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CROSS-CATEGORY: Three Vendors Moved the Meter Off Seats in 48 Hours, and None of Them Went Fully Usage-Based
Between 2026-08-25 and 2026-08-27, Google Cloud added a pay-as-you-go Gemini Enterprise edition explicitly alongside its existing per-user seat subscription, Salesforce priced Claudeforce as headless consumption metered on API calls but still tied to the customer's user license edition, and Box credited agent integrations for lifting NRR to 106% while keeping its seat model intact. All three kept a seat floor and bolted a second meter next to it rather than replacing seats. The blended model that pricing commentary has been predicting since Intercom's resolution pricing is now the observed default among incumbents, not the transitional step.
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