Most AI tool comparisons are written once and left alone. The products do not stay still. While maintaining the guides on this site through 2026, we re-read the vendors’ own pricing pages, help centres and announcements again and again, and kept a record of what had actually changed. This page publishes that record.
Each entry below states what changed, when, what it means if you pay for the product, and the primary source you can check yourself. Nothing here comes from a reseller or a rumour; if a change could not be confirmed on the vendor’s own page, it is not listed. Entries are grouped by what they affect, and the dates are the vendors’ dates, not ours.
At a glance
Every entry was checked against the linked vendor page on 22 September 2026, except the Adobe and Topaz Labs entry, which was added on 24 September 2026.
| Date | Product | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Jul 2025 | Grammarly / Superhuman | Intent to acquire Superhuman announced |
| 1 Oct 2025 | Microsoft Copilot Pro | No longer sold; subscribers pointed to Microsoft 365 Premium |
| 22 Oct 2025 | remove.bg | Unused subscription credits stop rolling over |
| 29 Oct 2025 | Grammarly | Company renamed Superhuman |
| 24 Mar 2026 | OpenAI Sora (API) | Deprecation notice for the Videos API and Sora 2 models |
| 1 Jun 2026 | GitHub Copilot | Usage-based billing with AI Credits replaces premium requests |
| 24 Jun 2026 | Zoom | AI Companion name retired; ZoomMate launched as an add-on |
| 3 Sep 2026 | Suno | Monthly download limits take effect, including for older songs |
| 10 Sep 2026 | Salesforce / Fin | Acquisition of Fin (formerly Intercom) completed |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Adobe / Topaz Labs | Acquisition completed; Topaz stays a standalone brand |
| 24 Sep 2026 | OpenAI Sora (API) | Scheduled removal of sora-2 and sora-2-pro from the API |
| 14 Oct 2026 | ChatGPT | GPT-5.5 retires on all plans |
| 1 Dec 2026 | remove.bg | Standalone site closes; removal moves to Canva and Leonardo.Ai |
Why these changes matter more than feature launches
A new feature rarely changes what you pay. The changes below do: a renamed product that silently migrates your plan, a price that is really a first-month promotion, a download that is now capped, an acquisition that moves a tool into a larger company’s licensing. Three patterns run through almost all of them.
- Metering is replacing flat fees. Seats are increasingly the floor, with credits, allowances or per-outcome charges on top.
- Exports are getting harder, not easier. Music and media tools in particular now gate the download rather than the generation.
- Consolidation changes the terms. Several independent tools now sit inside larger companies, and their pricing and licences have followed.
Assistants and coding tools
ChatGPT: a new top model on Pro, and a retirement date for GPT-5.5
What changed: OpenAI’s pricing page now lists “Pro reasoning with GPT-6 Astra” on the Pro plan, with GPT-6 Astra shown as limited on Plus. Its pricing documentation states that “GPT-5.5 retires from ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex on all plans on October 14, 2026”, and gives US reference prices of $8 a month for Go, $20 for Plus and from $100 for Pro.
What it means: if a workflow depends on GPT-5.5 behaving a particular way, test it on its replacement before mid-October. The Go plan still carries the note that it “may include ads”. Our ChatGPT review covers the full plan ladder.
Microsoft stopped selling Copilot Pro
What changed: Microsoft announced that “we’ll no longer sell Copilot Pro—Copilot Pro subscribers can switch to Microsoft 365 Premium for more value”.
What it means: the consumer route to Copilot is now a Microsoft 365 bundle rather than a standalone AI subscription. Business Copilot is still a per-user add-on that requires a qualifying Microsoft 365 licence. See our chatbot comparison.
GitHub Copilot moved to AI Credits
What changed: GitHub announced in April that from 1 June 2026 premium requests would be replaced by GitHub AI Credits, “consumed based on token usage … according to the published API rates for each model”, while “code completions and Next Edit suggestions remain included in all plans and do not consume AI Credits.” Its plan comparison expresses allowances in dollars and gives individual plans a flexible allocation on top: Pro at $10 carries $15 of credits, Pro+ at $39 carries $70, and Max at $100 carries $200. Business ($19) and Enterprise ($39) carry credits equal to the seat price.
What it means: light users who mostly accept completions may never touch the meter; agent-heavy users should watch the pool. GitHub notes that “Flex allotments may change over time.”
Windsurf became Devin Desktop, and Devin settled on five plans
What changed: Cognition’s Devin Desktop page states that “Devin Desktop is the new name for Windsurf”, and that “Windsurf for JetBrains … continues to be available for download”. After several revisions, the pricing page now lists Free, Pro at $20 a month, Max at $200, Teams at $80 a month plus $40 per developer seat, and Enterprise, with usage allowances that refresh daily and weekly.
What it means: a daily refresh cannot be saved up, so heavy days need extra usage, which Cognition sells at API pricing. Our coding tools guide compares it with Copilot and Cursor.
Cursor reached JetBrains without the Cursor editor
What changed: Cursor now documents a JetBrains integration over the Agent Client Protocol, requiring a paid Cursor plan and a JetBrains IDE with the AI Assistant plugin (2025.1 or later). Its pricing documentation also adds a “Cursor Token Rate of $0.25 per million tokens” to third-party model requests on Teams and Enterprise.
What it means: JetBrains users no longer have to switch editors to try Cursor’s agent, and team budgets should include the token rate on top of model API prices.
Media, voice and music
Sora’s video models leave the API on 24 September 2026
What changed: OpenAI’s deprecations page records that on 24 March 2026 it notified developers of the deprecation of the Videos API and Sora 2 models, with “removal from the API on September 24, 2026”.
What it means: any integration still calling sora-2 or sora-2-pro needs a replacement. Our video generators guide compares the alternatives on cost per second.
Suno capped downloads, and made the download the commercial gateway
What changed: Suno’s August 2026 announcement set download limits from 3 September 2026: 20 song downloads a month on Pro and 60 on Premier, applying to older songs too, with commercial use tied to downloads made on a paid plan.
What it means: test variations before downloading them, because every export now counts. See our music generators guide.
Udio disabled downloads
What changed: Udio’s help centre confirms that, following its October 2025 partnership with Universal Music Group, downloads of audio, video and stems have been disabled, while monthly generation credits were raised.
What it means: Udio is currently a place to create and listen, not a source of files for client work.
remove.bg is moving into Canva
What changed: remove.bg’s API page states that “Starting December 1, 2026, background removal moves to Leonardo.Ai, also part of Canva”, and a site banner says the standalone website “will no longer be available from 1 December 2026”. Separately, its help centre confirms that unused subscription credits stopped rolling over on 22 October 2025.
What it means: anyone with a remove.bg workflow has a migration to plan before December. See our background removers guide.
Several voice tools now publish prices they used to hide
What changed: WellSaid now lists Starter at $10 a month billed annually, metered in download minutes; Murf’s API is priced per character, from $0.01 per 1,000 characters on its Falcon model; and iMyFone publishes MagicMic’s prices, including a $59.99 lifetime licence.
What it means: these products can now be budgeted before a sales call. See our voice generators guide.
Business software
Salesforce completed its acquisition of Fin
What changed: Salesforce announced on 10 September 2026 that it had completed its acquisition of Fin, the company formerly known as Intercom, after signing the agreement in June.
What it means: Fin’s published per-outcome price on the Intercom pricing page still applies today; watch renewal terms. See our customer support guide.
Adobe completed its purchase of Topaz Labs
What changed: Adobe announced on 23 September 2026 that it had “completed its acquisition of Topaz Labs”, three months after agreeing the deal in June. It says the Topaz brand will remain and its apps and models “will continue to be available as standalone products”, while the technology is also offered inside Firefly and Photoshop.
What it means: no change to Topaz plans or prices has been announced, so the subscription ladder on the Topaz pricing page is still the one to check. See our AI photo editors guide.
Zoom retired the AI Companion name
What changed: Zoom’s June 2026 announcement states that the capabilities that carried the AI Companion name “are still built right into Zoom Workplace”, and introduced ZoomMate as a separate add-on.
What it means: paid Zoom plans still include core meeting AI at no extra cost; the new product is the optional layer on top. See our meeting assistants guide.
Grammarly became Superhuman
What changed: Grammarly announced its intent to acquire Superhuman on 1 July 2025, and on 29 October 2025 renamed the company Superhuman, uniting Grammarly, Coda and Superhuman Mail under one brand.
What it means: two different products now share one name, and the Superhuman Suite and Superhuman Mail each have a plan called Business. Check which one a quote refers to. See our email assistants guide.
How we keep this record
Each entry was checked against the vendor’s own page at the time it was added, and the linked guides were corrected on the same day. We do not test the products hands-on for this log; it records published changes, not performance. If you spot a change we have missed, or an entry that has since changed again, please tell us through the contact page with a link to the vendor’s page. How we research and correct guides is set out in our editorial policy.
