In October, Field unveiled a new pricing strategy for the corporate’s generative AI options. As a substitute of a flat price, the corporate designed a singular consumption-based mannequin.

Every person will get 20 credit per thirty days, good for any variety of AI duties that add as much as 20 occasions, with every activity charged a single credit score. After that, folks can dip into an organization pool of two,000 further credit. If the shopper surpasses that, it might be time to have a dialog with a salesman about shopping for further credit.

Field CEO Aaron Levie defined that this strategy gives a strategy to cost primarily based on utilization with the understanding that some customers would benefit from the AI options greater than others, whereas additionally accounting for the price of utilizing the OpenAI API, which the corporate is utilizing for its underlying massive language mannequin.

In the meantime, Microsoft has chosen a extra conventional pricing mannequin, asserting in November that it might cost $30 per person per thirty days to make use of its Copilot options, over and above the price of a traditional month-to-month Workplace 365 subscription, which varies by buyer.

Whereas it grew to become clear all through final 12 months that enterprise software program firms could be constructing generative AI options, at a panel on generative AI’s affect on SaaS firms at Net Summit in November, Christine Spang, co-founder and CTO at Nylas, a communications API startup, and Manny Medina, CEO at gross sales enablement platform Outreach, spoke in regards to the challenges that SaaS firms face as they implement these options.

Spang says, for starters, that despite the hype, generative AI is clearly a giant leap ahead, and software program firms must search for methods to include it into their merchandise. “I’m not going to say it’s like 10 out of 10 the place the hype meets the [current] actuality, however I do suppose there’s actual worth there and what’s actually going to make the distinction is how folks take the expertise and join it to different programs, different apps and kind of drive actual worth in several use instances with it,” she mentioned.