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Blog

The Owl, the AI, and the $1B Play: How Duolingo Nailed GenAI Monetization

AI monetization continues to remain a critical question for most SaaS companies, especially those in the B2C world, where usage costs are variable and user expectations are sky-high. But Duolingo is one of the best examples we’ve seen yet of how to do it right.

Malvika Gupta

2025-11-19
Blog

Monetization vs. Simplicity: Evaluating the Trade-Offs

Explore the trade-offs between monetization and simplicity, and learn how SaaS leaders balance revenue growth with customer experience.

Scott Mahon

2025-07-21
Blog

The Hidden Pitfalls of Outcome-Based Pricing

Outcome-based pricing sounds appealing, but it hides risks. Learn the pitfalls and what SaaS companies should watch out for.

James D. Wilton

2025-05-28
Blog
6 min

Monetizing APIs – One of SaaS’s biggest revenue opportunities

Customers love integrations but not paying for them. How to structure API pricing to align with perceived value while maintaining profitability?

Annika Li

2025-03-24

Press

Monevate CEO and Senior Partner, James D. Wilton, featured in Diginomica on GenAI Pricing Models

Diginomica features Monevate’s CEO on GenAI pricing models, exploring how AI is reshaping SaaS monetization.

July 17, 2025
2025-07-17

Press

Business Insider Highlights Monevate as Part of a New Wave of Specialist Consulting Firms

Business Insider highlights Monevate as part of a new wave of consulting firms redefining growth through pricing.

June 23, 2025
2025-06-23

Press

Monevate Secures Spot on Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Companies List

Monevate earns a spot on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies, recognized for innovation in pricing and monetization.

April 17, 2025
2025-04-17

Case Study

Optimizing price levels to boost gross margins for a popular ecommerce retailer

See how optimizing price levels lifted margins for a leading e-commerce retailer, turning pricing into a powerful growth driver.

September 16, 2025
2025-09-16

Case Study

Building a foundation for long-term revenue growth at an industry-leading consumer app

See how a leading consumer app built the foundation for long-term growth through pricing and monetization strategy.

September 16, 2025
2025-09-16

Case Study

Driving ACV, cross-sell, and simplicity for a risk management platform

Learn how a risk platform boosted ACV and cross-sell by simplifying pricing, making growth clearer and faster.

August 7, 2025
2025-08-07

Case Study

Moving from seat-based pricing to AI usage monetization

Discover how shifting from seat-based pricing to AI usage monetization unlocked new revenue and aligned value with growth.

July 7, 2025
2025-07-07

Report

The 2025 B2B SaaS Monetization Benchmarking Report

The 2025 B2B SaaS Monetization Benchmarking Report by Monevate distills insights from 75 high-growth SaaS companies ($20M–$500M ARR) to reveal the most effective pricing, packaging, and monetization strategies in today’s market.

November 5, 2025
2025-11-05

Report

Maximizing the Monetization Potential of AI

AI functionality is creating significant value for customers, yet many B2B SaaS vendors aren’t capturing it.

November 2, 2025
2025-11-02

Report

8 Signs to Identify a Strategic Pricing Opportunity within your B2B SaaS Portfolio Company

Most Private Equity Operators are aware of the huge value-capture opportunity presented by strategic pricing transformation. But many do not have sufficient experience with pricing to recognize the signals that suggest such an opportunity exists within a portfolio company. In our paper, we expose the 8 key indicators that reliably suggest a sizable strategic pricing opportunity is available.

October 7, 2025
2025-10-07

Report

Raising Prices at Renewal: Raising An Untapped Opportunity

This Insight Document walks you through how to successfully raise install base prices through a clear strategy and careful execution

October 2, 2025
2025-10-02

Masterclass

Beyond the Noise: A Practical Philosophy for AI Monetization

This session lays out a clear, first-principles approach to monetizing AI. Rather than chasing emerging pricing patterns or reacting to market noise, it focuses on grounding AI pricing decisions in product behavior, business objectives, and customer context. You’ll see how teams think through AI monetization trade-offs around ARR, margin, adoption, and packaging, and how to design models that remain coherent as AI usage evolves.

Host

James Wilton

November 11, 2025
2025-11-11

Masterclass

Setting up for Pricing Success in 2026: Actions to Take Before Year-End

This masterclass focuses on the foundational pricing moves that are easiest to make before the year closes and hardest to fix once the year begins. It covers governance, annual increase mechanics, and structural changes that enable higher ACVs and cleaner growth, helping teams enter the new year with more control and fewer reactive pricing decisions.

Host

James Wilton

September 4, 2025
2025-09-04

Masterclass

Insights from our SaaS Monetization Benchmarking Survey: What Top Performers Do Differently

Based on Monevate’s SaaS benchmarking data, this session highlights the structural and strategic patterns that differentiate top-performing companies. It contrasts how faster-growing firms approach pricing decisions, packaging, and execution, giving you concrete reference points to evaluate where your own model is strong and where it may be holding growth back.

Host

James Wilton

June 26, 2025
2025-06-26

Masterclass

Outcome-Based Pricing: Silver Bullet or Operational Headache?

This session offers a grounded assessment of outcome-based pricing, separating where it genuinely works from where it tends to fail in practice. You’ll see the conditions under which outcome alignment improves value capture, why many implementations struggle operationally, and how to evaluate whether outcome-based approaches are viable for your product and customers.

Host

James Wilton

May 29, 2025
2025-05-29

Masterclass

Migrating Customers to a New Pricing Strategy

This masterclass walks through how to migrate existing customers to new pricing without triggering unnecessary churn or sales chaos. It focuses on customer segmentation, communication strategy, and negotiation guardrails, helping teams execute migrations that are deliberate, defensible, and commercially effective.

Host

James Wilton

February 21, 2025
2025-02-21

Masterclass

Mastering GenAI Product Pricing: Trends, Strategies, and Case Studies

This session examines how teams are pricing GenAI features in practice, with a focus on managing cost exposure, customer expectations, and adoption dynamics. Featuring Malvika Gupta, it covers trial design, tiering approaches, and model testing strategies that support predictable growth as usage scales.

Host

Malvika Gupta

February 6, 2025
2025-02-06

Masterclass

Setting Price Levels That Stick

This masterclass presents a structured approach to setting price levels that hold up across segments, packages, and real-world deal pressure. It moves beyond intuition and one-off benchmarks, showing how teams define archetypes, shape curves, and align price levels to support consistency and long-term durability.

Host

James Wilton

January 23, 2025
2025-01-23

Masterclass

Dynamic Pricing (ft. Drew Marconi, CEO at Intelligems)

This session explores how rule-based and AI-driven pricing systems are being used to adjust pricing based on behavior, timing, and segmentation. Featuring Drew Marconi of Intelligems, it focuses on experimentation discipline, signal quality, and governance, helping teams adopt dynamic pricing without sacrificing control or trust.

Host

James Wilton

December 5, 2024
2024-12-05

Masterclass

Building & Pricing Profitable Professional Services in SaaS

This masterclass focuses on how SaaS companies structure and price professional services without drifting into bespoke delivery or margin dilution. It covers service design, packaging, and pricing principles that keep services understandable to buyers and operationally scalable for delivery teams.

Host

James Wilton

November 21, 2024
2024-11-21

Masterclass

Capturing Value in Private Equity: 8 Signs Your B2B SaaS Portfolio Company Needs a Pricing Transformation

Designed for PE operators and value creation teams, this session outlines eight common signals that pricing has become a drag on performance. It helps investors identify pricing leakage early and prioritize the changes most likely to drive improvements in retention, expansion, and margin.

Host

James Wilton

November 7, 2024
2024-11-07

Masterclass

Canva Price Increase Teardown: Learning from Successes and Mistakes

This teardown examines Canva’s price increase, focusing on what went wrong, what improved in the recovery, and why execution details mattered. The session draws practical lessons on messaging, transition design, and flexibility that teams can apply to their own price changes.

Host

James Wilton

October 24, 2024
2024-10-24

Masterclass

Unlocking Growth with Usage-Based Pricing

This masterclass takes a practical look at how usage-based pricing supports growth when it is tied to clear value signals. It covers where UBP works best, common failure modes, and how teams design predictable, hybrid models that balance flexibility with commercial control.

Host

James Wilton

October 10, 2024
2024-10-10

Masterclass

Q3 Pricing: 5 Insights That Will Transform Your Strategy

This session synthesizes the most common pricing challenges SaaS teams are facing right now, drawing on recent client work and market patterns. It covers willingness-to-pay signals, scalable architectures, and discounting discipline, translating recurring themes into actionable guidance.

Host

James Wilton

September 26, 2024
2024-09-26

Masterclass

Discounting That Drives Growth

This masterclass focuses on turning discounting from a reactive concession into a controlled commercial tool. It covers structure, guardrails, and governance, helping teams protect margin while still supporting sales flexibility and deal velocity.

Host

James Wilton

September 12, 2024
2024-09-12

Masterclass

Implementing B2B SaaS Pricing & Packaging (Featuring Industry Expert Fynn Glover)

This session breaks down the building blocks of modern SaaS pricing systems, with a focus on architecture and execution. Featuring Fynn Glover of Schematic, it shows how clean pricing infrastructure enables faster iteration, easier experimentation, and lower operational risk.

Host

James Wilton

August 29, 2024
2024-08-29

Masterclass

B2B Product-Led Growth for Enhancing Customer Acquisition

This masterclass examines how PLG principles apply to B2B pricing and packaging. It focuses on gating, segmentation, and metric selection, helping teams design self-serve experiences that drive acquisition without undermining monetization or cost discipline.

Host

James Wilton

August 20, 2024
2024-08-20

Masterclass

Crafting Scalable Price Architectures Aligned with Value

This session helps teams choose pricing architectures that scale as products and usage evolve. It moves beyond metric selection to address how price structures behave over time, especially when value and usage do not increase in simple or linear ways.

Host

James Wilton

August 1, 2024
2024-08-01

Masterclass

Building a Robust Fact Base for Price Setting

This masterclass focuses on how teams build a defensible pricing fact base by triangulating multiple inputs. It explains why relying on a single research method is risky and how combining cost, market signals, and willingness-to-pay data leads to better pricing decisions.

Host

James Wilton

July 15, 2024
2024-07-15

Masterclass

Making Freemium Work in B2B

This session explores how B2B companies use freemium models without letting cost-to-serve or conversion rates spiral. It covers segmentation, gating strategy, and expansion paths that turn free usage into a sustainable acquisition and monetization engine.

Host

James Wilton

July 2, 2024
2024-07-02

Masterclass

Determining the Optimal Price Metric(s)

This masterclass presents a structured process for evaluating and selecting price metrics. It helps teams move beyond convenience or habit and assess metrics based on scalability, fairness, predictability, and long-term growth impact.

Host

James Wilton

June 18, 2024
2024-06-18

Masterclass

The Future of SaaS: Hybrid Pricing (Feat. James Wood)

This session examines why hybrid pricing models are becoming more common and where they add real value. Featuring James Wood, it covers how hybrids help balance margin protection, flexibility, and predictability, particularly as AI costs and usage variability increase.

Host

James Wilton

June 4, 2024
2024-06-04

Masterclass

Objective Setting & Strategy Alignment

This masterclass focuses on how clear objective setting simplifies pricing decisions. It shows how teams translate competing priorities into explicit design principles, making pricing trade-offs easier to evaluate and defend internally.

Host

James Wilton

May 13, 2024
2024-05-13

Masterclass

Building Differentiated Packages

This session explores how SaaS companies design packages that map cleanly to customer segments. It focuses on package structure, differentiation logic, and upgrade paths that help buyers self-select and support expansion.

Host

James Wilton

April 29, 2024
2024-04-29

Masterclass

Implementing Effective Price Increases

This masterclass provides a practical playbook for executing price increases with lower churn risk. It covers segmentation, communication, and negotiation strategies that help price changes feel predictable and defensible, even with long-standing customers.

Host

James Wilton

April 15, 2024
2024-04-15

Masterclass

Monetizing New Capabilities

This session focuses on how teams price new product capabilities without fragmenting their model or confusing existing customers. It covers pricing placement, future-proofing, and structural choices that allow innovation to scale without constant rework.

Host

James Wilton

April 1, 2024
2024-04-01
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