What is the difference between Self-Managed and Cloud-based in terms of cost and learning curve?

What is the difference between Self-Managed and Cloud-based in terms of cost and learning curve?

The reason why you will find a difference in pricing between cloud and self managed is because the first one implies costs for our infrastructure so that we can grant you an excellent cloud service to host your data/information.
Regarding the learning curve, the cloud hosting option have a much faster and easier learning curve, since we are responsible for all updates, issues and  development of new features.
Understanding your business and needs, I will suggest you to access our Cloud Trial using the link below: 
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