Hacker News with Generative AI: Pricing

A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code (anthropic.com)
Max plan users have access to use Claude Code directly in their terminal.
When AWS announced free egress they promised you could keep using other services (twitter.com)
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Show HN: OpenRouter Model Price Comparison (pages.dev)
Compare pricing across different AI models available on OpenRouter
RDS Reserved Instances: Where Did All the New Instance Types Go? (duckbillgroup.com)
AWS is excluding newer RDS instance types from Reserved Instance purchases. Is this oversight or the quiet continuation of their RI deprecation strategy?
Taxes and fees not included: T-Mobile's latest price lock is nearly meaningless (arstechnica.com)
T-Mobile is making another long-term price guarantee, but wireless users will rightfully be skeptical since T-Mobile refused to honor a previously offered lifetime price lock and continues to fight a lawsuit filed by customers who were harmed by that broken promise. Moreover, the new plans that come with a price guarantee will have extra fees that can be raised at any time.
Microsoft Announces Xbox Console Price Hike, Xbox Games to Cost $80 (kotaku.com)
Microsoft has announced it will be raising the prices of all Xbox consoles, accessories, and games, and the increases are huge.
De minimis: US small parcels loophole closes pushing up Shein, Temu prices (bbc.com)
A duty-free loophole for low-value packages has been closed by President Donald Trump, pushing up prices for US customers of firms like Shein and Temu.
Humble Bundle raises prices for Euro and Canadian subscribers (reddit.com)
Microsoft Confirms $1.50 Windows Security Update Hotpatch Fee Starts July 1 (forbes.com)
When it comes to security updates, those that fix vulnerabilities in an operating system used by billions are high on the mandatory agenda.
Show HN: Tariff Calculator for Amazon (twitter.com)
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Temu adds 145% 'import charges' after Trump tariffs, more doubling some prices (cnbc.com)
Lenovo May Be Avoiding 'Windows Tax' via Cheaper Laptops with Preinstalled Linux (itsfoss.com)
Lenovo is doing something that many aren't.
GPU Price Tracker (unitedcompute.ai)
Track current prices, specifications, and historical trends for the most popular GPUs
People say they’ll pay more for “made in the USA” so we ran a test (afina.com)
When we priced a U.S.-made version of our flagship product 85% higher than our Chinese-made one, 25,650 customers had the chance to vote with their wallets. Here’s what happened.
Issue Spotlight: The rise of surveillance pricing [pdf] (ftc.gov)
Geocoding APIs compared: Pricing, free tiers and terms of use (bitoff.org)
Pick the cheapest geocoding API provider for your project. An impartial comparison of pricing for HERE, Google Maps Platform, Azure Maps, OpenCage, TomTom Maps, LocationIQ, and Nominatim.
Airbnb will now show total prices by default (cnn.com)
An update to our pricing (windsurf.com)
Built to keep you in flow state.
Logitech prices are increasing by as much as 25%, and they're not alone (tomshardware.com)
Trek tells retailers of immediate price increases (bicycleretailer.com)
MADISON, Wis. (BRAIN) — Trek and Electra retailers were informed Thursday by email that bike prices for most models will rise immediately because of the 10% tariff surcharge announced April 2, increasing costs "to a level that needs to be addressed."
Honeywell Announces 42% Surcharge on R-454B (achrnews.com)
Honeywell recently notified customers of a 42% price increase for R-454B, citing rising raw material costs and anticipated tariffs.
Modular Community Edition, MAX and Mojo are free forever for commercial use (modular.com)
Editions that work for everyone.‍Develop and scale with us.
AWS announces 85% price reductions for S3 Express One Zone (amazon.com)
At re:Invent 2023, we introduced Amazon S3 Express One Zone, a high-performance, single-Availability Zone (AZ) storage class purpose-built to deliver consistent single-digit millisecond data access for your most frequently accessed data and latency-sensitive applications.
Tesla Releases Stripped RWD Cybertruck: So Much Worse for Not Much Less Money (jalopnik.com)
Tesla Releases Stripped-Out RWD Cybertruck That Is So Much Worse For Not Much Less Money
Are you tariff-ied? We are (kmail-lists.com)
TL;DR — we are being forced into a decision about raising our prices, we are not doing it right away but we will have to soon if things don’t change.
Mario Kart $80 price isn't that high, historically (arstechnica.com)
Last week, Nintendo made waves across the game industry by announcing that Mario Kart World would sell for a suggested price of $80 in the US.
Framework pauses sales on laptops it will make a loss on (theregister.com)
World War Fee Modular laptop maker Framework is pausing sales of models it would make a loss on, while a small US keyboard biz is facing hundreds of dollars slapped on its products that American consumers will have to pay.
Nintendo explains why Switch 2 hardware and software cost so much (arstechnica.com)
Among the many surprises during last week's wider unveiling of the Nintendo Switch 2 was the pricing: $450 for the console itself and $70 to $80 for many first-party games.
TradingView's "€1/month" plan became €59.95 with no warning – refunded only afte (medium.com)
In February 2025, I accepted what looked like a harmless TradingView promotion: Premium Plan for €1/month.
Monotype just hit us with a $30k/yr font license fee for one font (reddit.com)
Monotype just hit us with a $30,000+/yr font license fee for one font. I’m speechless and lost