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I'm a bit puzzled. To use the full set commercially, do I need to pay a subscription as long as I'm using them, or only as long as I still need new icons?

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Only for new sets, but don't be fooled. If I remember correctly, they have limits on how many icons and illustrations you can download every day. So you actually pay huge amount of money (minimum of $228), for small subset of icons that you managed to download. You can't download entire Streamline set and use it within your library. Streamline is good, I considered to use it, but it's way way more expensive than any other "Pro" icon pack on the market.

Thanks! Yes, we have a fair usage policy that most people never hit unless you're abusing the platform.

~~I see the catch. Billed yearly. So the minimum you pay for access is $240.~~

~~That may not be much for the quality you are getting, but my fontawesome infinite access pack was a lot cheaper.~~

Edit: This was wrong. The catch is that you can only download 100 icons at a time, and you can’t download any more when your subscription expires. The system tries to detects bots, so you cannot automatically download the full set.

You can purchase for 1 month too. No need to subscribe for annual pricing if you don't need icons or illustrations throughout the year.

Our design process is incredibly intensive. https://medium.com/streamline-icons/create-more-beautiful-an...

Which is why a lot of folks choose us over other icon libraries: https://streamlinehq.com/wall-of-love

If you need Purchasing Power Parity, please reach out to hello@streamline.vip.

Make this a service that’s integrated into development tools and only bills for the icons that land into production (noninvasively by scanning them at CI stage for example) and you could get business. As of now, the price/icon is only attractive to enterprise who typically already need to design their own icons to establish identity. So you’re left with small scale who may just skip your offering for a completely free icon set.

Haha, no need. I can afford it (if I wanted to badly enough).

Right now it’s at the edge of “I need an actual use case for these things, instead of buying them just in case.”

I completely missed the monthly option! Buying them once for $39 and them using them forever feels shifty though. At least if I paid $240 it’d feel sort of fair ;)

What is up with that 100 icons per project though? If I’m paying for icons I want to have unlimited use out of them (especially on websites), not an arbitrary limit. I doubt I’d ever use more than 100 per site, or that you’d enforce that limit, but even if it’s irrational it still bothers me.

Only if you need new icons.

Full details here: https://intercom.help/streamlinehq/en/articles/5354366-strea...

We add new icons and sets every week.

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