Enable “Pricing per Message” for the Straico API

Request

Please make the existing “Pricing per Message” model available for the API (not only in the web app).

Why this matters

“Pricing per Message” is already one of Straico’s strongest features. It makes costs predictable, encourages richer reasoning, and removes the need to keep messages artificially short. Currently, this benefit is only available in the Straico UI.

Extending it to the API would make advanced and message-heavy workflows economically more attractive – unlocking opportunities that are already technically supported, but currently less practical due to per-word billing.

Benefits for Developers

The Straico API already supports advanced workflows such as:

- long conversational sessions
- iterative reasoning chains
- multi-step agent workflows
- supervised or oversight-style assistants
- chained or looping prompt sequences

All of these are technically possible today.

-> With “Pricing per Message” in the API:

- developers can scale these workflows predictably
- complex, multi-step applications become economically feasible
- building agent-like or high-context integrations is encouraged
- Straico gains a unique market differentiation among AI APIs, most of which only offer word/token pricing

Benefits for Everyday Users

Many Straico users simply want to:

- run chats in external apps
- use third-party tools like RabbitHolesAI
- integrate Straico into mobile, VR, or custom client workflows
- have cost predictability outside the UI

Without message-based pricing, users automatically consume more tokens through the API, which discourages external app usage — even when they would prefer it.

-> With “Pricing per Message” in the API:

- users experience the same cost clarity as in the UI
- they can freely use Straico in multiple apps and workflows
- the barrier between UI-only and API usage disappears
- adoption of Straico-powered third-party apps increases significantly

Strategic Value for Straico

-> By enabling “Pricing per Message” in the API, Straico would:

- expand the API’s appeal to both developers and everyday users
- make message-heavy workflows predictable and attractive
- increase overall API usage and engagement across the ecosystem
- differentiate itself from other AI providers that only offer word/token-based billing
- unlock new use-cases and integrations that currently remain untapped

Closing Thought

This feature does not replace the current pricing model – it simply extends an existing, highly valued capability to the API layer.

For me personally, and likely for many other users and developers, it would make Straico integration into other apps and tools a no-brainer – enabling far richer and more creative use-cases.

Thank you for considering this request. Enabling Pricing per Message in the API could open the door to far more powerful, flexible, and widely adopted use cases.