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Should Your API Be Free or Pay-to-Play? (mashable.com)
15 points by sinzone on April 22, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



If your API is really close to money, like say if you're Intrade or something...does it ever make sense to not charge to access your API? Since you'll be presumable taking a percentage for each transaction or bundle of transactions, would charging 0 for low-volume API access make sense? Or should you try to monetize that as well by having monthly charges off the bat to all, and not just heavy-users?




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