To follow up on this, we did update the pricing now https://ffmpeg.guide/pricing which should be effective from Nov 1st. Gonna try to move some more lifetime deals at a slightly higher price before then
As a hobbyist who doesn't _need_ this, the 6-node free plan feels very reasonable for tinkering around and sanity-checking something.
As someone with a project at work that involves setting up an ffmpeg project in the future, I'm now expecting to talk to my boss about expensing this and I think it's at the perfect price point where it won't take too much effort to get them to budge.
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