I wanted to get a community consensus on people’s thoughts about Brave Origin’s pricing. There was a lot of discussion surrounding this but it was very scattered throughout the forum.[1][2][3]
What do you think?
$60 is less than a play station game, so I don’t think it’s that much. You can always disable unwanted features in settings for regular brave, use another browser, or use linux if money is limited.
As for if I will pay $60 to avoid changing some settings, no I won’t. Too much for me to pay for sure, but I’m unoffended by the $60 price.
None of the above, give me a three user subscription for a dollar a month and I’m in. [Subject to a satisfactory 7 day free trial]
They’re already making enough money from their services, all that AI stuff, ads, VPN, and other products. Personally, I don’t see any point in paying for Brave services when Kagi offers much better options for a lower price. If all users decide to switch to the Origin version, well, then developers should try harder so that these services aren’t just a piece of shit that bloats the browser.
I don’t often trust or, at least, have sole reliance on ‘free’ stuff. Everyone needs to earn their crust and nothing is free: nothing is free. If you’re not paying for it (with actual money by or selling your data souls), someone else is.
If this browser costs $60 then that’s what it costs. Same as a good, fully functional and privacy focussed VPN. And comprehensive e-mail. Or messaging apps. Sure, you can get a basic version that someone else is paying through their subs or donations, but there is a cost. And I definitely don’t think things should be “free”.
I don’t mind paying for a browser but $60 feels a little steep. Makes me wonder how they came up with the price as I assume they have an idea of how much they are making per user today.
I’d like to know if those who find it expensive would prefer a $4/month subscription.
It currently costs $6 per device for life. Why go for a sub? You just have to pay upfront once and that’s it because you get 10 activations/downloads.
Paying monthly makes little to no sense.
Yeah I know, I paid the $60.
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Sorry, I misread your comment above. My mistake.
I agree. Although if you have a big enough family, I think this could be valuable in getting them on a better alternative to Chrome or edge without them having to do anything. I think I’d pay $60 for that.
But as an individual. Harder sell, I’d be happy to pay maybe $30-40 and have say 3 active devices, if that was an option.
Reminds me of one of my local tech store’s old service option: “we’ll change your language or any other settings for 6USD”. Of course the pricing is a matter of reasonable discussion but to me the most important part here is whether it actually lives up to the term “debloated”. There is a world of difference between debloated and customized. IMO for 60USD, the code itself should be as clean and transparent as it gets. If it is so then maybe it would make sense for some lot to pay for it. Also in this economy anything with a tag “for life” sounds funny.
A constant income stream ensures continuity of updates id rather pay a dollar a month per user than upfront
I just want to say that I saw there is some work going on in nixpkgs (nix package repository) and that some people reported that it also works on macOS. So it seems like the only people that have to pay for it are Windows users. Maybe there is also a way around that.
Just as a heads up to macOS users that consider buying it.
I need a “ive blown $60 on way worse but there are still too many good free options to switch” choice.
God no lol. Imagine not being able to browse the web because you forgot to put the card for the subscription on auto-pay.
I think society is experiencing subscription fatigue at this point. We are literally at a point in time where you can not only subscribe to online video games you play, you can also subscribe to the physical gaming machine itself.