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Raycast Pro Is Five Hundred Credits

On 10 September Thomas Paul Mann moved Raycast AI from rate limits to credits. Pro stays $10. The model is 500 credits a month. v1 still runs at zero until 1 October. Then it stops.

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Inoreader Intelligence Defaults to GPT-4o-mini

Help is one sentence: OpenAI's GPT-4o-mini. Pro can pick Mistral or Anthropic as a platform. Your own API key is the Intelligence reports add-on or Team Intelligence. Free is 150 feeds and no summaries.

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Cinema 4D's Shop Is Subscription

On 12 September the Maxon shop printed Cinema 4D at $839 a year, Redshift included. Monthly is $109. There is no perpetual SKU. The 14-day trial is Maxon One. Students pay $60 for a year of the suite, not for commercial work.

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Ableton's Trial Is Suite

The 30-day trial is Live 12 Suite. Stem split, Max for Live, Operator. Buy Intro or Standard after it, open that Set, and saving and exporting turn off. Rent-to-own is Suite too.

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Aiven's Helsinki Postgres Starts at a Hundred and Ten

Pin UpCloud Helsinki and Free, Developer, and Hobbyist vanish. Startup is $110 a month, not the $75 on the generic table. Google's Finland region still sells Hobbyist at $19. The invoices are dollars. The processor is in the United States.

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Scalingo Starts Billing When the Trial Ends

A trial needs a card. One app, five S or M containers. When the thirty days are up, the resources keep running and the invoice starts. They do not delete the app for you. HDS is a create-time flag: existing resources cannot be converted later.

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