Any workaround for "1000 XMPP Stanzas"?

[捏造的信仰]

I have beeen trying hard for optimizing my free gtalk chat service app. However there is one thing that cannot be optimized: number of sent messages. I don't understand why Google made such a big change, now I can't afford it (It's an open-source project and I wish it could be used "for free"). Is there any workaround other than sending a "protest letter" to Google? Thanks.

[Prashant Gupta]

I would also be equally happy if there is some way as one of my apps will be facing exactly same problem ....

2011/9/12 捏造的信仰 <yidi...@gmail.com>

I have beeen trying hard for optimizing my free gtalk chat service app. However there is one thing that cannot be optimized: number of sent messages. I don't understand why Google made such a big change, now I can't afford it (It's an open-source project and I wish it could be used "for free"). Is there any workaround other than sending a "protest letter" to Google? Thanks.

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[Gerald Tan]

I'm having this exact same issue too. Now, I think the $0.01/1k stanza is a fair price, but the minimum is a serious killer for an application uses hardly any of all the other quotas except for XMPP. For my current application, I'm looking at a daily estimated bill of $0.05-$0.15 for 5 days per week, all from XMPP stanzas. That's an average of $0.50 billing per week, but I will be forced to pay $2.10 per week for that.

I hope that the purpose of the minimum charge is to reduce credit card charges overhead, and not to punish small applications that cannot stay under the quota. Seeing as there are others that face the same problem I have, I'd like to propose two possible solutions.

1) Allow us the flexibility to adjust our free quotas to favor certain services over others
2) Allow us to pay (e.g.) $5 credit upfront in-lieu of the minimum charge. Our daily usage is then deducted from the credit.

[Prashant Gupta]

+1 for "Allow us the flexibility to adjust our free quotas to favor certain services over others"