Lera Leonteva

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built my product around traditional SaaS pricing (monthly tiers), but I m starting to wonder if that model is getting outdated, especially with more AI-powered and compute-heavy tools entering the market.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:

As you may know, a large amount of video content today is generated using artificial intelligence with tools like Sora, Veo, Kling, and others.

The quality of this kind of video is constantly improving and has already reached a very respectable level. At the same time, it is extremely inexpensive compared to traditional video production with actors, camera crews, and everything that comes with it. I m confident that in a year or two, about 95% of the video published on the internet will be synthetic fully generated by AI. It feels like the world is heading toward a problem of widespread distrust in video content. We used to say that seeing is believing, but it seems that this rule no longer applies.

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