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One thing that is hardly ever mentioned when evaluating freemium is that you need deep pockets to survive until enough people start paying for the premium offering. So it almost never makes sense for bootstrapped businesses. The best bet is to figure out the market first with a paid version, and then use free as a growth engine, just like Mailchimp did.

Before blindly adopting freemium as the default pricing for your app, think long and hard about this:

Freemium has a longer sales cycle than enterprise.