Hi, I have a question about the new pricing for the Prefect Cloud. It has increased from 450€/month to 1850€/month. But even with this high costs, there is a limitation of 10 automations. If a company is scaling and would like to switch from Free/Self Hosted to the Cloud is able to pay >22K/year for a workflow system, they should be able to automate all their workflows, because in a complex data environment only time based scheduling is not sufficient and you need more "When A has finished, run B" / "If B and C have finished, run D" etc. rules. How are you handling a logic like that, if only 10 automations are allowed even at this price point?

Hey Christian - thanks for the question. We're actually preparing to raise all of these caps in the next few weeks. If it would be useful I'm happy to bump yours earlier if you want to DM me an account ID.

Thank you for raising this question @Christian I am loving the open source Prefect and am thinking of including it in some of my demos (Im a network engineer looking at workflow automation tooling not for data so much but for infrastructure) but Im hesitant to recommend it because moving to a PRO account is exorbitant (and to your point still has limits).

Good to see, that I am not alone with that concern @Claudia 🙂. I think, either the open source framework or the free cloud is the option for most use cases and the pro version for very specific companies. As long as those options are not limiting you, it's a great way to go. But easier said then done, because I don't find it easy to get a clear picture, when those options are enough and when you need to switch to Pro or some kind of custom tier. I already shared my concerns, so maybe there will be more clarification in future.

💩 @Christian Thanks for pointing this out (I wouldn't have noticed that since we bought a pre-paid year on the old pricing relatively recently). This is no way going to work for my organization either. Open source here we come, I guess 😞 If Prefect wants to specialize in the "problems of the rich" to make more money, I guess I understand, but it's super disappointing.

Maybe there is more demand in the mid-price range then expected. Maybe not. I would prefer a different direction, but it is like it is...