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Preserve these limitations and costs: page-view and staff-seat caps per tier, AI usage metered by daily credits with add-on pricing unknown, Business migrations requiring one year upfront, Enterprise-only SLA/SAML/GDPR hosting, unpublished Enterprise pricing, and self-hosting requiring your own ops. Do not describe the Free plan as unlimited or the service as free. 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