Solheim AI

The negative margin on your most active users is the part worth sitting with, because it is not a pricing bug, it is a product design constraint. But I would separate two different fixes that get bundled together here. Dedicated capacity and flat pricing are not the same answer. Reserving a GPU for a flat monthly fee means you carry the idle cost yourself, so you have swapped a variable cost that spikes on heavy users for a fixed cost you pay whether anyone shows up or not. That is a real trade, not a free win. The other route is pooling variance. Charge flat, and bet that the average across a large base covers the tail. That only works if the tail is thin. If one user can burn 100x the median in an afternoon, the pool does not save you, it hides the loss until it is bigger. Disclosure: I am the founder of Piramyd, a flat $30/mo unlimited-token gateway for Claude Code, Codex and Cursor. I took the pooling route, so I have a stake in the answer. A question that decides which fix is right: on those users with negative margins, was it a steady above-average drain, or one runaway loop? Pooling handles the first. It does nothing about the second, and dedicated capacity does not either. It just raises the ceiling they blow through.