Originally published at: Introducing simplified pricing, lower rates, and $50 to get you started - The Golioth Developer Blog
Two years ago, we shifted to a usage-based pricing model with tiers designed for teams of different sizes. At the time, that was a big step forward. We moved away from per-device pricing and toward something that better reflected how IoT devices actually behaved. You only paid for what you used, which made things like efficient, low-power devices much easier to support. But it still wasn’t simple enough. Over the past couple of years, we’ve worked with teams building real products. Fleets in production. Devices on cellular. Systems that actually have to run reliably for years. And we kept hearing the same things: “Pricing is too complicated.” “It’s hard to predict my costs” “Too expensive. My device sends gigabytes of data.” So we simplified it. And while we were at it, we made it cheaper. What changed At a high level, Golioth pricing now maps directly to how your IoT fleet operates. You pay for connections when devices securely connect. You pay for fleet operations when you deliver updates. And you pay for data routing when you move data through the system. Pricing Product What you pay for Price Connect Secure device connections (per active device/month) $0.25 per connection Fleet Management OTA update bandwidth $0.0095 per MB Pipelines Data routed through the platform and to destinations $0.0080 per MB And for application services: Application Service What you pay for Price Logs Long term log retention $0.001 per MB LightDB Stream (time-series) Long term Time-series data retention $0.001 per MB Location Network-based positioning requests $0.005 per API call Customers receive free data retention by default: Logs: 14 days LightDB Stream: 30 days Longer retention available as a part of annual contract agreements…