{
  "name": "Okane Land AI tool price index",
  "updated": "2026-07-07",
  "method": "Rows marked 'bought and metered by us' come from plans we purchased and drove for The Proof; the rest come from the vendor's published pricing, checked on the date shown. Re-verified monthly; dates move only when a number changes.",
  "page": "https://okaneland.com/palette/ai-tool-price-index/",
  "tools": [
    {
      "id": "creatify",
      "name": "Creatify",
      "category": "Marketing & content",
      "what": "AI UGC video ads from product URLs, avatars, and an ad-ops agent",
      "free": "10 credits/mo, every frame watermarked",
      "paidFrom": {
        "usd": 39,
        "label": "$39/mo (Starter)"
      },
      "realWork": {
        "usd": 99,
        "label": "Pro $99/mo, 300 credits"
      },
      "units": [
        {
          "label": "15-second avatar video",
          "value": "5 credits (about $1.65)"
        },
        {
          "label": "Re-render on Aurora (editor)",
          "value": "3 credits"
        },
        {
          "label": "Four static image ads",
          "value": "2 credits"
        },
        {
          "label": "One playable HTML ad",
          "value": "10 credits"
        },
        {
          "label": "Five seconds of Kling (Asset Generator)",
          "value": "14 credits"
        },
        {
          "label": "Agent-built ad clone, on our meter",
          "value": "173 credits (about $57)"
        }
      ],
      "gotcha": "Renders charge on completion, not submission. The done-for-you Studio tier starts at $5,000/mo.",
      "verified": {
        "date": "2026-07-03",
        "how": "Bought and metered by us"
      },
      "review": "/proof/creatify/",
      "vendor": "https://creatify.ai/pricing"
    },
    {
      "id": "heygen",
      "name": "HeyGen",
      "category": "Marketing & content",
      "what": "Avatar video platform with a consent-gated digital twin",
      "free": "Limited free tier",
      "paidFrom": {
        "usd": 29,
        "label": "$29/mo (Creator, 600 credits)"
      },
      "realWork": {
        "usd": 29,
        "label": "Creator"
      },
      "units": [
        {
          "label": "Digital twin",
          "value": "included: record yourself once, with a spoken consent clip"
        },
        {
          "label": "Stock avatars",
          "value": "1,100+ on Creator"
        }
      ],
      "gotcha": "The twin is the real unit: the founder-reads-the-hook ad without the founder's afternoon.",
      "verified": {
        "date": "2026-07-02",
        "how": "Vendor pricing page"
      },
      "review": null,
      "vendor": "https://www.heygen.com/pricing"
    },
    {
      "id": "arcads",
      "name": "Arcads",
      "category": "Marketing & content",
      "what": "UGC ads fronted by cloned, paid human actors",
      "free": "None, and no free trial",
      "paidFrom": {
        "usd": 110,
        "label": "$110/mo (10 videos)"
      },
      "realWork": {
        "usd": 220,
        "label": "$220/mo (20 videos)"
      },
      "units": [
        {
          "label": "One finished clip",
          "value": "about $11"
        }
      ],
      "gotcha": "No public pricing page (arcads.ai/pricing returns a 404). Unused videos do not roll over on lower tiers; trackers reported ~30% discounts in May 2026, so list price is negotiable.",
      "verified": {
        "date": "2026-07-02",
        "how": "Tracked list pricing (eesel)"
      },
      "review": null,
      "vendor": "https://www.eesel.ai/blog/arcads-ai-pricing"
    },
    {
      "id": "clay",
      "name": "Clay",
      "category": "Sales & automation",
      "what": "Prospecting and enrichment with a credit-metered waterfall",
      "free": "2,000 credits/mo, phone enrichment blocked",
      "paidFrom": {
        "usd": 167,
        "label": "~$167 to $185/mo (Launch)"
      },
      "realWork": {
        "usd": 446,
        "label": "Growth, ~$446 to $495/mo"
      },
      "units": [
        {
          "label": "One credit",
          "value": "about $0.05"
        },
        {
          "label": "A mobile number",
          "value": "about 11 credits a row (about $0.55)"
        },
        {
          "label": "1,000-row phone enrichment",
          "value": "roughly $550 in credits"
        }
      ],
      "gotcha": "Plans restructured March 2026; the expensive enrichments burn the allowance fast.",
      "verified": {
        "date": "2026-06-26",
        "how": "Bought and metered by us"
      },
      "review": "/proof/clay/",
      "vendor": "https://www.clay.com/pricing"
    },
    {
      "id": "perplexity",
      "name": "Perplexity",
      "category": "Search & research",
      "what": "AI search with Pro and Max tiers over the same core engine",
      "free": "Free, gated after a few anonymous searches",
      "paidFrom": {
        "usd": 20,
        "label": "$20/mo (Pro)"
      },
      "realWork": {
        "usd": 20,
        "label": "Pro for most people; Max $200/mo"
      },
      "units": [
        {
          "label": "Max adds",
          "value": "frontier models, Model Council, far higher Deep Research and Computer-agent limits, premium data connectors"
        }
      ],
      "gotcha": "Pro and Max run the same core search. If you do not use the Max tools weekly, the $20 tier is the whole product.",
      "verified": {
        "date": "2026-06-22",
        "how": "Bought and metered by us"
      },
      "review": "/proof/perplexity/",
      "vendor": "https://www.perplexity.ai/"
    },
    {
      "id": "surfer",
      "name": "Surfer SEO",
      "category": "Marketing & content",
      "what": "SEO and AI-search content scoring",
      "free": "None (7-day money-back window)",
      "paidFrom": {
        "usd": 119,
        "label": "$119/mo (Standard, billed yearly)"
      },
      "realWork": {
        "usd": 219,
        "label": "Pro, $219/mo"
      },
      "units": [
        {
          "label": "Keyword Research",
          "value": "needs Standard"
        },
        {
          "label": "Topical Map and Content Audit",
          "value": "need Pro"
        },
        {
          "label": "SERP Analyzer",
          "value": "needs Peace of Mind, $359/mo"
        }
      ],
      "gotcha": "The gating is the real price: most of the toolset sits above the entry tier.",
      "verified": {
        "date": "2026-06-21",
        "how": "Bought and metered by us"
      },
      "review": "/proof/surfer-seo/",
      "vendor": "https://surferseo.com/pricing/"
    },
    {
      "id": "cursor",
      "name": "Cursor",
      "category": "Editors & assistants",
      "what": "AI code editor billing a dollar pool of model usage",
      "free": "Hobby, limited; no Pro trial anymore",
      "paidFrom": {
        "usd": 20,
        "label": "$20/mo (Pro)"
      },
      "realWork": {
        "usd": 20,
        "label": "Pro; Pro+ $60, Ultra $200"
      },
      "units": [
        {
          "label": "$20 Pro pool",
          "value": "about 225 Claude Sonnet requests, per Cursor's own mid-2025 math"
        },
        {
          "label": "Auto mode",
          "value": "subsidized rate, barely dents the pool"
        }
      ],
      "gotcha": "A nominal $20 plan often lands at $40 to $50 real spend once you hand-pick frontier models. Set the spend limit.",
      "verified": {
        "date": "2026-07-01",
        "how": "Vendor pricing page"
      },
      "review": "/primer/how-to-use-cursor/",
      "vendor": "https://cursor.com/pricing"
    },
    {
      "id": "claude-code",
      "name": "Claude Code",
      "category": "Agents & terminal",
      "what": "Terminal coding agent billing the Claude subscription pool",
      "free": "None",
      "paidFrom": {
        "usd": 20,
        "label": "$20/mo (Claude Pro)"
      },
      "realWork": {
        "usd": 100,
        "label": "Max, $100 or $200/mo"
      },
      "units": [
        {
          "label": "Billing",
          "value": "the same usage pool as your Claude chats"
        },
        {
          "label": "Weekly caps",
          "value": "apply at the top of the pool"
        }
      ],
      "gotcha": "A heavy agent afternoon eats the same allowance as chat. API pay-as-you-go is the separate metered track.",
      "verified": {
        "date": "2026-06-26",
        "how": "Vendor plan pages"
      },
      "review": "/primer/how-to-use-claude-code/",
      "vendor": "https://www.anthropic.com/pricing"
    },
    {
      "id": "lovable",
      "name": "Lovable",
      "category": "App & UI builders",
      "what": "Prompt-to-app builder with complexity-priced credits",
      "free": "5 credits/day, capped at 30/mo",
      "paidFrom": {
        "usd": 25,
        "label": "$25/mo (Pro, 100 credits)"
      },
      "realWork": {
        "usd": 25,
        "label": "Pro plus top-ups, $15 per 50 credits"
      },
      "units": [
        {
          "label": "Restyle a button",
          "value": "about 0.5 credit"
        },
        {
          "label": "Wire auth",
          "value": "about 1.2 credits"
        },
        {
          "label": "Landing page with images",
          "value": "about 2 credits"
        }
      ],
      "gotcha": "Debugging is billable, including the agent's own mistakes, and your deployed app's backend draws the same pool: a live app stops serving at zero credits.",
      "verified": {
        "date": "2026-07-03",
        "how": "Vendor docs"
      },
      "review": null,
      "vendor": "https://docs.lovable.dev/introduction/plans-and-credits"
    },
    {
      "id": "n8n",
      "name": "n8n",
      "category": "Sales & automation",
      "what": "Workflow automation billed per execution, not per step",
      "free": "Self-host free (Sustainable Use License, real limits for agencies)",
      "paidFrom": {
        "usd": 22,
        "label": "~€20/mo cloud (2,500 executions)"
      },
      "realWork": {
        "usd": 55,
        "label": "€50/mo (10,000 executions)"
      },
      "units": [
        {
          "label": "One execution",
          "value": "one run of the whole workflow, regardless of step count"
        },
        {
          "label": "A ten-minute polling schedule",
          "value": "4,320 executions a month by itself"
        }
      ],
      "gotcha": "Billed annually, prices display by region. Prefer webhooks over schedules or the poller spends your cap.",
      "verified": {
        "date": "2026-07-03",
        "how": "Vendor pricing page and FAQ"
      },
      "review": null,
      "vendor": "https://n8n.io/pricing/"
    },
    {
      "id": "github-copilot",
      "name": "GitHub Copilot",
      "category": "Editors & assistants",
      "what": "AI pair programmer across IDEs, CLI, and github.com",
      "free": "2,000 completions + 50 chat requests/mo; agent mode included",
      "paidFrom": {
        "usd": 10,
        "label": "$10/mo (Pro)"
      },
      "realWork": {
        "usd": 39,
        "label": "Pro+ $39/mo; Max $100/mo"
      },
      "units": [
        {
          "label": "AI Credits pool",
          "value": "$15/mo on Pro, $70 on Pro+, $200 on Max (1 credit = $0.01)"
        }
      ],
      "gotcha": "The old premium-request quota is gone as of June 1, 2026: each paid plan now includes a dollar pool of AI Credits (Pro $15, Pro+ $70, Max $200/mo) that token usage draws down at API rates. Completions stay unlimited; the credit pool is the meter for chat and agent work.",
      "verified": {
        "date": "2026-07-11",
        "how": "Vendor pricing page"
      },
      "review": null,
      "vendor": "https://github.com/features/copilot/plans"
    },
    {
      "id": "windsurf",
      "name": "Windsurf",
      "category": "Editors & assistants",
      "what": "AI IDE, now folded into Devin as Devin Desktop",
      "free": "Devin Free tier (light quota)",
      "paidFrom": {
        "usd": 20,
        "label": "$20/mo (Devin Pro)"
      },
      "realWork": {
        "usd": 200,
        "label": "Devin Max $200/mo"
      },
      "units": [
        {
          "label": "Status",
          "value": "windsurf.com/pricing now redirects to devin.ai: \"Windsurf is now Devin Desktop\""
        }
      ],
      "gotcha": "The standalone Windsurf plans are gone; you buy Devin and get the IDE with it. Overages bill at API pricing.",
      "verified": {
        "date": "2026-07-06",
        "how": "Vendor pricing page"
      },
      "review": null,
      "vendor": "https://devin.ai/pricing"
    },
    {
      "id": "cody",
      "name": "Cody (Sourcegraph)",
      "category": "Editors & assistants",
      "what": "Code assistant, now enterprise-only",
      "free": "None (consumer Free and Pro tiers discontinued)",
      "paidFrom": null,
      "realWork": {
        "usd": null,
        "label": "Sourcegraph Enterprise, from $16K"
      },
      "units": [
        {
          "label": "Docs say",
          "value": "\"Supported on Sourcegraph Enterprise\""
        }
      ],
      "gotcha": "Cody as a $9 consumer product is history; it ships inside Sourcegraph Enterprise contracts now.",
      "verified": {
        "date": "2026-07-06",
        "how": "Vendor pricing page"
      },
      "review": null,
      "vendor": "https://sourcegraph.com/pricing"
    },
    {
      "id": "continue",
      "name": "Continue",
      "category": "Editors & assistants",
      "what": "Open-source coding agent extension, acquired by Cursor",
      "free": "Open-source codebase remains available",
      "paidFrom": null,
      "realWork": {
        "usd": null,
        "label": "Hosted plans discontinued"
      },
      "units": [
        {
          "label": "Status",
          "value": "\"Continue has been acquired by Cursor\" (announcement on continue.dev)"
        }
      ],
      "gotcha": "Subscriptions ended with the acquisition; the open source stays up as a foundation, unmaintained as a product.",
      "verified": {
        "date": "2026-07-06",
        "how": "Vendor pricing page"
      },
      "review": null,
      "vendor": "https://continue.dev/"
    },
    {
      "id": "antigravity",
      "name": "Google Antigravity",
      "category": "Editors & assistants",
      "what": "Googles agent-first development platform",
      "free": "$0 for individuals: Gemini 3.5 Flash/3.1 Pro, Claude Sonnet and Opus 4.6, unlimited tab completions, weekly rate limits",
      "paidFrom": {
        "usd": 0,
        "label": "Free (individuals)"
      },
      "realWork": {
        "usd": null,
        "label": "Higher limits via Google AI Pro / AI Ultra subscriptions"
      },
      "units": [
        {
          "label": "Included models on free",
          "value": "Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Claude Sonnet & Opus 4.6, gpt-oss-120b"
        }
      ],
      "gotcha": "The free tier is generous but rate-limited weekly; the upgrade path is a Google AI subscription, not an Antigravity plan.",
      "verified": {
        "date": "2026-07-06",
        "how": "Vendor pricing page"
      },
      "review": null,
      "vendor": "https://antigravity.google/pricing"
    },
    {
      "id": "kilo-code",
      "name": "Kilo Code",
      "category": "Editors & assistants",
      "what": "Open-source AI coding extensions with a pass-through gateway",
      "free": "Extensions free and open source; BYO keys or local models $0",
      "paidFrom": {
        "usd": 19,
        "label": "Kilo Pass from $19/mo (bonus credits)"
      },
      "realWork": {
        "usd": 19,
        "label": "Gateway pay-as-you-go at provider rates"
      },
      "units": [
        {
          "label": "Gateway markup",
          "value": "none: \"exact provider rates\", 500+ models"
        },
        {
          "label": "Teams",
          "value": "$15/user/mo"
        }
      ],
      "gotcha": "The Pass subscription earns up to 50% bonus credits, which is the quiet discount lever.",
      "verified": {
        "date": "2026-07-06",
        "how": "Vendor pricing page"
      },
      "review": null,
      "vendor": "https://kilo.ai/pricing"
    },
    {
      "id": "kiro",
      "name": "Kiro",
      "category": "Editors & assistants",
      "what": "AWSs spec-driven agentic IDE",
      "free": "50 credits/mo",
      "paidFrom": {
        "usd": 20,
        "label": "$20/mo (Pro, 1,000 credits)"
      },
      "realWork": {
        "usd": 40,
        "label": "Pro+ $40/mo (2,000 credits)"
      },
      "units": [
        {
          "label": "Add-on credits",
          "value": "$0.04 each"
        },
        {
          "label": "Top plans",
          "value": "Pro Max $100 (5,000cr), Power $200 (10,000cr)"
        }
      ],
      "gotcha": "Unused credits do not roll over; the month resets the meter.",
      "verified": {
        "date": "2026-07-06",
        "how": "Vendor pricing page"
      },
      "review": null,
      "vendor": "https://kiro.dev/pricing/"
    },
    {
      "id": "tabby",
      "name": "Tabby",
      "category": "Editors & assistants",
      "what": "Self-hosted AI coding assistant",
      "free": "Community self-host, up to 5 users",
      "paidFrom": {
        "usd": 19,
        "label": "$19/seat/mo (Team)"
      },
      "realWork": {
        "usd": 19,
        "label": "Team (up to 50 users)"
      },
      "units": [
        {
          "label": "Runs on",
          "value": "your own GPU box; the model bill is your electricity"
        }
      ],
      "gotcha": "The free tier is real but capped at 5 users; past that it is per-seat.",
      "verified": {
        "date": "2026-07-06",
        "how": "Vendor pricing page"
      },
      "review": null,
      "vendor": "https://www.tabbyml.com/pricing"
    },
    {
      "id": "zed",
      "name": "Zed",
      "category": "Editors & assistants",
      "what": "Fast native editor with built-in AI",
      "free": "Editor free forever; 2,000 accepted edit predictions, unlimited BYO keys",
      "paidFrom": {
        "usd": 10,
        "label": "$10/mo (Pro)"
      },
      "realWork": {
        "usd": 10,
        "label": "Pro; Business $30/seat"
      },
      "units": [
        {
          "label": "Pro includes",
          "value": "$5 of tokens/mo, then usage billed at API list price +10%"
        }
      ],
      "gotcha": "The +10% on overage is the house edge; BYO keys on the free tier dodges it entirely.",
      "verified": {
        "date": "2026-07-06",
        "how": "Vendor pricing page"
      },
      "review": null,
      "vendor": "https://zed.dev/pricing"
    },
    {
      "id": "devin",
      "name": "Devin AI",
      "category": "Agents & terminal",
      "what": "Autonomous coding agent plus the Devin Desktop IDE (ex-Windsurf)",
      "free": "Light quota to code with agents",
      "paidFrom": {
        "usd": 20,
        "label": "$20/mo (Pro)"
      },
      "realWork": {
        "usd": 200,
        "label": "Max $200/mo; Teams $80 + $40/seat"
      },
      "units": [
        {
          "label": "Overage",
          "value": "beyond included quotas, usage is \"consumed at API pricing\""
        }
      ],
      "gotcha": "No visible unit meter: plans are daily/weekly allowances, and cost scales with model choice and task complexity.",
      "verified": {
        "date": "2026-07-06",
        "how": "Vendor pricing page"
      },
      "review": null,
      "vendor": "https://devin.ai/pricing"
    },
    {
      "id": "openai-codex",
      "name": "OpenAI Codex",
      "category": "Agents & terminal",
      "what": "OpenAIs coding agent, bundled with ChatGPT plans",
      "free": "Limited Codex access on ChatGPT Free",
      "paidFrom": {
        "usd": 20,
        "label": "ChatGPT Plus $20/mo (expanded Codex)"
      },
      "realWork": {
        "usd": 100,
        "label": "ChatGPT Pro from $100/mo (max Codex tasks)"
      },
      "units": [
        {
          "label": "Plan ladder",
          "value": "Free limited; Go $8 (may include ads); Plus $20; Pro from $100 with 5x to 20x usage"
        }
      ],
      "gotcha": "There is no standalone Codex price: your ChatGPT tier is the meter.",
      "verified": {
        "date": "2026-07-06",
        "how": "Vendor pricing page"
      },
      "review": null,
      "vendor": "https://chatgpt.com/pricing"
    },
    {
      "id": "warp",
      "name": "Warp",
      "category": "Agents & terminal",
      "what": "Agentic terminal with cloud and local agents",
      "free": "Limited cloud-agent access, BYO inference",
      "paidFrom": {
        "usd": 20,
        "label": "$20/mo (Build, 1,500 credits)"
      },
      "realWork": {
        "usd": 50,
        "label": "Business $50/user; Max $200 (12x credits)"
      },
      "units": [
        {
          "label": "Annual discount",
          "value": "10% (Build $18, Max $180)"
        }
      ],
      "gotcha": "Credits meter both cloud and local agent use; the free tier leans on your own API keys.",
      "verified": {
        "date": "2026-07-06",
        "how": "Vendor pricing page"
      },
      "review": null,
      "vendor": "https://www.warp.dev/pricing"
    },
    {
      "id": "aider",
      "name": "Aider",
      "category": "Agents & terminal",
      "what": "Terminal pair-programming agent",
      "free": "Free, open source (Apache-2.0)",
      "paidFrom": {
        "usd": 0,
        "label": "Free (BYO API keys)"
      },
      "realWork": {
        "usd": 0,
        "label": "Your model API bill is the price"
      },
      "units": [
        {
          "label": "Cost driver",
          "value": "the tokens your chosen model burns"
        }
      ],
      "gotcha": "Free tool, metered brain: a long refactor on a frontier model is real API money.",
      "verified": {
        "date": "2026-07-06",
        "how": "Project page / repository"
      },
      "review": null,
      "vendor": "https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider"
    },
    {
      "id": "cline",
      "name": "Cline",
      "category": "Agents & terminal",
      "what": "Agentic VS Code extension",
      "free": "Free, open source (Apache-2.0)",
      "paidFrom": {
        "usd": 0,
        "label": "Free (BYO API keys)"
      },
      "realWork": {
        "usd": 0,
        "label": "Your model API bill is the price"
      },
      "units": [
        {
          "label": "Providers",
          "value": "Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and more via your keys"
        }
      ],
      "gotcha": "No built-in plans or credits; watch your provider dashboard instead.",
      "verified": {
        "date": "2026-07-06",
        "how": "Project page / repository"
      },
      "review": null,
      "vendor": "https://github.com/cline/cline"
    },
    {
      "id": "roo-code",
      "name": "Roo Code",
      "category": "Agents & terminal",
      "what": "Agentic coding extension (3M+ downloads)",
      "free": "Free, open source, BYO API keys",
      "paidFrom": {
        "usd": 0,
        "label": "Free (BYO API keys)"
      },
      "realWork": {
        "usd": 0,
        "label": "Your model API bill is the price"
      },
      "units": [
        {
          "label": "Roomote",
          "value": "the same teams managed ops agent is a separate product from $99/mo"
        }
      ],
      "gotcha": "roocode.com now redirects to roomote.dev; the extension itself stays free.",
      "verified": {
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      "id": "gemini-cli",
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      "gotcha": "The generous free tier is per-account; teams route through paid Google Cloud quotas.",
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        "date": "2026-07-06",
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      "id": "make",
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        "date": "2026-07-06",
        "how": "Vendor pricing page"
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      "id": "fin",
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        "date": "2026-07-06",
        "how": "Vendor pricing page"
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      "id": "fathom",
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        "date": "2026-07-06",
        "how": "Vendor pricing page"
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        "usd": 20,
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          "label": "Custom agents",
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        "date": "2026-07-06",
        "how": "Vendor pricing page"
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      "id": "synthesia",
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        "date": "2026-07-07",
        "how": "Vendor pricing page"
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      "id": "captions",
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          "label": "Scale ladder",
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      ],
      "gotcha": "Displayed pricing reflects iOS plans; the credit burn per feature varies by model tier.",
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        "date": "2026-07-07",
        "how": "Vendor pricing page"
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      "vendor": "https://www.captions.ai/pricing"
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      "id": "midjourney",
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        "usd": 10,
        "label": "$10/mo (Basic, 3.3 fast GPU hours)"
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        {
          "label": "Fast GPU hours",
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          "label": "Extra fast time",
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      "gotcha": "Companies over $1M gross revenue must buy Pro or above for commercial use.",
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        "date": "2026-07-07",
        "how": "Vendor pricing page"
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    {
      "id": "gamma",
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      "category": "Marketing & content",
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          "label": "Ultra",
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      ],
      "gotcha": "Paid tiers say unlimited AI creations, but agent features and advanced models still draw credits.",
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        "date": "2026-07-07",
        "how": "Vendor pricing page"
      },
      "review": null,
      "vendor": "https://gamma.app/pricing"
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    {
      "id": "instantly",
      "name": "Instantly",
      "category": "Sales & automation",
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        "usd": 47,
        "label": "$47/mo (Growth: 5,000 emails, unlimited accounts)"
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        "usd": 194,
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        {
          "label": "The quiet win",
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        {
          "label": "Bundles",
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      ],
      "gotcha": "Leads, sending, and AI credits are three separate meters; the bundle pricing exists because people bought all three.",
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        "date": "2026-07-07",
        "how": "Vendor pricing page"
      },
      "review": null,
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    {
      "id": "smartlead",
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        "usd": 39,
        "label": "$39/mo (Base: 6,000 sends, 2,000 leads)"
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        {
          "label": "Unlimited tiers",
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          "label": "Annual",
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      ],
      "gotcha": "Unlimited mailboxes everywhere, but verification and deliverability tooling are paid add-ons.",
      "verified": {
        "date": "2026-07-07",
        "how": "Vendor pricing page"
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      "id": "gumloop",
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        "usd": 37,
        "label": "$37/mo (Pro, 20k+ credits, unlimited seats)"
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        "usd": 37,
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          "label": "Annual",
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      "gotcha": "Every AI node draws credits; a chatty workflow spends like a chatty intern.",
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        "date": "2026-07-07",
        "how": "Vendor pricing page"
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      "vendor": "https://www.gumloop.com/pricing"
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      "id": "relevance-ai",
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      "free": "None shown any longer",
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          "label": "Status",
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        "date": "2026-07-07",
        "how": "Vendor pricing page"
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      "review": null,
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        "usd": 133,
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        {
          "label": "Cloud meters",
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        "date": "2026-07-07",
        "how": "Vendor pricing page"
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      "vendor": "https://dify.ai/pricing"
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    {
      "id": "flowise",
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        "usd": 0,
        "label": "Free self-host"
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        "date": "2026-07-07",
        "how": "Project page / repository"
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      "review": null,
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      "id": "framer",
      "name": "Framer",
      "category": "App & UI builders",
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        "usd": 10,
        "label": "$10/mo (Basic, custom domain, 1,000 credits)"
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          "label": "AI credits",
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        "date": "2026-07-07",
        "how": "Vendor pricing page"
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      "date": "2026-07-11",
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    },
    {
      "date": "2026-07-07",
      "note": "Agents batch: added Hermes Agent, OpenClaw, Goose, Jules, Amp, Factory Droid, and Manus. Verified today: Hermes and OpenClaw are free software whose real price is the token bill; Jules has no subscription of its own (limits ride on Google AI plans); Manus is now part of Meta; Amp passes provider token prices through at cost."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-07-07",
      "note": "Added 11 money-side tools (Synthesia, Captions, Midjourney, Gamma, Instantly, Smartlead, Gumloop, Relevance AI, Dify, Flowise, Framer) and put Creatify and Arcads on the Palette shelf. Verified today: Relevance AI dropped its self-serve tiers; Midjourney still has no free tier and a $1M-revenue commercial clause."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-07-06",
      "note": "Added the full Okane Land Palette: 73 more tools across nine categories, every price checked against the vendor page today. Notable finds while verifying: Windsurf is now Devin Desktop, Continue was acquired by Cursor and its hosted plans ended, and Sourcegraph Cody went enterprise-only."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-07-06",
      "note": "Index launched with 10 tools: Creatify, HeyGen, Arcads, Clay, Perplexity, Surfer SEO, Cursor, Claude Code, Lovable, n8n."
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}