The Inference Cost Problem Is Killing Indie AI Apps. Open Source Might Have an Answer

Building an AI app has never been easier. Keeping it alive as it grows has never been harder. A few hundred daily active users mean thousands of API calls a day. At current model pricing, that adds up faster than most indie developers can monetize What if inference costs weren't a barrier you had to build your pricing around because your users are already paying OpenAI and Anthropic every month. so why can't your app use it? You can't. Not out of the box anyway. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google none of them offer a native way for users to bring their subscription to a third party app.