Is your service the sort of thing that students will learn to work with and then want to use in their corporate job afterwards? That's the pro. Is your service

Is your service the sort of thing that students will learn to work with and then want to use in their corporate job afterwards? That's the pro. Is your service the sort of resource that the university would happily pay $1k without blinking if you didn't offer a discount? That's the con. (Universities pay for some very expensive subscription services for courses, and sometimes even individual research students can budget that much from whoever's funding their research) Without knowing more, I'd guess something students won't use anywhere near as many API requests as the professor thinks, and might not be used by students later in life either though...