OpenAI ChatGPT (Free, Go, Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise) | ai-app | hybrid | Subscription per user per month with usage allowances by model tier; credits for usage beyond the allowance | Free: $0 → Enterprise: Custom | Free: $0. Unlimited text chats with GPT-6 (abuse guardrails), GPT-6 Luna and GPT-5 Thinkin | Aug 29 2025: ChatGPT Team renamed Business. Jan 2026: ads introduced on Free and Go tiers; Go ($8) rolled out to 170 more countries and became OpenAI's fastest-growing plan. 2026: … full history |
OpenAI OpenAI API (GPT-6 family) | frontier-model | tokens | Per 1M input, cached-input and output tokens, by model | GPT-6 Astra: $10 in / $1 cached / $50 out → GPT-Image-2.5: $8 image in / $2 cached / $30 image out; $5 text in | No standing free tier for paid models; playground access. | Aug 2025: GPT-5 launched at $1.25/$10 per 1M (per AssemblyAI gateway listing). 2026: GPT-5.5 listed at $5/$30 and GPT-6 Astra at $10/$50, so the top tier has moved up while small m… full history |
Anthropic Claude apps (Free, Pro, Max, Team, Enterprise) | ai-app | hybrid | Per seat per month with session/weekly usage limits; Enterprise is seat fee plus usage at API rates | Pro: $20 monthly / $17 per month annual ($200 upfront) → Enterprise: $20 per seat + usage at API rates | Free: $0. Chat on web/desktop/mobile, web search, files, code execution, memory, connector | 28 Jul 2025: weekly limits announced for Pro and Max, effective 28 Aug 2025, targeting the <5% of users running Claude Code 24/7 or sharing accounts. 2025 to H1 2026: Enterprise wa… full history |
Anthropic Claude API | frontier-model | tokens | Per 1M input/output tokens, with cache-write and cache-hit rates | Claude Fable 5.1 / Mythos 5.1: $10 in / $50 out (cache hit $0.25) → Claude Haiku 5.5: $0.10 in / $0.50 out up to 100K-token prompts; $0.50 / $2.50 above 100K | None for production use. | Opus pricing fell from $15/$75 (Opus 4/4.1) to $5/$25 (Opus 4.5 onward) to $4/$20 (Opus 5.5). Sonnet fell from $3/$15 (Sonnet 4.x) to $2/$10 (Sonnet 5/5.5). A new top tier (Fable/M… full history |
Google Google AI plans (Gemini app: Free, AI Plus, AI Pro, AI Ultra) | ai-app | tiered | Per account per month, bundled with Google One storage; usage limits expressed as multiples of lower tiers | Google AI Plus: $4.99 → Google AI Ultra 20x: $199.99 | Free: $0 with a Google Account; Flash-Lite model, 15 GB storage, limited Nano Banana Pro i | May 2026 (I/O): new $100 Ultra tier with 5x Pro limits; the 20x tier kept the same capabilities 'now at a lower cost' ($199.99). June 2026: AI Plus cut from $7.99 to $4.99 in the U… full history |
Google Gemini Developer API | frontier-model | tokens | Per 1M tokens by model, with Standard, Batch, Flex, Priority and Contributor tiers | Gemini 4 Argon: $2 in / $10 out until 30 Nov 2026; $4 / $20 from 1 Dec 2026 → Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: $0.25 / $1.50 | Free tier on many Flash and Flash-Lite models (not on Pro preview). 5,000 free grounded se | 2026: Google introduced launch pricing that doubles later: Gemini 4 Argon doubles on 1 Dec 2026 and Gemini 3.8 Flash doubles on 1 Jan 2027. Long-context (>200K) surcharges remain o… full history |
xAI / SpaceXAI Grok (The X Subscription bundle) and Grok API | frontier-model | hybrid | Consumer: one subscription with a shared usage pool across Grok, Cursor and X. API: per 1M tokens. | Plus: $8 → API grok-4.7: $2 in / $6 out | Free: daily Grok access, limited chat and Imagine, Cursor starter allowance. | 9 Jul 2025: SuperGrok Heavy $300/month. 2 Feb 2026: SpaceX acquired xAI; rebranded SpaceXAI July 2026. 25 Mar 2026: SuperGrok Lite $10. May 2026: older API models retired and route… full history |
Mistral AI Le Chat and Mistral API | frontier-model | hybrid | Le Chat per user per month; API per 1M tokens | Le Chat Pro: $14.99 → API: Mistral Large: $0.50 in / $1.50 out | Le Chat Free: limited messages, web searches and coding sessions; up to 5 scheduled tasks. | Not verified in this research window beyond current prices. |
Perplexity Perplexity Free, Pro, Max, Enterprise | ai-app | hybrid | Subscription per user plus Computer credits for agentic tasks | Pro: $20 monthly / $200 per year ($17/month shown annual) → Enterprise Max: $325 | Free: daily-capped Pro searches and basic answers. | 2 Jul 2025: Max launched at $200/month. 9 Jul 2025: Comet browser launched for Max subscribers. 2026: Computer credits introduced as the meter for agent work; Enterprise Max at $32… full history |
Microsoft Microsoft 365 Copilot | ai-app | seat | Per user per month add-on to Microsoft 365 | Microsoft 365 Copilot Business (SMB, up to 300 users): $21 list; $18 promo → Microsoft 365 E7: $99 | Copilot Chat included at no extra cost with eligible Microsoft 365 plans; agents in Copilo | 1 Dec 2025: Copilot Business launched at $21 for SMBs with a 15% promo ($18) to 31 Mar 2026, later extended to 31 Dec 2026. May 2026: Microsoft 365 E7 at $99 bundles Copilot and Ag… full history |
Microsoft Copilot Studio (Copilot Credits) | ai-agent | credits | Copilot Credits consumed per agent action type | Credit pack: $200 per month for 25,000 Copilot Credits (~$0.008/credit) → Pay-as-you-go: $0.01 per credit | Internal agent use by Microsoft 365 Copilot-licensed users does not consume credits (fair | Sep 2025: billing moved from 'messages' to 'Copilot Credits' with the same per-action logic. |
GitHub (Microsoft) GitHub Copilot | ai-dev-tool | hybrid | Subscription that includes a dollar-denominated pool of GitHub AI Credits consumed at model token rates | Pro: $10 → Enterprise: $39 | Free: 2,000 completions/month, limited chat and agent usage, Copilot CLI. | Jun 2025: premium request limits enforced (Pro 300, Pro+ 1,500, Business 300/user, Enterprise 1,000/user; $0.04 per extra; multipliers up to 50x), which users called 'far too low'.… full history |
Cursor (Anysphere, now part of SpaceX/SpaceXAI) Cursor via The X Subscription | ai-dev-tool | hybrid | Subscription tier sets the size of a weekly-refreshing usage pool shared with Grok; third-party models billed at API list price | Plus: $8 monthly ($80/yr) → Enterprise: Custom | Free: limited agent and chat requests; starter coding allowance. | Jun 2025: Pro moved from 500 fast requests to $20 of usage at API rates; users hit limits after a few Claude prompts and were charged overages; 4-7 Jul 2025 CEO Michael Truell apol… full history |
Cognition (Windsurf / Devin) Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) and Devin | ai-dev-tool | hybrid | Subscription with daily and weekly token quotas; overage at API pricing | Pro: $20 → Enterprise: Contact sales | Free: light agent quota, limited models, unlimited Tab completions and inline edits. | Jul 2025: Cognition acquired Windsurf. 18 Mar 2026: credits (previously $10 per 250 extra) replaced by daily/weekly quotas effective 19 Mar; Pro $15 to $20, Teams $30 to $40/seat, … full history |
Replit Replit Core, Pro, Enterprise | ai-dev-tool | hybrid | Subscription with included credits; Agent work billed by effort (time and compute per request); cloud hosting metered | Core: $20 monthly / $18 annual → Enterprise: Custom | Starter/Free with limited usage; Free Mode allowance inside paid plans resets every 5 hour | 18 Jun 2025: effort-based pricing replaced $0.25 checkpoints. 11 Jul 2025: billing error overcharged about 6% of users; refunds plus $10 credits. 10 Sep 2025: Agent 3 launch led to… full history |
Lovable Lovable Free, Pro, Business, Enterprise | ai-dev-tool | credits | Credits per message (varies by task complexity), plus Cloud hosting and in-app AI from the same balance | Pro: From $25 monthly (100 credits) up to $2,250 (10,000 credits) → Enterprise: Platform fee + volume-based credit pricing | Free: 5 daily build credits (max 30/month), 20 Cloud credits/month, 4 credits for in-app A | 2025-2026: single credit balance extended to Cloud hosting and in-app AI; per-member, per-project and workspace caps with alerts added. Reached a reported $300M ARR by Jan 2026 wit… full history |
StackBlitz Bolt.new | ai-dev-tool | tokens | Monthly AI token allowance | Pro: From $25 → Enterprise: Custom annual contract billed by consumption | Free: 1M tokens/month, 300K daily limit, no rollover. | Not verified in this research window. |
Vercel v0 | ai-dev-tool | hybrid | Per-user subscription with dollar credits consumed at per-model token rates | Plus: $30 (shown struck from $90) → Enterprise: Custom | Free: $5 one-time credits for new users, 7 messages/day. | 2025: moved to token-based credits by model. Plus displayed at $30 against a struck-through $90 at time of checking. |
Base44 (Wix) Base44 app builder | ai-dev-tool | credits | Monthly message credits (AI building) plus integration credits (app actions) | Starter: $16 per month billed annually → Enterprise: Custom | Free: 25 message credits and 100 integration credits/month, up to 5 apps. | 18 Jun 2025: Wix acquired Base44 for about $80M plus earn-outs through 2029. 2026: Wix reported widening losses partly from Base44 compute and marketing costs. |
Emergent Emergent app builder | ai-dev-tool | credits | Monthly credits | Standard: $20 monthly / $17 annual → Business / Enterprise: Custom | Free: 10 credits/month. | Not verified in this research window. |
Genspark Genspark AI agent workspace | ai-agent | credits | Monthly credits consumed by agent tasks (slides, research, calls, video) | Plus: $24.99 monthly / $19.99 annual → Team / Enterprise: Not public | Free: about 100 credits/day, refreshed every 24 hours. | 2026: zero-credit chat and image generation on paid plans as a promotion through 31 Dec 2026. |
Manus Manus AI agent | ai-agent | credits | Monthly credits plus daily refresh credits; tasks consume variable credits | Pro (4,000 credits): From $20 → Enterprise: Contact sales | Free: 300 daily refresh credits (capped at 1,500/month), Lite model in Agent mode. | Apr 2026: Chinese regulators blocked Meta's planned ~$2B acquisition. Sep 2026: Manus resumed operating independently. |
Midjourney Midjourney Basic, Standard, Pro, Mega | ai-app | tiered | Fast GPU hours per month (plus unlimited Relax mode on higher tiers) | Basic: $10 monthly / $96 per year → Mega: $120 monthly / $1,152 per year | None. | 2025: video generation added, consuming GPU minutes from the same allowance. Plan prices unchanged in 2025-2026 per current docs. |
ElevenLabs ElevenLabs (TTS, voice, agents) | ai-app | credits | Monthly credits (roughly 1 credit per character of TTS); agents billed per minute | Starter: $6 ($1 first month) → Enterprise: Custom | Free: 10,000 credits/month. | 2026: agent pricing standardised at $0.08/min across tiers with higher tiers buying concurrency, not cheaper minutes. |
Runway Runway Free, Standard, Pro, Max | ai-app | credits | Monthly credits consumed per second of generated video | Standard: $15 monthly / $12 annual → Max: $95 monthly / $76 annual | Free: 125 one-time credits. | Not verified in this research window beyond current prices. |
Suno Suno Free, Pro, Premier | ai-app | freemium | Monthly generation credits plus a monthly cap on song downloads | Pro: $8 per month billed yearly (about $10 monthly) → Premier: $24 per month billed yearly (about $30 monthly) | Free: 50 credits/day, no commercial rights, no monthly song downloads (accounts opened bef | 3 Sep 2026: download caps introduced (Pro 20/month, Premier 60/month), framed as anti-abuse; generation remains cheap. |
HeyGen HeyGen AI video | ai-app | credits | Monthly credits consumed by video features | Creator: $29 monthly / $24 annual → Enterprise: Contact sales | Free: 3 videos/month up to 1 minute each. | 2026: moved from 'unlimited usage plus Premium Credit pool' to credit-based plans as the main usage system. |
Synthesia Synthesia AI video | ai-app | credits | Credits consumed per minute of video or dubbing | Starter: $19 monthly ($9 first month) / $14 per month annual → Enterprise: Custom | Basic: $0, 500 credits/month (about 10 minutes video), 1 editor. | 2025: video-minute quotas converted to credits. Help centre flags further plan changes effective 1 Oct 2026. |
Descript Descript Free, Hobbyist, Creator, Business | ai-app | hybrid | Media hours plus AI credits per month | Hobbyist: $16 annual / $24 monthly → Enterprise: Custom | Free: 60 media minutes/month and 100 one-time AI credits. | 2025: moved to media-minutes plus AI-credits packaging (date not verified). |
Canva Canva Free, Pro, Business, Enterprise | saas | freemium | Per person per year with monthly AI-use allowances by tool tier (Standard, Premium, Ultra) | Pro: US$144 → Enterprise: Contact sales | Free: up to 20 uses of Standard or Premium AI tools; no Ultra tools. | 28 Jul 2026: US Pro annual price raised from $144 to $180. 9 Sep 2026: AI limits restructured as usage tiers. 11 Sep 2026: Pro returned to $144. 14 Sep 2026: Free AI allowance cut … full history |
Adobe Adobe Firefly plans (generative credits) | ai-app | credits | Monthly generative credits for premium features; standard generations unlimited | Firefly Standard: US$9.99 → Firefly Premium: US$199.99 | Limited free generative credits with a free Adobe account (amount not verified). | Sep 2025: Firefly plan lineup and credit FAQ updated. 2026: 'unlimited generations' promotion ran 21 May - 21 Oct 2026; 'unlimited standard generations' now part of paid plans. |
Figma Figma plans and AI credits | saas | hybrid | Per seat (Full, Dev, Collab) with monthly AI credits per seat; shared add-on credit pools | Professional Full seat: $16 → Enterprise Dev / Collab: $35 / $5 | Starter: free, 150 AI credits/day up to 500/month. | 11 Mar 2026: team purchase options for extra credits. 18 Mar 2026: seat credit limits enforced. Q2 2026: pay-as-you-go billing. Community thread titled 'Figma Make AI credit limits… full history |
Notion Notion Free, Plus, Business, Enterprise | saas | hybrid | Per seat; Notion AI bundled into Business and Enterprise with monthly AI credits | Plus: $10 → Enterprise: Custom | Free: $0 per seat; limited Notion AI trial. | May 2025: standalone $10 AI add-on retired for new Free/Plus customers and AI bundled into Business, effectively moving AI buyers from $10+$10 on Plus to the $20 Business tier. |
Salesforce Agentforce | ai-agent | hybrid | Three meters at once: Flex Credits per action, per conversation/resolution, and per-user licences/editions | Flex Credits: $500 per 100,000 credits → AELA: Custom fixed price | Salesforce Foundations: $0, includes Agentforce Builder, Prompt Builder, Agent Script, Age | 29 Oct 2024: GA at $2/conversation. 15 May 2025: Flex Credits ($0.10/action). 17 Jun 2025: $125 per-user add-ons and $550 editions. 1 Aug 2025: Enterprise/Unlimited list prices +6%… full history |
Fin (formerly Intercom; Salesforce since Sep 2026) Intercom helpdesk + Fin AI Agent | ai-agent | outcome | $0.99 per outcome (resolution or completed procedure) plus per-seat helpdesk fees | Essential: $29 annual / $39 monthly (a $19/$29 test seen Sep 2026) → Copilot add-on: $29 annual / $35 monthly | Free trial; no free plan. | Around May 2026: Intercom adopted the Fin name. 15 Jun 2026: Salesforce agreed to acquire Fin for about $3.6B; completed 10 Sep 2026. Billing unit described as 'outcome' and expand… full history |
Zendesk Zendesk Suite + AI agents | saas | hybrid | Per agent seat plus automated resolutions (outcome-based) beyond an included allowance | Support Team: $19 annual / $25 monthly → Copilot add-on: $50 | Free trial. | Aug 2024: outcome-based pricing launched. May 2026 (Relate): outcome pricing expanded, with dual verification of billed resolutions, automatic overage billing and a usage dashboard… full history |
Decagon Decagon AI customer agents | ai-agent | hybrid | Annual platform fee plus per-conversation or per-resolution charges (customer chooses) | Platform fee: ~$50,000 per year (reported) → Per resolution: Custom (one reported contract $0.50) | None; sales-led. | Decagon states that 'the vast majority' of its customers choose per-conversation pricing over per-resolution. |
Sierra Sierra AI agents | ai-agent | outcome | Per resolved interaction or business outcome (resolution, saved cancellation, upsell); per conversation for routing-type flows | Outcome-based contract: Custom; third-party estimates ~$1.50 per resolution (range $1-$2.50) | None; sales-led, no public price list. | ARR $100M (21 Nov 2025) to $150M (6 Feb 2026) to $200M (29 May 2026). 4 May 2026: $950M Series E at about $15.8B. Outcome-based pricing is central to its positioning. |
HubSpot HubSpot Credits (Breeze AI agents) | saas | hybrid | Seat/edition subscription plus a shared monthly HubSpot credit allowance consumed by AI agents and data features | Starter credits: 500 credits/month included → Additional credits: $10 per 1,000 ($0.01/credit) | Free CRM tools; credits included from Starter. | 14 Apr 2026: Customer Agent moved to outcome-based billing and was cut from 100 credits ($1) per conversation to 50 credits ($0.50) per resolved conversation; Prospecting Agent mov… full history |
Clay Clay GTM platform | saas | credits | Two meters: Data Credits (third-party data) and Actions (platform work: enrichments, AI calls, syncs) | Launch: From $185 monthly / $167 annual → Enterprise: Custom annual | Free: 100 Data Credits and 500 Actions/month; 200 rows per table. | 11 Mar 2026: replaced single-credit Starter/Explorer/Pro plans with Data Credits + Actions; marketplace data costs cut 50-90%; top-up premium cut from 50% to 30%; legacy switch win… full history |
Apollo.io Apollo sales intelligence | saas | hybrid | Per seat plus annual credit pool per seat | Basic: $49 → Organization: $119 | Free: 900 credits per seat per year, granted monthly. | Not verified in this research window. |
Gong Gong revenue intelligence | saas | seat | Mandatory platform fee plus per-user annual licence | Platform fee: ~$5,000-$50,000 per year (by user count) → Bundle (Engage + Forecast): ~$2,400-$3,000 per user per year | None. | 2026: Gong pushing the bundled Engage + Forecast package (per third-party analysis). |
Jasper Jasper AI marketing platform | ai-app | seat | Per seat per month | Pro: $69 monthly / $59 annual → Business: Custom | 7-day free trial. | Not verified in this research window. |
Writer WRITER agentic AI platform | ai-app | seat | Per Pro seat per month; Enterprise custom with free Lite seats | Starter: $39 monthly / $29 annual → Enterprise: Custom (estimated 2-3x Starter per seat) | 14-day free trial. | Apr 2025: Palmyra X5 launched (1M context). Apr 2026: agent observability and admin controls for Enterprise. No major public price change reported. |
Glean Glean Work AI | ai-app | hybrid | Per seat with pooled FlexCredits for premium models, agents and Deep Research | Enterprise (seat): ~$50+ per user per month (third-party estimates) → Enterprise Flex: Seat + pooled FlexCredits | None; paid proofs of concept reported up to $70,000. | 2025-2026: Enterprise Flex model introduced pooled FlexCredits alongside seats. Renewal uplifts reported at 3-7%. |
Harvey Harvey legal AI | ai-app | hybrid | Per seat (annual) plus metered credit plan option | Seat licence: ~$1,200-$2,000+ per seat per month (third-party estimates) | None. | 2026: metered credit plans offered beside flat seats (per Vaquill benchmark, Jul 2026). |
Legora Legora legal AI | ai-app | hybrid | Per seat bundle plus pay-as-you-go credits; Agent Pro consumption-based | Seat bundle: ~$300-$800 per user per month (third-party estimates) | None. | Jun 2026: Agent Pro moved to consumption-based pricing (per Vaquill benchmark). |
Hebbia Hebbia Matrix | ai-app | seat | Per seat per year (enterprise) | Enterprise seat: ~$3,000-$15,000 per seat per year (third-party estimates; some reports above $20k) | None. | Not verified. |
Deepgram Deepgram speech APIs | ai-infra | usage | Per audio minute (STT, voice agent) or per 1,000 characters (TTS) | Pay As You Go: Nova-3 streaming: $0.0048/min (regular $0.0077) → Enterprise: Custom | $200 free credit. | 2026: promotional discounts on Nova-3 and Flux streaming shown against regular rates. |
AssemblyAI AssemblyAI speech + LLM Gateway | ai-infra | usage | Per audio hour plus per-hour add-ons; LLM Gateway per 1M tokens | Universal-3.5 Pro (pre-recorded): $0.21/hour → LLM Gateway: Pass-through token prices (e.g. GPT-6 Astra $10/$50; Opus 5.5 $4/$20; GPT-5 Nano $0.05/$0.40) | Free tier: up to 185 hours pre-recorded or 333 hours streaming transcription. | 2026: LLM Gateway lists 50+ third-party models at pass-through rates. |
Exa Exa search API and agents | ai-infra | usage | Per 1,000 requests by search depth; agents per compute unit and effort level | Lite Search: $4 per 1K requests → Agent: $0.10 per Agent Compute Unit; effort levels $0.012 (minimal) to $1.00 (x-high) per request | $10 credits/month plus $10 onboarding bonus (~$120/year); startup and education grants up | 2026: agent pricing with effort levels and Agent Compute Units added. |
Tavily Tavily search API | ai-infra | credits | API credits per call type | Pay As You Go: $0.008 per credit → Enterprise: Custom | Researcher: free, 1,000 API credits/month. | Not verified in this research window. |
Firecrawl Firecrawl web data API | ai-infra | credits | Credits per page scraped/crawled, per search, per browser minute; concurrency by tier | Hobby: $19 monthly / $16 annual → Enterprise: Custom | Free: 1,000 credits/month, 2 concurrent requests. | 2026: Agent and Interact (browser) products added to the credit system. |
turbopuffer turbopuffer vector and full-text search | ai-infra | usage | Storage per GB, writes per GB, queries per PB scanned, with a monthly minimum by plan | Launch: $16/month minimum usage → Enterprise: >= $4,096/month minimum | None listed. | Not verified in this research window. |
Pinecone Pinecone vector database and Assistant | ai-infra | usage | Storage GB-month, read units and write units, with plan minimums | Standard: $50/month minimum usage → Assistant: $8/1M input, $15/1M output tokens, $3/GB-month storage | Starter: free, 2 GB storage, 2M write units and 1M read units/month, 5 indexes. | Not verified in this research window. |
Supabase Supabase Postgres platform | ai-infra | hybrid | Platform fee per org plus usage quotas and overages (MAU, disk, egress, compute) | Pro: From $25 → Enterprise: Custom | Free: 50,000 MAU, 500 MB database, 5 GB egress; projects pause after one week of inactivit | Not verified in this research window. |
Vercel Vercel platform | ai-infra | hybrid | Platform fee per deploying seat plus included usage credit; usage-based compute; Flat Rate CDN tiers | Pro: $20 → Enterprise: Custom | Hobby: free (non-commercial), 100 GB transfer, 1M edge requests, 4 hours Active CPU, 500 A | Sep 2025: Pro restructured to a $20 platform fee with one deploying seat and $20 usage credit; free viewer seats. 8 Sep 2026: Flat Rate CDN generally available, default for new Pro… full history |
Netlify Netlify platform | ai-infra | credits | Monthly credits consumed by deploys, bandwidth, compute, requests and AI inference | Personal: $9 → Enterprise: Custom | Free: 300 credits/month. | 4 Sep 2025: all new accounts moved to credit-based plans; legacy plans retained for existing accounts. Users on Reddit called the credits 'abstract and unclear'. |
Snowflake Snowflake AI Data Cloud | ai-infra | credits | Snowflake credits for compute (price by edition) plus storage per TB | Standard: $2.00 per credit → Capacity: Discounted prepaid capacity | Free trial (not detailed on pricing page). | Not verified in this research window. |
Databricks Databricks Data Intelligence Platform | ai-infra | usage | Databricks Units (DBUs) consumed, priced per product | Lakeflow Jobs: From $0.15/DBU → Agent Bricks: From $0.07/DBU | Free trial (some with credits) and a free edition for learning. | 2025-2026: Agent Bricks priced in DBUs alongside model serving. |
Twilio Twilio communications APIs | ai-infra | usage | Per message, per minute, per verification | SMS (US): From $0.0083 → ConversationRelay (AI voice): From $0.07 | Free trial credit. | 2025-2026: ConversationRelay AI voice priced per minute alongside carrier minutes. |
Stripe Stripe Billing | fintech | usage | Percentage of billing volume, or annual contract tiers | Pay as you go: 0.7% of billing volume → Card processing (US): 2.9% + 30c per successful card charge; ACH 0.8% capped at $5 | No subscription fee on pay-as-you-go; pay only on billing volume. | 14 Jan 2026: Stripe completed its acquisition of Metronome (metering used by OpenAI, Anthropic and NVIDIA per Stripe); Patrick Collison: 'the shift toward usage-based models will b… full history |
Slack (Salesforce) Slack Free, Pro, Business+, Enterprise+ | saas | seat | Per active user per month (fair billing policy) | Pro: $8.75 monthly / $7.25 annual → Enterprise+: Contact sales | Free: basic AI (summaries, limited Slackbot trial), 90-day history. | Jun 2025: AI features added to all paid plans; separate Slack AI add-on retired; Business+ raised from $12.50 to $15 per user/month annual; Enterprise+ introduced. |
Zoom Zoom Workplace | saas | seat | Per user per month | Pro: ~$13-14 annual / $16.99 monthly → Custom AI Companion add-on: $12 | Basic: free, 40-minute meetings, limited in-meeting AI Companion. | 2025-2026: AI Companion remains free on paid plans; Custom AI Companion sold as $12 add-on. |
Linear Linear Free, Basic, Business, Enterprise | saas | seat | Per user per month; some AI features require AI credits | Basic: $10 → Enterprise: Custom | Free: unlimited members, 2 teams, 250 issues, Agent platform and Linear Agent. | 2026: Linear Agent and agent platform available on Free; AI credits introduced for Loops. |
Atlassian Jira (with Rovo AI credits) | saas | hybrid | Per user per month with a pooled monthly Rovo credit allowance per user | Standard: $8.48 per user/month shown (third-party reports $9.70 from 13 Oct 2026) → Enterprise: Custom | Free: up to 10 users; no Rovo. | 2025: Rovo bundled into paid Jira/Confluence plans. Oct 2026: seat price rise reported effective 13 Oct 2026 (third-party). |
Xero Xero accounting (Australia) | fintech | tiered | Per organisation per month (AUD incl. GST), tiers by payroll headcount and features; usage fees for bill payments and extra users | Ignite: A$37 (reported) → Ultimate 10 / 20 / 50: A$143 / A$180 / A$250 | None; new customers 90% off for first 3 months (offer to 2 Nov 2026) or one month free. | 1 Jul 2026: AU price increases (Ignite $35 to $37, Grow $75 to $78, Comprehensive $100 to $107, Ultimate 10 $130 to $143). AI auto-reconcile and document capture bundled into plans… full history |
MYOB MYOB Business (Australia) | fintech | tiered | Per business per month/year (AUD), plus per-employee payroll fees on lower tiers | Solo: A$99/year (A$12 for first 12 months) → AI BAS (beta) add-on: A$25/month | 14-day free trial on most plans; deep introductory discounts. | 2026: AI features (Ask Iris, AI Business Insights beta, Smart Reconciliation beta) bundled; AI BAS sold separately at A$25/month. |
Shopify Shopify Basic, Grow, Advanced, Plus | fintech | hybrid | Monthly subscription plus payment-processing percentage and third-party gateway fees | Basic: $39 monthly / $29 annual → Plus: From $2,300 | Free trial (length not verified here). | 2026: Sidekick AI and AI website builder included on all plans with a stated token allowance. |
Spotify Spotify Premium (US) | consumer-subscription | freemium | Per account per month, plan by household size | Individual: $12.99 → Family: $21.99 | Ad-supported free tier; Premium 2 months free trial for Individual. | 15 Jan 2026: US Individual raised from $11.99 to $12.99 (effective Feb 2026); Duo $16.99 to $18.99. |
Netflix Netflix (US) | consumer-subscription | tiered | Per household per month by quality, simultaneous streams and ads | Standard with ads: $8.99 → Extra member: $7.99 with ads / $9.99 without | None. | Jan 2025 and 26 Mar 2026: US price rises (latest: ads $7.99 to $8.99; Standard $17.99 to $19.99; Premium $24.99 to $26.99). |
Duolingo Duolingo Super, Max, Family | consumer-subscription | freemium | Per account (or family) per year, tiers by AI features | Super: ~$12.99 monthly / ~$84-96 per year → Max Family: ~$239.99 | Free: all languages with ads and limited hearts. | Prices vary by region and app store; specific dated changes not verified. |
Peloton Peloton memberships | consumer-subscription | tiered | Per household/account per month | App One: $12.99 web/Android ($15.99 via Apple App Store) → All-Access (hardware owners): $49.99 | None (free trials on app tiers). | 1 Oct 2025: All-Access $44 to $49.99, App+ $24 to $28.99, App One $12.99 to $15.99 (some channels) alongside the Peloton IQ AI relaunch; existing members from first billing on/afte… full history |
Uber Uber One (US) | consumer-subscription | flat | Per member per month; value returned as credits and fee waivers | Uber One: $9.99 | 4-week free trial for eligible first-time members. | Not verified in this research window. |
Amazon Amazon Prime (US) | consumer-subscription | flat | Per member per month or year | Prime monthly: $14.99 → Prime Access (EBT/Medicaid): $6.99 | 30-day free trial (6 months for Young Adults). | No US Prime fee change found in 2025-2026 (still $14.99/$139). |