Educational technologies are increasingly integrating generative AI, however we need to be sustainable with respect to API fees. To overcome this, many user-focused EdTechs like Duolingo charge a subscription fee, however this is not practical for hyper-specialised EdTech where a school cannot simply buy a subscription for every one and there is a lot of uncertainty in how much it will be used. This puts an unnecessary burden on the developer/researcher to figure out how to make it sustainable and cover compute costs. Hence, where previously they may have simply released their specific EdTech to the world for free given the low cost of scale, here they would not be able to. A platform could abstract away the management of API fees for the school. That is, a school as a whole may set a threshold of how much genAI API fees they are willing to pay per student over an aggregated set of specialised EdTechs, where then the creator of the specialised EdTech simply uses an abstracted API that is provided. They don’t have to worry about API fees and managing sustainability, whilst the school gains even more control over the budget. Additionally, students or teachers could see a simplified interface like ‘coins’ that can be allocated and used up. Whilst ideally we want to be unlimited in what is offered, unfortunately this will struggle given educational budgets of public schools. The conclusion should not be to not offer EdTech that has real potential for value, but to have a pragmatic way of controlling cost. Furthermore, such a system would allow for decentralised access to EdTech without putting power the power of EdTech with genAI in the hands of a single provider that the school subscribes to. Unfortunately, I feel like this is where we are headed - similar to the centralisation of Pearson textbooks. Lastly, it can be a way of controlling for ’safe’ or vetted models that are more suitable for education, where the school can have control over what models are deemed suitable in a given context. For example, perhaps gpt-5-mini is okay for A-Level students, but GCSE students are limited to a more restricted/safe version. I believe such infrastructure is necessary to motivate developers to create hyper-specialised EdTech and to lower the cost of students/teachers making use of it.