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A ready-made credits and metering layer for AI apps that sell pay-as-you-go usage

Indie developers who ship LLM-powered apps and want to charge by usage end up hand-building credit packs, zero-balance cutoff, refunds of unused credits, and test harnesses for all of it against Stripe or Polar. A ready-made metering and credits service would take this work off their hands.

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