A tiering framework for software businesses: what belongs in free, premium, pro and enterprise plans, and how feature allocation should balance adoption and monetization.
This article examines how software companies should distribute features across free and paid tiers under a freemium model.
The underlying concern is strategic: enough value must exist in the free tier to drive adoption, while the paid tiers must create clear upgrade logic.
The text frames feature allocation as a business design problem involving monetization, user psychology, support, security and scalability.
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