The pricing problem nobody talks about

Pricing is where most AI app builders quietly lose trust.

At the beginning, it looks simple: pay a subscription, build fast, ship. You’re not thinking about usage, rate cards, or which model is running under the hood. You just want momentum. Then people start using what you built. Usage increases, bills creep up, and suddenly you’re forced into conversations you didn’t plan for: why did costs jump this week, which model is being used for this workflow, and can we route this task to something cheaper without breaking the product? That’s the real pricing problem: not that AI costs money, but that many platforms turn it into a black box. They abstract everything behind “tokens” or “credits,” and it becomes hard to predict, control, or optimize.

How Ideavo keeps pricing transparent

We built Ideavo pricing to be the opposite of that. When you use models provided through Ideavo, we offer them at standard API rates. No hidden markups. No “token” or “credit” systems that make it impossible to compare costs. Just clear unit economics you can reason about as usage scales.

Autonomy through BYOK

If you want full autonomy, you can bring your own API keys. This is not just a “nice option”—it’s the core of how we think pricing should work. When you bring your own key, you control which model you’re using, what it costs, and when you want to switch. That autonomy matters because the most economical setup is rarely one model for everything. Some workflows need maximum quality. Others need speed. Others need to be as cheap as possible at scale. The right choice depends on your product—and it changes over time.

The simple promise

With Ideavo, you make those trade-offs deliberately. You can choose the most economical model for a specific requirement, swap models as better options appear, and keep costs predictable without being forced into a platform’s default economics. Pricing you can understand. Choices you control.

Currently, we’re providing Grok Code Fast 1 and GLM 4.6 for free — and you can also bring your own API key from Opencode Zen.