Precisely.
The case in which I see this changing is if something like MCP takes off. Then you could have agents discovering and consuming services that the user/customer didn’t plan ahead for, and therefore doesn’t have credits for. That’s where it gets interesting.
But even then, we already have marketplaces emerging for this. So you just have credits with the marketplace.
Open Router is exactly this type of wide access platform. You prepay credits and access a wide variety of models. It’s not even a marketplace. With marketplaces you’ll get even better pricing and i agree, the incentives for bot to bot payments are still missing imo. But so many people are talking about this now, I wonder where my thinking has gaps in it. Maybe the scale and efficiency and speed enabled by what comes in the future is very profitable? 🤔
My observation is that these are all VC-backed companies scrambling for a narrative that holds. No shade, but it does not mean it's real.
