# Why there is no plan for hobbyists or students

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**Category:** Modeling Questions\
**Created:** [April 17, 2022, 3:57am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/why-there-is-no-plan-for-hobbyists-or-students/18808 "2022-04-17T03:57:04Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 18, 2022, 11:50pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/why-there-is-no-plan-for-hobbyists-or-students/18808/4 "2022-04-18T23:50:51Z")

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Still, there needs to be a plan that works for hobbyists. Even a $14.99 a month would work better, but the big problem with the $239 rate is that it’s dependent on paying for the whole year, and many hobbyists can’t afford that. So it’s $29.99 a month unless you pay the annual rate, which technically brings it down to $19.99.

I’ve suggested this in the past as well. How about a $9.99 version that gives you the option to export a certain number of high-poly printable files per month…maybe 5? Or have a lower-price version and allow users to purchase “tokens” for prints. Maybe $1.99 an export (look at some of the stock photo sites for an example…you might purchase a package of tokens for $49.99; low-res photos might take one token, high res photos might cost two tokens)?

Not everyone needs to print, but the free version’s 3D exports are unusable for most printing. But $239 is still a hard pill to swallow for a whole lot of potential users. This is a FANTASTIC piece of software, and I’d love to see it in the hands of more people.

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