.50/$15 per 1M tokens — its biggest API reset since GPT-4o.

April 2026

  • Funding
    Galileo

    Cisco announces intent to acquire Galileo

    Cisco announced its intent to acquire AI-observability and evals platform Galileo on 2026-04-09 to extend Splunk Observability Cloud; the deal closed 2026-05-22 and galileo.ai now carries a now part of CISCO lockup. Terms undisclosed.

  • Price change
    Exa

    Endpoint cards redesigned; base Search raised to $7/1k

    Exa restructures pricing into per-endpoint cards and raises base Search to $7 per 1,000 results.

  • Launch
    Google

    Gemini 3 family launches with regional pricing

    Google releases the Gemini 3 model family and introduces region-based token pricing.

  • Packaging
    Windsurf

    Windsurf kills Cascade credits for daily/weekly quotas; Pro $15→$20, Max $200 added

    Windsurf (now Cognition) replaced its prompt-credit system with a usage allowance that refreshes daily and weekly, raised Pro from $15 to $20/mo, added a $200/mo Max tier, and moved overage to raw model API pricing. Wayback snapshots show credits live on 2026-03-08 and the quota model live by 2026-04-01; the no-rollover change drew a 33% price-hike backlash on Reddit. The surface has since folded into Devin Desktop, with windsurf.com/pricing 308-redirecting to devin.ai/pricing following Cognition's July 2025 acquisition.

  • Price change
    You.com

    Major price cuts — Search to $5, Contents to $1

    You.com slashes API prices, dropping Search to $5/1k and Contents to $1/1k, and retitles its pricing page.

March 2026

  • Deprecation
    Clockwise

    Clockwise wound down after Salesforce acqui-hire

    Salesforce hired the Clockwise team into its Agentforce division (announced 2026-03-20), explicitly stating it was not acquiring the product or technology. The AI calendar-optimization product becomes unavailable on 2026-03-27; prepaid subscriptions are refunded prorated and all user data is deleted with no transfer to Salesforce. Clockwise endorses Reclaim.ai (100% price-match guarantee) as the migration path.

  • Packaging
    Perplexity AI

    Comet browser goes free; Comet Plus add-on at $5/mo

    Perplexity makes its Comet browser free and introduces a $5/mo Comet Plus add-on.

  • Funding
    m3ter

    m3ter takes strategic investment from Salesforce

    m3ter announced a strategic partnership with and investment from Salesforce on 2026-03-04 (BusinessWire / m3ter blog, London dateline). Salesforce selected m3ter as an advanced metering and rating partner for Revenue Cloud Advanced (RCA), Revenue Cloud Billing (RCB), Agentforce Sales, and CPQ, so Agentforce Revenue Management customers can run high-scale rating, mediation, and usage-pricing models. The investment amount and round were not disclosed. This is NOT an acquisition: m3ter remains an independent company (M3ter Holdings Limited), keeping its own brand, roadmap, and gated four-component pricing.

February 2026

  • Packaging
    Modal

    AWS and GCP Marketplace billing for enterprise

    Modal adds AWS and GCP Marketplace billing so enterprises can pay through existing cloud commitments.

  • Funding
    Rows

    Superhuman acquires Rows; rows.com to wind down

    Superhuman (the renamed Grammarly) acquired AI-spreadsheet company Rows on 2026-02-22. Unlike a price-preserving acquisition, this is a product sunset: rows.com fully winds down on 2026-05-31 after 9 years and 2.2M users, the team folds into Coda, and the pricing page now routes users to 'Continue with Coda.' Superhuman Terms apply from 2026-06-16.

  • Price change
    Baseten

    Cached-input pricing comes to Model APIs

    Baseten adds discounted cached-input pricing to its multi-tenant Model APIs.

  • Price change
    RunPod

    Idle vs running volume-disk differential pricing

    RunPod begins charging different rates for idle versus running network-volume storage.

  • Funding
    Tavily

    Nebius agrees to acquire Tavily

    Nebius agreed to acquire AI-search-API startup Tavily for a reported ~$275M (up to $400M on milestones). Tavily's public credit-based API pricing (Researcher free, $0.008/credit pay-as-you-go, $30/mo Project) was unchanged through the announcement — the deal is a distribution/infra bet, not a repricing. Founder Rotem Weiss joins Nebius.

  • Launch
    Cartesia

    Voice Agents reach GA with flat per-minute pricing

    Cartesia takes Voice Agents to general availability on a flat per-minute rate.

  • Packaging
    Fireworks AI

    Embeddings priced by parameter size

    Fireworks introduces parameter-size-based pricing for its embeddings models.

  • Packaging
    Cursor (Anysphere)

    Six-plan structure formalized

    Cursor settles into a six-plan lineup following its 2025 credit-pool transition.

  • Launch
    Recraft

    Recraft V4 launches; video generation enters the lineup

    Recraft ships V4 and adds video generation across its credit tiers.

January 2026

  • Launch
    Groq

    Built-in tools pricing: web search, visits, code execution

    Groq adds per-use pricing for built-in agent tools — web search, page visits and code execution.

  • Packaging
    Perplexity AI

    Two-tier enterprise: Enterprise Pro + Enterprise Max

    Perplexity splits its enterprise offering into Enterprise Pro and Enterprise Max tiers.

  • Launch
    Together AI

    Specialized model fine-tuning tier launches

    Together AI adds a dedicated fine-tuning tier for specialized models.

  • Funding
    Metronome

    Metronome acquired by Stripe

    Stripe completed its acquisition of usage-based billing infrastructure company Metronome on 2026-01-14 (announced 2025-12-02), positioning Metronome as Stripe's metering-and-monetization-infrastructure layer. Deal terms were not officially disclosed; trade press reported ~$1B (unconfirmed). Metronome continues to operate its own free Starter and sales-quoted Custom plans.

  • Price change
    Codeium

    Windsurf Pro repriced to $15/mo; credit pool expanded

    Codeium lowers Windsurf Pro to $15/mo and expands the agentic credit pool after the OpenAI acquisition.

  • Packaging
    Perplexity AI

    API restructured into Search API + Agentic Research

    Perplexity reorganizes its developer API around a Search API and a new Agentic Research tier.

December 2025

  • Other
    SerpApi

    Google sues SerpApi over search scraping

    Google filed suit against SerpApi over scraping of its search results — a notable trust/regulatory event for the search-API category. SerpApi bundles a U.S. Legal Shield (up to $2M coverage) on Production+ plans, a differentiator the suit puts in the spotlight.

October 2025

  • Funding
    Jina AI

    Elastic completes acquisition of Jina AI

    Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) completed its acquisition of Jina AI; founder Han Xiao became Elastic VP of AI. Jina's standalone search-foundation APIs (Embeddings, Reranker, Reader, DeepSearch) and their token-credit pricing continue to operate independently post-deal.

  • Packaging
    Galileo

    Galileo adds a $100/mo Pro tier and drops the 3-user free cap

    Galileo repackaged pricing from two tiers (Developer $0 with up to 3 users / custom Enterprise) to three (Free $0, Pro $100/mo for 50,000 traces, custom Enterprise). The free tier moved from a 3-user cap to unlimited users; the change is visible between the 2025-09 and 2025-10 Wayback snapshots of galileo.ai/pricing.

September 2025

  • Funding
    OpenPipe

    CoreWeave acquires OpenPipe

    CoreWeave (NASDAQ: CRWV) announced a definitive agreement to acquire fine-tuning/RL platform OpenPipe (terms undisclosed), citing its open-source ART (Agent Reinforcement Trainer) toolkit. OpenPipe's per-token training and inference rate card was unchanged post-acquisition.

  • Packaging
    OpenMeter

    Kong acquires OpenMeter; OpenMeter Cloud becomes Kong Metering & Billing

    On 2025-09-03 Kong Inc. announced its acquisition of OpenMeter (YC W23); co-founders Peter Marton and András Tóth joined Kong. OpenMeter Cloud was rebranded to Kong (Konnect) Metering & Billing and, by early 2026, the openmeter.io/pricing page was reduced to a migration announcement with no plan grid or public prices. The free Apache-2.0 self-hosted edition remains. Sources: konghq.com/blog/news/kong-acquires-openmeter and openmeter.io/blog/openmeter-is-joining-kong (both 2025-09-03).

August 2025

  • Packaging
    Make

    Make renames its billing unit from operations to credits

    Make rebranded its core usage metric from 'operations' to 'credits'. For non-AI apps 1 operation still equals 1 credit, but AI apps now consume credits dynamically based on tokens, file size, pages, or run time. Make states existing plans and pricing remained unchanged.

July 2025

  • Funding
    Windsurf

    Cognition acquires Windsurf after OpenAI deal collapses and Google acquihires founders

    Windsurf's ownership split three ways in one week: OpenAI's reported $3B acquisition collapsed on 2025-07-11, Google paid ~$2.4B to hire founders Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen into DeepMind the same day, and on 2025-07-14 Cognition (maker of Devin) acquired the remaining company — product, brand, IP, ~$82M ARR, 350+ enterprise customers and a ~250-person team. Pricing was unchanged short-term; Windsurf has since been folded into Devin Desktop.

March 2025

  • Funding
    11x

    TechCrunch reports 11x claimed customers it doesn't have and inflated ARR

    TechCrunch reported that a16z- and Benchmark-backed 11x displayed logos of companies that said they were not customers (ZoomInfo and Airtable both denied being customers; ZoomInfo threatened legal action over the unauthorized logo) and counted full annual contract value as ARR even for customers who exercised a ~90-day break clause — so a stated ~$14M ARR may have reflected only ~$3M of contracts that cleared the trial. An employee cited 70-80% churn of inbound customers; 11x said retention was 79%. Founder-CEO Hasan Sukkar stepped down six weeks later (May 2025); CTO Prabhav Jain became CEO.

February 2025

  • Funding
    Voyage AI

    MongoDB acquires Voyage AI

    MongoDB acquired embeddings/reranker company Voyage AI for ~$220M. Voyage's standalone per-token API and 200M free-token allowance were preserved post-acquisition; MongoDB Atlas became an additional distribution path rather than a forced migration.

April 2024

  • Funding
    Togai

    Zuora to acquire Togai

    Zuora announces a definitive agreement to acquire usage-based metering and rating startup Togai, extending its monetization suite; deal expected to close May 2024, terms undisclosed.

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