Per-seat AI tool subscriptions versus usage-based API.
Per-seat AI pricing is great at full adoption and wasteful when half the seats are dormant. Compare against a usage-based build before committing. Model the build on the AI agent cost calculator and cost per active user calculator.
Free AI seat license calculator — seats and per-seat price versus API usage to see which pricing model wins.
Per-seat tools (like coding assistants at ~$19/seat) are predictable and cheap when every seat is used heavily. Usage-based APIs win when adoption is patchy, because you only pay for the users and tokens actually consumed instead of dormant seats.
Compare seat cost to what the same work would cost usage-based: seats times price versus active users times their real API spend. If a big share of seats are idle, you are paying a flat fee for people who barely use the tool.