My Akismet API Key Stopped Working

I was putting up a blog and entered my Akismet API and … it didn’t work. I went to another blog and sure enough, it was not working there either. What could be going on? With the recent Google changes, I was wondering if Akismet was dropping API’s too.

A little jaunt over to the Akismet website and, Is This Really Happening goofy look must have come over my face.

The new Akismet price schedule is as follows:

• Pro – $5/mo for a single site
• Enterprise – $50/mo + Multi-site access (low traffic sites)
• High Volume- $100/mo + For hight traffic sites and custom applications

Oh, below those in text only,

• Personal site – $0-$120 Just pay what you want

I just found this quite interesting.

Maybe Akismet had charged in the past. I just had the same API key for some time and have not visited the Akismet site in years.