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Charging developers to try out your API. Questionable. If anything, don't they want to do everything they possibly can to attract developers?
by babyshake 17y ago
Charging developers to try out your API. Questionable. If anything, don't they want to do everything they possibly can to attract developers?
- adatta02 17y agoThat is the first thing I noticed also. the pricing is non-trivial to. $60 for 1k/day requests? damn
- gcampbell 17y agoI believe that's $60 for 1k total requests - you use those up, you need to pay $60 more.
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- madmotive 17y agoI find it amusing that they actually seem to think $60 is the right price point for "students, hobbyists, individual developers". How out of touch with the community can you get. Looking at their visitor stats (http://siteanalytics.compete.com/wolframalpha.com/ http://siteanalytics.compete.com/wolframalpha.com/) I'd guess they have unused capacity for at least 2MM queries a month if back in May each visitor was hitting it twice. I don't get the impression they are using an infrastructure that they only pay for on demand. If they want anyone to use their API (or their service as a whole) they should give away at least 1000 queries a month to the first 2000 developers that sign up.