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    "The included plan allowance is fully used; unused allowance raises effective cost.",
    "Upfront checkout cost is the entire subscription or pack, not this usage allocation.",
    "Taxes, currency conversion fees and unmeasured human editing time are excluded.",
    "No annual discount, new-user credit or account-specific offer lowers the main paid estimates.",
    "Failed attempts and retries within each evaluated batch remain included.",
    "Each action task contributes at most one selected result; these figures are not equal-duration or equal-resolution benchmarks.",
    "AnimGen pixel uses the October 20 fixed-version batch. Other tool batches remain October 17–18; this is not a matched-attempt success-rate ranking."
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