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I love this pricing model of .02 per submission for the pro plan. Often, as an agency, our customer or project needs are “lumpy” in terms of usage and the monthly base fees are a serious margin killer. The usage based fee like a cloud provider would charge is awesome for our use case.

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that was the idea, great to hear it resonates!

Is there a hard limit/upper cap?

What stops some spammer from ramming the bill?

This is very important. I'm rather averse to signing up for paid service which is only limited by the option I provide for payments. It took me years to be willing to put a service on autopay which is merely variable, such as a power bill.

So ideally, we have:

- free plan no CC needed (e.g. 100 submissions) - extended free plan with CC (e.g. 500 submissions) - paid plan with cost control (e.g. don't spend more than 25$)

Would that alleviate your doubts?

Cost control is important, but I appreciate that structure. I skipped all services like this because it costed me less to have a dynamic website hosted on digital ocean than a static website with a form service.

With this service that is pay-per-use, I can finally "afford it". Thank you!

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