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2000 USD per core per year. https://www.lightbend.com/akka https://www.lightbend.com/akka

by morsch 4y ago

capableweb 4y ago
$2000 USD for companies earning more than $25M USD Revenue per year. However, it's quite telling that the new blogpost discusses the new pricing but never actually shares the pricing, but only shares the condition for when it's free (as in gratis). Do lightbend themselves think its expensive?
- threeseed 4y ago
  If you need to know the price then I doubt you are Akka's target customer.
  - capableweb 4y ago
    What? Their target customer should be the one who has to pay, otherwise they are gonna focus on acquiring customers that won't pay? How does that make sense?
    - threeseed 4y ago
      It means that they are targeting enterprise customers. And for them the price is irrelevant if it solves their problem.
      - bb1298 4y ago
        How is it irrelevant? Operating a single node would be $10k+ per year. That makes no sense for a large corporation to adopt. They’re better off rewriting the entirety of Akka.
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        Dobbs 4y ago
        16 core machine is 32k per year. Assuming you have a hundred machines (which really isn't that many) that is 320k per year. Which pays for a single engineer to get you off Akka.
      - ramchip 4y ago
        $2k once per year is irrelevant for enterprise, but not $2k per core. With bigger deployments that's more than the entire dev team's salaries.
      - Dobbs 4y ago
        Lets say a 16 core machine costs 20k with associated costs (share of router, etc). This is a pretty high price for a machine, but isn't entirely insane. Your akka license now costs €32k per year. Meanwhile if you are doing standard five year deprecation your 16 core machine is 4k. This means you are paying 8x the cost of the machine itself for the software license. An important software license but not one that is a full complete piece of work. I could understand paying this much for software like Wowza where it is a "complete" solution for a problem. Where you are buying a full piece of software, but not a developer framework.
  - erik_seaberg 4y ago
    It’s a waste of time for me to evaluate something whose cost definitely won’t be approved. $25M revenue doesn’t mean a company is actually profitable yet.

2000 USD per core per year. https://www.lightbend.com/akka https://www.lightbend.com/akka

by morsch 4y ago

2000 USD per core per year. https://www.lightbend.com/akka https://www.lightbend.com/akka

$2000 USD for companies earning more than $25M USD Revenue per year. However, it's quite telling that the new blogpost discusses the new pricing but never actually shares the pricing, but only shares the condition for when it's free (as in gratis). Do lightbend themselves think its expensive?

threeseed 4y ago
If you need to know the price then I doubt you are Akka's target customer.
- capableweb 4y ago
  What? Their target customer should be the one who has to pay, otherwise they are gonna focus on acquiring customers that won't pay? How does that make sense?
  - threeseed 4y ago
    It means that they are targeting enterprise customers. And for them the price is irrelevant if it solves their problem.
    - bb1298 4y ago
      How is it irrelevant? Operating a single node would be $10k+ per year. That makes no sense for a large corporation to adopt. They’re better off rewriting the entirety of Akka.
      - deleted 4y ago
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        Dobbs 4y ago
        16 core machine is 32k per year. Assuming you have a hundred machines (which really isn't that many) that is 320k per year. Which pays for a single engineer to get you off Akka.
    - ramchip 4y ago
      $2k once per year is irrelevant for enterprise, but not $2k per core. With bigger deployments that's more than the entire dev team's salaries.
    - Dobbs 4y ago
      Lets say a 16 core machine costs 20k with associated costs (share of router, etc). This is a pretty high price for a machine, but isn't entirely insane. Your akka license now costs €32k per year. Meanwhile if you are doing standard five year deprecation your 16 core machine is 4k. This means you are paying 8x the cost of the machine itself for the software license. An important software license but not one that is a full complete piece of work. I could understand paying this much for software like Wowza where it is a "complete" solution for a problem. Where you are buying a full piece of software, but not a developer framework.
- erik_seaberg 4y ago
  It’s a waste of time for me to evaluate something whose cost definitely won’t be approved. $25M revenue doesn’t mean a company is actually profitable yet.