Salesforce has announced that it will use consumption pricing for its AI agents going forward. Why is Salesforce taking this approach? What are the implications for other Vertical AI companies? Results of our LinkedIn poll.

OpenAI's o1 models are getting a lot of attention. They are a phase change for how we work with generativeAI. OpenAI has also shared how it will approach pricing of this first version of reasoning models. Reasoning tokens. What are the implications for generative AI pricing generally?

OpenAI has released o1, it next generation approach to generative AI reasoning and problem solving. If you were OpenAI, how would you price this innovation? We summarize the results of a flash poll, give some analysis and provide our own recommendation.

Most companies monetizing generative AI are using hybrid pricing models where they combine more than one pricing metric. You can see that in the survey we are running to prepare for the Sept. 19 roundtable on monetizing generative AI. What metrics tend to be used together? We ran the data through a Leiden algorithm to find the clusters.

What is the revenue potential of your current customer base? This is your PER or Potential Expansion Revenue. This is an important number for SaaS growth leaders to understand. What percent of your PER are you realizing? How do each of the NRR factors impact your PER?

Here are some early insights from the survey we are using to inform our Sept. 19 roundtable on generative AI monetization. Michael Mansard, Kyle Poyar and Steven Forth will go deep into the trends in generative AI and how it us being monetized.

This September Ibbaka changed its pricing. We decided to be more generous in the number of value stories and pricing models included in each package. Why did we do this? How did we make the decision? How does this impact the price?

Checklists are a powerful planning and risk management tool. They are used when there is a complex process with many dependencies. Pricing transformation is such a process. Ibbaka has a checklist for introducing new packaging and pricing.

Join our Sept. 19 roundtable on generative AI monetization. Kyle Poyar from OpenView and Growth Unhinged, Michael Mansard from Zuora and Steven Forth will have an open conversation on how second generation applications are getting priced and monetized. Take this three minute survey and prime your questions for this important session.

Introducing a new pricing model is a strategic transition. How you price says a lot about your company. How you introduce new pricing communicates your value and your values. A good plan, embedded in an OODA loop, is the key to success.

NRR (Net Revenue Retention) performance varies widely. Here we share four examples from the PeakSpan Ibbaka NRR Survey for 2024. Understanding the performance of other companies can help you devise the strategy to improve your own.

Value models are the key to value based pricing and value based sales. What are the characteristics of a good value model? Ibbaka is exploring this with a group of experts. Here we go to the source and elaborate on Tom Nagel’s approach to value modeling and what makes for a good value model.

Generative pricing emerged as a response to the pricing requirements of second generation generative AI applications, but the five steps at the heart of the approach are generally applicable. They provide a foundation for a new approach to price optimization, one based on the value being delivered.

Value, Usage, Price Cost. All of these interact to determine billing. The four together form the value diamond. Join Zenskar and Ibbaka on Wed, August 14th for a deep dive into how the value diamond can solve your NRR challenges.

Value models are the way to connect the different business processes that deliver the customer experience. What is a value model? How are they used? In this pot we connect the dots.

Most SaaS companies know their Net Revenue Retention (NRR) number. They even know the trend. But NRR is composed of several different factors. It is not enough to know top level NRR. One needs to understand each of the six NRR factors, how they are trending and how they interact.

Generative pricing will come to dominate B2B SaaS pricing over the next decade, but most companies will begin by taking small steps to get there. The five steps are to (i) build a value model, (ii) use feature flags, (iii) map features to value, (iv) design a pricing model based on the feature-value mapping, (v) have pricing define configuration (or vice versa).

How should generative AI applications be priced? We asked our community in a flash poll, here are the results and our point of view on the emerging best practices for monetization and pricing of generative AI applications.

Companies have begun to use generative AI applications to evaluate proposals. What does this mean for proposal generation and pricing? How can a value story help you score well when an AI is making recommendations?

Applications built on generative AI platforms have emerging properties and will need a new approach to pricing. Software applications are becoming composable, conversational and adaptive. Pricing needs to respond. A new approach to pricing is needed. Let’s call it generative pricing.