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Option C pricing on the page: the Free card now names the recent
malicious-package feed it ships with (not just heuristics), and the Pro card
reframes the feed as the value that is actually paid for — the full 235k
corpus, refreshed daily, new threats within hours of disclosure — plus the
incremental delivery. JSON-LD Free offer updated to match. Design untouched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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