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Ptio - Scale your Prompts
Ptio is a SaaS platform for parametrizing Prompts using CVS, Excel or images from ZIP. This allows you to use a Prompt template thousands of times to generate or transform content at scale.
Ptio includes a library of data transformation steps to reshape inputs or structure outputs, and you can extend it with your own transformations using standard SQL.
Is usage-based pricing becoming the norm for AI tools?
Hey everyone,
I've built my product around traditional SaaS pricing (monthly tiers), but I m starting to wonder if that model is getting outdated, especially with more AI-powered and compute-heavy tools entering the market.
That shift requires real architectural changes, instrumentation, metering, billing logic, and UI changes, not just pricing tweaks. It s something I m starting to seriously think about for my own product.
In particular, AI usage has real COGs (every prompt costs money), and I m seeing more platforms experimenting with usage-based models, or hybrids like SaaS base + usage + overage.
For those of you building AI or compute-intensive tools:
