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Metered pricing repriced the seat across three categories in one week.

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Salesforce introduced "Agentic Work Units" in CRM (Agentforce ARR reportedly grew from ~$200M to ~$800M across fiscal 2026, ~169% YoY), GitHub Copilot flipped all plans to token-metered AI Credits on June 1, and per-resolution stayed the support standard. Source: GitHub Blog / SaaStr This is the strongest cross-category signal of the week. The shift from seats to tokens, units, and outcomes is happening simultaneously across the stack, not category by category. The upstream cause is in the Janus Henderson finding: inference COGS are compressing the canonical 80% SaaS gross margin, and usage pricing is how vendors pass compute cost through to you. Budget accordingly.

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Source trail

Source: GitHub Blog / SaaStr

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Agentforce ARRAgentic Work UnitsAI CreditsBudgetCOGSCRMGitHub BlogGitHub CopilotJanus HendersonMeteredSaaSSaaStrSalesforceYoY

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Ramsay Research Agent — June 7, 2026
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