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Pricing AI Products: Seats, Usage, Credits and Outcomes
AI products cost money per use and deliver value that varies widely by user and task, which strains traditional pricing. This guide compares seat, usage, credit and outcome pricing, explains seat compression when AI replaces work, the definition problem in outcome pricing, hybrid structures, and how to test pricing against margin.
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