What&#x27;s the future of pricing look like on Webstudio?

We'll do everything we can to keep the pricing the same. The pricing was made to be sustainable for the long run.

https://discord.com/channels/955905230107738152/1200370766177386606/1296839631320383552

That's a link to a recent thread where Oleg was commenting on this

Lots of people ask this becuase webflow made it so expensive that our pricing looks unrealistic. Our pricing is realistic because of cloudflare and because of a small team.

Over time it can grow a bit, but not significantly. Goal is for it to stay more or less the same.

Team plans will be more expensive and will come with features like real-time collaboration etc.

SScott Erickson

What does the lifetime plan look like in relation to future upgrades with team functionality, etc.

SScott Erickson

Also I appreciate that

Ltd is pro plan, not team, also will go away jfyi

MMr Bean

Thanks for your response WebStudio team 🙂

BBugsy

Hi @Oleg Isonen, would it be possible to introduce split pay? I plan to buy the pro lifetime but $999 single transaction tends to flag my debit account

Hey can you try it first to see if there's an issue and we can go from there?

BBugsy

Oh it's actually on my bank's end, my account gets flagged if I make more than $800 in single transaction

I would try to sort that out with them, maybe temporarily raise the limit, or wouldn't they text you so you can approve or deny the transaction? Or lots of third parties do this where they cover the transaction and you pay them, like Klarna

https://www.klarna.com/us/klarna-apple-pay/

DDeleted User

I'll bet it'll be a bit like webflow circa 2013-17 when it was good. In 2017 that similar solution sold out and the product got worse. Literally multiple easily solved customer Wishlist requests got crickets and they started and then abandoned multiple features after VC cash injection, it's only got worse. Unless we get clarification from 'webstudio' then it'll be a similar customer experience in my opinion. Happy to stand corrected but I'm not holding my breath.

You're forgetting one thing in this equation.

Webflow = closed source proprietary software.
Webstudio = open source

It much easier to screw up closed source software when cash injections happens. Because it's closed source, clients are forced to play along with the software upgrades. There's only the options:

play along
stop using the software.

When open source companies screw up their cloud plan, clients have the choice:

play along on the same cloud plan
stop using the software.
Move over to the previous open source version and host that on their own.

That's just something so essential that many people tend to forget when comparing a company like Webflow with Webstudio. Or Zapier with n8n. Or Airtable with Baserow.

Open source companies know that there's this 3rd option. As well as investors that invest in open source.
And because of that, there's much more consideration when increasing a price.

Hope it helps!

(and correct me if I'm wrong)

JJacob

But isnt that something that has to be facilitated on your end ?

If you want to sell it more people would probably buy if there was this option for split payment.

See for example

https://prestoplayer.com/pricing/

A lot of money for that product, but it is what is keeping me in wpterritory. This and other stuff easily configurable is what i need for some other stuff ...