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Tell HN: Plausible Analytics is getting greedy

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Here's Plausible.io pricing history for their lowest tier (as far as I can recall)

- $4/month (on launch)

- $5/month (a year ago)

- $6/month (8 months ago)

- $8/month (2 months ago)

- $9/month (current)

I understand there’s inflation and so on, but upping prices by double-digit % every couple months is just greediness

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Thanks for your feedback! We've only had 3 different prices since May 2019 when we launched and you can see them on GitHub as the code goes there:

2019: $6/month for up to 10k pageviews/month with a 33% discount on annual billing

2021: $6/month for up to 10k pageviews/month with a 2 months for free discount on annual billing

2022: $9/month for up to 10k pageviews/month with a 2 months for free discount on annual billing

Any price change doesn't affect active subscribers. They are grandfathered to the plan they signed up with.

We're solely funded by the fees our subscribers pay us so we regularly review our prices as we improve the infrastructure, product and grow the team to keep it all priced sustainably.

(I'm the co-founder)

hello Marko, thanks for a quick reply and a detailed explanation!

sorry for my wording

we use and love Plausible and want the best for you :)

The reason I go with alternative even though it's not oss. I prefer transparent pricing strategies. Plausible's USP is OSS. Their attempt at mass adoption is bait and switch. That's a trade off some are comfortable with. I don't see anything wrong unless price change was kept secret and abrupt.

Thanks for the feedback! Could you please share what you mean by bait and switch?

We're fully open source, we have a completely free as in beer self-hosted solution and we've only done two price changes since we announced the original prices in May 2019 (and none of these have affected any existing subscribers as they're kept on prices they signed up with).

Price reviews are really necessary for us to do as we're self funded and we've grown our product, our infrastructure and our team a lot since the original prices so providing our service at May 2019 prices would not be sustainable today.

Are they grandfathering customers in to the pricing that they signed up under?

This looks like a product from a very small team doing price discovery. Is your stance that they should need to take 10 years of annual pricing changes to discover their optimal price point?

Edit: and they have a self hosted version for free? Nothing to see here.

Thanks! All existing subscribers are grandfathered to the price they signed up with. And we do have a complete free as in beer self-hosted solution.

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