[derefr]

What does "looking to spend" mean? As a CTO, I don't shop SaaS "looking to spend" any particular amount of money; service providers can charge amounts for their services that are multiple orders of magnitude (!) apart, so I keep a completely open mind about how much it might cost to solve my problem (and in fact what type of service I need to solve my problem.)

For example: if my problem is "my egress-bandwidth bills are too high and my servers are falling over from the traffic", I could pay Akamai "contact us" dollars a month (probably thousands; maybe more than my egress-bandwidth costs!); or I could — potentially, depending on what I'm serving — pay Cloudflare $0 or $20 per month, with very legible rules about what would qualify me for those free/cheap plans. These aren't the same type of service: one's doing static pre-caching, mostly of large assets; while the other is doing short-term read-through caching, mostly of small assets. But they both solve an egress-bandwidth problem; and if you have no other constraints, then they are effective replacement goods for one-another.

[tlogan]

You are absolutely correct. ‘Looking to spend’ was not the accurate term to use. I should have said ‘looking to solve the problem,’ with a budget exceeding $1000/month.