Hacker News with Generative AI: Pricing

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.

Consumer Behavior, Manufacturing, Pricing, USA

149 points by ericzawo 1 day ago | 155 comments

Issue Spotlight: The rise of surveillance pricing [pdf] (ftc.gov)

Surveillance, Pricing, Privacy, Government, Consumer Protection

6 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 2 days ago | 0 comments

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.

Geocoding APIs, Software, Pricing, Comparison, Mapping

141 points by luismedel 3 days ago | 91 comments

Airbnb will now show total prices by default (cnn.com)

Airbnb, Pricing, Travel, Business, Consumer

19 points by lavabender 3 days ago | 1 comments

An update to our pricing (windsurf.com)
Built to keep you in flow state.

Pricing, Software, Business

127 points by mefengl 4 days ago | 92 comments

Logitech prices are increasing by as much as 25%, and they're not alone (tomshardware.com)

Consumer Tech, Pricing, Hardware, Logitech, Market Trends

7 points by ksec 4 days ago | 1 comments

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."

Retail, Bikes, Tariffs, Pricing

18 points by mooreds 8 days ago | 13 comments

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.

Business, Chemicals, Pricing, Manufacturing

6 points by ssuds 8 days ago | 0 comments

Modular Community Edition, MAX and Mojo are free forever for commercial use (modular.com)
Editions that work for everyone.‍Develop and scale with us.

Software, Open Source, Business, Pricing

5 points by atairov 9 days ago | 1 comments

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.

Cloud Computing, AWS, Storage, Pricing

27 points by panrobo 12 days ago | 15 comments

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

Tesla, Cybertruck, Electric Vehicles, Automotive, Pricing

67 points by rntn 13 days ago | 122 comments

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.

Pricing, Business, Economics

11 points by spking 13 days ago | 0 comments

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.

Gaming, Pricing, Nintendo, Mario Kart

9 points by MBCook 17 days ago | 14 comments

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.

Laptops, Business, Manufacturing, Pricing

4 points by raybb 18 days ago | 1 comments

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.

Gaming, Nintendo, Hardware, Pricing

23 points by kwiktrip 18 days ago | 13 comments

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.

Trading, Finance, Consumer Rights, Pricing, Software

5 points by zigfrid 18 days ago | 0 comments

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

Fonts, Licensing, Pricing, Software

37 points by robin_reala 20 days ago | 6 comments

Show HN: Compare Cloud and Bare Metal Servers (serversearcher.com)
Search through thousands of servers worldwide to find the exact specifications you need at the best price.

Cloud Computing, Servers, Comparison, Pricing

21 points by matt-p 23 days ago | 8 comments

The Nintendo Switch 2 arrives on June 5th for $449.99 (theverge.com)
After a reveal that was light on details, Nintendo has finally announced key information about the Switch 2: most notably, when it will launch.

Gaming Consoles, Nintendo, Release Dates, Pricing

7 points by pdyc 23 days ago | 5 comments

Palma 2 (boox.com)
We will be adjusting prices for products shipped from the US warehouse. We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your understanding.

E-Readers, Pricing, Announcements

93 points by tosh 26 days ago | 69 comments

Plex remote stream no longer free; Plex Pass 2x price hike (plex.tv)
You’re going to be hearing a lot from us this year—we’ve got a ton of exciting things to roll out, with even more in the planning stages. But first, we have to share some important upcoming changes to our personal media offering and our Privacy Policy that are necessary to make all this great stuff happen.

Streaming, Pricing, Subscription Services, Privacy Policy

8 points by Naracion 35 days ago | 7 comments

Plex no Longer Offers Free Remote Playback for Personal Media (macrumors.com)
Media platform Plex today announced that it is raising prices for the Plex Pass subscription service, marking the first price increase that Plex has introduced in a decade.

Streaming Services, Media, Pricing, Subscription Services

64 points by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 37 days ago | 73 comments

Plex price increases for 2025, remote streaming of personal media no longer free (appleinsider.com)
Plex has announced that it will no longer offer free remote streaming for personal media and says its subscription options will see a significant price increase effective April 29, 2025.

Streaming Services, Media, Pricing, Technology

7 points by roxolotl 37 days ago | 1 comments

GPT 4.5 level for 1% of the price (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.

Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Cost, Pricing

296 points by decide1000 41 days ago | 257 comments

Cursor stealthily doubled the price of Claude-3.7-Thinking in a changelog (cursor.com)
We've transitioned to building Cursor on top of a fork of VSCodium, moving away from our previous Codemirror-based approach.

Software, Programming, Pricing, Code Editors

42 points by rvnx 41 days ago | 4 comments

BYD undercuts Tesla around the world, by the numbers (restofworld.org)
In each of the 10 markets where both Tesla and the Chinese carmaker BYD list prices online, BYD’s lowest-cost option is cheaper than that of Tesla.

Electric Vehicles, Tesla, China, Competition, Pricing

10 points by NDAjam 45 days ago | 0 comments

Southwest Airlines to End Free Checked Bags for First Time in 54-Year History (cbsnews.com)

Southwest Airlines, Travel, Airlines, Pricing, Fees

8 points by m463 45 days ago | 0 comments

AMD Announces Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D Pricing and Availability (forbes.com)
AMD announced today that its final two Zen 5 Ryzen 9000 3D V-Cache processors, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9900X3D, will be available starting March 12th and confirmed pricing.

AMD, CPUs, Hardware, Pricing, Availability

5 points by shevis 49 days ago | 0 comments

No OpenAI, I Won't Pay $10k/Month for Your AI Agent (thetrendysoftwareideas.substack.com)
OpenAI's latest pricing strategy has completely lost the plot. Yesterday, there was a leak that OpenAI plans to charge up to $20,000 a month for "AI agents".

OpenAI, AI, Pricing, Business Models

13 points by justiceforsaas 50 days ago | 3 comments

OpenAI Plots Charging $20k a Month for PhD-Level Agents (slashdot.org)

OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Business, Pricing, Research

46 points by miles 51 days ago | 46 comments