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Tiers based on seats doesn't seem all that different. Flipper Cloud seems to be roughly $60/seat/yr but only buyable in fixed chunks, meaning some pay as much as $499/yr for 1 seat, others pay $50/seat for 10 seats, others pay $136/seat for 11 seats, etc.

So now, as a business with 10 users, I still have to decide if my 11th new employee is worth $1000/yr for their seat, if I should kick someone else off and give it to the new employee, etc...

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There has to be some sort of limit because "unlimited" can easily lead to customers using far more resources than they're paying for.

However, by moving away from per-seat pricing, customers who have switched to the new pricing have now added many more users who can benefit from having access to the Flipper Cloud UI but were not worth paying for individual seats before.

So based on customer behavior and reception to the new plans, it has made things much more flexible for them in practice.

Correct there are some limits still. At some point you have to make a decision, but at least not with every seat. The hope is to keep increasing those limits.

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