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I have a hard time justifying the pricing here.

Wordpress is "free" vs CosmicJS is 49$/mo minimum without backup and only 3GB space.

For 49$/mo you could get a cloud VPS for Wordpress, including backups and even high-availability with no request limits (API limits in CosmicJS).

I know it's not straight comparable, but..

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Developer time is expensive. Allowing devs to focus on the core-product instead of CMS infrastructure is a big time/money saver. This is the value prop for most all API-first services: Stripe, Twilio, Algolia. Why would you build your own "free" payments processing / telephony / search service when these focused services have done a really good job solving the problem for you?

Because all of those are hard, and CRUD is easy?

I mean, I see your point. I’m just not convinced it’s enough given the availability of a thousand other (free-ish) solutions.

The pricing is way too much.

Seems like one or two good fulltime developers can maintain a project like this.

Great point to illustrate the value! And how much does it cost to employ two good full-time developers?

But NOBODY has to employ ANY developers (full time or not) to have a Wordpress blog / web site.

You guys are a solution in desperate need of a problem.

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