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so recently i setup a customer inquiry / sales ai agent for Mero Style, a print on demand business platform.

AI chatbots are probably not so much of a big deal these days however what's interesting is the cost of deploying this is so cheap!

I created a PDF which has lots of information about the business and potential questions customers might ask. I uploaded this doc in Open AI and setup an assistant. I created an Edge function in Supabase which connects with Open AI assistant and also stores historical conversations for a user session in db. For handling website inquiries, this setup is enough. For Instagram DMs, I have additionally ManyChat setup to receive and send messages.

Supabase has a big generous free plan. ManyChat has $15/month and Open AI assistant is also quite cheap for text inquiries.

So I have a great Sales Agent for less than $20 a month!

If anyone is interested in this setup and need help, feel free to ask :)

We are building a startup that solves an existing problem but with an innovating approach and some extra features / benefits that existing competitors do not have. My question is about pricing.

If the competitors have say $18/month subscription charge, would it be better for me to give similar features at $ 9/month or $18/month or $ 25/month?

Also similarly for the Free plan, would it be better to twice as much free stuff or equal?

Any ideas, experience from existing founders along this line would be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.