"The free plan allows 200 API calls per month, while the paid plan offers unlimited API calls."

wtf is this, 1990 and you're running a raspberry pi as your server? give me a fuckin break

How much does the vendor earn on the "free" plan? Nothing, hence the name. It's a fully working demo offer so that you can evaluate the product.

It's basically a free trial

I get that it's a free trial, but 200 calls per month seems a bit draconian.

Don't know what the service is our whatever, but it surely can't be so intensive to be unable to handle less than 10 requests a day per user.

@CoreFusionX It has nothing to do with technical ability or resource usage. It's about offering an evaluation version while also keeping people from using the free plan for their production. You know, for actually selling the product, like in, getting money.

@Fast-Nop

Sure, I get that.

Now tell me that while developing and testing shit, you don't burn those 200 calls in a day.

I for sure know I have.

@CoreFusionX So? By the time your business has decided to invest serious dev time, it means they are already investing considerable money. At that point, the evaluation phase is over, so just buy the product.

I mean, if you have the volume of traffic where 200/day becomes a problem, you are already successful.

For example, Twitter offers 200/*hour* for free...

If you want to prevent production usage for free, implement quotas, not rate limits...

@Fast-Nop , replied while I wrote xd

@CoreFusionX you buy the thing and have no issues

@iiii

Yes. Would be fine if I could actually decide what to buy.

Unfortunately, most often you have to hoop through so many rings...

And moreso, in order to approve purchase, they often ask for a PoC/MVP, which you can't provide if your get heavily rate limited...

Unless I'm the only retard who can burn 200 requests in a day, which is perfectly possible anyway.

the creator expects you not to burn those 200 request per day limit for running any demos and getting the product to approve. if you are doing anything extra than you are doing it wrong. but if you followed the demos and still exhausted the limits while not even getting the server to work, the its creator's fault

@CoreFusionX Sounds like you use it wrong. Obviously they expected 200 requests to be enough to know for sure that you want to use the service.

@Oktokolo

Well yes. Could see the point of that if they provided documentation and best practices. Twitter doesn't. And I ate limits to often for my liking because of that...

By the way, when I said it was perfectly possible, I was referring to me being retarded 😂

Depending on the service 200 is enough fpr eval. Maybe it's an 2 factor sms service. I mean how many calls do you need?

@CoreFusionX Requiring an MVP for evaluation of a subscription is the retarded part. If the service cost is already an issue, your hourly rate is an even bigger one.

And if it's not, then you should be busy applying elsewhere.

@Fast-Nop

Yeah, no need to tell me, I did leave for a reason after all 😂