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by Doohickey-d 24 days ago
Hm, interesting. But the pricing page is quite confusing to me: the $39 "pro plan" says "Up to 8 instances running". And above that, "Pricing that scales to zero". But if I'm always paying $39, what's the point of scaling to zero vs just keeping the 8 instances running? I guess the point is that you can scale down one workload and scale up another, but that seems a bit niche compared to the much more common use case of "scale up with increased user activity, and pay less when users are sleeping".

It's missing some sort of per-minute / per-GB RAM "pay as you go" pricing model. It seems like Fly.io, but missing the pay-as-you-go pricing & rapid scaling model that makes Fly worth using.

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Yeah I really agree. There's no overage pricing on their website's main pricing page, which makes me think the jump from "Team" to "Pro" to negotiating an enterprise contract will really hurt. Going from $39/month to $199/moth because you needed slightly more is a really big jump in pricing. It's pretty much the opposite of what I would expect from a service that lets you scale to 0.