AI Companion App Pricing Uses Opaque Tactics That Inflate Real Cost
A cost-comparison piece claims that three specific pricing tricks explain why the real cost of AI companion apps varies widely across ten products. The post is an analysis/listicle rather than a first-person complaint, so the underlying pattern is asserted but not independently detailed here.
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