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by HanClinto 654 days ago
This looks really slick!

Maybe this is too much of a tangent, but is it reasonable to want to see a la carte pricing options?

For instance, I have an enterprise project that I could see using this for, but that's a project with a discrete time budget (probably 1-3 months) and a tool like this would see heavy usage for the first few weeks, then intermittent usage, then we would only need to use it for maintenance updates far in the future.

The initial $1k/mo tier fills me with worry, because I can see blowing through my usage credits in the first month (and then I need to contact sales about signing up for the enterpri$$$e option), but then I wouldn't need nearly so many subscribed credits in the later months (and I imagine they don't build up like Audible credits, but instead are use-it-or-lose-it -- which also isn't great for how our development goes in spurts).

This is not the only AI tool that uses pricing like this (looking at you, Roboflow!) -- but I've never felt like this structure fits with the intermittent patterns of AI development that I use in my day-to-day job. I can understand wanting to have customers sign up for SAAS and the reliable income that such things would bring, but I feel like a la carte pricing for these kinds of tools (even if they were 4x or 5x more expensive than the equivalent credits in the subscription bundles) might let me try out these tools in an enterprise environment without waffling between "free tier" and "recurring SAAS budget line-item".

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Thanks for bringing this up! The best thing is to see how we can make the enterprise plan work for you, feel free to reach out to us (founders@relari.ai).