(product) Pricing and Costs #13
Description
How do we want to go about pricing? Initially will have to pay for
Subscriptions
All payments and subscriptions done via stripe
- Stripe Pricing is 2.9% + 0.3c
- Stripe is best in class, but given a low subscription cost ~$5 they will be taking ~9% of revenue
API Services
We will be using the following services
- Subabase, free for foreseeable future
- Axiom, free for foreseeable future
- OpenAI
- Pricing is $0.02 for ~750 words assuming each question is generously about 50 words. ~$30/mo would get us about 25k queries.
- dust.tt, free for foreseeable future
- SerpAPI, up to 100 queries/mo free then $50/mo for 5k queries
- It might make sense for serp (gives google access to the bot) to be a "connection" that users need unless we can find a cheaper alternative. Or tbh build ourselves it just scrapes google for top 10 or so results if we wanted to scrape it we could use browserless.io/pricing which would be basically free.
- Vercel, free for foreseeable future
- Assuming we are hosting via vercel
- Also I was looking through the tRPC docs and noticed this note about edge runtimes? Is this something we'd be interested in for deployment of the API? https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-the-edge-runtime
Hosting Costs
This is up in the air depending on how we deploy. For the start I was thinking
- Website via Vercel
- API via Vercel Edge Workers
- Telegram Bot via a scalable container runtime (likely we can get google cloud startup credits)
@ethan-stone when you get a chance if you could review, I briefly put this together to go through some of our costs and services. Basically
- are these all the services we will be using? Am I missing any?
- seems like even though we will likely need to put credit cards down for a majority of these, GCP and OpenAI will be the only primary monthly costs at the start