Measure activated profiles, not stored ones
The number that should drive your commitment is the profiles you genuinely activate for marketing, not the total volume sitting in the platform. Stored but unused profiles inflate the figure your price is built on.
Pull the activation data first. The gap between profiles held and profiles actually used is often wide, and it is the most direct evidence for committing to a smaller, cheaper volume.
Set the tier to real demand
Once you know your activated volume, size the commitment to that figure with a modest margin for growth, not to a future you hope for. Over committing now means paying for capacity that may never fill.
Clean the profile base before you commit. Removing stale, duplicate, and inactive profiles lowers the count that drives your price and makes the case for a smaller tier concrete rather than theoretical.
Secure the right to true down
A right sized commitment only holds if the contract lets you reduce it. Push for terms that allow a true down at renewal, rather than a one way ratchet that only ever moves your profile volume and price upward.
Get the reduction right written in before you sign. Without it you can be locked into a tier you have outgrown downward, paying for profile capacity you have proven you do not use.
Read next
Right sizing builds on how profile pricing works and what a renewal checks.
- Adobe Real Time CDP and Experience Platform Cost Guide
- Profile Volume Based Pricing Explained
- Real Time CDP Renewal Checklist
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