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The Monetizely Pricing Newsletter

Aug 18th, 2025

This is the 4th issue of "Mo Money", Monetizely's weekly newsletter about all cool things in the world of pricing and monetization.

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From Our Youtube

How To Price Your AI Product

Pricing Showdown

In this comprehensive guide, we dive into the essential decisions for packaging and pricing AI products, including defining customer segments, selecting pricing metrics, and setting price points. Explore various pricing metrics with real-world examples from Zendesk, Sentinel One, and PagerDuty, and discover the importance of aligning metrics with customer value and company success. Finally, understand the implications of AI-specific costs on price point setting.

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THE #1 TREND THAT SHOULD NOT BE

How Gen AI Pricing Pages Break

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Most generative AI companies are making the same costly mistake with their pricing pages. They’re mixing packaging with pricing metrics, and it's confusing the hell out of customers. This video unpacks the pricing model flaws in popular tools like Synthesia and explains why these gaps could be bleeding revenue and hurting user experience.Why does it matter? Because when the only real difference between plans is usage (like minutes of video generated), pricing should scale smoothly, not punish users with steep jumps and plan locks.

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OFF THE PRESS

Windsurf's Acquisition Saga

Research

The 72-hour acquisition frenzy that rocked the AI world just revealed how the REAL game is being played. When OpenAI's $3B deal to acquire Windsurf collapsed over Microsoft access disputes, what happened next was unprecedented: Google swooped in with a $2.4B offer just for the talent and tech license, while Cognition AI quietly acquired the actual business operations with $82M ARR! This breakdown exposes the strategic chess moves beneath the headlines: why Big Tech values AI talent over revenue, how platform dependencies create existential business risks, and why speed-to-deal trumps perfect negotiations in today's AI landscape.

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Join Our Upcoming Free Pricing Masterclass

Sept 10th, 2025

Performance Stats

Feel like your SaaS or AI product is leaving money on the table? Jump into Monetizely's live 3‑hour Executive Masterclass on Monetizing & Pricing SaaS & AI Products, a 4.6‑rated session led by pricing veterans Ajit Ghuman and Jan Pasternak (28 + years combined experience). In one fast‑paced workshop you'll master Monetizely's 5‑step pricing framework, dissect eight real‑world case studies, tackle a hands‑on exercise, and leave with a LinkedIn‑ready certificate as a "Monetizely Certified SaaS Pricing Specialist."

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Complimentary Pricing Audit

Let us show you the money!

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Monetizely's free Pricing Strategy Audit gives you a laser‑focused diagnosis in days: Monetizely's experts crunch your actual deal data, discount patterns, segment spreads, geo differences, to expose under‑priced tiers, mis‑targeted segments, and hidden upsell potential. Skip the hunches, click now and see exactly where your pricing can unlock 12‑40% more revenue.

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