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Thanks! The pricing is there mostly to set expectations for the future. The current release works (for the most part) for individual users and it would not support a team well. Hocus is free for up to 3 users, so we expect people who deploy the alpha version not to pay a thing.

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For a self-hosted solution that pricing is a complete non-starter.

I have a team of 30 devs, so it would be $1,200/mo. That's on par with GitHub's enterprise plan plus Codespaces instance usage.

There's no way I could consider this for my company at that price.

Hocus is more cost-efficient when you need larger instances. If you need 8 CPU cores ($0.72/hour on Codespaces) and a single dev uses their IDE for 4 hours a day on average, Codespaces itself would come out to about $0.72 * 4 * 5 * 4 * 30 = $1728 a month. But that gives me the idea that maybe we should introduce cheaper pricing plans but with limits on VM resources - pay less if you have lower compute requirements.

Maybe I'm confused here, but wouldn't I still be paying instance costs on top of your per-seat license?

256 cores would be about $2.50 to $5/hr in AWS depending on reservations and how much you're able to oversubscribe. That's another $1,500 to $3,000/mo on top of your $1,170/mo.

If you're paying for the compute then cool, that's a good price. If this is self-hosted though then I can't really see why I would bother unless I had no choice but to self host and cobbling together a simpler if less ideal solution isn't allowed.

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