I'm going to be transparent about how I priced JD Intelligence

Initial instinct: charge $99/mo. "That's what APIs cost."

Then I did the math:

• Target customer = indie job board or small ATS tool

• Typical job board does 200-500 new postings/month

• At $99/mo for 500 parses = $0.20/parse → fine

• But $99 is a harder "yes" for a first-time API buyer

Landed at $29/mo for 500 parses:

→ Low enough to trial without budget approval

→ High enough to signal it's real software, not a side project

→ Still leaves room to go $79 (1000) and $149 (2500) as tiers above

The risk: $29 might signal "toy" to enterprise buyers. Mitigation: the demo does the work. If the output is good, the price doesn't matter.

What would you price a developer API like this at?

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