{"slug": "ask-hn-how-should-i-price-an-ai-infrastructure-platform", "title": "Ask HN: How should I price an AI infrastructure platform?", "summary": "An unnamed developer building an event-driven infrastructure layer for AI agents is seeking pricing advice for a potential first customer, a consulting firm that wants to license the platform for client solutions. The developer is weighing a flat fee, usage-based pricing, or a platform fee plus revenue share, and asks for insights from those who have sold developer infrastructure through partners.", "body_md": "I'm building an event-driven infrastructure layer for AI agents. I may have my first customer: a consulting firm wants to build AI automation solutions for its clients using my platform and license it as part of those solutions.\n\nFor example, they might sell a $20k solution to a client, with my infrastructure powering the agent system.\n\nI'm considering a flat platform fee, usage-based pricing, or a platform fee + revenue share.\n\nFor those who've sold developer infrastructure through consulting/integration partners, how would you structure the first deal?\n\nI'm especially interested in what you'd do differently in hindsight.\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49354254](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49354254)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-should-i-price-an-ai-infrastructure-platform", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49354254", "published_at": "2026-08-18 23:19:22+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-18 23:41:00.526985+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-infrastructure", "ai-agents", "ai-startups"], "entities": ["Hacker News"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-should-i-price-an-ai-infrastructure-platform", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-should-i-price-an-ai-infrastructure-platform.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-should-i-price-an-ai-infrastructure-platform.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-should-i-price-an-ai-infrastructure-platform.jsonld"}}