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The quiet death of per-seat pricing.

Dana Wu
Founder, Meterly · 13 June 2026
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Dana Wu founded Meterly on a heresy: that per-seat pricing was never about value, only about ease of billing. As software does more of the work, she argues, the seat stops making sense.

The shift to usage, she says, is not a pricing tweak — it rewires how software companies forecast, sell and build.

A seat measures who is in the room. Usage measures what the software actually did.
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Her forecast about how fast infrastructure software abandons the seat is on the record.

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Usage-based pricing overtakes per-seat as the default in infrastructure software by 2028.
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