Similar vibes than Reddit api pricing
95 points
The internet (ie bandwidth) is cheap, but running servers, providing documentation and tech support all costs a decent amount of money.
However, treating an API as a profit center is a joke. These are literally companies developing software that makes the experience of owning a Tesla better. Making things unaffordable for those companies is putting short term profits over long term success of your product
34 points
But 90k is nothing to Tesla, it’s just a paywall to keep the third party devs put while being able to claim to be open
5 points
