Google Analytics Premium – $150k / yr

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Enterprise pricing is an entirely different league from individual or SMB pricing. The only thing surprising here is that they're displaying the price openly, whereas most SaaS companies have you speak with a sales team first ("Contact Us").

With that said, I think it's funny that the customer testimonial at the top of the page is about a basic feature that's available in the free Analytics:

> "Google Analytics shows us how our customer segments behave on mobile vs. desktop. That's a huge plus as we make key marketing and product decisions."

It does seem surprising that they list $150k / yr- obviously this not typical SMB pricing or anything mass market. Although it is not new- definitely seen it before (sorry I can't reference). I think your funny point raises a good question though- what is the value here? The price point is not insignificant, at all. They list 1 billion hits per month as a capability... does this strategy surround scale (which is not an unusual SaaS strategy) where small clients get the tech free and big ones pay- or is there something special here that the masses do not see, like keyword "not provided" data?

I imagine the benefits are more along the lines of: More computing power (for reports of large data-sets), special API access, phone support, insurance, data security, etc.

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