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Reminds me of https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190403005265/en/Tra...

How does your pricing work?

We see ourselves as somewhat of a spiritual successor to TradeIt - we're trying to provide high-quality access to brokerage accounts so that people can build better investing apps on top of existing brokerages.

In terms of pricing: we charge a $300/mo base fee for your first 300 linked brokerage accounts, then $1/linked account/mo thereafter, with reduced pricing at various levels of scale.

Do you plan to offer a more developer friendly pricing?

We're still experimenting with pricing and would be happy to hear your thoughts on what sort of price structure would be more developer friendly. To set our current pricing, we looked at comparable companies like Plaid.

By the way, you can start testing with live accounts for free (maxed out at 3) by creating an account here https://www.realizefi.com/register.

It would be better if e.g. the first 50 can be priced at $5 per user per month and once the growth hits $300, revert to $1 per user.

Ha, nice! I used to work at TradeIt, and was about to reach out to some of my former co-workers and tell them about you. It's no small undertaking, congrats on the launch.

Thank you!

Hi Daniel, we're already in the comments section :) Hope you're doing well!

why not offering first 3 accounts for free to test integrations? would help massively rather than paying $300 to discover it can't integrate.

We provision both a live and sandbox app with 3 free test links each so that you can test out the API after signing up - we'll make sure to display that more prominently on our site/in our docs to avoid confusion on this point. Thanks for the feedback!

probably my bad, I didn't pay attention to it enough, I just read this post on this particular point. very good, my criticism is not valid then.

Howdy, I used to run engineering at TradeIt. Just curious if any of y'all ever had any interactions with us back in the day, and if any of the brokerages mentioned us (I'm guessing they will either have really nice or really not nice opinions if they remember us, depending on the nature of our integration with them ). We had so many partners on both the broker and developer side, would be fun to know who picked up the torch after we dropped it. Feel free to DM if you ever want to chat about it.

Hey! We first learned about TradeIt a few weeks ago from a friend who works at Drivewealth. It'd be great to chat - please shoot me an email at sean@realizefi.com

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