{
  "id": 2332439,
  "title": "₹399 Became Three Different Prices, and I Don't Know Why: A Pricing Bug in Razorpay Subscription Tiers",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/21/399-became-three-different-prices-and-i-dont-know-why-a-pricing-bug",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-21T07:45:18.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/amitesh0512/399-became-three-different-prices-and-i-dont-know-why-a-pricing-bug-in-razorpay-subscription-jii"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "When the MockEvalio project first launched, there was a single paid plan: Pro for ₹399 per month. This price remained unchanged for a month until Razorpay's payment integration was finally implemented. On April 3, the first commit was pushed that enabled actual payments through Razorpay's orders API, verification, webhooks, and a checkout flow. However, just nine hours later, the price of the Pro tier had changed to three different values: Free at ₹0, Starter at ₹99, Pro at ₹299, and Premium at ₹499. The new pricing structure consisted of four tiers, with the Pro tier priced at ₹299, which was now lower than the previous ₹399. No reason was provided in the commit messages for why the new tiers were introduced or the specific price points chosen.",
  "summary": "From the very first working version of MockEvalio, there was one paid plan: Free, or Pro at ₹399 a month. That number sat in the product for a month without anyone being able to actually pay it — the Razorpay keys were wired into the config from the second commit of the whole project, but nothing behind them worked yet. Then, within nine hours of that finally changing, ₹399 stopped being the…",
  "key_points": [
    "MockEvalio initially had a single Pro plan at ₹399/month.",
    "Commit messages lack explanation for new tier structure and price points."
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}