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What each generator documents about marking its output

Annual basis: two numbers for the same boundary

An annual basis quotes a monthly figure that requires a year's commitment. Pages in this register mix that convention with plain monthly pricing, so two crossing points are rarely comparable as printed. As of 2026-09-22.

What a billing basis changes, and what it does notThe mark comes off on the plan rather than on the billing cycle, so an annual and a monthly figure for the same tier buy an identical file state. The commitment is the only difference, and on one entry the cost of committing below the boundary is a year of permanently marked material.Quoted monthlyQuoted on an annual basisThe figureUsually the higher of the twoLower, by up to about a thirdThe file stateIdenticalIdenticalIf the plan was wrongReversible next monthPaid for the rest of the termWhere the register puts itIn the cell, if it is the headlineIn the reading's proseNeither figure is converted or averaged here
Fig. 1 Two entries with the same monthly price can look like different boundaries depending on which figure a reader picked up.
How this register uses the term, and what it excludes. Written 2026-09-22.
The termAnnual basis
What it namesA monthly figure conditional on a year's commitment
What it is notThe amount charged in any single month
Where the register uses itThe prose of several paid-tier readings

Inclusion rule. Words this site uses in a narrow sense, where the ordinary sense would lead a reader to misread a cell. No vendor statement appears on this page. Order. Fixed order: what the word names, what it excludes, then where it is used here.

1The same boundary, two headline figures

Four entries here print both conventions for the plan where the mark stops. The gaps range from modest to about a third of the monthly figure, which is wide enough that two entries with the same monthly price can look like different boundaries depending on which number a reader picked up.

Nothing about the file changes with the billing cycle. The mark comes off on the plan, so the cheaper annual figure buys exactly the state the dearer monthly one buys. What differs is the commitment, and therefore the cost of having chosen the wrong plan.

2Where the commitment actually costs something

On one entry a watermark applied before an upgrade is stated to survive it. Committing annually to the plan below that crossing point means a year of material that no later payment can clean up, which is a larger consequence than the discount is worth.

Everywhere else the commitment is only money. A reader who chose the wrong plan pays for the rest of the term and gets clean output from the moment they upgrade, because on those entries the crossing point applies to whatever is generated next.

3What the register does with the two figures

The cell holds whichever figure the page prints as the plan's headline price; the reading records the other. Neither is converted, averaged or annualised, because the columns are meant to hold what a vendor published rather than a calculation performed here.

The consequence is that any comparison across entries has to name its basis. A finding page that quotes a range of crossing points is quoting a range of headline figures, which is stated on that page rather than left for a reader to discover.

Nothing on this page is a vendor statement; the values it helps read are on the support table, with the page and the date each one was read from. See also the paid tier column, reading a plan table. Nearby terms: promotional rate, plan inheritance, trial tier.