Pricing
The latest Pricing coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Windows Server 2025 on Dedicated Hardware in Mumbai? Onlive Server's DSX Line Demands a Hard Look
Onlive Server has thrown open the doors on a new range of India-based dedicated servers, pitching entry-level Xeon-powered machines with NVMe storage out of a Tier-III Mumbai data center for an...
MSPs Gain New Tools as Vendors Unleash Unified Partner Hubs, PAYG Billing, and AI Security
{ "title": "MSPs Gain New Tools as Vendors Unleash Unified Partner Hubs, PAYG Billing, and AI Security", "content": "Four major technology vendors this week retooled their partner engagement...
Leaked Plans Show Microsoft Folding Copilot Add-Ons Into $30 Seat, Shifting Hefty Usage to Credits
Microsoft is engineering a dramatic reshaping of its Microsoft 365 Copilot pricing strategy that will slash the effective per-user cost for many enterprises while seeding a consumption-based billing...
DuckDuckGo's $9.99 Privacy Bundle Adds Access to GPT-4o, Claude Sonnet 4, and Meta's Llama Maverick
DuckDuckGo has retooled its paid subscription into a one-stop privacy and AI bundle, adding access to high-end chat models while keeping the $9.99/month price tag. The refreshed plan now reportedly...
Microsoft's GPT-Realtime Model Hits General Availability on Azure AI Foundry with 20% Lower Pricing
Microsoft has pushed gpt-realtime, a speech-to-speech model designed for low-latency, natural-sounding conversational agents, into general availability on Azure AI Foundry. The release, accessible...
ChatGPT Outages Expose Critical Risk: The 2025 Blueprint for a Multi-AI Workflow
ChatGPT’s service interruptions in recent months didn’t just interrupt casual conversation—they froze customer support pipelines, stalled content engines, and exposed a brittle dependency that...
xAI Drops Grok Code Fast 1: Agentic Coding Now in VS Code at $1.50/M Output Tokens
Elon Musk's xAI just launched Grok Code Fast 1, a coding-first, tool-aware model purpose-built for agentic development workflows. The model lands inside Visual Studio Code and third-party extensions...
xAI Drops Grok Code Fast 1: A Speedy, Tool-Savvy AI Coder Priced to Disrupt
On August 28, Elon Musk’s xAI launched Grok Code Fast 1, an agentic coding model designed from the ground up to slash latency and cost for software teams. The company is pitching it as a practical,...
Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT Now Run the Same GPT-15 Model — So Which Should You Choose?
{ "title": "Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT Now Run the Same GPT-15 Model — So Which Should You Choose?", "content": "Microsoft folded OpenAI’s GPT-15 models into its consumer and enterprise...
Acer Swift 16 AI Review: Mesmerising 16-Inch OLED, Lunar Lake Stamina, but Mind the Compromises
The 16-inch laptop market has long been dominated by either thick, heavy desktop replacements or eye-wateringly expensive ultrabooks that ask you to trade your car for a few millimeters of thinness....
Microsoft Signals Cheaper Cloud-Only Xbox Game Pass as Streaming-Only Users Multiply
Microsoft is actively exploring a lower-cost Xbox Game Pass tier that strips away console and PC perks in favor of a cloud-only streaming subscription, according to comments from an Xbox executive...
GPT-5 Arrives on Windows via Copilot, Promising Deeper Reasoning and Longer Context
On August 7, 2025, OpenAI released GPT-5 — and Microsoft simultaneously flipped the switch across its entire Copilot ecosystem, bringing the new model’s unified fast/thinking modes to Windows 11,...