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ARTA's API technology pricing starts at a few hundred dollars monthly

Adam Fields · Logistics API Software for Collectibles Breaks $75k in MRR After Pivot Away from Marketplace · Jan 19, 2022 · at 5:19

Adam Fields, CEO of logistics API startup ARTA, discusses entry-level pricing with Nathan Latka.

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“If you're a prelaunch customer and you're trying to get to market faster and don't really want to have to build out all this infrastructure, hire all the internal teams, et cetera it'll start at a couple hundred dollars a month.”

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