Sayintentions.ai price increase from 1st of November for new or returning customers. 

Monthly +20%

Yearly +23%

(Note: if you want to try the 24h demo, there is no traffic included!) 

 

 

Dear Captain,

Good news first — if you already have an active subscription, your price stays the same for as long as your subscription remains active. We're keeping our promise to take care of our loyal customers.

Starting November 1, new subscriptions will be $23.95/month (up from $19.95), and annual plans will move to $239.95/year. Anyone who signs up or reactivates before November 1 will also be locked in at today’s lower rate.

When we first launched at $19.95/month, SayIntentions.AI was focused almost entirely on very basic ATC functionality. Since then, we’ve grown into a full global ecosystem — IFR/VFR traffic injection, cabin and crew voices, co-pilots, SkyOps, VATSIM/IVAO handoffs, CPDLC integration, PIREPs, NOTAMs, TFRs, checklists, pushback, and more. It’s a different product entirely — vastly more powerful and immersive, and many more features coming soon (most of which will revolve around our core ATC offering).

We know price changes are never ideal, and we don’t take this lightly. We simply haven't seen the anticipated price-drops from the AI compute and AI voice industries that so many anticipated. To the contrary, our costs have increased sharply, especially with the massive growth in the use of traffic injection. This modest adjustment ensures we can keep investing in performance, reliability, and innovation without compromise.

Across the gaming and simulation world, everyone is facing similar headwinds — Xbox Game Pass, for example, recently increased prices by 50% following a 17% rise last year (with no grandfathering!!). We’d rather make one modest, transparent change now than several abrupt ones later.

We’re deeply grateful for your continued support — you’re the reason SayIntentions.AI keeps getting better.

Blue skies,
The SayIntentions.AI Team

More Info and FAQ:
<https://www.sayintentions.ai/price-change>

1 hour ago, guenseli said:

When we first launched at $19.95/month, SayIntentions.AI was focused almost entirely on very basic ATC functionality. Since then, we’ve grown into a full global ecosystem — IFR/VFR traffic injection, cabin and crew voices, co-pilots, SkyOps, VATSIM/IVAO handoffs, CPDLC integration, PIREPs, NOTAMs, TFRs, checklists, pushback, and more.

I think that’s the main issue with SI. It’s becomming so bloated, almost an enterely different product. And you either subscribe for all or for none. I subscribed for the core ATC features. I don’t care about checklists, cabin crew, tour guides, pushback and so on. I already have other products that can do that part better.

i wish they would offer a base subscribtion and then a la carte upgrades for traffic, cabin crews, pushback, … So everyone could opt-in to exactly what he needs. But I guess there is more money to take in the current all or nothing model.

I’m not going to renew my subscription though. 

A little bit of of a  background about billing of ai services which could apply to SI and their assumptions too:

https://ethanding.substack.com/p/ai-subscriptions-get-short-squeezed

 

 

54 minutes ago, petz_e said:

 

i wish they would offer a base subscribtion and then a la carte upgrades for traffic, cabin crews, pushback, … So everyone could opt-in to exactly what he needs. But I guess there is more money to take in the current all or nothing model.

I also agree. I was only ever interested in a really well done ATC product. Isn’t that what it was all about at first?  I guess a business has to keep showing they are innovating.  

I was nearly going to reactivate my subscription but can't justify it now.

Higher prices result in lower demand - It's as simple as that.  I've seen so may firms go out of business because they think that the golden geese (customers) will keep laying golden eggs.

17 minutes ago, DavidP said:

I was nearly going to reactivate my subscription but can't justify it now.

From their announcement: Anyone who signs up or reactivates before November 1 will also be locked in at today’s lower rate.

They should have concentrated on ATC alone instead of bloating their program with AI Companion fluff.

That also contributes to the cost. 

People have been saying for a while that their pricing model is just too expensive and now they increase it even more. 

BeyondATC has won the race now. 

23 minutes ago, Farlis said:

They should have concentrated on ATC alone instead of bloating their program with AI Companion fluff.

That also contributes to the cost. 

People have been saying for a while that their pricing model is just too expensive and now they increase it even more. 

BeyondATC has won the race now. 

The performance of SI alone with hundreds of aircraft, plus GA integration absolutely blows BATC out of the water.  It's worth the price increase.  Absolutely astonishing bit of kit.  

I am no word not allowed though.  I still get aircraft taxying into me at many airports.  It's annoying though that they asked if we would like to pay more for an "enhanced ATC" in their Discord a few weeks ago.  Many of us said yes.  Now they raise the price for the default package.  

Edited October 9, 2025Oct 9 by Langeveldt

11 minutes ago, Langeveldt said:

The performance of SI alone with hundreds of aircraft, plus GA integration absolutely blows BATC out of the water. 

It does not. 

I compared them and the only edge SI has at the moment is GA traffic in VFR and lots of unnecessary fluff. 

The reaction time of the LLM alone is a huge turn off. 

The more tightly scripted approach of BATC is vastly superior. 

Not to mention that it has no recurring costs unless you prefer to use the premium voices. 

Edited October 9, 2025Oct 9 by Farlis

1 hour ago, cianpars said:

Higher prices result in lower demand - It's as simple as that.  I've seen so may firms go out of business because they think that the golden geese (customers) will keep laying golden eggs.

If their costs exceed their revenues, they're going to go out of business too though. Of course, it's not possible to verify from the outside whether that's actually the case here.

Also just to note: It's true that increasing price will reduce demand, but the total revenue may still increase if demand reduces only relatively little compared to the price increase. (The relavant economic concept here is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_elasticity_of_demand.) Hard to say where they actually are on the elasticity curve - and of course, even if they're doing the right thing for the business, a price increase always stings for the customer.

3 hours ago, pemigris said:

A little bit of of a  background about billing of ai services which could apply to SI and their assumptions too:

https://ethanding.substack.com/p/ai-subscriptions-get-short-squeezed

 

 

Yes - this is a classic bubble. The companies have invested so much cap ex that they are just now figuring out the revenue can likely never pay that back, so prices have to soar. At current prices, with the investment already made into the major AI companies, they'll need 3.15bn paid subscribers (average licensing cost), which is functionally impossible.

2x the size of the subprime bubble, driver of 80% of value increases on the S&P, it's "too big to fail" until it does. Also, I just left an AI conference and can't say I walked away feeling the economics made any sense...

41 minutes ago, Farlis said:

It does not. 

I compared them and the only edge SI has at the moment is GA traffic in VFR and lots of unnecessary fluff. 

The reaction time of the LLM alone is a huge turn off. 

The more tightly scripted approach of BATC is vastly superior. 

Not to mention that it has no recurring costs unless you prefer to use the premium voices. 

I'm a happy SI subscriber. I felt BATC's implementation of traffic to be a bit too cumbersome and 'static'. And I say this as someone keeping an eye on both products – I've paid for the partner tier on both of them.

What I like is that I can just start SI up and it automatically populates the world with traffic wherever I go. I don't have to have a simbrief flight plan, reset stuff with every new flight. You open the app and forget it's there. Doesn't matter if I'm flying IFR or VFR. To me that's much better UX. 

Don't really see the reaction time as an issue – takes a few seconds for ATC to respond but that feels natural to me.

Also don't really see their features as fluff – not a fan of the ground handling stuff, but having a functional copilot and cabin crew you can coordinate with is great. I had a lot of fun with skyops, gives you a lot of stuff to do. 

Totally get that it's expensive for people, but my view is that it's an expensive hobby in general. Personally I get the value I need out of it.

 

17 minutes ago, mspencer said:

Yes - this is a classic bubble.

Totally agree. Friend raised $7m and spent most of it on a domain and marketing. The actual product is an API caller on a basic board, encased in what looks like a cheap soap dispenser off Temu. No value created at all. 

My point is that it's the sort of thing that you saw back in the dotcom bubble. I think the correction is going to be spectacular.

My price is locked in, so I'm OK. But I just read how Disney is increasing prices at their parks - it's just a fact of life everywhere. SI anticipated that AI prices would have dropped more, and they didn't. There is still time to sign up and lock in the current rates. 

SI has added so much to the sim experience for me that a few extra bucks a month (skip a Starbucks maybe) would be worth it.