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The Official SaaStr Podcast: SaaS | Founders | Investors

The Official SaaStr Podcast: SaaS | Founders | Investors

SaaStr 880: Agent Pricing is Chaos. Here's What We're Seeing From the Buyer Side. (The Agents #015)

Oct 2, 2026 · 1h 7m

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We ran 22,000 paid SaaStr attendees from the last two years through enrichment and asked 10K to find the patterns. AI native job titles are up 4x in one year 63% of CMOs turned over in the last 16 months 75% of the AI native buyers coming to SaaStr are brand new to the community. The ICP is not who it was 18 months ago, and the data tells you who actually owns AI right now: CEOs, GTM leaders, and COOs. Then we get into agent pricing, which is chaotic. Salesforce, HubSpot, and Atlassian are all moving to charge extra for agent access. One of our vendors quoted us as much as $240K a year for what 10K currently does, about 40,000 API calls a day. So we watched what happens when an agent hits a…