usage-based-pricing

Anthropic will charge consumers additional usage-based fees to access Claude Fable 5 starting July 12, marking a shift from flat subscription pricing for frontier AI models.

Cloudflare announces the Monetization Gateway, enabling customers to charge for any protected resource (web pages, APIs, datasets, MCP tools) via the x402 protocol, with stablecoin settlements at the edge, targeting the shift to usage-based pricing for AI agents.

A tweet discussing how AI pricing should be aligned with value delivered, contrasting outcome-based and usage-based models, with insights from Zack at Sierra Platform.