Awesome to see a new release! We've followed Cockroach for a while, would be a good fit four our workload. However, I think it's sad that their pricing is so o

Awesome to see a new release! We've followed Cockroach for a while, would be a good fit four our workload. However, I think it's sad that their pricing is so opaque. Even after a few emails back and forth with their sales people it still feels fairly arbitrary, and since it's not transparent we don't know if they're just making numbers up based on what they think we're willing to pay. I find this sales-tactic off-putting. In theory it allow them to "not leave any money on the table", as they would probably frame it, but I'm curious how many deals they will lose simply because people don't want to be held hostage, or don't want to put up with the sales-hassle. With AWS and Google Cloud (their main competitors), we know that prices won't be jacked-up. ——— An interesting example of this mistake is Mapbox. They had a limited free tier, where most use-cases would be "talk to sales for pricing". We had a frustrating 2 months talking with their sales people, finally getting a reasonable deal. But we were very close to just ditching them for Google Maps (even though I liked Mapbox product better and was willing to pay more for it), just because the price negotiation and all the cheap sales-tactics was so time-consuming. Then, 6 months later, Mapbox CEO posted this blog post: https://blog.mapbox.com/new-pricing-46b7c26166e7 https://blog.mapbox.com/new-pricing-46b7c26166e7 [excerpt, from Mapbox CEO announcing pricing/sales rethink] How we price our tools has a significant impact on how those tools get used and what gets built with Mapbox. We were pricing some of our APIs wrong — making things confusing and restrictive. Rolling out new pricing took close to five months; informed by the stories of our builders whose curiosity and insight gave us a lot of honest feedback. Here’s what we were doing wrong: - Unpredictable pricing at scale - Development slowed by price modeling and negotiating volumes - Unintuitive billing units - Hard to compare measurement to our friends at Google - Confusion around when commercial plans are needed Our goal with this change is to reduce the friction to build with our tools and to allow our team to help developers use maps and locations more creatively. As we designed this new pricing, we kept our key pricing principles in mind: - Predictable and aligned with metrics our customers already measure - Clearly defined discount tiers as businesses scale with no surprises - Product usage measured in a way that’s clear to all involved - Generous free tier to encourage building and make it easier to get started I experienced all those downsides, which almost pushed us to leave Mapbox, so very happy to see them reconsider (for their own sake). Perhaps CockroachDB could unlock similar benefits by making their pricing/sales more open.