Why the indirection in the pricing page. Like, if a unit is 1,000 searches/month, why not just put that in the matrix.<p>Free = 10,000 searches/month.<p>Standard = $1 per 1,000 searches.
...<p>Pay as you go:<p>1,000 - 10,000 searches = Free<p>11,000 - 100,000 searches = $1.00/ 1,000 searches<p>The whole to unit conversion really just adds a level of indirection that I don't understand. This was further confused by units having different colored dots depending on the plan, making me think there were 3 different kinds of units.<p>A slider would be nice, let me slide it to what my search volume for a given month would be, and tell me how much that would cost, factoring in volume discounts.<p>Additionally, this is a huge red flag:<p>> If you exceed your committed usage, there are overages that will be charged.<p>What are the overages??! Why is it not just sliding back to pay-as-you-go pricing, like reservations for say EC2 work.<p>----<p>As an aside, we use Algolia to power some search features at Discord. This new pricing structure looks to be an order of magnitude more expensive (we fall under the "contact sales" usage here...) Luckily we're grandfathered in or we'd have to consider putting a cloudflare worker in-front of this and leveraging that to do caching of common hot queries to reduce cost.