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by DannyBee 17 days ago
Sure. If it supported commercial solvers for me it would definitely be more valuable. I do think it’s fairly crazy to pay for remote solving using public solvers - the case you give is uncommon enough that whoever has it would probably want their own infrastructure to deal with it. Beyond that the current setup of trying to sell a single call solver as your advantage when the customers who might buy it for real need flexibility of various sorts doesn’t make sense to me.

FWIW-By supports pyomo they mean I can install their python package and hand a pyomo model to their solver API. I don’t want that. I want to use pyomo’s solver API which is how I interact with all other solvers

In the end I just don’t see who they are selling to. If their advantage is a single call solver for different model kinds, which is what they spend the most time talking about, that could be done with a small python package, and would already exist if it was a big issue