Dear Taitopia Users,

Today, we have found ourselves in a challenging position that necessitates difficult decisions for the future of our service. After much deliberation and analysis over our operation history and current market conditions, we have reached the conclusion that Taitopia will terminate its Free Plan effective May 1, 2024. After termination of the Free Plan, users without a Pro subscription may still log in to their Taitopia workspace, but needs to upgrade to a Pro plan to open a Taitopia file.

Since the launch of Taitopia, we believed that its interactive rendering nature was well suited for the on-demand device allocation capabilities of modern cloud computing platforms. That is, when a user opens a Taitopia file, our cloud service provider is able to immediately find a cloud machine for them, and ideally the machine can be rented at a relatively low cost because they would otherwise become idle. However, the GPU market of late 2023 and onwards is instead at a so high demand that those on-demand machines are at most times expensive or unavailable at all. Therefore to keep Taitopia accessible we had to reserve GPU machines to make them ready for Taitopia's use 24/7. Consequently, the operation of Taitopia with a Free Plan has led us to significant financial losses despite our best efforts.

Therefore, the only viable path forward to sustain Taitopia and continue providing our services is to cut down costs, which, regrettably, includes discontinuing the Free Plan. We understand the impact this may have on you, and we do not make this decision lightly. We are also saddened about this change, but we were left no other choices.

Again, thank you for having been a part of Taitopia. Your creativity and passion have been the driving force behind our platform. Whether you may choose to stay with Taitopia or to leave our platform, we would like to express our deepest gratitude towards your support.

Warm regards, The Taitopia Team

April 8th, 2024