Credit-based pricing is an infrastructure decision as much as it is a pricing one

Schematic CEO Fynn Glover and CPO Gio Hobbins on whether credit-based pricing is the right monetization model for your AI or SaaS product, and what your billing infrastructure actually has to do to support it.

Covered in this clip:

• Why seats and flat fees stopped working for AI products (cost-to-serve and customer value both move around constantly from one customer to the next, and from one usage pattern to another)

• How credit-based pricing sits between flat fees and pure usage-based billing, and why top-ups become a natural expansion-revenue lever for the company selling

• The four jobs every credit-based pricing model has to handle under the hood: a credit ledger, accurate metering of usage, runtime enforcement when the customer's balance hits zero, and a customer-facing usage surface that's legible while they're in the product

• Build vs buy: when assembling the credit stack yourself makes sense, when buying it off the shelf is the better multi-year commitment, and where hybrid approaches fit in between

• What signals credit-based pricing is right for your business: a customer base already trained on usage-based billing by tools like Claude and ChatGPT, an AI product with significant internal inference costs the founder needs to control, predictability requirements for self-service customers who don't want surprise bills, and structured negotiation levers for sales-led motions (annual credit blocks, overage plans, top-ups)

• Why rising AI inference costs are pushing more SaaS companies toward credits as a margin-protection mechanism alongside the pricing strategy itself
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