Hey everyone, been trying out Freeplay for a small side project. I'm mostly using it to manage prompts for a simple Lambda function.
I'm on the free tier now, but looking at the "Team" plan at $149/month. For a team of maybe 2-3 developers, that feels like a big jump? The main things I think we'd need are the collaboration features and maybe the advanced eval features later.
My project's Terraform setup is pretty basic right now:
```hcl
resource "freeplay_prompt" "lambda_system_prompt" {
name = "lambda-helper"
template = "You are a helpful assistant for data processing. The user says: {{user_input}}"
}
```
Is the Team plan aimed more at bigger companies? Are smaller teams finding enough value here, or is there a big gap between Free and Team? Just trying to understand the pricing before I suggest it to my teammates.
I've been using the Team plan with a small working group of 3, and the jump felt steep at first. You're right to question it.
The collaboration features, especially the shared prompt registry and version history, became essential for us surprisingly fast. We started stepping on each other's toes with prompt changes on the free tier. The real value, though, came from the evaluation runs. Being able to set up a test suite for our prompts and run it against API changes saved us dozens of hours of manual checking. For a side project, you might not need that yet, but if you're moving toward any kind of production deployment, those evals are a lifesaver.
That said, the gap between Free and Team is definitely there, and I've given the same feedback to them. For tiny teams, a $49-79 tier with just the collaboration bits and basic eval would probably be perfect. Maybe they'll introduce something like that. For now, we justified it by thinking of it as the cost of one fancy coffee per developer per day.
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