There is software that is subscription based and software that is one time payment.
My sincere oppinion is that the developers should (and will) decide for what is best for them and for the product to sell. I would like to pay one time, for the same reasons stated by bpthomas, but I think they should opt for the most benefit payment model. 
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To echo quite a few people above - I’ve just discovered Blynk (after the KS campaign) and think it is great. It’s just what I’ve been looking for i.e. 2-way control of my Yun over the internet made simple.
BUT, I absolute hate subscription based software/tech and there is a 99% chance I will just let it drop if/when it starts. I am prepared to pay for the effort and resource put into Blynk, but would prefer a one-off payment or some sort of pay-as-you-go system.
I am just a hobbyist who has the odd project on the go for a few weeks at a time now and again, subscription would not suit my use at all.
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@smssms and others, unless something changed I think i remember them mentioning a free tier, some fair usage version of the service that would be available for free with some common sense limits…
that should be (or if it s not, it should really be rethought) enough for most hobbyist usage …
if you ve got something that s more complex, then I am sure at some point they will find a sweet spot of what to charge for and how much… but it s still a business, how could they continuously develop and have servers and mentain those and offer support if there is no money coming in?
if the prices they give are unreasonable, or the free tier is not really enough, or they don t offer the local version for people to use, then I am sure it will reflect in a very abrupt drop in their service being used, and they will have to rethink or go under… give them a chance though
Guys,
Thanks for your feedback. We are glad we have started this discussion with you before introducing any paid services. It’s great to know that many of you are willing to support future development of Blynk.
You might notice that we always tend to listen to you, and it became clear that while subscription is a safe model to run the company, it might not be a best fit to a spontaneous nature of Makers 
So in our garage lab we invented something totally different. It’s not a subscription, more of a pay-as-you-go model (with free stuff of course). We won’t tell you what it is, but you’ll see it live really soon.
We hope that it will power up 
Blynk development and help us to make it even better.
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i do hope you are considering some kind of white labelling of the app/service as well.
i ve noticed @Costas for instance using a model that would benefit greatly if he could packaged his own blynk powered app to ship to people…
i am positive that there would be a lot of makers that could then use blynk to make a service/device/dashboards and give their users a full blown solution (share could be used like this, but it s rather restricted currently, people might also wanna charge for this and pay you a royalty fee, or whatever)
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Hi @tzapulica
We are in discussions with Blynk about incorporating their service into our products, with or without white labelling. I’m sure there will be many more suppliers looking to make use of their services too.
Hello, sorry for the English google translate, my opinion is that Blynk is not suitable to be a subscription product although it could also be considered a service. Rightly your work and time must be paid for in some way, you could for example do as many major software: one-time payment, and free upgrades, then instead the new release to payment with reduced price.
Will home screen widget capability come with subscription based service? Any such plans in working? I understand it is harder to implement, however, interactive full size widget on home screen will beat any competition and will make Blynk a true connected app factory. (opening app to see current stats and etc is a big turnoff for an average user when it comes to web connected devices)
Also, are there any plans for opening a possibility for community provided widget skins?
Another suggestion for immediate future, please add date/time selection widget popup. Something like standard Android alarm/date-time selection popup. (now it is possible with slider but looks very unprofessional, and takes lots of limited space)
One more suggestion, please add expandable widget area. With some projects it is just impossible to fit everything on one screen. Plus it would be convenient in debugging stage.
But overall Blynk is a great project. I hope it will become financially self sufficient and continue its existence in years to come.
@laynd I’ll answer for Pavel while I’m here =).
No. In plans only.
Yes. And Blynk is ready for that already, still we need to think on how to make skinning simple.
This will be our next widget.
Thanks.
Paid widget now live. Not bad at all the system you created.
A lot of places as I’m living tai South-Eastern Asia, where 3 billion people but only on income 2000 usd/year. And this opinion is also eager to submit to you the administrator Blynk:
- Private users will never be able to pay much, especially in countries outside US/EU (China, India, South America, Russia e tc)… $2,5 / month is definitely too much for them. I suppose, the maximum ONE-TIME fee a user can pay to include Blynk into his project is equal to 0,2-0,5 of other hardware costs, that means Arduino/Raspberry board and peripherials. If you set higher price, you’ll definitely kill yor Blynk before it gets really popular (1M downloads), because people simply won’t evers start projects requiring Blynk. You should go WhatsApp-way (you know, they asked $1/year and got millions of users).
- On the contrary, commercial users could pay even more. There are plenty of commercial applications Blynk is suitabe for. You just need to offer a very stable, robust, extremly well documented platform, going behind handheld devices, with lots of api’s allowing it to incorporate into commercial apps. Make commercial-only widgets with functions a private user will never need. And yes, that’s what you could ask to pay for. And they will, because they’ll be getting profit out of using Blynk.
So the bottom line: give unlimited private version to everybody for as low price as you can, this will give your success like Arduino of WhatsApp. 10k users paying 2,5/month are not better than 1M users paying 1$/year. The idea to make expirable free tokens as very good. An amateur will be able to get a new each month and re-flash the device… A professional business user will definitely prefer a paid perpetual token…
I want remember all user that blynk is a company, and a company don’t go forward if don’t make money, before ask 50 cents for months or less inform about cloud and development costs, first of all support blynk who help us on every project problem, after we can ask more.
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I sympathise with users from very low income nations but equally they generally have a very low cost of living so much of the inequalities even themselves out. I don’t really know where Blynk is ‘based’ but presuming their team is not all in South East Asia then the ‘cost’ of the service will reflect their cost of ‘living’.
Blynk have already given free access to everyone as far as I know and I believe they have said additional free energy will be available for watching ads / videos so they are doing all they can to make the service available to everyone.
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Hello dear all blynker
I’m New Blynker I just want to give some advices to founder. Thanks for developing a blynk that make easiest way connecting to my arduino. Since the founder announced paid blynker that make me think twice to use blynk. It’s Ok to cost the blynker with some moaney. But I just suggest you to make another option besides free and full box. Give me unlimited version ( both time and features ) and you can cost me like $10 or $20 for that option. I think so many user will be objected by the choices that you made. I’m Indonesian and I’m sure million people in south east asian like blynk. Thanks… Hope you’ll find best solustion for us.
Guessing you haven’t opened the app yet then?
If you spend $10-20 then you get so much Energy that you’ll be able to build whatever you want 
Which is very close to Unlimited
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Pavel
If I’m going to use blynk I need to be able to make a project for my clients that just works forever without any “tax”. If I pay you something up front for your technology that is fine. But the project has to be insulated from any paying. For instance if I make a watering control for my wife she would just throw it out if it asked her for payments.
Ron
That’s exactly how the current setup works. You pay per widget; the more complex the app, the more it costs. It’s not an ongoing thing. And IMO it pretty cheap for what it is.
Have you checked how sharing works before posting? Because this is exactly how it works now
What kind of “tax” are you referring to?