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What each generator documents about marking its output

Crossing point: where a vendor divides trial from customer

A crossing point is the plan at which a vendor stops applying its visible mark. Leaving a mark off costs the same at any price, so the figure records a packaging decision and not the value of the mark. As of 2026-09-22.

What the figure beside a crossing point measuresA visible mark costs the same to leave off at ten dollars a month as at thirty, so the range of figures records where each vendor divides a trial from a customer. What a production actually needs is the position of the boundary and whether it has a deadline.What the figure showsWhat it hidesThe boundaryWhere a trial becomes a customerWhether it is the first paid planThe markNothingPosition, size and behaviourThe timingNothingWhether earlier files can be cleanedThe licenceNothingWhether publishing is permittedThe readings carry the three columns a figure cannot
Fig. 1 Two entries at similar prices can demand entirely different behaviour, which a figure cannot show.
How this register uses the term, and what it excludes. Written 2026-09-22.
The termCrossing point
What it namesThe plan at which the visible mark stops being applied
What it is notA price for the mark, or a permission to publish
Where the register uses itThe paid-tier column, on every plan-gated entry

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 figure measures a boundary, not an object

The priced crossing points here span a factor of three, and nothing about the marks differs across that range: none is described, none has a published position, and every one of those entries records not documented for what the file carries. What the spread measures is where each company stops giving output away.

The marking line rides along on that decision because a visible mark is the cheapest available reminder that somebody has not paid. That is why a crossing point is a fact about a business and a reader choosing a product on this column alone is choosing on the wrong evidence.

2Position matters more than the figure

On most entries the crossing point is the first paid plan, so any subscription produces clean output and an invoice settles the question. On two it sits higher, which leaves a paid plan on the marked side and makes the plan name, rather than the fact of payment, the thing that has to be known.

A figure cannot show that. Two entries at similar prices can demand entirely different behaviour from a production, and one of them attaches a deadline: a mark applied before the upgrade is stated to survive it, so the purchase cannot wait.

3What it does not include

Permission. On one entry the commercial licence starts a plan above the marking line, which produces a subscription whose output carries no mark and no right to publish. Nothing about such a file indicates the restriction, which is the most expensive way to misread this column.

And anything inside the file. No priced entry in this register names a provenance standard, so crossing the point changes what a viewer sees and changes nothing a later recipient could inspect.

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: list price, annual basis, promotional rate.