Luvo AI vs Pornify

Their pricing page has a countdown clock reading hours, minutes and seconds; a "-23% OFF" badge on the cheapest tier; and a notice saying "ONLY 16 SEATS LEFT TODAY", with an explanation underneath: "We accept a limited number of new subscribers each day to keep generation queues fast and quality high."

That explanation might be true. Queue capacity is a real constraint and we rent the same kind of hardware they do. What we would say is that a seat limit which is genuinely about capacity does not usually come with a countdown timer next to it, and the two together are the standard furniture of manufactured urgency.

We do not run any of it, and the reason is not that we are nicer. It is that our whole position is that this category's pricing is difficult to read on purpose, and you cannot make that argument on a page with a clock ticking down on it. Our prices are the same on Tuesday as they are during a sale, because there is no sale.

Their tier list says "100 free coins each month" and, three lines later, "Image generation (2 gems)". Those are the two numbers you need to work out what a picture costs, and nothing on the page says whether they are the same currency.

We have read them as the same, which is the reading that produces a sensible answer — 50 images on the entry tier, 250 on the top one — and it is also the reading most favourable to them, because the alternative is that the coins do not buy images at all.

This is exactly the failure the pages in this set exist to point at, and it is worth being precise about what the failure is. It is not that they are expensive. It is that you cannot answer "what does one photograph cost me" from their pricing page, and neither can we, and we have been trying for an hour with the page open.