{"id":12228,"date":"2001-05-05T12:00:49","date_gmt":"2001-05-05T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teoalida.com\/cardatabase\/?p=12228"},"modified":"2025-08-30T22:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T22:54:08","slug":"pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teoalida.com\/cardatabase\/pricing\/","title":{"rendered":"How I calculate pricing?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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You may have wondered why most car databases<\/a> sold on this website have strange prices that does not follow popular trends like $49.95<\/sup>. I use an unique pricing system that is based on number of rows in database, and this also for other (non-car) databases<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I started selling in 2012, I had only 2 products. I reorganized data in January 2013, offering 5 products (all for Europe), and I introduced the pricing formula still in use after more than 10 years:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Car Models List<\/a><\/strong> – 1 cent per row = 2960<\/strong> models = \u20ac29.60<\/strong>
Car Models & Engines Database<\/a><\/strong> – 1 cent per row = 12031<\/strong> model versions = \u20ac120.31<\/strong>)
Car Models Database<\/a><\/strong> – 4 cents per row = 1298<\/strong> models = \u20ac51.92<\/strong> to get a price between above ones.
Other 2 products were “New cars only” packages for Car Models Database and Car Models & Engines Database, having double price per row.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over time, prices of the initial databases grew slowly thanks to updates (added new cars) and historical expansion (added older cars) and I started producing new databases for other continents, more detailed, especially because some companies offered me even $1000 to create custom databases according their requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I came to conclusion that optimal price for full specs database is around $500. American car database<\/a><\/strong> with ~60,000 rows I priced 0.9 cents\/row while German car database<\/a><\/strong> with ~130,000 rows I priced 0.5 cents\/row to get target price near $500. For people who do not need technical specifications, but just car names, I sell partial databases priced at various cents per row, to target a price between $150-200. India and Middle East databases are cheaper because diversity of car models sold here is smaller than in Europe, America, Australia, Japan, etc.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Pricing for buying partial database<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I use flexible pricing strategy, in case of American car database<\/a><\/strong>: there are 6 pricing packages to choose from. 3 options of columns: Trims (0.25 cents\/row), Basic Specs (0.5 cents\/row), Full Specs (1 cent\/row), and 2 options of historical coverage: all cars (1990-2023) and new cars only (2020-2023) that have price per row 3 times higher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But you can ask me to create a custom package if:<\/p>\n\n\n\n