growthunhinged.com · 2025-10-22 · 225d

Your pricing is (probably) broken

The article argues that most SaaS pricing models are suboptimal but fixable through incremental improvements rather than wholesale abandonment. It provides tactical action items for five common pricing models—flat-fee, seat-based, feature-based, hybrid, and usage-based—with specific levers to expand revenue and optimize each approach.

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Metrics in this report

Add-on Pricing

10-30percent_of_core_product

typical

SaaS add-on pricing relative to core product

Annual Price Escalator

5-8percent

target

B2B SaaS auto-renewal contracts with escalation clauses

Lite User Seat Pricing

10-40percent_of_power_user_seat

range

Seat-based pricing with tiered user types

Power User Token Consumption

70-80percent

top_10_percent_users

AI product token consumption concentration

Premium Edition Price Markup

50-100percent_above_base

target

SaaS Good-Better-Best pricing models

Premium Edition Uptake Rate

15-25percent

average

SaaS customers upgrading to premium edition