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I have both. I have not used Startools since 2013 by the looks of things.
I can present a fairly completed image in PixInsight from the compiled data in about 15 minutes. I can't do the same in Startools. I also get VASTLY different images between Startools and PI, with PI being much closer to what we see from the professionals just using the PI defaults.
Yes, PI is much more expensive, but I have found it EASIER in the long run. It seems daunting at first, but it's actually not, especially if you read the Light Vortex tutorials.
I now do all my processing in PI - stacking through to completed image, and only put the final image into PS to tweak saturation a little and save as web ready.
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