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All plans are fixed at 24 months with no shorter options ."},{"fit":"not_best_suited","scenario":"Want to build savings through the product. Deepseek stated Cheers does not build a savings corpus, though this conflicts with other platform descriptions ."},{"fit":"not_best_suited","scenario":"Prefer zero-interest credit building. 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