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The freemium model for developer tools has a well-documented pattern: give away the individual experience, charge for team features. But this breaks down when the tool is inherently solo.
What [[TradingView]] gets right is the data tier model — the product is free, the resolution costs money. Real-time vs. delayed. That's a natural value inflection.
For [[EDGE Terminal]], the question is: what's the equivalent of "resolution"? Speed of AI analysis? Depth of backtesting? Number of concurrent strategies?
The [[automation pricing gap]] note connects here — mid-market is underserved across multiple verticals.
Consider the prosumer wedge: tools like Figma succeeded not by competing on enterprise features, but by making the free tier so good that individual contributors became internal advocates. The tool spreads bottom-up.
Three pricing tiers emerge naturally from the product's architecture:
1. Free — Full editor, local AI, up to 500 nodes, basic graph
2. Pro ($12/mo) — Unlimited nodes, cloud AI, semantic search, auto-linking
3. Team ($24/mo) — Collaboration, shared canvases, multiplayer
3 downstream features are blocked on this. Completing routing unlocks search, shortcuts, and plugin hooks — the highest multiplier in your backlog.
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