5,200 credits for free for early birds - am I crazy?

It was not easy to decide on pricing.

Yeah, usually, with all my previous SaaS apps (most of them flopped, FYI :) it was not hard: I just used my own boilerplate with the Stripe integration, create monthly pricings, trial or free period, and that was it.

With LLMKnights, it's not that easy.

First of all, I don't want to have any monthly plans. Why? Because, personally, as an end user, I hate them. I tried many LLM providers and never subscribed to any monthly payment. Most of them are more wise: they allow you to fund your account as few as $5 and use them whenever you want.

So, I decided the same: I will charge the users based on usage and they may decide on how many to pay.

Another question was exactly how. I know, most providers just add 5,5% to the original provider's price (OpenRouter does so and many others) but. My product is not an LLM provider. It's the testing platform so I don't expect high volume of requests. And the functionality is kinda unique (to some extend) so it's not that easy to move to a competitor doing the same.

But having a fixed price doesn't make sense either. So, I decided to "invent" credits. One credit in our terms is how much you spend on making a simple not big call to an average provider. That's it. That said, making such a call to Deepseek-4-flash may cost you 1 credit but to Deepseek-4-pro - 2 or more.

Still, 200 free credits is very enough to try the service and decide if it's worth to use the tool further.

To get more feedback, I also give 5,000 free credits to anyone who leave their email before launching and will sign up when we launch. I think I may launch in a couple of weeks.

So... if you want to get those 5K credits... please leave your email here: https://llmknights.com