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This is a terrific guide overall and even provides guidance to develop your software pricing strategy beyond one common pitfall: assuming that you must charge one static price for all customers of your software.

In reality, different segments of your users have varying price sensitivities, which means the best practice is to charge the maximum price that each individual customer segment is willing to pay. Skip to the section on "Versioning" to read more about this.

Disclaimer: I run an API that helps businesses carry out versioning/dynamic pricing, https://modernpricing.com

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I agree. Adding additional price points increased sales of one of products by 50% within a year (more long term): https://successfulsoftware.net/2013/02/28/how-i-increased-sa...

uBlock doesn't seem to like your site very much. I'd love to see your tool integrated with vendors such as Paddle or Gumroad. Would it make sense to make such an integration?

I think it would make great sense!

Currently, we automatically connect to Segment (https://segment.com/integrations/modern-pricing/) to make the integration easier. Additional integrations have been commonly requested thus far, but we are prioritizing open platforms to start.

So is your pricing dynamic too?

Yes, currently the pricing for each successful score changes by volume. $0.002 per score while under 1M scores per month, then $0.001 per score for scores beyond 1M per month.

Isn’t that just volume/tiered pricing?

Yup! Volume-based pricing is a simplistic way of charging different prices for different customer segments.

So you’re not using your service to price your product?

In that case you could just proxy requests via low income countries to get a cheaper service?

It can be possible. I created a Hong Kong Nintendo account and purchased Pokemon Shield through their Hong Kong online store. Mainly I did that to see if I could start playing before the US release time (it worked!), but I also ended up saving about $5.

That’s true but it’s also pretty easy these days to recognize non-residential IPs.

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