The Seat-Based Business Models Most Exposed to Agents
Per-seat SaaS pricing was built on a simple assumption: more humans logging in equals more value captured. Agentic AI breaks that assumption
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Per-seat SaaS pricing was built on a simple assumption: more humans logging in equals more value captured. Agentic AI breaks that assumption
Per-outcome pricing sounds like the holy grail of Agentic AI-as-a-Service: charge only when the agent delivers a result, not for the compute
The agentic-AI-as-a-service crowd spent 2024 and 2025 selling per-task and per-outcome billing as the obviously correct model. Now a meaning
Right now, agent pricing is a zoo. Per-task, per-outcome, per-seat, per-resolution, credits, wallets, success fees, "we only charge when it
Floor-and-ceiling pricing puts a guaranteed minimum (the floor) and a hard maximum (the ceiling) around a customer's spend on an agentic AI
Per-seat pricing was built for software that humans log into. AI agents don't log in -- they do work, often around the clock, often replacin
Pure subscriptions leave money on the table when agents do real work; pure usage pricing terrifies buyers and wrecks your forecast. Hybrid p