Tools & buying
AI Tool Cost Comparison
Pricing pages are designed to look cheap at the volume you have today. Enter the volume you will have next year instead.
Per-seat suite
Usage-based API
Team platform
Cheapest — Per-seat suite
$195 / month
$65 a month less than Usage-based API, or $780 a year.
- Per-seat suite
- $195 / mo · $2,340 / yr · $0.0163 per unit
- Usage-based API
- $260 / mo · $3,120 / yr · $0.0217 per unit
- Team platform
- $324 / mo · $3,888 / yr · $0.027 per unit
- Per-seat suite: Flat seats, generous allowance, no fixed fee.
- Usage-based API: Cheap at low volume, scales linearly forever.
- Team platform: High floor, low ceiling — wins at large volume.
How to read the three shapes
Per-seat pricing is predictable and punishes growth in headcount rather than usage. It is the right shape when a small team uses a tool heavily every day.
Usage-based pricing has almost no floor, which makes it the correct starting point for anything experimental — but it never stops scaling, so model it at ten times your current volume before signing anything annual.
Platform pricing charges a high fixed fee for a low marginal rate. It only wins past a crossover volume, and vendors quote you the number just above that point on purpose. Move the units slider until the winner changes: that crossover is your real negotiating position.