Flat-rate AI agents, no metered credits — here's why we built it that way
by Milan ValsterHey IH đź‘‹
We're Milan and the team behind Valtres. We build no-code AI agents for Dutch SMBs — customer service, content, planning, admin — and the whole reason the product exists is a pricing complaint: most AI-agent platforms charge a platform fee and then bill separately for LLM usage or credits on top, so your invoice is a guess every month.
Valtres is flat-rate instead: €10/€25/€40 per month depending on plan, agents and usage included, no metered add-on. Every customer gets an isolated workspace, and every consequential agent action (sending something external, touching a customer record) waits on a human sign-off before it executes.
We just launched on Product Hunt and are actively collecting feedback — especially from anyone who's hit the same unpredictable-billing problem with Zapier/Make/n8n-style tools. What would make a platform like this an easy yes for you?
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Fair distinction, and honestly — not yet. We've got a handful of businesses trying it for free right now, but none of them have said that in so many words. The pricing model is a bet based on a complaint from our own experience with Zapier/Make-style unpredictable billing, not something we've validated with actual switching behavior yet. So take the positioning as a hypothesis, not a proven driver — appreciate you pushing on that, it's the right question to be asking us at this stage.
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The pricing complaint makes the positioning intuitive, but I’d separate “people dislike unpredictable bills” from “they’ll choose a new platform because it removes them.” Have early customers explicitly cited predictable pricing as the reason they switched or bought?