Material pricing changes across AI companies — price moves, packaging and plan changes, product launches, funding, and deprecations. Tracked in the UsagePricing Blueprint.https://usagepricing.com/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/2026-08-27-unbabel-widn-ai-decommissioning/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/2026-08-27-unbabel-widn-ai-decommissioning/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.Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTDeprecationUnbabelhttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/aisdr-2026-06-20-contact-metering/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/aisdr-2026-06-20-contact-metering/AiSDR moved from credit-and-message tiers to AI-researched-contacts metering (Solo $250 / Explore $900 / Scale $2,500) and added a new $250 month-to-month entry plan.Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTPackagingAiSDRhttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/canva-2026-06-20-leonardo-trial/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/canva-2026-06-20-leonardo-trial/Canva now excludes Leonardo.Ai Essential features during a Canva Business free trial; the bundled access enables only once the trial converts to a paid subscription.Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTPackagingCanvahttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/docket-2026-06-20-traffic-pricing/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/docket-2026-06-20-traffic-pricing/Docket prices its AI marketing agent by monthly website visitors: Growth from $3K/mo, Scale from $4K/mo, Enterprise custom — all-inclusive, with no seat fees or conversation caps.Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTPackagingDockethttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/langfuse-2026-06-17-stack/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/langfuse-2026-06-17-stack/Langfuse's Stripe case study discloses that it started with an internal billing system based on a simple per-event flat rate, then migrated to Stripe Billing (usage-based), Stripe Checkout, and Stripe Tax for the rails. It keeps the metering in-house: it posts hourly event counts from its own ClickHouse/OLAP data store to Stripe's metered-usage API, handling up to 200M events/month per account — the operational mirror of its "unit = trace + observation + score" price metric. A "Senior Backend Engineer (IAM and Billing)" req (open in the 2026-04-17 ATS snapshot, since closed) staffed that billing platform; growth analytics run on a bought PostHog/BigQuery/dbt/Metabase stack.Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTUpdateLangfusehttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/pinecone-2026-06-17-stack/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/pinecone-2026-06-17-stack/Pinecone's original billing system was built in-house but didn't support multi-product billing or complex metering — the team still calculated some invoices manually. When it launched serverless (read units / write units / storage), Pinecone adopted Orb as the system of record for all usage and billing data, enabling add-ons, discounts, custom plans, and version-controlled pricing without engineering bottlenecks. The RU/WU metering layer remains in-house; Orb handles invoicing and plan management.Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTPackagingPineconehttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/anthropic-2026-06-16-stack/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/anthropic-2026-06-16-stack/Anthropic job posts disclose a homegrown ledger application as the center of its finance systems, with a Finance Systems Engineer req stating the team is "moving beyond configuring off-the-shelf platforms and into building homegrown, production-grade financial applications that no vendor has built for us yet." It still buys the surrounding stack — Salesforce + Salesforce CPQ (CRM/quote-to-cash), Zuora and Stripe (billing/payments), Metronome (usage metering), NetSuite (ASC 606 rev-rec), and Tesorio (AR automation) — and is staffing a dedicated Billing Platform engineering team (~9 open billing-eng roles).Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTUpdateAnthropichttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/cursor-2026-06-16-hiring/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/cursor-2026-06-16-hiring/Open roles — a dedicated Billing engineer building the usage-metering pipeline (raw events → invoiced amounts in Stripe), a Senior Staff Finance Systems engineer, and ~10 RevOps roles — show Cursor building the meter behind its seat-plus-usage pricing while buying payments.Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTUpdateCursor (Anysphere)https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/openai-2026-06-16-stack/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/openai-2026-06-16-stack/Its 'Beyond rate limits' engineering post describes a home-grown engine fusing rate limits, real-time usage tracking, and prepaid credit balances — the spend-control layer most companies buy — alongside a dedicated Financial Engineering hiring push.Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTUpdateOpenAIhttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/anthropic-2026-06-15-launch/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/anthropic-2026-06-15-launch/Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 (GA June 9, 2026) and Claude Mythos 5 (limited availability via Project Glasswing) at $10/$50 per 1M tokens — a new top API band above Opus 4.8, double its $5/$25 rate, with a 1M context window.Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTLaunchAnthropichttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/anthropic-2026-06-15-packaging/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/anthropic-2026-06-15-packaging/Anthropic added a research-preview Fast mode premium-speed SKU on the Opus tier (Opus 4.8 $10/$50; Opus 4.6/4.7 $30/$150) and Claude Managed Agents, which bills $0.08 per session-hour of runtime as a second meter on top of standard token rates.Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTPackagingAnthropichttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/ideogram-2026-06-15-launch/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/ideogram-2026-06-15-launch/Ideogram's API now lists an Ideogram 4.0 model tier ($0.03 Turbo / $0.06 Default / $0.10 Quality per image, plus 4.0 Custom inference at $0.06–$0.20), alongside new Generate-with-Gemini, Instructional Edit, Topaz Upscale and Layerize endpoints. The consumer subscription ladder (Free/Plus $15/Pro $42/Team $20-seat/Enterprise) is unchanged.Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTLaunchIdeogramhttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/linear-2026-06-11-coding-sessions/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/linear-2026-06-11-coding-sessions/Linear launched Coding Sessions (June 11, 2026), its first usage-metered feature — billed from a workspace-level prepaid AI-credit balance shared across AI tools.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTLaunchLinearhttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/gitlab-2026-06-10-flex-commitment/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/gitlab-2026-06-10-flex-commitment/GitLab announced Flex: one annual dollar commitment covering platform seats and GitLab Credits, reshaped month-to-month without contract amendments.Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTPackagingGitLabhttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/2026-06-08-sourcegraph-cody-enterprise-only/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/2026-06-08-sourcegraph-cody-enterprise-only/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.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTPackagingSourcegraph Codyhttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/phind-2026-06-08-deprecation/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/phind-2026-06-08-deprecation/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.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTDeprecationPhindhttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/clipdrop-2026-06-04-packaging/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/clipdrop-2026-06-04-packaging/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.Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTPackagingClipdrophttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/oxylabs-2026-06-04-price-change/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/oxylabs-2026-06-04-price-change/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.Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTPrice changeOxylabshttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/scraperapi-2026-06-04-packaging/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/scraperapi-2026-06-04-packaging/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.Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTPackagingScraperAPIhttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/wellsaid-2026-06-04-packaging/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/wellsaid-2026-06-04-packaging/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.Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTPackagingWellSaid Labshttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/murf-ai-2026-06-01-packaging/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/murf-ai-2026-06-01-packaging/Murf renames its Studio plans to Creator and Business and ships the Murf API and Murf Dub as separate usage-billed products.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTPackagingMurf AIhttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/you-com-2026-06-01-price-change/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/you-com-2026-06-01-price-change/You.com raises Research Lite to $12 per 1k and ships a dedicated Finance Research API, extending its 2026 API repricing.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTPrice changeYou.comhttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/ideogram-2026-05-31-packaging/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/ideogram-2026-05-31-packaging/Ideogram sets a four-tier subscription grid plus a per-image pay-as-you-go API from $0.025.Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTPackagingIdeogramhttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/synthesia-2026-05-31-price-change/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/synthesia-2026-05-31-price-change/Synthesia lowers prices across its lineup, with self-serve plans now starting at $14/mo.Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTPrice changeSynthesiahttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/anthropic-2026-05-30-launch/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/anthropic-2026-05-30-launch/Anthropic refreshes Claude.ai with the Claude 4.x family and adds a $200/mo Max tier above Pro.Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTLaunchAnthropichttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/cerebras-2026-05-30-launch/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/cerebras-2026-05-30-launch/Cerebras introduces fixed-price Cerebras Code coding subscriptions alongside a tightened public inference rate card.Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTLaunchCerebrashttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/heygen-2026-05-15-packaging/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/heygen-2026-05-15-packaging/HeyGen moves every plan onto a single credit currency spanning avatars, dubbing and video.Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTPackagingHeyGenhttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/character-ai-2026-05-08-packaging/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/character-ai-2026-05-08-packaging/Character.ai removes legacy chat styles for free users and soft-launches them behind its c.ai+ subscription.Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTPackagingCharacter.aihttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/elevenlabs-2026-05-07-price-change/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/elevenlabs-2026-05-07-price-change/ElevenLabs cuts Conversational AI pricing again as it leans further into pay-as-you-go agent usage.Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTPrice changeElevenLabshttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/heygen-2026-05-04-packaging/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/heygen-2026-05-04-packaging/HeyGen renames its core credit and makes audio dubbing unlimited ahead of the credit-model cutover.Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTPackagingHeyGenhttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/mistral-ai-2026-05-packaging/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/mistral-ai-2026-05-packaging/Mistral renames Le Chat to Vibe, repositioning it as a work-and-code agent, and introduces a $5.99/mo student plan.Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTPackagingMistral AIhttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/openai-2026-05-01-launch/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/openai-2026-05-01-launch/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.Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTLaunchOpenAIhttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/galileo-ai-2026-04-09-cisco-acquisition/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/galileo-ai-2026-04-09-cisco-acquisition/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.Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTFundingGalileohttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/exa-ai-2026-04-price-change/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/exa-ai-2026-04-price-change/Exa restructures pricing into per-endpoint cards and raises base Search to $7 per 1,000 results.Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTPrice changeExahttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/google-gemini-2026-04-01-launch/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/google-gemini-2026-04-01-launch/Google releases the Gemini 3 model family and introduces region-based token pricing.Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTLaunchGooglehttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/windsurf-2026-04-packaging/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/windsurf-2026-04-packaging/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.Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTPackagingWindsurfhttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/you-com-2026-04-price-change/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/you-com-2026-04-price-change/You.com slashes API prices, dropping Search to $5/1k and Contents to $1/1k, and retitles its pricing page.Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTPrice changeYou.comhttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/2026-03-27-clockwise-deprecation/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/2026-03-27-clockwise-deprecation/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.Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTDeprecationClockwisehttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/perplexity-ai-2026-03-18-packaging/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/perplexity-ai-2026-03-18-packaging/Perplexity makes its Comet browser free and introduces a $5/mo Comet Plus add-on.Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTPackagingPerplexity AIhttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/m3ter-2026-03-04-funding/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/m3ter-2026-03-04-funding/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.Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTFundingm3terhttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/modal-2026-02-25-packaging/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/modal-2026-02-25-packaging/Modal adds AWS and GCP Marketplace billing so enterprises can pay through existing cloud commitments.Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTPackagingModalhttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/2026-02-22-rows-superhuman-acquisition/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/2026-02-22-rows-superhuman-acquisition/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.Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTFundingRowshttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/baseten-2026-02-14-price-change/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/baseten-2026-02-14-price-change/Baseten adds discounted cached-input pricing to its multi-tenant Model APIs.Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTPrice changeBasetenhttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/lovable-2026-02-12-stack/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/lovable-2026-02-12-stack/A Lovable Financial Systems Engineer req discloses a new in-house Financial Engineering team owning 'the billing system of record—from Stripe integration through to the metering ledger' and 'a credit-based usage model, pass-through service billing.' Signal: Lovable keeps Stripe for payments but builds its complexity-weighted credit meter in-house rather than buying a usage-billing platform (no Metronome/Orb/Chargebee named).Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTUpdateLovablehttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/runpod-2026-02-12-price-change/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/runpod-2026-02-12-price-change/RunPod begins charging different rates for idle versus running network-volume storage.Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTPrice changeRunPodhttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/2026-02-10-tavily-nebius-acquisition/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/2026-02-10-tavily-nebius-acquisition/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.Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTFundingTavilyhttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/cartesia-2026-02-10-launch/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/cartesia-2026-02-10-launch/Cartesia takes Voice Agents to general availability on a flat per-minute rate.Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTLaunchCartesiahttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/fireworks-ai-2026-02-10-packaging/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/fireworks-ai-2026-02-10-packaging/Fireworks introduces parameter-size-based pricing for its embeddings models.Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTPackagingFireworks AIhttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/synthesia-2026-02-10-stack/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/synthesia-2026-02-10-stack/A Synthesia engineering post details a billing-and-usage-metering system the team built in-house in ~3 months and ran on roughly one engineer while scaling from $40M to ~$140M ARR, including the 2025 move to a unified credit-based model. Stripe is kept strictly as the payment provider behind an isolated data model; Salesforce remains the CRM. The metering layer is built, not bought.Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTUpdateSynthesiahttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/cursor-2026-02-01-packaging/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/cursor-2026-02-01-packaging/Cursor settles into a six-plan lineup following its 2025 credit-pool transition.Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTPackagingCursor (Anysphere)https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/recraft-2026-02-launch/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/recraft-2026-02-launch/Recraft ships V4 and adds video generation across its credit tiers.Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTLaunchRecrafthttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/groq-2026-01-22-launch/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/groq-2026-01-22-launch/Groq adds per-use pricing for built-in agent tools — web search, page visits and code execution.Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTLaunchGroqhttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/perplexity-ai-2026-01-15-packaging/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/perplexity-ai-2026-01-15-packaging/Perplexity splits its enterprise offering into Enterprise Pro and Enterprise Max tiers.Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTPackagingPerplexity AIhttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/together-ai-2026-01-15-launch/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/together-ai-2026-01-15-launch/Together AI adds a dedicated fine-tuning tier for specialized models.Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTLaunchTogether AIhttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/metronome-2026-01-14-funding/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/metronome-2026-01-14-funding/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.Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTFundingMetronomehttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/codeium-2026-01-01-price-change/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/codeium-2026-01-01-price-change/Codeium lowers Windsurf Pro to $15/mo and expands the agentic credit pool after the OpenAI acquisition.Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTPrice changeCodeiumhttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/perplexity-ai-2026-01-01-packaging/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/perplexity-ai-2026-01-01-packaging/Perplexity reorganizes its developer API around a Search API and a new Agentic Research tier.Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTPackagingPerplexity AIhttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/2025-12-19-serpapi-google-lawsuit/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/2025-12-19-serpapi-google-lawsuit/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.Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTUpdateSerpApihttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/2025-10-09-jina-ai-elastic-acquisition/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/2025-10-09-jina-ai-elastic-acquisition/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.Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTFundingJina AIhttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/galileo-ai-2025-10-pro-tier-launch/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/galileo-ai-2025-10-pro-tier-launch/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.Thu, 02 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTPackagingGalileohttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/2025-09-03-openpipe-coreweave-acquisition/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/2025-09-03-openpipe-coreweave-acquisition/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.Wed, 03 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTFundingOpenPipehttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/openmeter-2025-09-03-packaging/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/openmeter-2025-09-03-packaging/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).Wed, 03 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTPackagingOpenMeterhttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/make-2025-08-27-packaging/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/make-2025-08-27-packaging/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.Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMTPackagingMakehttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/windsurf-2025-07-cognition-acquisition/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/windsurf-2025-07-cognition-acquisition/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.Mon, 14 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMTFundingWindsurfhttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/2025-03-24-11x-customer-claims-controversy/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/2025-03-24-11x-customer-claims-controversy/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.Mon, 24 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMTFunding11xhttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/2025-02-24-voyage-ai-mongodb-acquisition/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/2025-02-24-voyage-ai-mongodb-acquisition/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.Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMTFundingVoyage AIhttps://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/togai-2024-04-30-funding/https://usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/togai-2024-04-30-funding/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.Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMTFundingTogai