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Honestly, at a $40 to $50 budget, I’d avoid stacking too many paid APIs this early.
You’ve already built a solid foundation with the tools you mentioned. The bigger challenge now is not adding more providers, it’s proving which features users actually value enough to keep.
A lot of early builders over-optimize the backend before validating demand. If your chatbot already delivers useful outputs, focus on narrowing the use case and improving the workflow rather than chasing another MCP layer.
For GEO-focused answers, personalization usually comes more from good prompt design, retrieval quality, and source selection than from expensive add-ons.
If I were in your spot, I’d keep costs lean, track what users request most, and only upgrade once you can tie a paid feature directly to retention or revenue. Infrastructure can scale later. Product-market fit can’t be bought with extra APIs.
