I’m interested to hear opinions about business models based on OpenAI API services.
If your product is using a single API and/or a single AI model, it’s pretty straightforward:
- you can either charge your users per tokens
- or you can charge a monthly subscription
But if you have in your product multiple OpenAI APIs and AI models, then it becomes blurry.
For AI models, the API price for 1k tokens is really different.
If you use DALLE-2 and/or Whisper, then you enter in a more blurry situation.
So, at what business models have you thought of so far?
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I provide some tools that are free to use and others for which I charge thousands.
The API cost is a factor I consider to avoid running at a loss, but it has little to do with what I charge clients. I consider the value my tools create for users and the alternative solutions available to them.
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This sounds like API Product management to me. API Products are built up of packages of one or more APIs. Each product/plan can have different prices depending on the cost and complexity of the upstream API call. So a call to DALLE-2 might be a different product or plan. Alternatively you can have multiple prices on a product plan and a more complicated API call would charge the developer at that price.
One of the most popular business models I’ve seen is the “Flat-fee with Overage Model” where a developer is given a certain amount of API calls per Month and anything outside that is charged on a call-by-call basis.