Lifetime is worth a third in 5 months
The models are the reason I signed up, and they are good. The interface stays out of the way, and output quality has been consistent. The problem is what happened to the plan I bought. I bought a lifetime plan on 17 February. A 1k generation cost 10 credits back then. On 12 June it went to 15 credits. And on 9 July it went to 30. The monthly credit top-up never moved. So the plan I paid for once now returns a third of what it did in February. Five months. Support deserves credit here. Fast replies, polite, no ticket black hole, and I never had to chase anyone. They simply have nothing to offer. The answer, twice, was that model costs are going up. That is a curious claim in a year where the large providers keep cutting per-image pricing, but set it aside: the increase lands entirely on the people who already paid. A monthly subscriber sees the new rate and decides whether to renew. A lifetime buyer has no lever at all, and the credit price is the one number nobody promised to hold. I am not a heavy user. But at this trajectory "lifetime" is rather "temporary". And I wasn't really expecting lifetime, but I did expect it to last a few years at least.