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It’s interesting how credits became the default abstraction for usage but without transparent burn rates, they're just tokens of confusion.

Couldn’t agree more. UPI is the unlock, not just the price. The credit card wall has quietly excluded 90% of the country even those curious and ready to pay.

Indeed it is!!

You’re right to be cautious. Perplexity’s throttling showed how fast “democratization” can become “degradation.” But OpenAI might be running a playbook most competitors can’t affor…

100%. India has ~750M+ internet users and most of them have skipped the desktop era—straight to mobile + UPI. With ₹399 and no credit card barrier, this could be AI's “Jio moment.”…

Absolutely. Perplexity with Airtel and Gemini with Reliance already hinted that India’s AI adoption will come through distribution moats. Yes, you can downgrade from the $20 Plus p…

OpenAI just launched a new plan called ChatGPT Go and exclusively for India. ₹399/month (roughly $4.80), with the support of UPI payments. And this wasn't a loud rollout at all, ju…

Appreciate it. For token-based metering, we lean on event-level tracking with strict timestamps and unique identifiers to maintain billing precision, even when upstream responses a…

Would love to set that up. We’ve seen LLM infra teams hit billing issues fast because of usage spikes, token metering, credit handling. It gets messy to build it in-house. I’ll DM …

I am working on building Flexprice( https://flexprice.io/ ), an open source monetization platform for AI and Agentic companies. This week, we’re doing a 5-day launch week, where we…

Appreciate that, and glad Flexprice showed up at the right time. We’ve seen the same pattern: credit systems always look simple with one plan, but as soon as you introduce volume t…

Appreciate it. We enforce idempotency at the event level using client-provided deduplication keys, so even with high concurrency or retries, the billing pipeline stays consistent. …

Great question! Our approach focuses on: - Fire-and-forget ingestion with in-memory queues so events don’t block product requests - Strict idempotency tokens tied to every event, e…

One thing we’re handling differently is entitlements. Most billing tools stop at metering and invoicing, but they don’t track what features or limits a customer can actually access…

Hey HN, I’am Koshima, co-founder of Flexprice ( https://flexprice.io/ ). Flexprice is an open source monetization platform for AI & Agentic companies. You can build usage-based, cr…

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I am building Flexprice, an open source metering and billing platform for AI and agentic-based companies. I've recently published a guide showing how to replicate Clay's credit-pri…