A Thoughtful Discussion on Blynk’s Pricing Model and Potential Enhancements

PeteKnight · January 14, 2025, 6:40pm

Agreed. That’s exactly what I said in December…

Maker subscription suddenly disappeared - is this normal?

The thing I have a problem with is the free plan with lots of functionality (users, devices, widgets etc) but the highly restrictive message limits. This is already causing issues as far as this forum is concerned, because people see this and build their projects, then run out of message allowance. The effort they put into getting their code and dashboards working is immediately wasted when they realise that the free plan doesn’t work for them in the long term, and they clearly aren’t going to pay €99 per month for a Pro plan.

It would be better to have either a fixed duration (maybe 1 month) trial, or an invitation process where potential Pro users are given short-term access to a trial system that allows them to evaluate and try before they buy.

Pete.