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We increased prices at 80legs from on-demand ($2.00 per million pages) to subscription + on-demand (starting at $99 per month + $2.00 per million pages). It wa
by jdrock 16y ago
We increased prices at 80legs from on-demand ($2.00 per million pages) to subscription + on-demand (starting at $99 per month + $2.00 per million pages).
It was a success for us. Here's why:
1. It was early on - just a few months after our public launch.
2. We offered a limited free version in conjunction with the price increase.
3. We lost some customers, but they were only worth max $10 per month. We were able to work with some of those customers to setup custom plans that met their needs.
4. The customers we did keep went from being worth $50 - $100 per month to $100 minimum per month.
5. Our major competitors charge thousands per month, so we were still absurdly cheaper than them.
- PanMan 16y agoWell, it might have been a success from your point, but I liked your service a lot better on the previous level. I haven't had the need to scraping LOT's of pages yet, but one the previous plan, I felt like I could experiment with it for almost free. Now it's too expensive for that...
- jdrock 16y agoYou can still experiment with pretty much everything except the API using the basic (free) plan, as long as you crawl fewer than 100,000 pages per job.