Every week, AI vendors do something roastable: a surprise price hike, a quiet model downgrade, terms that changed while you slept. This battle lets you vote the worst offender — and behind the comedy is genuine cybersecurity news literacy. Knowing which vendors pull these moves is how you choose who to trust with your data.
Because humor is a delivery mechanism for accountability. A dry changelog note about updated data retention terms gets ignored; a roast about the same change gets shared — and suddenly thousands of users check their settings. The battle format works as informal vendor oversight: public mockery is often the fastest path to a reverted policy. Laugh first, then go read the terms.
Vendor lock-in is when switching away from a product becomes so costly or painful — migrated data, retrained staff, broken integrations — that you stay even as terms worsen. Roast-worthy vendor moves often exploit exactly this dynamic.
Every week the AI industry hands us fresh material: a price hike dressed as an upgrade, a quiet model downgrade, a terms change buried in legalese. We collect the four most roastable real vendor moves — and you vote for the champion. New round every Monday.
🗓️ New round every Monday — seeded from the previous week's real AI industry reporting. Allegations and lawsuits cited above are unproven claims in ongoing legal proceedings, not findings.
ModelMinder watches your stack for exactly this kind of move: quiet price hikes, model deprecations, terms changes — caught the week they happen, not the month your invoice arrives.
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Subscribe to the newsletter →The roasts are opinionated commentary, but every entry is a real vendor move with its source and date linked. No invented facts, no fabricated incidents — we roast the move, never people.
On September 29, 2026, OpenAI kept the $200/month Pro plan price but cut its included usage from 20x to 10x of the Plus allowance, and halved weekly GPT-6 Pro chat messages from 200 to 100. Korean press described it as an effective 100% price increase.
Tap "Vote" on the entry you find most roastable. Votes are stored only in your browser's localStorage — a device-only demo with no accounts and no tracking. One vote per entry per device.
A new round starts every Monday, seeded with the most roastable vendor moves from the previous week of real AI industry reporting. Subscribe to the newsletter to get the new bracket in your inbox.
The roasts are opinionated commentary, but every entry is a real vendor move with its source and date linked. No invented facts, no fabricated incidents — we roast the move, never people.
On September 29, 2026, OpenAI kept the $200/month Pro plan price but cut its included usage from 20x to 10x of the Plus allowance, and halved weekly GPT-6 Pro chat messages from 200 to 100. Korean press described it as an effective 100% price increase.
Tap "Vote" on the entry you find most roastable. Votes are stored only in your browser's localStorage — a device-only demo with no accounts and no tracking. One vote per entry per device.
A new round starts every Monday, seeded with the most roastable vendor moves from the previous week of real AI industry reporting.