June 2019¹

Charge by number of active admins, with additional charge for “Org” dashboard, and additional services that can be added to any plan

Things that feel healthy to charge for:

• SLA, more complete contract language

Things we don’t want to charge for:

• Number of articles

• Number of communities

  
  

Things we don’t want to offer:

• Custom code

Free

• Unlimited admins

Team - (Charging bands based on Community Admins)

• Custom domain

• Non-CC licenses

• 0 Admins: $100/year

• up to 10 admins: $750/year (75 per admin)

• up to 25 admins: $1250/year (50 per admin)

• up to 50 admins: $2000/year (40 per admin)

• over 50 admins: (contact us)

Organization - ($Y + Charging based on Community Admins)

• Team Features

• Org features

• SLA

• 0 Admins: 1.5x * $100/year

• up to 10 admins: 1.5x * $750/year

• up to 25 admins: 1.5x * $1250/year

• up to 50 admins: 1.5x * $2000/year

• over 50 admins: (contact us)

Production Support - (Charging based on per-article + per-community)

• Available at all tiers

• Contact us (roughly $100 per article and per community)

Bandwidth

• Some language in the terms that limit bandwidth and lets us charge for it ²over an amount

Independent

• Contact us for discount

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Active Admins

1-5: 1x = $10 + $500

5-25: 2x + $500

25 - 50: 2.5x

100+: Contact us

Free tier:

Early 2019

Free

‘I’m publishing on PubPub’

Professional

‘I’m a Publisher using PubPub’

• Custom domain

• Custom (non-PubPub) DOI

• Custom licenses

• Support response-time

  
  

Enterprise

• Organization landing page

• Multi-community permissioning

• Multi-community analytics

• Multi-community dashboard

• Multi-community templates

• Multi-community settings

• Post-sales consulting

• LDAP

• SSO

• SLA

  
  

Add ons (tax model)

• Post-sales consulting

• Custom domain?

• Custom licenses

• Support response time

Charges per use:

• Pub analytics

• Community analytics

• Full private communities

• Mailing list support/integration

• Payment services

• Computational papers/processing

• Custom fonts

• Integrations

• DOI deposition

• page view

• community members

• number of pubs

• number of discussions

• number of pages

• number of communities

• per view

• per download

• per review
  

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Summary

PubPub offers three product tiers: free, premium, and full-service. Free and premium tiers are self-serve, software-as-a-service model, with proposed prices based on a scan of competitor prices for journal hosting and a rough estimate of the marginal cost of hosting a community based on the PubPub budget template.

Full-service is a software-plus-service model based on the Press’s existing journal business. In this model, Press provides expertise setting up on PubPub and ongoing community management, marketing, and other support. Proposed pricing is based on Gabe’s rough model, the Muse OPEN model, and competitor prices. But we would likely not expose the pricing publicly, and instead ask people to get in touch if they’re interested, which also allows Press to actively sell these packages as part of their contracts.

Pricing Table