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Tokens, credits and the new economics of AI consumption: how SaaS pricing actually works

calendar_today June 22, 2026 person Gary McAllister domain flexera

Tokens, credits and the new economics of AI Seat-based SaaS pricing assumed something simple: more users, more value, more cost. AI broke that assumption. The minute copilots and agents started doing the work, value stopped scaling with logins and started scaling with activity.

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