I just checked prices of FusionAuth, and clearly your company is not interested in smaller side-gig like customers or self-funded startup that need to grow. Basic, production cloud options (non-eval) start at $162/mo for 10.000 MAUs. Once I move the slide to over 10.000MAUs the basic option is gone, and the cheapest option suddenly jumps to $1062/mo.
For smaller companies, we recommend business cloud with community edition, which starts at $225/month. The basic hosted version doesn't have backups and so isn't suitable for prod use. I get that this is a lot for a side project (I wouldn't use it for one). Or a self-funded startup--I remember one startup where the entire application was running on about $75/month in hosting spend on heroku. No way would I have paid $225/month for auth.
We have a slightly complicated pricing model (with both hosting and licensed editions, creating a matrix that is not typical), but I truly appreciate your feedback and will share it internally.
> For your use case, I'd probably recommend self hosting community edition. FusionAuth price: $0.
But self-hosting has the same issue as Keycloak: Email inboxing. You do not want your signup verification emails to land in spam folders. So you end up paying for an email mailboxing provider, at which point I'd rather go with a hosted auth solution that takes care of that.
