I reiterate that you are not unique in offering a service where the customer's desire for consistent billing and your willingness to provide it are at odds.
I get that the underlying issue is that your target consumer is whales who eat orders-of-magnitude pricing spreads as normal opex, and that anyone who comes in with a budget is barely a consideration. It's still absurd to pretend that pricing is too hard. Like, I'm not going to confidently assert "lol you can give up C, it'll be a rounding error anyway" but like, billing cycles are absurdly long on the scale of your technical constraints.
For the nth time on this thread: we don't make our quarterly nut billing people looking to spend $50/mo an occasional extra $1000. The people who actually pay the bills here do not want this feature.
They definitely want Accident Forgiveness, though. Which means it's going to cost us money to do this. And that's fine; they're growing, we're growing.
What I'm saying is that capping billing is not the same thing as shutting down parts of the platform. You're redirecting complaints about the latter by focusing on the difficulty of doing the latter in real time, which is granted but gross overkill.
The former is something that is not only doable, but something that already happens regularly in an informal capacity and nobody believes you don't have the data to price it.
i think is what gave that vibe off. I was on a read-only phone in bed and saw the quoted message. got up and logged into the PC to think about what to say. It may be time for cloud providers to dissuade small users away, instead.
Major cloud-style companies dont drive significant revenue from your $50/mo cohort. And a $5/mo dev account is basically courtesy for the sales pipeline. The vast vast majority of revenue is “enterprise” sales with private pricing and spend in the hundreds of thousands to millions range.