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I think I might be missing something! What is going on with Pipedreams pricing? The new domain branded webhook is a nice feature! I love The concurrency and Rate Limiting as well! I like pipedream so much that I have been forcing all the clients I work with to get a pipedream account for setting up automations and canceling their Zapier and Pably services.
But it looks as though the domain feature is only in the business plan, which is 749/month. Concurrency is now only in the advanced plan which is 149/mo. Which is not terrible, but the concurrency is the only feature I use from advanced that is not in basic plan. So I have to pay an additional $120 per month for rate limiting and concurrency limiting?.
It seems like it would be better now to have a DevOps guy and just spin up a server and run n8n.
I really think you should charge credits for these features on lower plans (in the form of X additional credits per invoke per feature).
That way, the features are available, but the credits will ramp up much faster, and the limit will be reached much sooner (customer is then faced with the decision to upgrade in order to benefit from a lower per-credit cost).
But at least the features would still be available for customers who only have like 3 workflows (and it’s just not reasonable to ask these customers to upgrade).
Yes and no. It really depends on the client that I’m helping.
I have a client I am setting up some invoice automations for.
The invoices come in batches, and there are often several hundred invoices at a time that will come into the endpoint one at a time but only milliseconds apart.
One of the endpoints I am sending data to does not allow more than 100 API calls per minute. So this automation will fail without rate limiting.
For this account there is not $149 worth of value in Pipedream. So instead I’m building out a different infrastructure to handle this particular workflow in their Zoho account.
I would much rather be able to build it in Pipedream!
From what I’ve seen/heard in the community, there definitely seems to be a case for low tiers needing advanced features just a little bit – but not enough to justify the jump in price to the next tier (especially for tiny companies or hobby projects).
It’s like an impossible demand placed on them. But it’s easy to be a bit obstinate and just say “too bad for them”. On the other hand, they can also say “too bad your pricing isn’t better”, and leave the platform. And it’s easy to think that doesn’t matter, until it becomes an exodus, and some competitor scoops them up. Although right now, you are that competitor!
