Domenic,
Who is your payment processor?
For instance with stripe, it is possible to send metadata with each subscription tier. So you can then get that value that’s passed with a successful checkout and use that as a constant in your db for comparing their tokenage, so if a user gets idk…300,000 tokens in a package, you’d pass that 300,000 with the tier they bought, and then you can use that value how you see fit.
Chat bots are harder to price
I’m trying to do it on a per-API-call basis.
The user purchases 5000 credits.
They run input through the chatbot and get a response.
The total tokens for the API call are 1000
My system is 1 credit = 1 token
They get 1000 credits deducted from their balance and now have 4000 left.
Then to ensure they don’t run some huge free transaction through, maybe you have to have a 1000 credit minimum balance to run a transaction.
Either way, I think this is more fair to users as they are only paying for what they use and I don’t have to worry about someone going nuts and running up a big APi bill for me under a $20/month plan or whatever.
Plus I’m building up to a dozen apps in my product system over time, so a universal credit system to use any of the apps that a user wants to use at a given time makesw even more sense to me.
Yep. After it was all said and done, this is what I decided to do.
If your concern is to control this, I’m already telling you that you won’t be able to. I have been waiting for a response to my unused consumption problems, and I have been waiting for about 4 days, the API blocked, my users without service. and… with all the services capped, the API continues to spend.