Why we charge a flat fee (and why per-task pricing punishes you for winning)
Consumption billing looks cheap in year one and ambushes you in year two. Here’s why Weldforge prices a flat fee — and caps it.
Ask anyone who has run an integration platform for two years what surprised them, and you’ll hear the same word: the bill. The loudest, best-documented complaint about modern iPaaS isn’t reliability or features — it’s billing shock.
The model that punishes success
Most platforms meter you: per task, per message, per connection, per credit. It looks cheap when you start, because you’re moving a little data. Then the integration does its job — your business grows, volume climbs — and the meter climbs with it. The better things go, the more you pay, often in a year-two invoice nobody forecast.
- Per-task and per-message pricing scales with your success, not your value.
- A single busy month can produce a surprise five-figure overage.
- You end up rationing automation to manage a bill — the opposite of the point.
What we do instead
Weldforge charges a flat monthly fee. Your price is the price. And we cap it: we alert you at 70%, 85%, and 100% of your plan, and we will never send an invoice larger than your subscription without your one-click approval.
No platform to learn. No tasks to count. No surprise bill — ever.
That promise only works because of the rest of the model: we build and run the integration for you, so we’re accountable for making it efficient — not incentivized to let a chatty integration run up your meter. Our interests line up with yours.
The honest trade
A flat fee means you pay for outcomes and predictability instead of machine units. For a business that just wants the thing connected and a number it can budget, that’s the trade worth making. Pick a plan, and the only time you’ll hear from us about money is if we’re about to save you from a bill — not hand you one.