Comment by DrScientist
18 hours ago
As far as I can see there is no clear pricing once you go beyond the free tier - it's contact sales.
This is actually a classic enterprise software approach - as there are no fixed per unit production costs to cover, the pricing is very elastic.
ie each license is probably a negotiation - if you see your app for a one off fee then they want a one-off cut - if you sell a subscription they may want a cut of that instead.
Obviously the risk is if you bake it in and your app becomes successful they may want a larger cut than you can afford, but if they don't negotiate in good faith they won't last very long.
What's worrying for them is nothing they're doing is impossible to be recreated, if you bake it in and you don't want to pay rent you can fine tune your own model
Sure.
That's a problem with the whole AI space - it's eating itself at a incredibly rate.
Ultimately if they add value and behave well they might carve out a market - but anything in the software space right now is a gamble.