MindsDB adds Jev decision model to its free tier
The free tier now includes Jev, TypeSafe's decision model for classification, routing and scoring, alongside the existing MindsHub Air model.
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WHY IT MATTERS
Watch whether MindsDB keeps widening free-tier model variety even as paid Blaze pricing keeps climbing — a growing gap between a generous free tier and an increasingly expensive paid tier would suggest the free plan is functioning purely as developer-acquisition bait rather than a cost center they're trying to shrink.
BY THE NUMBERS
- 3rd MindsDB pricing/rate-card change in 10 days (Sep 14, 21, 24)
- 15 changes in last 90 days; ~10-day average cadence
- Blaze paid-tier rates rose up to 183% just 9 days earlier (Sep 15)
- 310 free-plan changes across 217 companies index-wide in last 180 days
THEIR RATIONALE
MindsDB is on an unusually fast cadence — 15 changes in the last 90 days, about one every 10 days — and this is its third rate-card or free-tier move in ten days, after ditching metered tokens for an unmetered free tier on Sep 21 and hiking Blaze rates up to 183% on Sep 15. The pattern is a barbell: free tier keeps getting more generous in model variety while paid Blaze pricing climbs.
THE SIGNAL
Free-plan changes are MindsDB's single most common move (6 of its tracked changes), and it now ranks among the most active companies on that pattern index-wide, trailing only Zoho and Flipsnack in frequency over the last six months. Expanding model choice on the free tier while raising paid rates elsewhere reads as a deliberate funnel strategy rather than pricing drift.
IN CONTEXT
Adding Jev is MindsDB'\''s sixth free-tier move and its third rate-card change in ten days, after ditching metered tokens for an unmetered free tier on Sep 21 and hiking Blaze rates up to 183% on Sep 15. The pattern is consistent: the free tier keeps getting more generous in model variety even as paid Blaze pricing climbs, a barbell strategy visible since MindsDB first went freemium in June. Free-plan changes are a small but steady slice of the index — 5.5% of changes in the last six months — and MindsDB is now among the most active companies on that pattern, trailing only Zoho and Flipsnack in frequency.