Ashyra firdous

August 31, 2026 at 7:22 am
Rank: Reply To: The Usage-Based Hangover: Why SaaS Pricing Is Flipping Back to Flat

A good point here is that pricing based purely on usage can actually discourage efficiency, if the customer gets the same outcome with less compute or fewer tokens, the pricing model should ideally reward the outcome rather than punish the vendor for optimizing the system, that’s where value-based or hybrid pricing starts to make more sense.