Over at Runbook.io we are looking at changing our pricing model and could use the communities advice.

We are an open source project built via https://assembly.com; which means that after costs of doing business, any profit made is paid to the community that contributes code/design/everything.

Financials: https://assembly.com/runbook/financials

While we have a few paying users the $1 per monitor price tag doesn't seem to be enough to cover our costs long term, let alone enable royalties to be paid out to the contributing community.

So the question for the HN community is this, if we raised our price per monitor how much should we increase it too? The highest we have discussed is $9.99 per monitor per month. Would you pay that for our service? If not what would you pay?

We are also considering moving from a per monitor pricing structure to a tier based structure. Where you get x amount of monitors for y price.

So the second question regarding how to pay is this, should we keep it per monitor or move to a standard tiered based model?

Related links: https://runbook.io https://runbook.io/pages/pricing/