calmteesQ: Legit question
The AppSumo deal doesn't make sense. I calculated the costs, and it's always cheaper to subscribe on your website—even after applying the 15% purchase credit. As a subscriber/creator on your site, I get all the creator features for a lower price than AppSumo's Tier 4 plan. I challenge you to explain this to Sumolings. The tier 4 is useless if we don't buy any credit from you after we used up all. Don't use the reason that Sumolings will have access to all your subapps etc. Creator subscriber on your website also have access to everything. BYOK cost will eventually cost much more!
SeanGrindal
Dec 5, 2025A: Hi,
Yearly subscriptions give monthly credits, but they don't accumulate beyond the monthly amount if you don't use them, so the total credits provided by a yearly subscription is far less than simply multiplying the monthly credits by 12. Then when the yearly subscription expires, so do all your credits and permissions.
The highest monthly limit on any tier is also only 7k. If that’s hit in a month, users need to buy extra credits at full price to keep using the platform that month. And if they don’t hit the cap, then the refresh wouldn't be the full monthly limit anyways.
I'm not sure what you mean that BYOK costs will be higher. Bringing your own keys will bill you for the generations personally instead of using credits, meaning we can't make any margin on the generations, ensuring the cheapest possible price.
This, among with other value questions are explored here in more details here: https://yapper.so/app-sumo-deal
Best,
Sean