At least you&#x27;ll have paid for 6 months right away; and if you lapse, when you go to renew you pay for another 6 months upfront.<p>If you&#x27;re going to all this trouble just to skimp £100 per year on your main development tool you&#x27;re probably the type of customer who will simply not buy into a SaaS model anyway, so there is no point in chasing your pennies.<p>You could unofficially make the &quot;skimping&quot; into the reduced price option, removing the current &quot;personal&quot; licenses and removing complexity. Cheap &quot;Personals&quot; will pay a 6-months fee once a year or less, losing updates, and &quot;Companies&quot; will happily pay full whack (because they value predictability and opex vs capex) for the full monty. Win-win, and nobody gets hurt in the feelings.