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Choose a pricing model that survives when your COGS is a variable OpenAI or Anthropic bill.
AI features cost real money per request. If you price like classic SaaS ($20/seat/month unlimited) and one power user runs a 10M-token job, you just lost money on them.
Watch your 90th-percentile user. If their inference cost exceeds your plan price, either raise the ceiling, switch to credits, or cap the feature.
# Simple margin math
Plan price: $29/user/month
Avg inference cost: $4/user/month
P90 inference cost: $22/user/month <-- danger zone
Stripe + infra: $3/user/month
Gross margin (avg): ($29 - $4 - $3) / $29 = 76% OK
Gross margin (P90): ($29 - $22 - $3) / $29 = 14% NOT OK
Fix: add a 500-credit cap, overage at $0.05/credit.You're pricing right when 80%+ of customers feel the plan is fair, your P90 user still pays more than they cost, and you don't panic when Anthropic has a latency spike.
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