I didn't dig through the infinite scroll (ironic on a page about designs) but I'm surprised more than half of them weren't dedicated to obfuscating the prices, as has been the vast majority of my experience with trying to figure out how much money I need to give anyone
I've always wanted to know: Are people actually interested in more granular pricing options? I.e. give me 10x more tokens but miss me with that image generation, or give me more bandwith but still only one domain. It feels like nowadays 80% of stuff in pricing packages isn't really used by people paying for it, but they can't opt out of it...
ethan_smith · 1h ago
Research suggests consumers actually prefer fewer choices - the "paradox of choice" shows that highly granular pricing often increases decision paralysis and cart abandonment rather than improving conversion rates.
sangeeth96 · 1m ago
I too think that has some weight to it, but there's no reason we can't have both.
Before the LLM boom, I wouldn't have thought twice about having fine-grained options, but since then, every SaaS company on the face of the planet has forcibly bundled ChatGPT and its ilk and jacked up prices — LLM crap I don't use and don't plan to use in its current state.
Similarly, many might wanna go initially with a simple option but later, based on their usage, whittle it down to the few that are relevant, save money in the process, and commit to the company.
nilamo · 1h ago
Adobe's subscription is so bad for this.
Want a single product? It's only available for annual subscriptions for hundreds of dollars, with huge cancellation fees (the rest of the year). But it comes with a dozen or so products you'll never download lol
Swizec · 1h ago
> Are people actually interested in more granular pricing options?
Yes. Welcome to the world of committed contracts, call-us pricing, and “partnerships. At many-zeroes scale every cent is negotiated to the point that you’ll get different pricing based on the hour of the day that you make the API call.
xz18r · 2h ago
The SaaS internet is so boring! These are like carbon copies of each other.
zerkten · 1h ago
A lot of this comes down to A/B testing. Once people have found a solution that converts some number of customers, it's hard to take risks. There are alternative designs, but it's safest to just go with what is known. In some cases, the familiarity is helpful for users, but there is no denying that it can be boring. These are the unfortunate constraints that many talented people have to work in.
iamacyborg · 1h ago
Given how badly I’ve seen a/b tests being conducted at multiple companies, I’m not sure I’d assume anything from competitors works particularly well.
iammrpayments · 43m ago
I can guarantee from my experience that most internet marketing practices are determined by the blind leading the blind.
iamacyborg · 31m ago
Certainly my experience as well.
avdlinde · 2h ago
Isn't that a good thing? Let's you compare easily.
biker142541 · 1h ago
Not being boring doesn’t translate to $$, however.
exodust · 1h ago
I'd like to see a pricing page where if you get the ball though the hoop, or some other challenge, you get a discount.
porridgeraisin · 2h ago
Yeah. Literally all of them are .flex-row>.pricing-card*4.
kmfrk · 1h ago
One of my biggest peeves in pricing pages is the "feature diff". There are so many redundant features listed between tiers - or products - that many would be better off not showing features that are largely the same.
JimDabell · 1h ago
Also see Paywall Screens: 10k screenshots of paywalls in mobile apps.
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or my other pet peeve https://lucidic.ai/#:~:text=Get%20started%20for%20free aka don't worry about it until you like it!
Before the LLM boom, I wouldn't have thought twice about having fine-grained options, but since then, every SaaS company on the face of the planet has forcibly bundled ChatGPT and its ilk and jacked up prices — LLM crap I don't use and don't plan to use in its current state.
Similarly, many might wanna go initially with a simple option but later, based on their usage, whittle it down to the few that are relevant, save money in the process, and commit to the company.
Want a single product? It's only available for annual subscriptions for hundreds of dollars, with huge cancellation fees (the rest of the year). But it comes with a dozen or so products you'll never download lol
Yes. Welcome to the world of committed contracts, call-us pricing, and “partnerships. At many-zeroes scale every cent is negotiated to the point that you’ll get different pricing based on the hour of the day that you make the API call.
https://www.paywallscreens.com/