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Guides7 min readNov 3, 2026

Mahitosh Dey

I Compared 12 AI Pricing Pages to Their August Versions. Eight Had Not Moved a Cent.

I pulled 19 AI pricing pages out of the Wayback Machine and compared them with their 1 August versions. Most had not changed at all. Three had been rebuilt, and one of those quietly makes the comparable plan cost 50 percent more.

I Read the Privacy Policy of 19 AI Tools. Only 8 Will Tell You If They Train on Your Work.

I read the privacy policy, terms and help pages of 21 AI tools and asked one question of each: can you find out whether your own work is training the model? Eleven of the nineteen readable ones will not say.

I Checked 250 Income Claims in 15 'Make Money With AI' Articles. 27 Had a Source.

I read the top-ranking make-money-with-AI articles and checked every income figure for a source at the point of the claim. Eight articles cite nothing at all. One cites almost everything, and it is a web host selling hosting.

AI Agents for Freelancers: The Useful Ones Cost $20, the Business Ones Cost $50

Six agent platforms priced from their own pages. Everything a solo freelancer can use lands at $20. Everything sold as business agents starts at $50 per seat.

Grammarly Costs 2.5x More If You Pay Monthly. Ten Other Tools, Checked

The price on the page is often the annual price. I read eleven pricing pages and worked out what monthly really costs, then checked every savings claim against the vendor's own arithmetic. Two of them do not add up.

How to Check Whether an AI Tool Is Dead, in 60 Seconds

A 403 is a bot wall. A 451 is a geo-block. A timeout is a network. Only one result actually means dead, and the lazy version of the command hides it.

Nine AI Models Retired in 2026. GPT-5.5 Goes on Wednesday

GPT-5.5 retires from ChatGPT and Codex on 14 October but stays on the API. Six models already went this year. Here is every date and what quietly breaks.

Oct 12, 2026

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