define recurring billing strategy (not mandatory in self-hosted)

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RFC

Objective

• Define short to medium strategy
• Create small revenue stream for SASS version of Magiedit
• Finance paid integrations and storage

Considerations

• There is already a Stripe integration for "credits" that get used when using paid integrations (like OpenAI)
• Ideally, this could switch to a monthly pay-to-use fee to simplify the billing process
• This is a short to medium term discussion; there are things that need to be fixed before I consider truly charging users
• It will consist of a free and pay-as-you-go plan
• Reaching the end of the free plan will lock that functionality until the condition to meet it is met again
• Obviously, you can self host the application and you won't have to pay a dime (but will have to provide your credentials for the paid integrations)

Free Plan

• 10 image generations per month
• 10 stored images
• 10 articles

Pay as you go

• 0.50€ per image - stored or generated - and article (after the free tier)

What do you think ?

Though this application was built mainly for me to help me writing articles, I would welcome your input in this.