B
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52%
52% -- usage based pricing adoption rate for Software companies (B2B SaaS vendors) (2026)
52% of software companies surveyed operate usage-based pricing in production.
- Counts companies operating usage-based pricing properly in production, not trialling or experimentation
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52%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
Entity
Sample Size
350
Evidence Quality
B
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Extraction
95
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
PwC / m3ter
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Tier A
https://www.m3ter.com/blog/is-usage-based-pricing-right-for-my-saas-business ↗
Source Article
Is usage-based pricing right for my SaaS business?
Pricing StrategyApr 13, 2026
Is usage-based pricing right for your SaaS? Griff Parry breaks down key trends and best practices in 2026, refreshing original work by Todd Gardner (SaaS Advisors) that was published on the m3ter site in 2022 and 2025.
Griffin ParryCEO and Co-Founder, m3ter
A few years a…
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PwC / m3ter
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Methodology
PwC and m3ter joint survey of 350+ software leaders; figure counts companies operating usage-based pricing properly in production (not trialling or experimentation).
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Software companies (B2B SaaS vendors): 52% usage based pricing adoption rate. Source: PwC / m3ter (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/usage-based-pricing-adoption-software-companies
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