What has actually changed? It's unclear how much can you do right now, unless they've already switched you to the new plan and you're speaking from experience.

Check out z.ai coder plan. The $27/mo plan is roughly the same usage as the 20x $200 Claude plan. I have both and Claude is a little better, but GLM 5.1 is much better value.

Already paying for Google photo storage, AI pro for an extra $7 is a steal with anti-gravity.

GH Copilot is still the best deal, while it lasts

We are exiting a hype cycle, well into the adoption curve. Subscriptions were never going to last.

My next step is going to be evaluating open and local models to see if they are sufficiently close to par with frontier models.

My hope is that the end of seat based pricing comes with this tech cycle. I was looking for document signing provider that doesn't charge a monthly, I only need a few docs a year.