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Theres a quick fall-off.

Sourcegraph is $99/u/m and has major network effects. For a moderately sized org this is quickly an entire developer salary.

Snyk is similarly priced, unfortunately “just buy” is a really easy way to:

a) pay more than something is woth

b) have multiple products doing the same thing. (for example, I have Miro and figjam and Mural in my company because each do something slightly better and teams have chosen the tools that work best).

That means we often double pay on licenses for ostensibly similar software.

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Sourcegraph CEO here. It’s not $99/user/month anymore. It’s great that a lot of companies were willing to pay that, but we and our customers prefer a lower per-user price and a higher % of devs at the company using it (ideally 100%). We reduced prices for our customers (current and future). You can see the posted pricing at https://sourcegraph.com/pricing.

For any other dev tools companies, I’d strongly recommend having lower prices so that every dev at your customer can use it (if that’s relevant for your product). If you start seeing customers be really picky with who gets a license, it’s probably priced too high.

Off-topic, but I see you always responding very quickly whenever Sourcegraph is mentioned.

I was entertained a while back when I saw you getting accused for using sockpuppets, but am I correct in thinking that you're probably just using the API to monitor for name mentions?

Edit: To be clear, I think this is great and that more companies should do this.

Syften & Common Room =)

Haha, yeah, @jdorfman's sibling comment mentions the tools we use. Any mentions on HN, Reddit, Twitter, YouTube, etc., show up in our team chat. The gold standard, of course, is Sid at GitLab ("GitLab CEO here" :).

Why does it say 1 user limit for Pro plan and also that is for small teams? Or am I missing misunderstand the pricing page?

Teams (that don't need Cody Enterprise) should just buy Cody Pro for each dev individually for now. We will have shared billing soon.

A) You don't need to buy the software for every employee at once. Why not buy it for a dozen and try it? If it's good you get more licenses.

B) You can buy software and evaluate and decide not to use it and cancel the license.

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