It’s not “way more” than any other relay. It includes a month of filter.nostr.wine, we have 4 geo balanced regional mirrors, we are on default lists for most large clients so we have large free read costs, and we are the highest performance large private relay.

If you don’t think it’s worth it, there is absolutely no obligation to pay. But is isn’t remotely overpriced or “expensive”. We are nowhere close to recouping our financial investment in nostr and that doesn’t even begin to compensate our 100s of hours of development on our relays.