Hi guys

I did some reading and it seems as though the only way to use Yandex with Trados is to bring it in via the Intento MT plugin.
However, when registering an Intento account I noticed that they force you to spend a minimum of $25/month upfront to have an account (or, essentially, to use the plugin).

That doesn't make sense to me, because the actual MT provider, e.g. Yandex in this case, is charging per character, so they would be charging you depending on how much you use the service and then Intento would be charging a flat fee of minimum $25/month as well.

Am I understanding this correctly or not? I wouldn't want to pay more money than necessary.

Yandex has given me a 60-day trial period. For me to use Yandex in Trados I'd have to do so via the Intento plugin.
That means I'd have to pay $50 for the "free" 60-day trial from Yandex (which doesn't make business sense at all).

I'd appreciate anyone's thoughts on this.