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Guide: Negotiating a fixed-price annual contract with a usage-based vendor.

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I'm starting to look at some log analytics tools for our team. The pricing pages are all usage-based (per GB scanned, per query), which makes our finance team nervous. They want predictable costs.

Has anyone here actually negotiated a fixed annual fee with a vendor like this? What's the starting point? Do you just take your estimated usage and ask for a flat rate, or are there other tricks? I'm worried about over-provisioning or getting locked into a bad deal.



   
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