usage-based pricing

also referred to as: usage based pricing

3 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jul 25, 2024 by Tom Blomfield · across every show →

Everything said about usage-based pricing, oldest first

Jul 25, 2024 negative
Insight
Blomfield: Enterprise Buyers Are Typically Wary of Uncapped Usage Pricing
“People typically are wary of totally uncapped usage-based pricing, so you might want to put a cap on that.”
Tom Blomfield Jul 25, 2024 ▶ 8:28 How To Price For B2B | Startup School · Y Combinator
Jul 25, 2024 positive
Insight
Blomfield: Committed recurring revenue is preferable to usage-based pricing
“In general, committed recurring revenue, that's monthly recurring revenue or annual recurring revenue is preferable to usage based pricing. And that's because during an economic downturn or a slowdown, your revenue is protected at least until the contract is u…”
Tom Blomfield Jul 25, 2024 ▶ 8:48 How To Price For B2B | Startup School · Y Combinator
Jul 11, 2025 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Srinivas: Task-based pricing for AI agents will become a major model
“Usage-based pricing. Where people are paying an agent for completing a task, or people have recurring tasks, and they pay based on, you know, every single use of the task, and they normalize this system based on, like, how much it would take to hire a person t…”
Aravind Srinivas Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 28:34 Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search · Y Combinator
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