Researcher questions Refine's $50 price: a multi-turn GPT6-Pro chat could do the job
RexDouglass · x · 2026-10-15
RexDouglass questions whether Refine still charges $50 for what he thinks could just be a multi-turn GPT6-Pro conversation. He also notes a recurring pattern: every time someone builds such a wrapper, they build it around gaps in the current model generation that become irrelevant within six months — citing his own 3-year-old OCR-to-markdown project as evidence.
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