Why We Ditched Per-Seat Pricing (and You Should Too)

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Per-user pricing made sense in the old world — where humans were the ones using software. But in an AI-first system, your “users” aren’t people. They’re agents.

With NODE⁵, we flipped the model:

$55/month per ledger

• Pay-as-you-go AI chat tokens

• Tiered API usage pricing

You’re not penalized for growing your team. You’re only billed for actual usage — the actions your agents take, the data they touch, and the work they perform.

No need to count logins. No need to buy more seats than you need.

You pay for value — not headcount.

In the agentic era, per-seat pricing is a relic.

Usage-based pricing is honest, fair, and scalable.