No SaaS! How AI Agents Will Change Software Pricing

As AI agents become 2.5-3x more productive than humans, traditional SaaS seat-based pricing models will need fundamental restructuring. The article explores three alternative pricing approaches: tripling per-seat prices to capture AI productivity gains, moving to usage-based pricing aligned with compute consumption, or adopting outcome-based pricing tied to performance metrics. These new pricing models could enable startups to disrupt incumbents similarly to how Salesforce disrupted perpetual licensing with the SaaS model.