# PricerAI

> PricerAI is a free, browser-based pricing calculator for AI products. It helps founders and product teams turn raw model API costs into a credit-based pricing model: calculate blended per-pipeline cost, apply infrastructure overhead and a target profit margin, denominate usage into credits, and project per-plan and monthly profitability. All computation runs client-side; no account or data upload is required.

## What it does

- **Per-operation cost modeling** — break a product pipeline into operations (text, image, video, or flat-fee generations), each with its own model and token/usage inputs. Costs are pulled from live AI model pricing.
- **Overhead + margin** — apply an infrastructure overhead markup on raw cost, then a target gross margin using the correct `price = cost / (1 - margin)` formula.
- **Credit denomination** — convert per-generation charge into whole credits at a chosen denomination (e.g. $0.01/credit), rounding up so realized margin never falls below target.
- **Plan economics** — model subscription plans under two scenarios: realistic credit utilization (e.g. 70%) and full utilization (worst case), with profit and margin shown for each.
- **Revenue projection & break-even** — estimate monthly/annual profit from active users and average usage, and the number of users needed to cover fixed infrastructure cost.

## Pages

- [Calculator](https://pricerai.dev/): The main pricing calculator — configure operations, plans, overhead, margin, and denomination, and see live profitability.
- [Model Catalog](https://pricerai.dev/models): Browse AI models across providers with pricing, context windows, and capabilities.

## Notes

- Model pricing is fetched live from the Vercel AI Gateway and cached for one hour, with hardcoded fallbacks for image and video models.
- The tool is free and runs entirely in the browser.