Ask HN: SaaS pricing pages with high prices and not “contact sales”

It does have contact sales, but only after a 43k per year tier!

You can put in any number from 1 to 50,000 users and get an exact quote. This is possible because there's zero additional setup for an app already in an ecosystem like this. Compare that to onboarding an enterprise to a SaaS solution, or an on-prem solution, which could be a significant amount of work depending on many factors.

Many folks are individuals, or highly technical and do not want to engage, so they want to just try for themselves. Imagine a Splunk or Databricks analyst who likes to do notebooks on the side. On the other end, we'll have architects planning say a $1M or $20M data project for the next few years of their dept's data arch, and want to really think through scaling.

So we split between free/cheap self-serve SaaS, where people can just go without thinking about any infra etc, to the more enterprise self-hosting tier where they can run in their own cloud, and decide whether they like to do on their own (ex: very clear & immediate task), and when they want to talk about GPUs, graphs, AI, LLMs, etc., and how that can accelerate or solve some of the harder problems they're ultimately tackling, they have a way to reach out and we can share our experiences from similar orgs.

For louie.ai, we're basically preparing to do the same. It's possible to optimize on this stuff for enterprise teams, but we don't see much of a need: when we're solving a real enterprise problem, and are speaking our users language via our public talks, blogposts, etc, they'll check the page to make sure the form factor can make sense and it's indeed in their problem area, and then they want to talk. When something is a top 3 priority for a dept, they'll be getting on zoom calls with multiple vendors, so just need to make it easy for them to do that.