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by still_grokking 1681 days ago
The pricing seems random to me. (Even it seems cheaper than last time I've checked).

It's ~20% more expensive in Euro than in Dollar. (And Poland, which I checked for curiosity as it's in the EU but does not use Euro, has a price in Pound with is even higher; Poland is not a rich country).

Also I don't think charging for example people in countries in Africa as much as for example US people makes any sense.

The service is really great for some questions but the commercial offer never added up for me.

If the software would be OpenSource and run on prem I would consider buying some additional online services for it (even at the current random price point and without having a real use case; it's not more expensive than an average online game, so bearable). It would make also that "Wolfram Language" worth having a look at. But I don't bother even glimpsing at closed source programming languages. That's especially one of the things they do very poorly.

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>It's ~20% more expensive in Euro than in Dollar.

Keep in mind US prices don't include sales tax (VAT).

My fault. I thought digital services like that fall into the reduced VAT category. But it seems not the case.

So ~20% more makes actually sense.

Thanks for pointing this out!