I suspect many companies will do something like this - prepaid credits or tokens for AI features that have high inference costs. Inference costs per user are high, at least much higher than most traditional software costs. This way, the costs are aligned with the usage.
We’ll also see occasional subscription products, but only when it can be done in a way that is comfortably gross margin profitable for most users of a company. (Eg ChatGPT Plus, Claude Pro, Midjourney, 365 Copilot)
This will only change when the cost of inference goes down by a lot.
We’ll also see occasional subscription products, but only when it can be done in a way that is comfortably gross margin profitable for most users of a company. (Eg ChatGPT Plus, Claude Pro, Midjourney, 365 Copilot)
This will only change when the cost of inference goes down by a lot.