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by Wowfunhappy 1339 days ago
> The list price of the Docker Business subscription will go up by $3, to $24 per user per month (Business is only available on an annual basis).

I hate that this has become an acceptable way to list prices. It's not $24 per month, it's $288 per year! "Per month" implies the customer can pay that price every month, and also stop paying on any given month.

In other news, Docker Business is going to cost 3.3¢ per user per hour. Except you're required to pay for the hours you're asleep, because the service is offered "on an annual basis".

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The context on the same page one paragraph earlier shows other monthly plan price changes that, so it seems reasonable to me for them to report monthly prices to make it easier for people to compare plan prices and savings as they have.
But those prices are also reported incorrectly! The page should say something like:

> The list price of the Docker Team subscription will go up by $2 monthly / $24 annually, to $11 per user per month or $108 per user per year. (Annual subscribers will continue to save $24 yearly per user.)

> The list price of the Docker Business subscription will go up by $36, to $288 per user per year.

Note that Docker's pricing page also emphasizes the per-month cost of their annual plans, so this isn't some change they made for the blog post.

14.3¢ per user per business hour