Feature Request: OAuth-Integrated Token Quotas for SaaS Distribution

Every SaaS company is scrambling to add AI features. They’re paying $0.002-0.02 per 1K tokens to OpenAI/Anthropic, managing their own LLM infrastructure, and forcing users to pay $10-20/month PER APP for AI.

This is broken.

The Solution: Google already has billions of OAuth users. What if Gemini API calls were tied to user identity instead of application infrastructure?

How it works:

  • User logs into Notion (or Canva, or Slack) via Google OAuth

  • App makes Gemini API calls using the user’s token quota, not the company’s

  • Free Google users: 100K tokens/day across ALL apps

  • Google One AI Premium ($20/mo): 1M tokens/day across ALL apps

  • SaaS companies pay $0 for LLM infrastructure

Why this wins:

For SaaS: 80% cost reduction, faster launches, no LLM vendor management

For Users: One AI subscription instead of 10. Upgrade to Google Pro → unlock AI everywhere instantly

For Google: → Millions of users experiencing Gemini via existing OAuth integrations → Proprietary training data from thousands of SaaS verticals

The wedge: Small SaaS companies will adopt first for cost savings. Users will demand it everywhere. Google can become the default AI layer for B2B SaaS.

The data flywheel: Every integrated app generates domain-specific training data:

  • Marketing copy from Jasper → better ad generation

  • Design briefs from Figma → improved creative AI

  • Code from Replit → enhanced coding models

  • Support tickets from Zendesk → superior dialogue systems

Why now: SaaS companies are bleeding money on AI features. They’re desperate for alternatives.

This is an interesting idea for making AI more accessible in SaaS apps. Tying Gemini API calls to users’ Google OAuth tokens could drastically reduce costs for companies and simplify access for users, while giving Google a strong position as the AI infrastructure provider across multiple platforms.

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Hi @Seetharaman_G, Welcome to the community!

Thank you for your detailed feedback. We appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts with us and we’ll be filing a feature request.

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Well that is the thing….. i am making an IDE plugin for code completion and stuff like that, would be so much cooler that the user could just do click open in browser, click log in with your google account and the “juice” billed directly to the end user, after all, all money goes to google, user logs in with his google account and the gemini api calls get billed directly to the user, come on guys, sure this is not harder than inventing AI

And by the way @Srikanta_K_N please dont block me again because of some whishky joke