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📣 chirau

How do you come up with a price for an API?


How do you come up with a price for an API?


  👤 elorant Accepted Answer ✓
1. Check your competition, or anything remotely similar.

2. Ask potential clients for various prices to see which one sounds more affordable.

3. If both 1&2 fail you'll have to improvise. Assume the worst case scenario for adoption (aka less than 1% from intended clientele), and the minimum amount of money you need to be barely viable, and then you come up with a number. Be as pessimistic as your comfort zone allows you.