topic Re: Pricing for Subscriptions in ArcGIS Online Questions

Pricing for Subscriptions

TedCronin — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 19:21:04 GMT

Mike -

When is the subscription Pricing going to get released? I had hoped it was to be covered during yesterdays seminar.

Re: Pricing for Subscriptions

Anonymous User — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 17:59:22 GMT

I'm curious as well. This was in an email I received early-May :

On May 31 the ArcGIS Online beta program will end however your beta account will continue so that you have plenty of time to transition to a subscription plan. This means that none of your work will be lost during the transition. All your customization, maps, apps, data, users, links, groups and hosted services will move seamlessly to the released product in June.
You will receive communication in the next few weeks with details about ArcGIS Online subscription plans and your options. We are committed to insuring you have plenty of time to transition to the right plan so please continue to use ArcGIS Online and tell us how we are doing!

I also remember receiving an email that pricing would be released 30 days prior to the final product release. Well if end of June is the final product release.........where's the update? I need more than 2 weeks to convince my boss to invest in the subscription before all my online mapping is lost.

Re: Pricing for Subscriptions

MikeMinami — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 19:43:10 GMT

Nathan,

Don't worry. Beta users will have plenty of time to convert over to a real subscription.

Thanks,

Mike

Re: Pricing for Subscriptions

Anonymous User — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 23:44:48 GMT

Nathan,

Don't worry. Beta users will have plenty of time to convert over to a real subscription.

Thanks,

Mike

Thanks Mike but I'm still a little worried. Beta was up May 31. Its now June and no word on at least pricing or plans? When my boss and board ask how much is this going to cost...I don't know if its going to be $10 a month or $100 a month. Hard to recommend a subscription with no cost.

Re: Pricing for Subscriptions

deleted-user-jPgWCT8XTb6v — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:02:10 GMT

I am on beta as well and received the same email.
I noticed yesterday that my Subscription Status has now been changed to (Trial Subscription) that expires on Sep 1, 2012. Instead of 100 GB of storage, AGO has been changed to a credit system and I was given 10,000 credits.

I don't really like this system because I do a lot of publishing to AGO just to see how it will show up on a Web Map and the Ipad app. The new system seems to punish users for this trial-and-error approach when generating tiles. Using up credits for "computation" is annoying. In the old way I could delete things that do not show up how I like, or things I don't use.

Anyway, complaining aside I am still very happy with AGO and its functionality. BUT HOW MUCH WILL IT COST?? Dying to know.

Thanks,
James

Re: Pricing for Subscriptions

JoshWilliams — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 00:30:06 GMT

Hi All,

ArcGIS Online subscription pricing is now available. Please contact Esri Telesales at 1-800-GIS-XPRT or contact your Esri Regional Office (or International Distributor for any non-US users) for details on the subscription pricing.

Hope this helps!

Thanks,
-Josh

Re: Pricing for Subscriptions

TedCronin — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 19:38:27 GMT

Yes, I got the numbers from Regional Office. These are suppose to be out somewhere on the web as I was told, but here is what i was given, sorry don't know about Level 7, probably unlimited or ELA.

[TD="align: right"]5
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2500
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2500
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]50
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]10000
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]10000
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]100
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]17500
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]17500
[/TD]

Level	Named User	Credit	Cost
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3

(ed. to remove incorrect or misleading levels info - jbarry)

Re: Pricing for Subscriptions

AndrewMilanes — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 11:41:47 GMT

The pricing seems outrageous. All I want to use it for is easy access to maps on smartphones. That's it. All of my data and services will be on my ArcGIS server. $10k for >5 users that don't use any storage space!!!!! I'll keep my money and figure out another way. Thanks but no thanks E$RI.

Re: Pricing for Subscriptions

MikeMinami — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:48:59 GMT

Andrew,

If all of your data is already on ArcGIS Server, you don't need to purchase a subscription. You can continue to use ArcGIS Online as you have been to view and share maps on the web.

Thanks,

Mike

Re: Pricing for Subscriptions

AndrewMilanes — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 16:59:22 GMT

Andrew,

If all of your data is already on ArcGIS Server, you don't need to purchase a subscription. You can continue to use ArcGIS Online as you have been to view and share maps on the web.

Thanks,

Mike

But I can't use any of the Organization features, such as groups, custom homepage, etc. with a personal account. Also can't use that commercially. I've got no issue paying for the Organization subscription, but there should be a lower-cost, no-storage option for those users that have already invested in ArcGIS Server / SDE.

and just when I was getting up off the floor after the $80k price quote for Advanced Server Enterprise ASP...

Re: Pricing for Subscriptions

brucewillett — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 20:59:41 GMT

Hi,

How about the micro/hobby/small business user? I am publishing trekking maps of Patagonia and started testing/playing around with ArcGIS online and really like it and would like to see how to use it to grow my business. But my yearly profits currently are less then a yearly subscription. Is there something for the little, little guy?

Thanks,

bruce

Working on these types:
http://bit.ly/Pn1DS9

Re: Pricing for Subscriptions

MatthiasHahn — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 05:58:35 GMT

[TD="align: right"]5
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2500
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2500
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]50
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]10000
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]10000
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]100
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]17500
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]17500
[/TD]

Level Named User Credit Cost
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3

What is the unit of "Cost"?
Could you please give me a link where the term of "Credit" is explained exactly?

Thanks!

(ed. to remove incorrect or misleading levels info - jbarry)

Re: Pricing for Subscriptions

TedCronin — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 14:30:51 GMT

Cost is Dollars. Credit has not really been explained yet by Esri, perhaps at the UC. This is brand new, so I imagine things are still being worked on.

Re: Pricing for Subscriptions

MikeMinami — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:05:24 GMT

@bdwillet

If everything is working fine with your personal account, there is no additional cost. You don't have to purchase a subscription. If you want to start publishing your own services from your data (not web maps), that's when you need a subscription. Presently, the smallest subscription consists of 5 users with 2500 credits.

Thanks,

Mike

Re: Pricing for Subscriptions

MatthiasHahn — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:39:35 GMT

Cost is Dollars. Credit has not really been explained yet by Esri, perhaps at the UC. This is brand new, so I imagine things are still being worked on.

Dollars per Year? Lifetime? Month?

Re: Pricing for Subscriptions

Anonymous User — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:10:00 GMT

Dollars per Year? Lifetime? Month?

Everything is annual. Cost is annual, credits that come with the plan last a year. Additional credits can be purchased and those additional credits last 2 years.

In my opinion, using credits is ridiculous. Credits get used for: feature storage, tile storage, uploading data, publishing data, generating map tiles, generating feature services, and even get counted towards bandwith !!! so if you wnat to share alot of data and have alot of traffic on your web maps, you'll go through credits like water. I think ESRI could have done this way differently. This setup is, like most of their products, geared towards large business/large agencies/enterprise users. As a few people have stated, the small business/small user gets the short straw once again.

What would have been wrong with just charging for storage? If someone is uploading 20 GBs of data every month, you charge them more. This micro-management with credits is just crazy in today's technological age. Do they really need to charge for things like bandwith? I mean really......

Re: Pricing for Subscriptions

TedCronin — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 18:39:39 GMT

Just not public, not incorrect...