Report · About 12 min read

The state of B2B monetization in 2025

Kyle Poyar · Growth Unhinged Free Advanced

The market you are pricing into, in numbers from 240 companies, so your pricing debate stops being two people's opinions about what feels right.

  • Across 240-plus software and AI companies, hybrid pricing jumped from 27 to 41 percent in twelve months.
  • Flat-fee subscriptions fell from 29 to 22 percent and seat-based from 21 to 15 percent.
  • Three in four software companies changed their pricing in the past year.
  • Outcome-based pricing is only 5 percent of primary models today, but 25 percent expect it by 2028.

The question it answers

  1. Why does Krish Subramanian call your price the strongest lead filter you have?

Read with it

  1. Krish names all four pricing mistakes rather than the tidy version, and this is where pricing is your strongest lead filter... The SaaS Podcast Podcast · Podcast episode SaaS Subscription Billing Lessons from Chargebee's Journey Krish Subramanian
  2. The contrarian half: he argues public pricing pages are overrated and worth experimenting against, which is worth hearing... SaaStr Podcast · Podcast episode SaaStr Podcast #203: Krish Subramanian, Founder & CEO @ Chargebee on Why Every Startup Should Bootstrap At Some Stage Krish Subramanian
  3. The 8 percent median and the full distribution across 200 B2B products, which tells you fast whether your filter is too loose... Growth Unhinged Report · About 10 min read A new look at free-to-paid conversion Kyle Poyar
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