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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.

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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.

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