Pay As You Go AI Chatbots
Having access to AI is becoming more important everyday. Companies like Anthropic, OpenAI and others are providing services that have made many of us so much more productive, and provides a real advantage over those not using it.
The speed that AI is advancing, also means that one model offers advantages over another, until another model becomes the new leader. At the time of writing Anthropic’s Clause 3.5 is arguably better for software development and code generation, but they don’t offer any image generation services, for which OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 is very popular for. Both Claude 3.5 and GPT-4o have vision capabilities, giving them the capability to describe images, but Anthropic is again arguably better at this….At the moment.
While both OpenAI and Anthropic offer a free tier, it is limited, and really frustrating, when your in the middle of a conversation and your told you have you used your quota for the day. You can of course subscribe, which is a great option if you want to commit to one company. If money is no object, and you want the benefits different companies offer, you might decide to subscribe to more than one.
At $20 per month for a subscription though, even subscribing to one is not an option for many. Most people just don’t use AI enough to warrant the subscription, even if they could afford it. Most people peoples usage pattern is a couple of conversations a month, while a few people in trades like Data Science and Software Development might have 4 or 5 conversations an hour.
Pay As You Go the best option for any usage pattern. Being able to top up with anything from $5 and then not having to worry about a subscription, will open up the word of AI to many more low usage users. For those of us who use AI multiple times a day and are aware of the differences and benefits of each company, being able to just select any model to use within the same app is a game changer.
payg-ai.com as it’s name suggests offers Pay As you Go Access to AI models. At the time of writing, this includes Clause 3.5 Sonnet, Claude 3.5 Haiku, DALL-E 3, GPT 4o, and GPT Turbo. This flexibility, being able to top with with as little as $5 and the low usage prices, will open up the world of AI to many more people.
