Gumlet has launched new pricing plans to make it simple for our users to get the best value for money on Image Optimization. However, there is still a chance that some users are confused by the number of websites and GBs / per month.
In this guide, we will talk about monthly visitors and number of websites. The goal is to provide a cheat sheet for selecting the best pricing plan. The Guide addresses the problem from point of view of two types of business,
- Managing a single website (A blog, Media outlet or E-commerce site)
- Managing multiple websites (Digital / SEO / Design Agencies or Hosting providers)
We will assume average usage numbers to make recommendations. If you want to put your own numbers and calculate costs. Please feel free to make a copy of this Google Sheet and use.
If you have signed up on Gumlet before 25th June 2020, I would highly recommend reading: What do new pricing plans bring to me? before reading this blog.
For a single website
For managing a single website, our Pro plan provides all the features that you may need. Including Custom domain (CNAME + SSL) (check out the promos), Multi-user support, Full analytics and Monthly reporting. But is the 25 GB CDN bandwidth enough for you?
Refer to the following table for the answers:
| Monthly Visitors | Estimated Bandwidth Consumption (Gbs/month) |
Pro Plan Costs per month |
Business Plan Costs per month |
Best Plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 500 | 1 | $5 | $50 | Free Plan |
| 10,000 | 20 | $5 | $50 | Pro Plan |
| 50,000 | 100 | $20 | $50 | Pro Plan |
| 100,000 | 200 | $40 | $50 | Pro Plan |
| 500,000 | 1,000 | $200 | $145 | Business Plan |
| 1,000,000 | 2,000 | $400 | $266 | Enterprise Plan |
To put it in words:
- If you have up to 500 monthly visitors, you can use Gumlet with Free plan
- If your site has anywhere from 500 to 100,000 visitors, the Pro plan is the best option for you. The costs per month will scale with your business.
- If you have more 350,000 to 800,000 visitors per month you should consider switching to the Business plan
- If you have more than a million visitors per month, contact us for a special quote for the Enterprise plan.
For multiple websites
The single biggest limitation of Gumlet Pro plan is that it only allows you to add 1 website. If you are a freelancer or an agency, the model shared above may not work for you.
Please note that you CAN manage multiple websites from a single Gumlet account without subscribing the Business Plan. You just have to stack multiple Pro Plans.
Here is another model that we have created for multi-site use cases. It assumes an average of 7,000 visitors per website.
| No of websites |
Monthly Visitors |
Estimated Bandwidth Consumption (Gbs/month) |
Pro Plan Costs per month |
Business Plan Costs per month |
Best Plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7,000 | 14 | $5 | $50 | Pro Plan |
| 5 | 35,000 | 70 | $25 | $50 | Pro Plan |
| 10 | 70,000 | 140 | $50 | $50 | Business Plan |
| 20 | 140,000 | 280 | $100 | $60 | Business Plan |
| 50 | 350,000 | 700 | $250 | $110 | Business Plan |
| 100 | 700,000 | 1,400 | $500 | $194 | Enterprise Plan |
To Summarize:
- If you are managing up to 7 websites with modest traffic, then stacking up 7 Pro Plans in you account would be the better option.
- If you are managing anywhere from 7 to 70 websites the business plan (or Agency Plan) is the best option.
- If you are managing more than 80 websites, contact us for a special quote for the Enterprise plan.
I hope this blog helped you understand our flexible and scale friendly pricing plans. Please feel free to reach out to us at support@gumlet.com if you have a special use case that is not covered here. We will help you make the right choice.
Footnotes
- Monthly visitors are not sessions or pageviews.
- We have assumed 3.5 pageviews (or sessions) per visitor.
- We have also assumed that average image weight for a web page would be 600 Kb after Gumlet image optimizations.
- Actual bandwidth consumption number may vary for websites from case to case.
- Please make a copy of this Google Sheet and use it for calculation with your own data.
- We are running a special promo for Free Custom domain (CNAME + SSL) feature. Check it out!