[tabbott]

Our plans page reads:

"Zulip Cloud Standard is free for open source projects and affiliated institutions."

which I thought was unambiguous that our paid plan is free for open source projects.

The intent of our pricing model is to charge businesses $80/employee/year for use by full-time staff. If you're a business that can afford to hire people, you can definitely afford $80/employee/year (under <0.1% of that employee's all-in cost to the company) for a productivity tool. Our pricing is free for open source projects and highly discounted or free for situations where the users aren't full-time staff (e.g. education).

If there's something we could do to be more clear in our pricing page, I'd love to hear it.

[olah_1]

Yeah, it's not clear to me. Do the limitations of the Free tier still apply to open-source projects?

It may help to just add a third box up top for Open Source or something. I didn't think that there would be a totally different tier listed below in the FAQs.