Should Your API Be Free or Pay-to-Play?

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Jolie O'Dell
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Should Your API Be Free or Pay-to-Play?
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In our ongoing series on APIs, we've covered whether to offer an API and how to get people using it. Now, we're delving into one of the most important questions an API-offering company can ask: free or paid?

Paid Is the New Trend

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