In response to @FlorenciVS and @lvalics - since you have pretty much exactly the same points I’ll respond to both at once.
The Lowest price paid plan is $2 per month (obviously, the lowest absolute plan is to carry on with the free version), and includes the much requested ability to favourite some prompts (4 favourites in 1 list) along with ‘Power Continue’. For the vast majority of users, that offers plenty of value - you did notice that only one user per hundred even has one single private prompt and less than 1 user out of every 400 goes above the need for 4 private prompts (which the $2 Basic paid package includes).
The $5 package that you both claim is a reasonable amount you’d expected exists. It provides 3 favourite lists, each of 8 items, for a total ability to recall 24 favourite prompts. It includes 10 private prompts, a limit that less than 1 user per 10,000 had gone above. And let’s be 100% real here, those people mainly went above because there was no cost or reason not to. You gain the ability to ‘Hide’ prompts that always seem to surface but that you have no interest in or use for so you can more easily find those more relevant to your needs. Combined with the sorted Favourites, that ‘Hide Prompt’ feature is a huge bonus in sorting and finding the prompts you want and use regularly, or even occasionally, quickly and easily. And you get the Tone and Writing Style enhancements. All at that 5 dollar per month price you said was practical and reasonable.
It may not offer all of the extra features you may have wished it to, but it certainly offers a lot, and does so at a price you’d already stated as reasonable and expected. I’m certain that the Plus Plan will be very suitable for a huge number of users, and will greatly benefit their workflows.
Okay, so, the $20 ‘Pro Plan’ is a big step up. It even states exactly who it is aimed at - “professionals who understand the enormous benefits and time-savings that AIPRM brings and are ready to take it to the next level”. If the value of those features it adds are not covered many times over at a fee of 20 dollars per month then I think it is fair to say that your professional benefits and time-savings are not ‘enormous’, and it was never for you. And that’s fine. Not everyone is going to be applying AIPRM in ways that massively increase their business or decrease time-costs and improve efficiency to where $20 is a pittance or a ‘no-brainer’.
The Pro package is meant to be a huge step up. It offers levels of organization, private prompt storage, and customization options that the vast majority of folks might love, but don’t need. Though of course there is nothing to stop anyone buying it at a cost that amounts to less than the price of one takeaway coffee per week.
Perhaps you haven’t understood the commitment and time that has to go into having ‘Verified Prompts’ and the fact that it means physically keeping tabs on the absolute best prompts and committing staff time and effort into ensuring they are always maintained and updated as ChatGPT continues to evolve, add new features, etc.
Perhaps you don’t appreciate that in having 2 ‘Upcoming Prompts’ it incurs added risk of substandard or not-ready prompts creeping in by allowing double the amount of prompts that have not passed the user-led quality control system (5 thumbs up).
But if you don’t appreciate those things, and the extra costs they incur, that’s fine. The lower packages are probably more than sufficient, as you’ve gotten by so far with the free version only.
I hope that’s a useful perspective on why the price points are where they are. Certain features require more cost to the AIPRM team, either in manpower, or in risk mitigation (such as having more staff reviewers/admin so really, manpower again), and those have to be reflected in the pricing. Hardware is hardware, so features that only take more processing or more storage are a more level, flat sort of increase. Manpower is when things get steeper.
However, let me point out again that I’m merely a neutral moderator, not an employee of AIPRM, and my observations are simply those of someone who has worked with a huge variety of Internet businesses and markets, at all levels from part-timer and freelancer to Director level. If I have observed any details wrongly, or there are different specifics in play, I’m sure @aiprm-christophc can point them out.
[This post was edited to reference dollars]