# Dodo Digest: Flat AI Pricing Can Hurt Margins and Usage-Based Billing Setup

DevFeed: [Dodo Digest: Flat AI Pricing Can Hurt Margins and Usage-Based Billing Setup](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-dodo-digest-trump-ships-nvidia-to-china-flat-plans-are-quietly-killing-your-margins-10128.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://dodopayments.com/blogs/newsletter-dec13/>)

Author: Rishabh Goel

Published: 2025-12-13T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Dodo Payments Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/dodo-payments-blog.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Large Language Model](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/llm.md>), [Nvidia](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/nvidia.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [llm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llm.md>), [newsletter](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/newsletter.md>), [nvidia](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/nvidia.md>), [pricing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pricing.md>), [usage-based-billing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/usage-based-billing.md>)

## AI overview

Dodo Payments' newsletter discusses Nvidia AI chip exports to China, implications for LLM infrastructure and usage, and why flat subscription pricing can hurt margins when customer consumption varies. It presents a short setup for usage-based billing in Dodo Payments.

## Source excerpt

Dodo Digest Dec 13: why flat AI pricing hurts margins, a 5-minute usage billing setup, and v1.61.5 updates for subscriptions, metadata, and checkout.