"Awesome Miner can manage and monitor up to 5000 miners. For these large number of miners an Ultimate Plus license is required. The license is only available from 300 miners and above, and the price of the license is $350 for every 100 miners. VAT will be added for customers in EU and other markets where required."
$800 bucks for the full software license with a limit of 200 miners .... $350 bucks for every 100 miners thats a daylight robbery....
There are many happy customers that use Awesome Miner with 200 miners and more. The software provides much value for these customers as it saves them time, trouble and ensures that their mining operations run smooth with as few interruptions as possible. When having these number of miners, Awesome Miner is really saving money for you.
If you run 200 miners, you have already made a significant investment in your mining operations. If you have 200 Antminer S9 for example, just the hardware and PSU will cost you $1200 per Antminer. That's a total of $240 000. Awesome Miner Ultimate Edition for 200 miners will only cost you $800. That's nothing for the customers running these operations.
Please let me know what kind of mining operations you are running, and I'm sure we will see that Awesome Miner brings value for you at a price that is very small compared to the total investment. Thanks!
What the hell are you kidding mr patrike?
3,5$ per miner for a fully fledged managedment and monitoring software is daylight robbery?
in contrary, at first glance its suspiciously cheap
lookup what an ordinary server monitoring software costs with centralized management.
shrue theres opensource too, but on the commercial market these numbers a kiddy game
if i save only a few minutes each machine in its lifetime its already paid of
no wonder theres not as much software development going on in this field if people are this cheap
however i would have whised a webinterface instead of an windows app... but well.. you cant have it all i suppose
Thanks for your comments. I think these conversations highlights the fact that pricing is a difficult topic, where some people find the price of the software to be super expensive while other find it way too low. For most of the editions (everything smaller than Ultimate) I'm not planning for any significant price changes short term. Ultimate Edition for larger mining operations is the edition that will get a little higher price at some point.
When Awesome Miner was launched 3 years ago, most ASIC miners like Antminer S1 had a much lower price tag compared to the more expensive Antminer S9/L3+ miners we have today. In a few years from now we might see similar trend on GPU mining as well, when 13 GPU system becomes more popular than 6 GPU system. To some extent, Awesome Miner will have to follow this trend.
There is also an Awesome Miner Cloud concept that will be released in a few months from now. This will be an optional service that will require a yearly subscription. The idea is to get the same web interface you have in Awesome Miner today, but running in the cloud. Awesome Miner itself will continue to run on network just like today, but will push statistics to the cloud service. Services like SMS notifications will also be included in the subscription.
As you might have noticed, Awesome Miner has a built-in web interface, but compared to the Windows application it's limited functionality and mainly intended to get a quick overview of the mining operations.