the old pricing tier was having the Editors / Viewers difference, and only charging for the number of Editors per month, and it’s free for rest of all Viewers,
this is reasonable because most companies have a small data-science team, those are the ones responsible to create Observable pages, and can add rest of all company members as free Viewers, because all people outside of the data-science team are consumers only, they only need to consume the data-graphic, nobody out side of the data-science team need the Editor role, and most of them don’t have the JavaScript / SQL query knowledge, and don’t know how to create Observable data query,
Usually the size of company (# of all employees) can be 10x
or even more times of data-science team, e.g. 20 people company with 2 people in the data-science team, and subscribing to Observable only need to pay for the 2 Editors, aka the size of data-science team,
But reading this 2024/2 announcement, it seems no longer have the free Viewers, and you want to charge for all 20 users of the company? and 10x
grow your revenue? I would say no way,
Pricing tier changes
- There is now no distinction between viewers and editors — they are all classified as users.