[parsimo2010]

And let me continue my rant: pricing these things suck. You can charge $20-25 monthly for a general AI service like ChatGPT that has a bunch of features like image generation and is very versatile. You can’t cram a shitty feature into your single-application software and charge the same amount. If a PM thinks this is appropriate pricing they are insane.

Additionally, I said previously that I want to be able to ignore the features I don’t use. If you only have one premium tier, and the price went from $5/month to $20+ monthly because you added AI, then I’m probably cancelling because I have to now decide if the features I do actually use are worth the extra money. Plus, companies that do AI this way will inevitably restrict my usage if I do fine the feature useful.

So I guess if I had the choice, I would prefer a company keep a lower premium tier even if I have no access to AI features. But what I would really like is an option to enable whatever AI you’ve developed and bring my own API key, and don’t change your premium tier pricing (or minimally change). But clearly there are enough people out there that are shelling out for the shitty $20+ monthly subscriptions (or getting their company to pay for it) that my opinion doesn’t matter.