{"id":4955,"date":"2017-04-25T19:39:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T19:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/new-box-platform-pricing-designed-to-give-developers-more-cost-certainty.html"},"modified":"2017-04-25T19:39:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T19:39:24","slug":"new-box-platform-pricing-designed-to-give-developers-more-cost-certainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/new-box-platform-pricing-designed-to-give-developers-more-cost-certainty.html","title":{"rendered":"New Box platform pricing designed to give developers more cost certainty"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Box<\/a> has been in the process of\u00a0enhancing its developer platform, and today it announced a new pricing plan designed to provide developers with more cost certainty than the old pricing approach.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been in the market for 18 months and there has been a tremendous amount of traction, but pricing was still complicated,\u201d Jeetu Patel, CSO and SVP of Box Platform told TechCrunch. There was a sense that a pure consumption model wasn\u2019t working for the developer base and they wanted more predictability.<\/p>\n

The Box\u00a0platform lets developers tap into various pieces of the Box product set\u00a0such as storage services, encryption, security, file management and so forth without going through the effort of building these pieces themselves. Box makes money when a third-party tool makes an API call to their platform. Up until today, pricing was based purely on a number factors around consumption of Box platform resources.<\/p>\n

Developers were looking for\u00a0a pricing\u00a0model\u00a0that gave them a more consistent monthly cost, regardless of the usage in any particularly month. This could help smooth out seasonal spikes by spreading cost evenly across months and avoiding a huge monthly bill.<\/p>\n

Box has created\u00a0a new set of three standard pricing packages\u00a0<\/a>that include a number of monthly active users (MAUs) and API calls along\u00a0with a set of defined storage and bandwidth resources. The packages include a free tier for developers experimenting with the platform, a starter program for $500 per month and a Pro level $4,250 per month. Customers can also design a custom pricing bundle, Patel said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s unique is the way we\u2019ve done bundling and accounting for seasonality. In the older model you lost predictability in the exercise, especially when you have large customers going out and using large volumes. So we are smoothing that out,\u201d Patel said.<\/p>\n

They have built in a 10-15 percent overage into the cost, and they feel like if a company vastly exceeds its monthly averages, they can make it up in the quarterly or annual pricing review and build increases into the next contract based on past usage. The idea is to never go back to the developer and say \u2018you owe money.\u2019 Instead, it\u00a0will be built into future contracts, Patel explained.<\/p>\n

As Patel sees it, there is little downside to this approach as companies can start at any level they feel comfortable with. He says they usually have a good sense of what their usage is going to look like and if it exceeds that, the financial burden is no longer on them, he says.<\/p>\n

The new pricing is part of a general overhaul\u00a0to the developer platform Patel has been leading at Box. He says they started by making it simpler for developers to use the platform with a new set of tools and capabilities<\/a> announced earlier this year. In addition, they made the developer platform tools available in the AWS marketplace<\/a>. Today\u2019s\u00a0pricing announcement is the latest\u00a0piece.<\/p>\n

In fact, for starters, the company will be offering these pricing bundles to developers exclusively in the AWS marketplace. Later this year, they plan to offer\u00a0it via\u00a0the Box website.<\/p>\n

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