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Fixed Fare
One flat monthly company bill for AI coding assistants across providers
- Score
- 49
- confidence 52
- Evidence
- 4
- items on the page
- Rivals
- 3
- named in sources
- First version
- 35 d
- estimate
- Type
- Desktop app
- PWA: runs in the browser, installs on Mac and Windows
- Market since
- 2021
- Emerging market · AI estimate
ScreensConcept
Desktop app: Engineering managers and finance teams configure budgets, compare models, and review dense spend dashboards—work done from a desk over long stretches. Sample screens on a computer, in the proposed brand. Their numbers are sample data.
This month
On budget$1,190
About this appAI proposal
Fixed Fare gives an engineering team one company account and one monthly price for AI coding help. Your developers pick the underlying model, such as Claude or Gemini, and the bill stays the same. You see spend and limits before the month starts, not after.
It is for engineering leads and finance owners who want to try or switch AI coding tools but cannot get a clear company-level price. Per-user plans, caps and usage billing make budgets hard to plan, according to public comments in the material.
Fixed Fare shows a plain cost estimate for agentic work, sets a team ceiling that cannot be crossed by surprise, and lets you move between providers without a new contract or billing model.
- Tagline
- One flat monthly bill for your team's AI coding tools.
- Voice
- PlainSteadyCandid
- Why this name
- Fixed Fare is two plain words that say the price stays the same, whichever model your team uses. It needs a trademark check.
In the first version
Members say which features they would use. It tells PWAS what people want; it changes no score.
One company plan
A single monthly subscription per company account, with tiers by team size. No per-seat surprises.
No member yet
Provider switching
Route a team or project to a different model provider in a few clicks. The price does not change.
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Budget ceiling
Set a hard monthly cap per team. Agents pause or fall back to a cheaper model before the cap is hit.
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Agent cost estimator
Describe a scenario, such as 20 devs running agents daily, and get a monthly range before you commit.
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Brand identityAI proposal
Check the name against trademark registers before using it.
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One flat monthly bill for your team's AI coding tools.
PricingAI proposal
The material gives no competitor prices. These tiers are starting points to test, and real prices depend on what the underlying providers charge us.
Team 10
$490 a month
- Up to 10 developers
- Hard monthly cap
- Two providers
- One invoice
Team 25
$1190 a month
- Up to 25 developers
- Per-team caps
- All providers
- Cost estimator
- Finance export
Team 60
$2690 a month
- Up to 60 developers
- Everything in Team 25
- SSO
- Priority support
What it could be worthEstimate
What a software business making this much sells for today, from real deals. Pick a monthly revenue.
If it makes
Worth about
$194,000
Sale range $132,000 to $263,000
$120,000 a year in revenue
From 87 software businesses listed and sold on Empire Flippers in the last year, revenue vetted by the broker: they sell for about 19× their monthly revenue, most between 13× and 26×.
Measured on profit, the middle deal is 32× monthly net profit: about 2.7 years of profit.
An estimate, not an offer or financial advice. A real price depends on profit, growth, churn, how much of the work is the owner's, and the buyer.
How it would growAI proposal
How the product would reach new customers through its own use, and how the first ones would be found. A plan to test, not a result.
- Built-in loop
- No loop in the product. It reaches customers through content and direct sales. The cost estimator and comparison table can be shared as links inside a company, but the main route is outreach to engineering leads.
- Do they become customers?
- Colleagues who see a shared estimate may be the same buyers, but this is untested. Test whether leads who use the estimator ask for a trial.
- First customers
- Engineering managers at software companies of 10 to 50 developers who are weighing a switch between AI coding assistants and must set a budget.
- Where to reach them
- Hacker News threads: Answer pricing questions in AI coding threads and link a free public cost estimator.
- Engineering manager communities: Post the comparison table and offer a free budget review to team leads.
- Direct outreach: Email CTOs at small software firms with a cost estimate for their team size.
- First milestone
- Five companies of 10 to 50 developers pay for a month of Team 10 or Team 25 after using the estimator.
Why people already pay for this
- Public claimCompanies want to switch AI coding tools but pricing model uncertainty blocks adoption decisions
- Public claimCompanies need clear, predictable monthly subscription pricing at company account level
- Public claimLack of transparent pricing is preventing evaluation of AI coding replacements
- Public claimCompanies are actively spending on AI coding tools and comparing providers
Tech stack
Every proposal builds on the same PWA base, installable from the browser on any phone or computer. Dashed boxes are what this app adds.
- AppNext.js and TypeScript
- PWAManifest and service worker
- UITailwind CSS
- Data and authSupabase Postgres
- PaymentsStripe
- EmailResend
- HostingVercel
- This app · LLM gatewayMulti-provider model routing proxyRoutes requests to different providers behind one company key, and counts usage for caps.
- This app · MeteringUsage metering and budget enforcement serviceNeeded to enforce hard caps in near real time.
RisksAI inference
- CommercialA flat price needs margin over variable model costs. Heavy agent use could cost more than the plan brings in, so caps and fair-use limits must be tuned.
- PlatformProvider terms may limit reselling or pooled access to their models, and providers can change prices or limits at any time.
- CommercialEvidence is public comments only. It is not verified how many companies would pay for a pricing layer rather than buy direct.
- TechnicalDevelopers expect tools to feel as good as the vendor's own. A proxy adds latency and may lose provider-specific agent features.
- DataSource code and prompts pass through the gateway, so buyers will ask for clear retention, logging and security terms.
Everything marked AI proposal or AI inference was written by a model from the evidence on the opportunity page. The proposed name must be checked against trademark registers before it is used.