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The problem with opaque pricing is this: people don't want to start experimenting with something if it could be infinitely bad. i.e. if they can imagine the worst.

In the back of their heads, some people imagine the service is going to be huge, and then they worry that all the profits will be paid out to wrapapi.

Better to have a high headline number and then offer discounts for certain uses (non-profit, open source, students, etc). People are optimistic about how much money they might make so a high headline future price for when you graduate from the free tier is not necessarily bad.




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