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> Visionary accounts cost ~30 euro/month (assuming yearly subscription). To be further pedantic, Visionary accounts are priced at ~30 euro/month. They likely c
by tailspin2019 2y ago
> Visionary accounts cost ~30 euro/month (assuming yearly subscription).
To be further pedantic, Visionary accounts are priced at ~30 euro/month. They likely cost Proton significantly less than that.
I would also suggest utilisation of those free accounts would be much lower than your estimates (though I appreciate I’m just countering your subjective opinion with one of my own).
- CuriousCosmic 2y agoOh 100%. It's not a for sure thing but at the same time I know those plans also historically have been auctioned for a lot of money and as a result the people who end up with them tend to use them quite extensively. And their cost is probably a decent bit lower than the sales price but given Visionary plans aren't sold directly any more to my knowledge, there's a chance the profit margin on those accounts dipped below a feasible amount and they've just kept the plan for existing users out of goodwill. That all to say, those lifetime plans are definitely super expensive and probably make up a respectable amount of the raffle income but their exact cost to Proton themselves isn't exactly clear.
- entropyneur 2y agoIt's not pedantic at all. They cost so much less that it renders the entire calculation meaningless. Almost all of the cost of a consumer VPN account is user acquisition (a cost they don't bear in this case). Operations cost peanuts - maybe $1/mo, if that.
- CuriousCosmic 2y agoIt's worth noting that the service isn't just a VPN but also a mail provider and cloud storage provider. And the visionary plan comes with several terabytes of storage.