The prices seem insanely high, and the most expensive plan also has a bizarre structure (http://products.wolframalpha.com/api/pricing.html http://products.wolfr

The prices seem insanely high, and the most expensive plan also has a bizarre structure (http://products.wolframalpha.com/api/pricing.html http://products.wolframalpha.com/api/pricing.html). After you pass your initial 10 million request quota, the per request price is higher than during the quota! This means if you're doing 50 million requests, it's cheaper to buy 5 API keys w/10 million requests than to have one API key doing all 50 million. I would've expected that Wolfram encourage higher usage w/deeper discounts especially when you reach the top, not until you reach the top. I also wonder if ~6 cents/request is supply and demand or maybe gree, or if the system is so complex and sophisticated that they actually need to charge that much to pay for the computational requirements.