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by Feeble 1176 days ago
Amplitude is a great product. We tested alot of similar products and Amplitude was by far the best. The only negative I have found is their pricing which is free up to quite a generous level to be honest but then it suddenly becomes really expensive.
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Is this a theme of analytics? Monthly DataDog bills for your second year be like

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I agree, it quickly becomes exorbitant. I used to manage a product used to record data points in fields - millions of datapoints a day and this cost us just too much money in my opinion compared to what we really learned from Amplitude.

Advice: Talk to your users:)

I wish they would have event volume pricing option rather than just MTU, same with Mix+Segment. Very inflexible if the site you run has lots of infrequent users.
Mixpanel does event volume pricing now
Just wanted to second all of this. It’s an awesome product, but very expensive for a small company.