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Using AI well used to mean signing up for everything. A plan for chat, another for a second chat model, one for images, one for video, each with its own login, its own bill, and its own idea of what you owe each month. The bills renew whether you use the tool or not, and none of them talk to each other. Askr replaces that stack with one balance and one interface.

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The problem we solve

Subscription sprawl

Four or five monthly bills for tools you each use a fraction of. It adds up fast, and most of it goes unused.

Vendor lock-in

Subscribe to one lab and you’re tied to its models, even when a better one launches somewhere else.

Cards everywhere

Every service wants your card on file, your details, and a recurring charge you have to remember to cancel.

No clear costs

Flat monthly fees hide what each thing actually costs. You never see the price of a single request.

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What you’re really paying

Here is what the leading tools actually cost if you subscribe to them one by one.
These figures are indicative examples, current at the time of writing. Provider pricing and tiers change often, so treat them as a guide rather than a quote.

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Chat

Claude, one of the strongest chat and reasoning models, is billed monthly with no annual discount:
  • Pro: $20 per month.
  • Max (5x): $100 per month.
  • Max (20x): $200 per month.
If you want the higher usage limits serious work needs, you are quickly at $100 a month for a single chat provider, before you add a second model for the tasks it handles better.

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Images

Google’s Nano Banana has no standalone plan. It is bundled into Google’s AI tiers:
  • AI Plus: $7.99 per month.
  • AI Pro: $19.99 per month.
  • AI Ultra: $249.99 per month.
Realistically, meaningful use lands around $20 per month on the AI Pro tier. Alternatively you can pay per image through an API, from roughly $0.039 up to about $0.24 for a 4K image.

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Video

Video tools are their own monthly commitment:
  • Runway: $15, $35 or $95 per month for Standard, Pro and Max.
  • Kling: from $6.99 per month.
Most creators who use video regularly land around $20 to $37 per month.

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Add it up

A top chat model, image generation and video is already about $100 + $20 + $28 = roughly $150 a month. Most of it sits idle in the weeks you don’t reach for it, and that is before you add a second chat model, a voice tool, or another image model.
That is the real cost of the stack: not one bill, but several, each renewing on its own schedule whether you used it or not. Askr turns that into a single balance you draw from only when you actually run something.

See exactly how much you'd save

Add up your current subscriptions and compare them to pay-per-use with our calculator.

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The case for Askr

One balance

Fund once in crypto, held in USDT. Every model draws from the same balance.

Every model, neutral

GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok, FLUX, Kling and more, with no allegiance to any single lab. New models arrive, often same-day.

Pay per use

A few cents per request, priced up front. Nothing monthly, nothing to cancel.

Transparent by default

Every request is itemised with its exact cost. You always see where your balance goes.

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Askr vs a stack of subscriptions

Five AI subscriptions at $180 a month versus Askr, pay per request

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When Askr makes sense

  • You use more than one AI tool and don’t want a bill for each.
  • You want to try new models the day they launch, without re-subscribing.
  • You’d rather pay for what you use than a flat fee you may not.
  • You prefer to fund privately with crypto, no card required.

See how it works

Fund, choose a model, and build. In plain English.