Let me do some quick maths that most of us avoid.
ChatGPT Plus: about ₹1,999 a month. Gemini Advanced: roughly ₹1,950. Claude Pro: around ₹1,700–2,000 depending on the day's dollar rate. Add an image tool and a video tool and you're comfortably past ₹6,000 a month — for one person. For a team of five, multiply. And you still switch tabs all day because each app is good at a different thing.
I ran this exact setup for most of last year. Here's why I stopped, and what "one subscription for all AI models" actually looks like in practice.
The hidden cost isn't the money — it's the switching
Every time you copy a brief from Claude to paste into Gemini "to double-check", or download an image from one tool to upload into another, you lose two minutes and a bit of focus. Do that twenty times a day and you've lost an hour. For a founder or freelancer that hour is real money.
There's also the "which tool did I save that in?" tax. My best product description from March lived in ChatGPT; the image was in another app; the video in a third. Nothing talked to anything.
What changed for me: model per task, not tool per month
The realisation was simple: the best model changes with the task. Claude writes better; Gemini knows what happened this week; DeepSeek R1 reasons better; Llama and Nova are dirt cheap for volume. So paying for one of them is paying to be wrong some of the time.
A multi-model workspace flips this. You have all of them in one chat, one Library, one bill. You either pick the model yourself or you leave it on Auto and let it route each prompt to the best-value model for that job.
What one bill actually costs
In Kryotta the Starter plan is around the price of a single ChatGPT subscription and covers every text model plus image generation. Pro adds video, more seats and a bigger pooled allowance for a team. Prices are in rupees, paid through Razorpay, so no forex fees or "international transaction declined" SMS at 11 pm.
The trick is that usage is pooled. Cheap models use fewer of your tokens than frontier ones, and Auto keeps everyday prompts on the cheap tier — so a small allowance goes surprisingly far.
"But isn't a single-vendor app better?"
For one very specific thing, maybe. Claude's own app has features that only make sense for Claude. But that's the point — you're buying a walled garden. The moment Gemini gets better at something (and every few months one of them leaps ahead), you either pay for a second garden or you miss out.
With a multi-model setup you don't have to predict the winner. You just use the winner, per prompt.
Who this makes the most sense for
- Freelancers and creators juggling copy, images and video.
- Small teams who need seats without five separate admin panels.
- Agencies who want to show clients two models' answers side by side.
- Anyone in India tired of dollar pricing and card declines.
The one thing to keep
Keep one thing about the old way: taste. A multi-model workspace gives you options; it doesn't choose for you what "good" means for your brand. Run the comparison, keep the winner, move on.
If you want to see what your monthly spend would look like, the pricing page has USD and INR side by side — and the free plan is genuinely free, no card needed.
