October 2026 AI Game Tools Price & Terms Tracker

Key numbers

• 18changes logged
• 13tools affected
• 13in the last 3 days (Oct 29–31)
• By typeplan 9 · price 7 · terms 1 · addition 1

The 5 changes that matter most

1. Ludus AI now trains on your prompts by default outside Consent RegionsLudus AI's terms dated 5 October 2026 turn Model improvement on by default outside Consent Regions, including the US. It stays off in the EEA and UK.
2. Ziva's free Hobby plan: 5 Smart messages, $3 of AI usage 'to start'Ziva's free Hobby plan cut free Ziva Smart messages from 10 to 5 (Oct 29), then changed its $3 of included AI usage from monthly to "to start" (Oct 31).
3. Claude Max is now a flat $100; new $200 Ultra planClaude's pricing page lists Max at a flat $100 a month (5x Pro usage) instead of "From $100", plus a new $200 Ultra plan with no 5-hour limit.
4. Aura drops "unlimited" Auto Mode for weekly usage limitsAura's Indie plan now has "Generous Auto Mode usage limits (~120 questions/week)" instead of unlimited Auto Mode. Plan prices are unchanged.
5. Fish Audio's API no longer requires a subscriptionFish Audio's plan page now says API access doesn't need a subscription: the API is billed separately with pay-as-you-go credit.

All 18 changes

Shutdowns and removals

• Luma AI retired Genie, its text-to-3D tool, on January 1, 2026Sunset January 1, 2026 per Luma; detected in October (Oct 23).
• Fish Audio's $999 Max plan is no longer listed on its plan pageMax ($999 a month, or $749 a month billed annually at $8,988) is no longer listed on the plan page; detected Oct 29.

Minor or not headlined

Short promotions, A/B pricing variants and single new price cells are logged but not headlined.

• ElevenLabs Starter's $1 first-month promo ended, then came backElevenLabs Starter's $1 first-month promo ended Oct 18, then returned marked 'Until Nov 1'. Starter is still $6 a month with 30,000 credits.
• Mubert's pricing page is serving two different versionsMubert's pricing page serves two versions: one replaces Business ($199/mo) with Ultra ($89/mo) and cuts Creator to 100 generations a month.
• OpenAI lists a $0.025 Batch cached-input price for gpt-6.1-terraOpenAI's API pricing page now lists $0.025 per 1M tokens for gpt-6.1-terra cached input in the Batch table. Standard prices we track are unchanged.
• Cartesia voice-agent calls drop to $0.03 a minute as the standard rateCartesia cut its voice-agent call rate from $0.06 to a $0.03 promo (Oct 29), then made $0.03 a minute the standard rate on every plan (Oct 30).

Coverage gaps

Last check Oct 31, 12:14 UTC: 60 of 64 pricing pages read · 4 blocked our checker. Marked “check blocked” on /changes: Adobe Firefly, Leonardo.Ai. A change on those pages would not show up here yet.

We list 66 tools; the pricing pages we watch are listed on /changes.

Methodology

We fetch each tracked vendor pricing or terms page once a day. A change is logged when a sentence we quote is no longer on the page, or when the prices on the page are different. An editor then writes a one-paragraph summary and links the source page. Dates are when our checker first saw the change (UTC), not when the vendor made it. Where the vendor states its own date (for example a terms “last updated” line), we show it in the timeline. “Before” quotes come from our stored snapshot or, where noted, an Internet Archive capture. We list what changed, not why. Pages that blocked our checker on a given day are listed as gaps. A/B variants and short promotions are logged but not headlined.

More on how we check

Download and reuse

ai-game-tools-price-terms-2026-10.csv has one row per change log entry: detection time, tool, type, before and after, the vendor's wording, the source URL and the RespawnStack change page. It is licensed CC BY 4.0.

Source: RespawnStack (respawnstack.com), October 2026 AI Game Tools Price & Terms Tracker, https://respawnstack.com/tracker/2026-10