This is a very timely article and you have done a very thorough analysis. Thanks for sharing this.
I want to add couple of other points that may be helpful
Customers want a fix budget and don’t like the variability. Even though Aws and Azure are usage based but they do annual prepaid contracts for that reason.
Companies need some way to predict their revenue streams reliably But with usage only it will take many months and years of data to predict correctly. Even Open AI has a fixed per month pricing as its primary revenue driver.
This is a very timely article and you have done a very thorough analysis. Thanks for sharing this.
I want to add couple of other points that may be helpful
Customers want a fix budget and don’t like the variability. Even though Aws and Azure are usage based but they do annual prepaid contracts for that reason.
Companies need some way to predict their revenue streams reliably But with usage only it will take many months and years of data to predict correctly. Even Open AI has a fixed per month pricing as its primary revenue driver.
There is another one paid.ai but don’t think they are open source.