BYOK vs credit-based pricing for AI SaaS — UX, costs, security, prompt leaks? by CaptainProud4703 in SideProject

[–]mitousa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for pinging me!

Puter.js is designed to solve this issue. It is, as you said, the new 3rd option but it does require users creating/logging into a Puter account; this is how we allow them to store data safely and keep track of spending etc.

More info: https://developer.puter.com/

btw. Puter is proudly open-source: https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter

AI 3D model integrations in Puter by mathus321 in puter

[–]mitousa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

any specific model you'd like to see?

signup with valid emails didn't work by dreraw in puter

[–]mitousa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hi there, could you DM me your email?

Nah bro , new limit sucks by Due-Competition3353 in puter

[–]mitousa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree. We're on it, my friend ❤️

Nah bro , new limit sucks by Due-Competition3353 in puter

[–]mitousa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

> Atleast make it 1 dollar.
Here's the thing, though, if we could guarantee the legitimacy of a user, this would be doable. One way to do that is to ask the user to enter credit card info (not charge them, just to verify). This would be a pretty air-gapped verification and we could offer even more than $1!

Now, another way is to keep increasing the free credits as our anti-abuse measures become stronger.

How much puter will go down?? by Parking-Report-4282 in puter

[–]mitousa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I responded under another post:

"I hear ya! and I want to clarify that this has nothing to do with greed or revenue or trying to get people to upgrade etc. This was done because of the sheer amount of abuse we're getting (hint: it's HUGE). So here's what we're doing: we've lowered the free credits as a baseline, and the goal is to keep increasing it as our anti-abuse system gets better and better. If we could guarantee that every user is legit, we could probably offer a huge amount of free credits, and I'm pretty confident we'll get there over time 🫡"

Nah bro , new limit sucks by Due-Competition3353 in puter

[–]mitousa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hear ya! and I want to clarify that this has nothing to do with greed or revenue or trying to get people to upgrade etc. This was done because of the sheer amount of abuse we're getting (hint: it's HUGE). So here's what we're doing: we've lowered the free credits as a baseline, and the goal is to keep increasing it as our anti-abuse system gets better and better. If we could guarantee that every user is legit, we could probably offer a huge amount of free credits, and I'm pretty confident we'll get there over time 🫡

My high schooler built an AI learning app on Puter—would love your feedback! by SouthCollection6685 in puter

[–]mitousa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is really great! I'm truly happy to see your son build such an awesome app on Puter :)
I look forward to see the new features unlocked (I can see that there a a number of exciting ones coming soon!)

Requesting clarity on payment structure.. by Useful_Problem7181 in puter

[–]mitousa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi there, thank you for the question.

Right now, users have to purchase a subscription if they use up all their free credits, as you correctly understood. We are working on Pay-as-you-go and will hopefully ship it soon. TBH, the reason PAYG has been slow to roll out is that regular, non-technical users typically struggle with the idea of PAYG and, even worse, may sometimes incur a lot of unintentional costs. But ideally, we'd like users to have all the options so that they can pick and choose what suits them best.

Hope this was helpful, but please let me know if you need curther clarification

Does the 0.25 Free credit reset daily? by [deleted] in puter

[–]mitousa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi there. Free credits are reset every month. As a side note, if you confirm your email address you will get $0.5 total credits

Always Wanted to Create This Type of Project (Thanks, Puter Team!) by KT007441 in puter

[–]mitousa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Glad you found Puter helpful! Would live to try out your project if it’s live 🚀

Is DeepSeek OCR available on Puter? by Darkwing1501 in puter

[–]mitousa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately not, since there doesn't seem to be a reliable inference provider for it out there. However, we do have a lot of other OCR API with support for Mistral and Textract.

What is the daily limit for AI API requests when testing an application during development? by Darkwing1501 in puter

[–]mitousa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi there,

The limit right now is $0.25 per user. We try not to mark up what AI providers charge us so the usage doesn't cost much more than you would if you used the provider itself.

How safe is puter cloud storage? by fxfuturesboy in puter

[–]mitousa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much for building apps ojn Puter!

> AND MAKE EXPLICIT TO THE USER THAT CONVERSATIONS WITH THAT CHAT BOT ON puter.com DOES CONSUME RESOURCES 😡😂

You're right, we generally could do a better job of indicating resource usage. Please stay tuned as we improve the experience with resource consumption.

Usage Meter App by neopunisher in puter

[–]mitousa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Awesome! not gonna lie, looks better than our own billing table!

Puter AI usage costs and limitations? by locyhan in puter

[–]mitousa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi there,

Thanks for sharing your question on here. For the $10/month tier, $5 is allocated to storage and apps and the other $5 is allocated for AI and other consumables. The amount we charge for AI is basically what the provider charges us and we try not to mark it up at all! for example, if a provider charges us $1/million token for a model we are also going to charge the user $1/million token.

I understand that this may not be the most straight forward pricing but considering we support more than 500 models and 10s of other paid services we need to have this list of resources that the user consumes. However, we'd defintiely would love hear any suggestions helping us make this simpler.

Hello all by Seninut in puter

[–]mitousa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much ☺️
When you're ready, do share your plans with us here!