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Markets2026-08-10 · source-backed
An r/SaaS thread catalogs the pricing convergence across the standard stack, Supabase, Resend, bunny.net and peers all landing at $20–$25/month, and argues the cumulative fixed cost is now a real barrier before a product earns a dollar. Anecdotal, but a useful counterweight to "building is free now." Inference costs fell. The infrastructure subscriptions around them didn't.
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Per-seat pricing is dying. Not slowly. Not in theory. Right now, across three unrelated categories, simultaneously. HubSpot: $0.50 per resolved conversation. Salesforce Agentforce: $800M ARR on "Agentic Work Units," converting 20 trillion tokens into 2.4 billion discrete measu...
Gartner/PYMNTS projects 40% of enterprise SaaS contracts will include outcome-based components by end of 2026. The convergence is simultaneous across categories: Intercom at $0.99/resolved ticket, Zendesk at $1.50-$2.00/resolution, Salesforce using AI credits per action, HubSp...
The post reasons that free tiers break when LLM inference makes a free user cost 10-100× what it did pre-AI, inverting standard freemium math (Reddit). Anecdotal founder reasoning, not data. But it matches the industry-wide shift toward per-outcome and usage-based pricing, and...
A 153-upvote post argues the Replit and Lovable wave produced people who confuse generating code with engineering software, drawing the line at supervision (r/SaaS). A developer using Claude to implement an architecture they understand is fast. Someone prompting a product they...
notifkit launched on Show HN September 8 (107 stars, created July 16) as a self-hosted layer on Node.js, PostgreSQL and Redis covering Resend email, Twilio SMS, FCM push, webhooks, Slack, Telegram, Discord and WhatsApp. Its README names Novu directly and argues the opposite ar...
Outcome-based pricing crossed from experimental to mainstream this quarter. The data is now unambiguous. Zendesk charges $1.50 per automated resolution on committed plans, $2.00 pay-as-you-go. Intercom's Fin charges $0.99 per resolved conversation with no charge if unresolved....
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