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We were in a similar spot. We were on their (then) silver plan, but by the time we were ready to upgrade to gold, there was no gold. And no silver lining (pun intended). Only Enterprise. (see [0] for more details)

That was the reason I ended up creating Alephbet[1], an open-source JS A/B testing framework you can use with lots of different backends. And later Gimel[1], which is a backend that runs on AWS Lambda and Redis.

For developers, I think Alephbet and Gimel are a great free and open source alternative to commercial tools. We're running it in production for a couple of years now and our monthly AWS bills are $peanuts/month. It's NOT for marketers or non-technical users though.

[0] http://blog.gingerlime.com/2015/alephbet-javascript-ab-test-...

[1] https://github.com/Alephbet/alephbet

[2] https://github.com/Alephbet/gimel

EDIT: formatting, typos

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