I came to the same conclusion for my saas. instead of creating a free plan I made it dirt cheap. $1 per month. my service is an email forwarding so it is tough

I came to the same conclusion for my saas. instead of creating a free plan I made it dirt cheap. $1 per month. my service is an email forwarding so it is tough to deal with spam. if i attract too much free users i have to deal with a massive amount of spams. by not doing free plan i have more time to develop premium features. another thing is free user will more likely look for other free solution and always a free solution will pop up. So it is really hard to compete. take gmail, how can you compete with google free offering？