The New Yorker Digital at $99.99/yr ($8.33/mo equivalent on annual or $9.99/mo on monthly billing) ships the standard for long-form American journalism since 1925, with reported features routinely running 10,000-15,000 words plus fiction, criticism, cartoons, and a fully-searchable century-deep archive. The interesting question is whether the longest-form magazine model still fits your weekly reading time; for subscribers who actually read 1-2 features per week and value the fiction-plus-cartoons combination, it does, and you should stay. For everybody else, the picks below cover the four switching cohorts where the format-and-price ratio flips.
Where alternatives win
The Atlantic Digital at $79.99/yr ($6.67/mo equivalent on annual) is roughly $20/yr cheaper than New Yorker Digital and focuses on shorter long-form essays (typically 4,000-8,000 words versus New Yorker's 10,000-15,000); the right answer for subscribers whose reading capacity is closer to 5,000 words per piece than to a full evening, with distinctive contemporary voices (Applebaum, Coates, Hill, Rosin, Serwer) and audio narration on every major feature.
NYT All Access at $25/4-weeks ($325/yr) is roughly 3.25x New Yorker Digital but bundles daily news with Magazine and Sunday Review longform alongside Cooking, Games, Wirecutter, and The Athletic; the right answer for subscribers wanting daily news flow plus longform writing in one subscription, where the bundle math pays back if you actually use the extras (Cooking and Games alone are popular standalone subscriptions for many households).
Washington Post Core at $11.67/mo or $140/yr (standard rate as of Feb 2026) is roughly 40 percent more than New Yorker Digital but ships US politics, federal reporting, and investigative journalism at a daily-news cadence; the right answer for subscribers whose actual reading interest moved toward politics and accountability journalism rather than longform essays, with a $4/4-weeks introductory rate available for the first six months.
The Economist Digital at $24.99/mo or $189/yr is roughly 1.9x New Yorker Digital but trades American urban perspective for global affairs and economics with the tightest editorial voice in international journalism; the right answer for subscribers whose reading interest extends beyond New York culture to global politics and macro forces, with a similar weekly cadence to The New Yorker but a fundamentally different scope.
By Subrupt EditorialPublished Reviewed
The New Yorker has been the standard for long-form American journalism since 1925. Reported features routinely run 10,000-15,000 words. The fiction section publishes new short stories from established authors. The cartoons are a cultural institution. For readers who actually read the magazine cover-to-cover most weeks, no real peer exists at any price.
The trouble for many subscribers is the reading-time investment. A single feature takes an hour to read, and most weeks deliver 3-4 of them. Casual subscribers find the issues stack up unread. The political tone also reads narrow to non-coastal American readers; the editorial perspective is consistently New York urban liberal, and that consistency lands as either a feature or a structural mismatch depending on who you are.
The Atlantic Digital at $79.99/yr ships shorter long-form essays at $20/yr less than New Yorker. NYT All Access at $325/yr bundles daily news with Magazine longform plus Cooking, Games, and Wirecutter. Washington Post Core at $140/yr leads on US politics. The Economist Digital at $189/yr swaps American culture for global affairs at a similar weekly rhythm.
If your reading drifted toward shorter essays at slightly lower price, The Atlantic is the closest peer. If you want daily news plus longform, NYT bundles both. If your interest moved toward US politics, Washington Post is the right downgrade in scope but upgrade in cadence. If your work or curiosity expanded to global affairs, The Economist is the lateral switch in cadence but different in geography. Subscribers using the century-deep archive, paying for fiction and cartoons, or relying on audio narration for commute-time listening should stay; those features have no peer.
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The Atlantic Digital at $79.99/yr ships 4,000-8,000-word essays from contemporary voices (Applebaum, Coates, Hill, Rosin, Serwer) at $20/yr less than New Yorker; closest peer in genre with more accessible length.
Best for daily news bundled with Magazine longform
NYT All Access at $325/yr bundles daily news, Magazine, Sunday Review, Cooking, Games, Wirecutter, and The Athletic; pays back when you use 2+ of the extras alongside the longform writing.
Best for US politics and accountability journalism
Washington Post Core at $140/yr leads on US politics, federal reporting, and investigations at daily cadence; $4/4-weeks introductory rate for first 6 months sweetens the trial.
The Economist Digital at $24.99/mo or $189/yr ships the tightest editorial voice in international journalism plus the Espresso daily app; weekly rhythm matches New Yorker but the scope is global rather than American.
Skip these picks if: Stay with The New Yorker when the fiction section, cartoons, century-deep archive (every issue since 1925), or 15,000-word reported features are the lever you pay for. None of the picks below match that combination, and the audio-narration program covers commute-time listening that the picks do not consistently replicate.
At a glance: The New Yorker alternatives
Quick comparison across pricing floor, best fit, and switching effort. Tap a row to jump to the full pick.
Annual price (USD)Lowest annual rate at standard tier
$79.99
$325
$140
$189
Cost diff vs New Yorker Digital ($99.99)
−$20
+$225
+$40
+$89
Long-form essays per issueReported features at editorial-magazine length
yes (4-8K words)
partial (Magazine, weekly)
no (occasional)
yes (weekly format)
Fiction or cartoonsNew Yorker leads here; this row shows the trade
✗
no (occasional fiction in Magazine)
✗
✗
Daily news cadence
no (weekly digital)
yes (largest US daily)
✓
no (weekly + Espresso daily)
US politics depthFederal, accountability, and investigations
~
yes (largest)
yes (deepest at price)
macro angle only
International coverageEU, Asia, emerging markets
~
✓
competent
yes (strongest, weekly)
Audio narration programEvery major feature narrated for commute listening
yes (every feature)
partial (select pieces)
partial (select pieces)
yes (full weekly issue)
Cost at your volume
Approximate cost per pick at typical Annual cost (USD) at the cheapest realistic billing tier.
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First year1 Annual cost (USD) at the cheapest realistic billing tier
Two years cumulative2 Annual cost (USD) at the cheapest realistic billing tier
Cost diff vs New Yorker over 2 years0 Annual cost (USD) at the cheapest realistic billing tier
The Atlantic
$80/mo
$160/mo
$-40/mo
New York Times
$325/mo
$650/mo
$450/mo
Washington Post
$140/mo
$280/mo
$80/mo
The Economist
$189/mo
$378/mo
$178/mo
Modeled at each pick's cheapest annual path. Compare to New Yorker Digital Annual = $99.99 ($8.33/mo equivalent, the cheapest realistic 1-year cost; Monthly billing times 12 would be $119.88 at the verified $9.99/mo monthly rate). Auto-renewal pricing on premium magazine subscriptions typically holds closer to flat than software subscriptions; The New Yorker, The Atlantic, NYT, Washington Post, and The Economist all renew at rates close to their intro Annual after the first year. The Atlantic is the only pick cheaper than New Yorker (saves $20/yr at $79.99/yr); the other three are upgrades on price for materially different shape (NYT bundles 6+ products, Washington Post leads on US politics at daily cadence, The Economist swaps American culture for global affairs). Pricing verified 2026-05-02 against vendor sites and secondary sources.
The Atlantic Digital at $79.99/yr ($6.67/mo equivalent on annual) is the closest direct peer to The New Yorker in genre and the only pick on this page cheaper than the lead service.
The trade: You give up the fiction section, the cartoons, and the longest-form reported features. Atlantic essays typically run 4,000-8,000 words versus New Yorker's 10,000-15,000; the ambition per piece is genuinely smaller, and there is no equivalent of the century-deep New Yorker archive. The contemporary voices roster also differs structurally: The Atlantic carries Applebaum on autocracy, Coates on culture, Hill on gender, Rosin on family, Serwer on race; The New Yorker carries a deeper bench of staff writers across more beats.
The upside: You get distinctive contemporary essayists at length-tolerance most readers actually have, audio narration on every major feature, and a $20/yr saving against New Yorker Digital. For subscribers whose reading drifted away from full-evening features to under-an-hour reads, The Atlantic is the closest peer that still ships American long-form at high editorial standards.
Strengths
+$20/yr cheaper than New Yorker Digital ($79.99/yr vs $99.99/yr)
+Shorter pieces (4,000-8,000 words) fit limited reading time
+Distinctive contemporary voices (Applebaum, Coates, Hill, Rosin, Serwer)
+Audio narration on every major feature
Trade-offs
−No fiction section
−No cartoons or crossword
−Less depth on individual reported features (4,000-8,000 vs 10,000-15,000 words)
Digital
$79.99/yr (annual-only at standard tier)
Print + Digital
$89.99/yr
Premium (ad-free)
$120/yr
Pricing verified
2026-05-02
Migration steps
Subscribe at theatlantic.com; introductory promotional rates run roughly $50/yr for the first year, then renew at the standard $79.99/yr.
Install The Atlantic app; the audio-articles feature is on every major feature and covers commute listening.
Test the shorter format for 4-6 weeks before cancelling The New Yorker; the length adjustment matters more than the price difference.
Cancel The New Yorker via your Account Profile or by emailing support@newyorker.com; the cancellation funnel sometimes offers retention pricing on Digital around $5/4-weeks.
Not for: Skip The Atlantic when New Yorker fiction, cartoons, or 15,000-word reported features are the lever you pay for. Atlantic does not match those, and the genre overlap on long-form essays is real but the depth-per-piece is not equivalent.
NYT All Access at $25 every four weeks ($325/yr) is roughly 3.25x New Yorker Digital but bundles daily news with Magazine and Sunday Review longform plus Cooking, Games, Wirecutter, and The Athletic in a single subscription.
The trade: You give up consistency of long-form depth. NYT Magazine is excellent on its best weeks but uneven; long features run 6,000-10,000 words rather than New Yorker's 10,000-15,000, and the fiction section does not exist. The bundle math also assumes you actually use 2+ of the extras: Cooking ($5/mo standalone), Games ($5/mo standalone), Wirecutter, and The Athletic ($79.99/yr standalone) all cost real money separately, so the savings only materialize when at least two are doing real work for the household.
The upside: You get the largest US daily newsroom plus Magazine and Sunday Review long-form plus Cooking, Games, Wirecutter, and The Athletic in a single bundle that would cost $300+/yr separately. For subscribers wanting daily news flow alongside longform, NYT All Access is the only single-subscription answer at this price-and-breadth ratio.
Strengths
+Daily news flow plus Magazine and Sunday Review longform
+Cooking ($5/mo standalone) plus Games ($5/mo standalone) bundled
+The Athletic ($79.99/yr standalone) included for sports readers
+Largest US daily newsroom across business, politics, culture, science
Trade-offs
−3.25x New Yorker Digital ($325/yr vs $99.99/yr)
−Long-form depth per piece is less than New Yorker's
−No fiction section or cartoons
All Access
$25/4-weeks ($325/yr)
Basic Digital
$17/4-weeks ($221/yr)
All Access Family
$30/mo ($390/yr) for up to 4 users
Pricing verified
2026-05-02
Migration steps
Subscribe to NYT All Access at nytimes.com/subscription; first-year promo is typically $4/week for 6 months, then $25/4-weeks standard.
Audit which of the bundled products you would actually use: Cooking, Games, Wirecutter, The Athletic. The bundle pays back when 2+ are doing real work.
Install the NYT main app plus Cooking app plus Games app plus the Athletic app on a phone you actually carry.
Cancel The New Yorker via your Account Profile if NYT Magazine plus Sunday Review covers your longform reading.
Not for: Skip NYT All Access when 15,000-word reported features or weekly fiction are the load-bearing reason you pay The New Yorker. NYT Magazine is shorter and broader; the long-form ambition per piece is structurally less.
Washington Post Core at $11.67/mo or $140/yr (standard rate as of Feb 2026) is roughly 40 percent more than New Yorker Digital but ships US politics, federal reporting, and investigative journalism at a daily-news cadence.
The trade: You give up the magazine format entirely. Post is daily news first; the long-form essays exist but run shorter and less frequently than at the New Yorker. The arts and culture coverage is thinner, the fiction section does not exist, and the international coverage is competent but not the deepest. The price is also a step up from the catalog rate that older subscribers may remember; the Post raised standard rates in Feb 2026 from $120/yr to $140/yr Core, with algorithmic per-reader pricing meaning individual rates can vary.
The upside: You get the strongest US-politics coverage in the field, a strong investigative tradition (Watergate, Pentagon Papers, more recent national-security work), and a Premium tier ($15.83/mo or $190/yr) that adds an ad-free experience plus the Investigations newsletter. For subscribers whose actual reading interest moved toward politics and accountability journalism rather than longform essays, the Post is the right reshape; the $4/4-weeks introductory rate for the first six months also makes the trial cheap.
Strengths
+Strongest US-politics coverage and investigative tradition in the field
+$4/4-weeks introductory rate for the first 6 months (then $11.67/mo)
+Premium tier ($190/yr) adds no-ads plus Investigations newsletter
+Daily cadence covers breaking-news flow that weekly magazines miss by 5-7 days
Trade-offs
−$40/yr more than New Yorker Digital at standard rate
−No long-form magazine tradition (essays exist but shorter and less frequent)
−Algorithmic pricing means individual rates can vary by reader
Core (Digital)
$11.67/mo or $140/yr standard
Introductory rate
$4/4-weeks for first 6 months
Premium
$15.83/mo or $190/yr (ad-free, Investigations newsletter)
Pricing verified
2026-05-02
Migration steps
Subscribe at subscribe.washingtonpost.com; the $4/4-weeks introductory rate runs 6 months, then steps up to standard $11.67/mo.
Install the Washington Post app and turn on push alerts for politics or investigative-reporting topics you previously tracked.
Try the daily-news rhythm for 4-6 weeks before cancelling The New Yorker; the cadence change from weekly magazine to daily paper takes adjustment.
Cancel The New Yorker via your Account Profile or email support@newyorker.com; if you want to keep one feature, the audio-narration program is the most-missed and pairs with podcast subscriptions for a similar effect.
Not for: Skip Washington Post when long-form essays, fiction, or cartoons are the lever. Post is daily-news-first; the long-form publishing is real but cannot replace the New Yorker's weekly magazine rhythm.
The Economist Digital at $24.99/mo or $189/yr is roughly 1.9x New Yorker Digital but trades American urban perspective for global politics and economics on a similar weekly cadence.
The trade: You give up American culture entirely. The Economist covers tech, finance, climate, and global politics through a tightly-edited British editorial voice; there is no fiction, no cartoons, no Talk of the Town, no New Yorker-style cultural criticism. The single-voice editorial discipline can also feel monolithic over time, especially for readers used to the New Yorker's roster of distinct staff writers.
The upside: You get the tightest editorial voice in international journalism, strong economics and global politics, the Espresso daily-briefing app for short morning reads, and full audio narration on every weekly issue. For subscribers whose reading interest expanded beyond New York culture to broader macroeconomic and geopolitical forces, The Economist covers that better than any other consumer publication on the same weekly rhythm.
Strengths
+Tightest editorial voice in international journalism
+Strong economics, global politics, and macro analysis
+Espresso daily briefing app for short morning reads
+Full audio narration of every weekly issue (commute-time parity with New Yorker audio)
Trade-offs
−1.9x New Yorker Digital ($189/yr vs $99.99/yr)
−No American culture, fiction, or cartoons
−Single editorial voice can feel monolithic compared to New Yorker's writer roster
Digital
$24.99/mo or $189/yr Annual
Format
Weekly print plus daily Espresso plus full audio
Best for
Global affairs and macro readers
Pricing verified
2026-05-02
Migration steps
Subscribe at economist.com/subscribe; the $189/yr annual is usually discounted to $99-149 for the first year, then renews near $189.
Install the Economist main app plus Espresso (separate app for weekday morning briefings); Espresso is the closest thing to daily flow The Economist offers.
Try the audio edition (every weekly issue is fully narrated) for the same commute-time listening experience The New Yorker's audio program covers.
Cancel The New Yorker via your Account Profile or email support@newyorker.com; if American culture matters, pair The Economist with a low-cost American-magazine substitute (Atlantic Premium $120/yr, Harper's $24/yr) for under $213/yr combined.
Not for: Skip The Economist when American culture, fiction, cartoons, or Talk of the Town are the lever. This is global-first, single-voice, and structurally not interested in New York urban culture.
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When to stay with The New Yorker
Stay with The New Yorker when the longest-form American magazine writing is the actual reason you subscribe, the fiction section and cartoons are part of your weekly routine, the century-deep archive (every issue back to 1925, fully searchable) is doing real work, or audio narration covers commute-time listening of pieces you would not read at length. The picks below are honest exits for readers whose actual reading drifted toward shorter essays, daily news, US politics, or global affairs and whose New Yorker issues have started piling up unread; the entire fiction-plus-criticism-plus-cartoons-plus-15,000-word-features combination has no real peer, so do not switch lightly if any of those four is what you pay for.
The New Yorker alternatives are scored against the four cohorts that drive cancellation: shorter-essay readers whose reading capacity is closer to 5,000 words per piece than 15,000 where The Atlantic Digital at $79.99/yr ships 4,000-8,000-word essays at $20/yr cheaper than New Yorker, daily-news-and-bundle readers wanting longform plus daily news plus Cooking and Games and Wirecutter where NYT All Access at $325/yr bundles all of those at the price-equivalent of about 3.5 standalone subscriptions, US-politics-and-accountability readers whose actual reading interest moved away from magazine-format toward federal reporting and investigations where Washington Post Core at $11.67/mo or $140/yr leads at daily cadence with a $4/4-weeks introductory rate, and global-affairs readers whose curiosity expanded beyond New York culture to international politics and economics where The Economist Digital at $24.99/mo or $189/yr ships the tightest editorial voice in international journalism on a similar weekly rhythm. Each pick leads on one cohort; subscribers whose lever is fiction, cartoons, the century-deep archive (every issue since 1925, fully searchable), or audio narration on every major feature should stay because the combination has no peer.
Pricing is taken from each publication's site and corroborated against secondary sources on the review date and re-checked quarterly. The New Yorker Digital $9.99/mo or $99.99/yr verified 2026-05-02 (catalog had stale $8.99/$89.99; updated to current renewal rate that most app-store and direct subscribers settle on). The New Yorker Print + Digital $219/yr verified (was $119.99 in catalog; standard rate per multiple secondary sources). The Atlantic Digital $79.99/yr verified by Atlantic backfill earlier this date. NYT All Access $25/4-weeks ($325/yr) verified by news-media cluster on 2026-05-02. Washington Post Core $11.67/mo or $140/yr standard and Premium $15.83/mo or $190/yr verified (raised from $120/yr Core and $170/yr Premium in Feb 2026; algorithmic per-reader pricing means individual rates can vary). The Economist Digital $24.99/mo or $189/yr verified. Auto-renewal pricing on premium magazine subscriptions typically holds closer to flat than software subscriptions; all five publications renew at rates close to their intro Annual. Editorial quality is assessed by reading 10-15 representative pieces from each across one month per quarterly review cycle. The page is reviewed quarterly and whenever a recommended publication ships a major editorial change, paywall restructure, or pricing update.
Update history2 updates
Major revision to full Stage 2 schema. Trimmed picks from 5 to 4 (kept the-atlantic, nyt, washington-post, the-economist; dropped the-information because the audience-fit gap is severe, since New Yorker subscribers paying for longform American magazine writing do not credibly switch to industry-deep tech reporting at 4x the price; that swap belongs on The Information's own page where The Atlantic and The New Yorker do not appear as picks). Pricing fully re-verified against vendor sites and secondary sources: New Yorker Digital updated to $9.99/mo or $99.99/yr ($8.33/mo equivalent on annual; renewal rate that most app-store and direct subscribers settle on after the first-year promo) and Print+Digital updated to $219/yr (was $119.99 in catalog; standard rate at newyorker.com per multiple secondary sources). The Atlantic Digital $79.99/yr verified May 2026 (was $69.99 in catalog earlier, updated by Atlantic backfill 2026-05-02). NYT All Access $25/4-weeks ($325/yr) verified by news-media cluster on 2026-05-02. Washington Post catalog updated to standard Core $11.67/mo or $140/yr (was $4/$48 intro rate, raised from $120/yr in Feb 2026) and Premium $15.83/mo or $190/yr (raised from $170 in Feb 2026); $4/4-weeks intro rate still active for the first 6 months. The Economist Digital $24.99/mo or $189/yr verified. Added structured verdict with deep-links to picks, quickVerdict (4 entries plus skipIf), featureMatrix (8 dimensions across the-atlantic / nyt / washington-post / the-economist), usageCosts (annual cost in USD over 1-2 years vs The New Yorker annual baseline). Reformatted rationales to anchor / trade / upside structure with varied openings per pick. Added authorRating per pick. Updated _derived-from-editorial rows to reflect the dropped the-information pick and refreshed savingsDescriptions to match new bestFor labels.
Initial published version with 5 picks (the-atlantic, the-economist, nyt, washington-post, the-information).
Frequently asked questions about The New Yorker alternatives
Is The New Yorker Digital worth $99.99 a year?
If you actually read 1-2 long-form features per week, yes; the price is fair for the depth, the fiction section, and the century-deep searchable archive. For subscribers whose unread issues pile up at 3+ per month, the per-piece cost climbs fast (an unread weekly issue at $1.92 implies $99.99 buys content the subscriber does not consume). Track your weekly reading for one month before renewing; The New Yorker's audio-narration program covers commute listening for pieces you would not read at length, so the value test should include audio not just text reading.
Does The New Yorker include audio narration?
Yes; every major feature is fully narrated by professional voice actors and the experience is comparable to premium podcast subscriptions. For subscribers who would not read a 15,000-word feature at length but would listen to it on a commute, the audio program is one of the strongest reasons to stay (and one of the features the picks below match unevenly: The Atlantic and The Economist also narrate every feature; NYT and Washington Post narrate select pieces only).
How does The New Yorker compare to The Atlantic?
Both are American magazines with long-form reporting at a similar editorial standard. New Yorker pieces typically run 3-4x longer (10,000-15,000 vs Atlantic's 4,000-8,000 words). New Yorker includes a fiction section and the cartoons; The Atlantic does not. The Atlantic is $20/yr cheaper at standard rates ($79.99/yr Digital vs New Yorker's $99.99/yr). For subscribers whose actual reading capacity is closer to a 5,000-word essay than to a 15,000-word reported feature, The Atlantic is the better fit; for the longest-form ambition plus fiction plus cartoons combination, The New Yorker stays the pick.
What is included in The New Yorker Print + Digital?
The $219/yr Print + Digital bundle adds 47 weekly print issues per year (with 5 double issues per the editorial calendar) plus the full Digital subscription. The price was raised from $119.99/yr to $219/yr per multiple secondary sources tracking the standard rate. For subscribers who specifically value the physical magazine for reading away from screens or who want the print archive for collection purposes, the print bundle is roughly $120/yr more than Digital alone; that is a lot to pay for a tote bag plus weekly print, so think carefully about whether physical reading is doing real work for you.
Are there New Yorker discounts?
Annual at $99.99/yr saves vs monthly at $9.99/mo (which would be $119.88/yr times 12). Students with verified .edu emails get a discounted educational rate (typically $5/4-weeks). Some employers include The New Yorker in their reading-stipend benefits. The cancellation funnel sometimes offers retention pricing around $5/4-weeks ($65/yr) for committed subscribers; if you are on the fence, a cancellation attempt often surfaces a better rate. Direct via newyorker.com sometimes shows promotional rates between $65/yr first year (intro) and $208/yr at the higher renewal tier; the app-store-anchored $99.99/yr renewal is what most subscribers settle on.
How do I cancel The New Yorker?
Cancellation can be done via your Account Profile (self-service) at newyorker.com or by emailing support@newyorker.com with your account details (subscriber ID, billing address, account email). Following cancellation, your Subscription access continues until the end of your current billing period; The New Yorker does not offer prorated refunds for unused time on most plans. Print subscribers should cancel at least 4 weeks before the next billing cycle to avoid receiving (and being charged for) one extra issue. The cancellation funnel is the most common path to a retention discount; if your real complaint is price rather than fit, ask for a discount before cancelling.
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Our top The New Yorker alternative: The Atlantic
The Atlantic Digital at $79.99/yr ($6.67/mo equivalent on annual) is roughly $20/yr cheaper than New Yorker Digital and focuses on shorter long-form essays (typically 4,000-8,000 words versus New Yorker's 10,000-15,000); the right answer for subscribers whose reading capacity is closer to 5,000 words per piece than to a full evening, with distinctive contemporary voices (Applebaum, Coates, Hill, Rosin, Serwer) and audio narration on every major feature.
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