Originally published at: Introducing our new pricing model with free development for up to 100 devices – Particle Blog After nearly a decade of helping our customers deliver connected solutions to market, we’ve learned a tremendous amount about the unique challenges of scaling IoT businesses. …

[image] Paul_M: It seems like I must be totally missing something in my analysis here. I doubt you could have taken this large step without evaluating the market landscape of competitors, so feel free to note whatever giant error is permeating my reasoning. Paul, If I review your threads abo…

@zach Thanks Zach for clarifying.

For me, I feel like Particle offers a great framework for rapid prototyping and especially in-situ development. Unfortunately my area doesn’t have reliable cell coverage. I have devices publishing on WiFi, Lora & LoraWAN. On WiFi , to keep my Particle.publish count low I use UDP to send frequent …

Hello Particle. As a customer, programmer, seller and developer with Particle, my business started with you many years from now. We have invested money, R&D and we have also invested a lot of time to help to develop the Particle platform that we use today. We were from the beginning beta tester and …

[image] Idea: I suppose the reason that the paid tier is such a jump from the free tier is that someone did the math and said a $30/year tier wouldn’t generate significant revenue. I could accept that, and really going from 30 cents/device to $100 per 100 for WiFi and $3 each to $300 per hund…

Why must the “blocks” have so steep increments, both in device count and cost? A sample case similar to my situation: With 199 active cellular devices, I’d be paying $600/mo (2 blocks), which is actually pretty much the same vs. the old (current) $2.99 per device, at ~$595. The problem is when I …

Hi, I’m using few argon for a special project. My issue is that I use that for specific events during the year. Events duration are between 1 to 5 days, and have 1 to 3 events like this during the year. Using max 10 argon it would take max 500 000 D.O for an event. My question is, is it possibl…

I agree that this was not thought threw on the lower end of things. This could potentially hurt us as well.

@zach I have 12 wifi devices and they publish one message ever 2 mins unless there is an issue then its like 4 or so extra messages in the short time frame. By my math that’s 260k a month or more. That went from free to very expensive.

Hi Nicolas - Thanks for the question. Yes, you will be able to use Growth blocks for individual months as there is no requirement to make any commitment in terms of duration when purchasing a Growth block. Thx, Dan

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