"Zulip Cloud Standard is free for open source projects and affiliated institutions."
which I thought was unambiguous that our paid plan is free for open source projects.
The intent of our pricing model is to charge businesses $80/employee/year for use by full-time staff. If you're a business that can afford to hire people, you can definitely afford $80/employee/year (under <0.1% of that employee's all-in cost to the company) for a productivity tool. Our pricing is free for open source projects and highly discounted or free for situations where the users aren't full-time staff (e.g. education).
If there's something we could do to be more clear in our pricing page, I'd love to hear it.
Yeah, it's not clear to me. Do the limitations of the Free tier still apply to open-source projects?
It may help to just add a third box up top for Open Source or something. I didn't think that there would be a totally different tier listed below in the FAQs.
"Zulip Cloud Standard is free for open source projects and affiliated institutions."
which I thought was unambiguous that our paid plan is free for open source projects.
The intent of our pricing model is to charge businesses $80/employee/year for use by full-time staff. If you're a business that can afford to hire people, you can definitely afford $80/employee/year (under <0.1% of that employee's all-in cost to the company) for a productivity tool. Our pricing is free for open source projects and highly discounted or free for situations where the users aren't full-time staff (e.g. education).
If there's something we could do to be more clear in our pricing page, I'd love to hear it.