CROSS-CATEGORY: The Credit Economy Hits Critical Mass — 79 of the Top 500 SaaS Firms Now Sell Credits, Up 126% Since 2024

Monetizely / PricingSaaS·high signal

Across the PricingSaaS 500 Index, 79 companies now offer credit-based pricing, up from 35 at the end of 2024 — a 126% jump — with Figma, HubSpot, and Salesforce all joining the credit economy this cycle. The same shift shows up simultaneously in design (Figma), marketing/CRM (HubSpot), and platform (Salesforce/Agentforce per-conversation), confirming that credit/outcome billing is now a cross-category default rather than a niche experiment. For builders pricing an AI product in 2026, hybrid base-plus-credits is the pattern buyers already recognize.