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I know products like this are ubiquitous but I really like the response one gets. Kudos on launching! The pricing, however, is a little confusing. A seemingly
by somada141 7y ago
I know products like this are ubiquitous but I really like the response one gets. Kudos on launching!
The pricing, however, is a little confusing. A seemingly very-generous free-tier (though the "Up to 250,000 IP requests / mo" is a little confusing, what dictates whether one gets the full quota?) and the next tier-up at 250$/m is a bit too rich for my blood. Wouldn't it make more sense to have some in-between tier where you charge per 1000s of requests or something? I fear the jump will preclude people from going to the 'Pro' tier.
- kevinjyc 7y agoThanks a lot @somada141! Apologies for any confusion. Let me clarify: the Free tier covers the first 250k API requests made in a single month. If the number of requests in a month goes beyond the threshold, the API will start returning Forbidden errors. The counter gets reset at the first of each month. If your service gets more than 250k hits a month, then you will be a perfect match for our "Pro" tier. This pricing structure, puts us on a league of our own, offering to the developers a huge package of free API calls every single month. Nobody else does it!
- somada141 7y agoHm a 403 when one runs out of credit can be misleading as one would expect that for an authorization error. You may want to consider the `402 Payment Required` status code instead which seems to be used by some big players [0]. Best of luck with your launch! [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes#402 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes#402