CROSS-CATEGORY: Premium Pricing Emerges as the Only AI Retention Moat — $250+/Month Products Match B2B SaaS, Budget Tier Collapses

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ChartMogul data shows AI products above $250/month retain at 70% GRR and 85% NRR (matching B2B SaaS), while sub-$50 products retain only 23%. Intercom Fin's $0.99/outcome model reached 67% avg resolution across 7,000 teams. SaaStr's Jason Lemkin warns that prompts are portable — users can switch AI agents freely — making the churn wave for AI-native SaaS potentially worse than the SaaSpocalypse bears predicted. The only surviving moat is deep workflow integration at premium price points.