[nikitaga]

Solution seems obvious, volume discounts in one shape or another.

SaaS companies pricing is often geared towards startups that "can't afford" to control costs, i.e. developer time spent on minimizing cost has a higher monetary and opportunity cost than ignoring those costs in the short term, even if they're piling up at $50/mo for every auxiliary service.

But that strategy does not account for those same startups after they grow enough to take a breath and start optimizing costs.