I don't think usage based pricing is esoteric, if you look towards products in the enterprise space (Gitlab, Splunk, Mongo, etc.) They're all based off of a usa

I don't think usage based pricing is esoteric, if you look towards products in the enterprise space (Gitlab, Splunk, Mongo, etc.) They're all based off of a usage metric of some sort (in our case API requests). We're making on-prem ML accessible at SaaS prices (try negotiating a on-prem contract at other MLaaS). Our costs are continual as we continue to improve the product over time, and those improvements will be passed down to you as a user. If you're interested in running the product on a licensing fee instead of pay-as-you-go, feel free to shoot us an email at hi@modeldepot.io :) We found that licensed pricing model to be more restrictive for new ML users and increased barriers to entry. If you're not interested in using our paid product, you can check out our primary pre-trained ML platform at https://modeldepot.io/browse https://modeldepot.io/browse and hopefully find a ML solution that works for you without paying a cent.