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Module 9

Pricing and packaging

Five tiers, three meters, and the confusion that costs deals.

17 min2 lessons

After this module: You can size a prospect to the right tier live on a call, explain overage without sounding like an upsell, and know when to route to Enterprise.

The five tiers

Pricing is on monthly unique visitors. Everything else follows from that number.

The self-serve ladder
PlanPriceVisitorsEventsAI runsSeatsRecordings
Free$03002,0001 per day1No
Starter$191,00010,000100 / mo1No
Growth$793,00050,000500 / mo37 days
Scale$19910,000150,0001,500 / mo530 days
Business$49950,000750,0005,000 / mo10Unlimited

Above Business it is Enterprise — custom, unlimited, and a conversation rather than a checkout. Extra seats on any paid tier are $19 each.

The tiers and the three metersAnd the one meter that causes every pricing misunderstanding.

Check yourself

A prospect expects roughly 8,000 unique visitors a month and needs 4 seats. What do you quote?

Three meters, and the conversation that goes wrong

Three things are counted. Only one of them causes trouble.

What is metered, and what it costs beyond the plan
MeterWhat it countsOverage
Unique visitorsDistinct people per month$15 per extra 1,000
EventsPageviews and tracked actions$3 per extra 1,000
AI runsQuestions asked of the analyst$0.05 each

Unique visitors is the one to be careful with. A person visiting ten times counts once. If a prospect quotes a number from a tool that counts sessions, or worse "hits", they will land on the wrong tier and the correction later is unpleasant.

Overage is opt-in. With it on, the customer is never blocked and pays per unit beyond the allowance. With it off, they hit a soft limit and upgrade. Either is fine — but note that overage is priced deliberately above every tier’s effective base rate, so staying under-planned is never the cheaper move.

Route to Enterprise when volume exceeds Business, or when the shape of the deal changes: procurement, a security review, custom terms, or an unusual data arrangement. Do not try to squeeze that into Business — you will lose time and probably the deal.

Check yourself

A customer will run about 20% over their visitor allowance most months. What is the honest advice?

Worth remembering

  • Five self-serve tiers from Free to Business at $499, then Enterprise.
  • Three meters: monthly unique visitors (the headline), events, and AI runs.
  • Unique visitors means distinct people — not sessions, not pageviews. This is where pricing conversations go wrong.
  • Extra seats are $19 each. Overage is priced above every tier’s base rate, so staying under-planned is never cheaper.
  • Route to Enterprise when volume exceeds Business, or when procurement, security review or custom terms appear.

Words that came up

Unique visitor
One person in a calendar month, however many times they visit. The headline billing meter.
Event
A pageview or a tracked action. There are always far more events than visitors.
AI run
One question asked of the analyst. Free is capped at one per day; paid tiers get a monthly allowance.
Overage
What you pay per unit beyond the plan allowance, if the customer switches it on rather than being blocked.

Do this before moving on

Reading about a demo is not the same as having given one.

  1. 1Size three real companies with the calculator below and say the recommendation out loud.
  2. 2Explain the difference between visitors, sessions and pageviews in one sentence, without notes.
  3. 3Work out what a prospect on 12,000 visitors would pay on Scale, including two extra seats.

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