[Essay] Stop selling AI like SaaS: A compute-aware Pricing Playbook
Flat, all-you-can-eat subscriptions don’t map to AI’s cost curve. Every prompt is a variable-cost event tied to tokens, routing, retries, tool calls, and GPU minutes. That’s why you see eye-popping anecdotes and data points: GitHub Copilot reportedly lost ~$20 per user per month on average (some as high as $80), even at a […]