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Comment by erhaetherth | Hacker News Reader

You had me until this pricing page: https://radar.com/pricing?type=consumer

I'm interested in the address autocompletion in particular, but you guys don't want to tell me how much it's actually going to cost apparently.

I also have no idea what a "monthly tracked user" is or how it's relevant.

LMK when you drop the "Contact Sales" aspect.

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I came to write exactly this comment, specifically I wanted to check what the pricing for forward geocoding was, as I've got a very significant monthly Google Maps bill for geocoding and if Radar gives results which are 95% as good as Google's at a cheaper price then I'd be jumping

Hi, there are much more affordable geocoding options: https://opencagedata.com

why do so many people rely on Google for this? ArcGIS is vastly superior and much cheaper.

ESRI is as evil as Google (if not worse). If pricing is the only consideration, maybe ESRI is the way to go, but I would take other aspects into account, too (e.g. walled-garden signals, tricking customers, software-lock-in).

Would love to chat. Worth considering best solution given tradeoffs: Cost, coverage, customization options, enterprise-readiness

I believe the point is that Op doesn't _want_ to chat. I believe the originally point is you should be up front and _clear_ with your pricing rather than trying to force a conversation.

Yep, I get it. Working on a self-serve pricing calculator. Reality is that enterprise convos do make sense at sufficient scale. If it does here, our inbox is open!

You get that they don't want to chat but circle right back around into 'our inbox is open' lol

Odd

Often, if a company has "Contact Sales" on their pricing page it's because they only want customers who have a budget big enough to warrant contacting sales.

At an early stage, it's often easier and more lucrative to build for and support a few large customers than many small ones.

Yeah I understand that, I was just amused at the extent to which the guy was convincingly impersonating a half-bright chatbot

Pricing page could def be clearer. Working on it! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37668919

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