It’s not unheard of, similarish to many core licensing schemes. Like mssql.

Not the same thing. The equivalent would be mssql charging by web server connections to it.

	▲	rileymat2 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		In some sense, core licensing is worse, in that you are also paying for idle capacity. But when you try to scale by activity, I think you will see it is not that much different.