- Open-weight models closed the coding gap with frontier models at a fraction of the cost.
- Developers moved toward paying model providers directly instead of a SaaS middle layer.
- Ads relevant to developers can pay for a free CLI.
- Per-seat pricing fits bursty agent usage badly, so users churned.
- Looking ahead, it expects free tiers to become the default, with paid plans for team features and specialist agents.
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