Today we launched a brand new pricing structure for both our website load testing and website monitoring service. When coming up with new pricing for both our products, we set out do to four things:

1. Make it simpler and easier for anyone to quickly understand.
2. Make our advanced products (ie: our real browser services) more affordable.
3. Give a better value by reducing our pricing across the board.
4. Provide a free offering that never expires.

Load Testing Pricing

Our load testing service now has two types of fees:

• A base fee to use the software.
• A “cloud fee” for each test that gets run.

The base fee is where BrowserMob makes money as a company. We offer a weekly, monthly, or annual price – with significant discounts for annual purchases. We also offer three levels of service: Basic, Advanced, and Professional. Each package includes enough “cloud dollars” (see below) to complete most testing projects.

The cloud fee represents our raw costs to run in the cloud. This means after you pay the base fee, you are free to run as many tests as you’d like with no extra markup. For example, $15 in “cloud dollars” gets you a 100 browser test or a 1,000 virtual user test.

The most exciting thing about this model is that if your tests require no more than 25 browsers or 100 virtual users, there is no base fee. This means that after you use up the complementary 10 cloud dollars with each signup, you can keep using the service by simply covering the raw fees incurred with each test.

We’re also excited to offer any of our Basic, Advanced, or Professional packages to non-profits and open source organizations free of charge.

You can review all the load testing packages here.

Monitoring Pricing

Our monitoring pricing is now based on a very predictable number of “monthly page views”. For example, if you want to check a page every 15 minutes from one location, you would require 2,880 page views:

2,880 = 1 page view x 60 min / 15 min x 24 hrs x 30 days

The best part about this new model is that if you need 3,000 or fewer monthly page views, the service is 100% free. For more frequent monitoring, our monthly plans start at $49. You can review the monitoring pricing here.

Existing Customers

We will be posting a follow-up Q&A for all of our existing customers shortly. It will explain the transition process and what options are available. At a high level, we expect 99% of our customers to immediately get a better value. However, if any existing customer prefers to stick with the old model, we will gladly honor it.

Update: Please see our FAQ entry that discusses the changes for existing customers.

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