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Re:Rack: Open-Source PaaS on AWS by tedmiston on Monday May 09, 2016 @06:06PM (#11663602)
I asked the same question in a thread about Convox a few months ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10796165). Their reply from that thread might help:

nzoschke 134 days ago

> Thanks for your question. A much more thorough pricing page is in the works.

> The most straightforward model, and where we are already making some money, is running a Convox as a managed service.

> In this setup you and your team get Convox API keys. Convox installs, runs and updates everything for you in our accounts. You get a monthly bill that's your AWS resource costs plus a percentage to Convox for management.

> We will be tweaking this model to sell packages so bills are really easy to understand.

> Some other experiments we're doing...

> We sell support packages and professional services for app setup, migration and custom feature development.

> We have a per-seat model for productivity features. Private GitHub repos and Slack integrations are $19 / user / month. There are more closed SaaS tools like this coming.

> Infra is trending to commodity prices industry wide.

> We'll be selling SLAs, support, productivity tools on top of that infra.

> You'll get a cutting edge private platform without hiring and managing your own devops team to build and maintain it.

> Open source users will help grow the user base and make the platform better without us running a freemium platform.

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