Fair, in numbers
Artur Sabirov1 min readLessly's pricing is now public and printed in full: one subscription for the team, plus metered usage billed in euros at printed rates. Three decisions sit inside that sentence.
The first: no house currency. Usage is metered in the units you actually consume, build minutes as build minutes and storage as storage, and billed in euros at the rates printed on the page. Not credits, not tokens, not any currency we invented. Credits are a currency you can't audit; every abstraction between the meter and the money is a place the number can move without you noticing, and an evaluation you can't finish without a spreadsheet. If a price needs a conversion table, it isn't a price yet.
The second: the whole rate card, before you sign up. Every metered line item is on the page with its price, the full card, not a teaser tier with the real costs waiting behind a sales call. The page also shows what the equivalent stitched-together stack would cost, tool by tool, because that's the spreadsheet you were going to build anyway.
The third is the one I like most. An automated check compares every rate on the pricing page against the billing source; if one is stale, the build fails and the page doesn't deploy. So it can't show you one number and bill you another. The day the two disagree, the page stops going live until someone fixes it.
One honest limit: Lessly is in private beta, so you'll meet these prices when your cohort opens, not before. The page is public now because the numbers should be part of your evaluation, not a surprise after it.
Every rate on that page is the rate on your invoice. That sentence is checkable, and it's the whole point.
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