CROSS-CATEGORY: Credits-Based Pricing at Inflection — 126% YoY Growth in PricingSaaS 500, Gartner Predicts 40% of Enterprise SaaS with Outcome Components by End 2026

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79 of 500 companies in the PricingSaaS 500 index now offer a credits model — up 126% YoY from 35 — with household names Figma, HubSpot, Salesforce, Microsoft (Copilot), Notion, and Atlassian all adopting credits simultaneously across CRM, collaboration, design, and productivity categories. Gartner forecasts 40% of enterprise SaaS will include outcome-based components by end of 2026 (up from 15% in 2022), though only 9% have fully implemented them today and 47% are actively piloting. The pattern: credits operate as an abstraction layer that decouples pricing from headcount across every SaaS category at once.