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Really cool! Signed up for the beta, excited to try it. Although at first glance, it looks quite expensive. Having to pay $10 monthly outright even with no cha

Really cool! Signed up for the beta, excited to try it. Although at first glance, it looks quite expensive. Having to pay $10 monthly outright even with no charges feels kinda bad. I'm a huge fan of Amazon's free tiers to experiment with; Stripe's test mode is very nice for the same reason. And on top of this, the pricing being per-charge makes it far more expensive for businesses selling cheaper products ($5 subscriptions vs. $100 subscriptions). Compare to Baremetrics' pricing plans which scales based on MRR: https://baremetrics.com/pricing https://baremetrics.com/pricing -- At $50k MRR with $5 charge avg, Baremetrics costs $100/mo, Sigma costs 2.5x that. For $2.5 avg charge, Sigma costs double, Baremetrics remain the same. They still sound like very reasonable prices though (and Stripe's fees are unfriendly to lower price points anyway).

Swizec 9y ago
$10/month is two coffees. Not even worth thinking about if you find the service at all useful.
- scrollaway 9y ago
  In any business, there is a cost incurred in researching and justifying a purchase in the first place. This is a big reason why free tiers and free trials help onboarding.
- pdog 9y ago
  > $10/month is two coffees. What?! Where does a single cup of coffee cost five dollars? For ten dollars, you can brew at least fifty cups of coffee.
  - DoubleCribble 9y ago
    I see you are not familiar with Bay Area artisanal pour-overs featuring hand picked organic berries harvested under a blue moon by Fair Trade certified farmers (TM). The (TM) alone adds $0.50 to the price of a cup.
  - richardknop 9y ago
    Large late at Startbuck in London is £3.4 - which is close to 5 bucks I suppose. If you live in SF, London, NY, 5 bucks for a coffee does not seem outrageous.
  - infinite8s 9y ago
    Starbucks anywhere in the US, any coffee shop in a large metropolitan US city (NYC, SF, Seattle, Philadelphia).
a13n 9y ago
Yeah I think this just means you aren't their target customer. I'm sure there are people out there who will see this and happily pay hundreds or thousands a month because this solves a burning problem for them. Stripe sells to businesses, they aren't gonna drive their bottom line off $10/mo.
- scrollaway 9y ago
  Oh no, I'm their target customer. Like I said, I signed up for the beta and I'll happily be paying what it costs. But if you think about this as the "metrics" extension of Stripe (which, as mentioned in a separate thread, was a bit of a missing piece to their offering), the way it's priced is very surprising.
netfire 9y ago
I was surprised as this as well. I wouldn't think running these queries on small datasets would take much computing resources and would provide a nice competitive advantage over other alternatives.

Swizec 9y ago

$10/month is two coffees. Not even worth thinking about if you find the service at all useful.

scrollaway 9y ago
In any business, there is a cost incurred in researching and justifying a purchase in the first place. This is a big reason why free tiers and free trials help onboarding.
pdog 9y ago
> $10/month is two coffees. What?! Where does a single cup of coffee cost five dollars? For ten dollars, you can brew at least fifty cups of coffee.
- DoubleCribble 9y ago
  I see you are not familiar with Bay Area artisanal pour-overs featuring hand picked organic berries harvested under a blue moon by Fair Trade certified farmers (TM). The (TM) alone adds $0.50 to the price of a cup.
- richardknop 9y ago
  Large late at Startbuck in London is £3.4 - which is close to 5 bucks I suppose. If you live in SF, London, NY, 5 bucks for a coffee does not seem outrageous.
- infinite8s 9y ago
  Starbucks anywhere in the US, any coffee shop in a large metropolitan US city (NYC, SF, Seattle, Philadelphia).

a13n 9y ago

Yeah I think this just means you aren't their target customer. I'm sure there are people out there who will see this and happily pay hundreds or thousands a month because this solves a burning problem for them. Stripe sells to businesses, they aren't gonna drive their bottom line off $10/mo.

scrollaway 9y ago
Oh no, I'm their target customer. Like I said, I signed up for the beta and I'll happily be paying what it costs. But if you think about this as the "metrics" extension of Stripe (which, as mentioned in a separate thread, was a bit of a missing piece to their offering), the way it's priced is very surprising.

netfire 9y ago

I was surprised as this as well. I wouldn't think running these queries on small datasets would take much computing resources and would provide a nice competitive advantage over other alternatives.