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AI monetization: Sorry, no cheat codes
  • No One Knows How to Price AI Tools
  • Alex Levin
    Alex Levin
    Ultimately outcome-based pricing is better for the vendor than the customer
  • Ulrik Lehrskov-Schmidt
    Ulrik Lehrskov-Schmidt
    So any AI pricing model needs to both work today AND tomorrow.
  • Greg Isenberg
    Greg Isenberg
    The great SaaS repricing is coming
  • Bret Taylor
    Bret Taylor
    We believe you should pay for outcomes, not for software.
  • Sam Altman
    Sam Altman
    Insane thing: we are currently losing money on openai pro subscriptions!
    people use it much more than we expected.
  • Dale Hopkinson
    Dale Hopkinson
    AI monetization is a balancing act. Charge too much upfront, and adoption stalls.
  • Amos Bar-Joseph
    Amos Bar-Joseph
    The era of bloated teams is over. The age of the autonomous business has begun.
  • Aravind Srinivas
    Aravind Srinivas
    Crossed $100M in annualized revenue, 6.3X growth YoY, and highly under monetized.
  • Sam Altman
    Sam Altman
    Our GPUs are melting. We are going to temporarily include rate limits. 3 image generations per day on the free tier.
  • Kyle Poyar
    Kyle Poyar
    Fascinating new data from a16z: CIOs now *prefer* usage-based models.
  • Cursor
    Cursor
    We recently updated our pricing, but missed the mark. We're refunding affected customers and clarifying how our pricing works.
  • Aaron Levie
    Aaron Levie
    A big question in software is what happens to the systems of record in a world of AI Agents. Do they go away? Do they just become databases? Or do they become more powerful?
  • Marty Kausas
    Marty Kausas
    Pylon's pricing model has changed 10 times. And we're not done.
  • Elena Verna
    Elena Verna
    Lovable just hit $100M ARR in only 8 months post-launch - and landed the cover of Forbes. Crazy sauce.
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Flexible pricing. Endless monetization.
Monetize key features with usage-based pricing. Identify the right plans, set usage limits, and the right price for additional use.
Monetize ‘usage’
Monetize key features with usage-based pricing. Identify the right plans, set usage limits, and the right price for additional use. Track customer usage over time and empower teams to run data-driven pricing iterations — whether they use clicks or code.
Monetize ‘usage’
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Seamless quote to revenue
Engage across customer lifecycle
Streamline selling, even with complex pricing. Help sales tailor every detail of the quote. Accelerate new deals, renewals & expansions by unifying your quote-to-cash process — invoices, payments, provisioning, collections & revenue recognition.
Engage across customer lifecycle
Extensible.
Scalable.
Interoperable.
Chargebee enabled us to experiment with multiple pricing models, including usage and outcome-based pricing. The automated billing lifecycle increased our cash flow by 2.5X in just six months.
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Monetizing Usage: Field Notes