$1 to Save the World: Rivet’s Dead-simple Pricing – Rivet Magazine

If you’ve joined our beta or you’ve been following the conversation on CryptoTwitter, you’ve heard us talk an awful lot about the importance of massively scalable infrastructure.

Scalability is a buzzword that gets thrown around a lot. But does everybody who buzzes about scale mean the same thing when they say it?

I don’t want to keep you in suspense, but…

You guessed it—probably not.

When developers talk about scale, they’re usually talking about the technical elements of their products — how they work to say something is highly scalable is a way of saying ‘This thing we built can be used by a large number of people at the same time without breaking it — and, most importantly, without any unacceptable sacrifice to quality or responsiveness.’

And while that is certainly true for Rivet, it barely scratches the surface of what we mean when we say it.

Why?

Because we aim to scale in n-dimensions. So along with capacity, quality, and responsiveness — we scale cost-wise, network-wise, and utility-wise. Put a pin in the big idea of n-dimensional scaling for now though, because in today’s post we’re focused on the dimension of cost — or rather, its inverse — price.

So a bit of background before we just dive in like a freaking northern gannet…

$1 for 100,000 RPC requests.

Now that you know what the stakes are, let’s break down it down by what you’ll see on the plan selection screen in the Rivet signup UI.

Rivet has 2 plans — BUIDL and SCAEL.

BUIDL is our free plan, providing an easy, risk-free way for new developers to get their feet wet. You only need an email address to sign up, and you get a credit for 500,000 requests each month. After the credit is consumed, your account will be out of requests for the month (unless you upgrade your account to SCAEL).

SCAEL is our paid plan. It requires you to add a card to your account (other payment methods, including cryptocurrency, are in the works), and unlocks your account for unlimited growth.

With SCAEL, you get the same 500,000 monthly request credit you get with BUIDL. After your credit is fully consumed each month, you will be billed $1 for every 100,000 requests you use.

If you start with BUIDL, you can upgrade to SCAEL at any time — and downgrade to BUIDL just as easily.

That’s all there is to it. Easy, right?

While that is the core of our pricing model, our goal is to increase the value you get from Rivet while driving the costs down even further.

This is only possible because of Rivet’s focus on n-dimensional scaling. Every change we make to the platform will add new capabilities to your project’s utility belt, and pass on savings to you as we find them.

It may seem like we could charge more and offer less, and if that crossed your mind, you would be right. But for one fact.

Rivet is trying to bring about a better world. We intend to do so by making sure the heroes who will save it (that’s you!) can afford to stay in the fight.

Which brings me to one last thing…what if I told you that during our Beta you got access to SCAEL?

We will be in beta until at least August 12, but maybe longer. Until the beta ends, if you sign up for SCAEL, you will be credited fully for all the requests you can use.

No limits. Sign up at https://rivet.cloud, grab your key, and get to it!

m/ Rivet