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jlemoine

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About jlemoine

I am an entrepreneur passionate about software development, product development and algorithmic. I am the CTO and co-founder of Algolia (YC W14)

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    Comment #23789726

    1. Yes you miss the yearly discount. 1000 units = 12000 units per year = 7295/year 2. 10M/month with yearly commitment = $46895/year 100M/month with yearly commitment = $165895/yea…

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    Comment #23723482

    I understand your perception, pricing and perception is hard. I want to reassure you that this is really way cheaper for people to start using the product and as a company it was a…

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    Comment #23723429

    It is also less expensive and more accessible for mid/large volumes. We have built-in volume discount in the pricing that reduce significantly the price at scale

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    Comment #23721401

    (I am the CTO and co-founder). It seems like most people missed that we introduced volume discount in the model. On this example: - 1M queries per month $847 in full pay-as-you-go …

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    (I am the CTO and co-founder) This is not exactly true, the previous free plan was 10k records and 100k API calls (counting all indexing operations and all search API call). We now…

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    (I am the CTO and Co-founder). I can reassure you this is not the case, I don't have visibility on when we will do an IPO and we grandfather all existing customers. We always did t…

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    Yes indeed, it is recent (since 2020)

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    (I am the CTO and Co-founder), we are HIPAA compliant since 2020 and we can support your use case

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    (I am the co-founder and CTO of Algolia). Thanks for your feedback, we have some more work to make our pricing page clear. We need to add a simulator on this page. The reason of th…

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    I am the co-founder of Algolia, we have a dedicated pricing for the SaaS use cases that we call OEM pricing (in a few words pay per GB of usage). When we have a platform, it is ver…

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    No worries, it will not be a 100x on the pricing. We will add a pricing calculator to simplify the projection. Btw, for your use case we designed a different pricing that we call O…

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    This is not the case, the price of unit decrease with volume and you can have a big discount if you want to commit to a yearly (similar to AWS/GCP/Azure)

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