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| title: Upcoming changes to MUI X pricing in 2024 | |||
| description: Check out the new pricing updates and how to transition to the new model. | |||
| date: 2024-08-01T08:00:00.000Z | |||
| authors: ['josefreitas'] | |||
| authors: ['josefreitas', 'oliviertassinari'] | |||
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Showing my face on the blog post to take accountability for them.
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| ## Changes to the Pro plan | ||
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| ### Current Pricing | ||
| ### Current pricing |
| tags: ['MUI X', 'Product'] | ||
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| We're excited to share some important updates to our product offerings and pricing structure. This change reflects the expanded feature set and helps us continue delivering high-quality components to you and your users. |
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Wasn't sure about "excited". It's mostly about pricing and an increase, not sure exactly that users would be excited.
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| Under our current pricing model, if you licensed the Pro plan for 50 developers, you only paid for 10 seats. This concept was introduced when we offered only the Data Grid Pro with a much smaller feature set. |
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Removed the notion of "seat", I believe we banned it in the legal an pricing page.
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Hmm, okay. I guess I missed that discussion.
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Fixing that too in mui/mui-x#14351.
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Why though? Shouldn't we have separate terms for the license (permission to use the software) and the number of devs that a single license covers?
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regarding banning "seats", I'm not sure if mixing "licenses" in plural with "license" in singular doesn't make it more confusing (and maybe even legally ambiguous)
It's borderline confusing, I agree, to get a project licensed, each developer needs to be licensed. One word for two different concepts. I think we should address this a whole though. Same issue on the EULA, /pricing page, store page, etc.
| ### Pricing for small teams | ||
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| The price is the same for customers with 10 developers or fewer. | ||
| Actually, we are making this pricing change to be able to keep the price affordable for small teams. |
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Not sure it's super relevant, but it's pretty much why we do this, to lower price for smaller teams, and increase for larger team who get more value.
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| The price is essentially the same for customers with 10 developers or fewer, but you still need a new license key to use the Pro versions of Charts or Tree View. If that's the case, we recommend you contact our sales team and get a discount to renew your license earlier. | ||
| However, if you want to use the new features, you will need a new license key to use the Pro versions of Charts or Tree View. | ||
| You can [contact](https://support.mui.com/hc/en-us/requests/new) our support team to receive a new license key. |
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Added a link to take action.
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| ## Changes to the Premium plan | ||
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| ### New Pro components |
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In case people missed this.
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| However, we want to ensure that our valued early customers continue to enjoy the benefits of an earlier purchase. | ||
| Current customers will still benefit from a 20% renewal discount. | ||
| Current customers will still benefit from a 20% renewal discount (vs. 25% early bird discount before). |
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To help appreciate it's a small increase.
| ### Ending the early bird discount | ||
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| After two years since the [introduction of our Premium plan](/blog/premium-plan-release/), we've added numerous features and are on the verge of releasing the Pivot mode for the Data Grid. We consider the product mature and battle tested enough and as a result, the early bird discount for the Premium plan finally reaches its end. | ||
| After two years since the [introduction of our Premium plan](/blog/premium-plan-release/), we've added numerous features and are on the verge of releasing the Pivot mode for the Data Grid. | ||
| We consider the product mature and battle-tested enough and as a result, the early bird discount for the Premium plan finally reaches its end. |
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| Under our current pricing model, if you licensed the Pro plan for 50 developers, you only paid for 10 seats. This concept was introduced when we offered only the Data Grid Pro with a much smaller feature set. |
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Hmm, okay. I guess I missed that discussion.
Co-authored-by: José Rodolfo Freitas <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Olivier Tassinari <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Olivier Tassinari <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: José Rodolfo Freitas <[email protected]>
A continuation of #43061. I tweaked a bit the content, trying to anticipate what people could be confused about. I didn't look at the support tickets, there is likely more that we could learn to reflect on this blog post but 🤷♂️ no time. It looks solid otherwise.
Preview: https://deploy-preview-43438--material-ui.netlify.app/blog/mui-x-sep-2024-price-update/
In the email we sent, I wish we kept it shorter and linked the blog post, I think it's better because it helps people share the content with their team (rather than forwarding an email).