What does a Bungee-powered application cost?

Bungee Connect pricing is simple:
Development and Testing — Free
Deployment and Hosting — Free during public beta, then $0.06/user-session-hour
Individuals and organizations can build, collaborate, test – even conduct beta tests with actual customers with no fee.

Bungee-powered applications are billed on actual usage by end-users, like a utility. The cost of your application is determined by the amount of time users spend directly interacting with your application.

Here are a few examples:







How does that map to my world today?
A common metric for measuring web activity is page views, but this is only part of the view. If your analytics dashboard provides you with total session time, just multiply that by $0.06 per hour. Otherwise, take the back of an envelope and make your best guess on the time spent per page and multiply that by page views to get your total session time, now multiply that by $0.06 per hour.

While this gives you a rough idea of the cost, keep in mind that highly interactive applications enable users to get tasks done more quickly and with fewer pages. Chances are, your calculation will likely be quite a bit higher than a Bungee-powered reality.