SeatSwap for AI
A secondary-market price comparison app focused on legitimate seats and team plans: shows which AI vendors offer education, nonprofit, startup or region-specific pricing, so a freelancer in Lagos or a student in Berlin can find the cheapest legal seat.
Freelancers, students and indie builders outside the US who pay full price for AI tools
- Eligibility quiz that surfaces education, startup, nonprofit and regional discounts in seconds
- Side-by-side compare of Claude Pro, ChatGPT Plus, Gemini Advanced and Cursor Pro at full vs discounted price
- Auto-reminder when a discount window opens (e.g., GitHub Student, AWS Activate refresh)
- Currency-localized totals so the real cost in NGN, INR, BRL or IDR is visible
OpenPrice's premise — that prices vary wildly across channels — applies globally to legitimate discounts too, and most users don't know they exist
OpenPrice repo gained 79 stars/1 fork quickly in China, suggesting real appetite for AI subscription price comparison, but the cited trend is for gray-market reseller channels (代充/成品号), not legitimate discounts; comparable student-discount directories (aistudentdiscount.com, whichai.fyi, krater.ai) also indicate ongoing interest.GitHub - bytedoger/awesome-OpenPrice ↗AI Student Discount - Save on AI Tools & Software ↗
OpenPrice explicitly focuses on gray-market reseller channels and even forbids commercial competitors in its license; legitimate-discount space has incumbents like aistudentdiscount.com, whichai.fyi, krater.ai (student) and onehundrednights.com (nonprofit), so the wide-open angle is regional/cross-category aggregation, not the space as a whole.GitHub - bytedoger/awesome-OpenPrice ↗Claude vs. ChatGPT vs. Gemini vs. Copilot: Nonprofit AI Pricing Compared in 2026 ↗AI Student Discounts 2026: The Complete List (Verified) | Krater ↗
Target users (students, freelancers outside the US) are exactly the most price-sensitive segment; competitor directories (aistudentdiscount.com, whichai.fyi) appear free and ad/affiliate-supported, and AI vendors do not generally pay referral commissions for discount traffic — realistic revenue is thin affiliate clicks at best.AI Student Discount - Save on AI Tools & Software ↗AI Student Discounts 2026: The Complete List (Verified) | Krater ↗
Vendor education/nonprofit/regional programs change frequently — krater.ai explicitly tracks 'Active, Paused, and Ended Offers' and TechPP publishes periodic '11 AI tools with student discounts' updates, signaling ongoing need but also constant churn that demands continuous maintenance.AI Student Discounts 2026: Active, Paused, and Ended Offers ↗11 AI-Powered Tools With Student Discounts - TechPP ↗
A directory of official vendor discount programs is straightforward to build (research + list, similar to OpenPrice's Next.js + Supabase stack); the harder part is keeping eligibility criteria and links fresh, and OpenPrice shows the reference tech stack is well-trodden.GitHub - bytedoger/awesome-OpenPrice ↗