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The $0.99 meter: what per-resolution AI really costs a team that's doing well

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PER-RESOLUTION 3,000 successes × $0.99 ≈ $2,970 A good month costs more vs FLAT CREDITS 361524 Every action, one published price

The newest AI pricing meter in support software is billed per resolution: roughly $0.99+ every time the AI successfully closes or answers a conversation. It sounds modest — under a dollar! — until you notice what it charges you for: succeeding. A great month, a viral product, a season of high traffic — each one becomes a bigger invoice.

The math of a good month

Take a ten-person support team having a genuinely good month: automation working, customers self-serving, the AI quietly resolving 3,000 conversations before a human needs to step in.

Notice what the meter taxes: not features, not usage of the platform — your success at resolving conversations. It's the only pricing model where the reward for a great month is a worse invoice.

The same workload on flat meters

Onsites AI prices the same workload with three published numbers: seats (first 3 free, then $15/seat/month), storage ($1/GB in packs, with 100 MB included), and AI credits (from $10 per 1,100, never expiring — a Copilot draft ≈ $0.03, a full Harness tool run ≈ $0.24).

10-person workloadPer-resolution platformOnsites AI
Seats$25–49 × 10 agents3 free + 7 × $15
AI≈ $0.99 × every deflected conversationprepaid credits, one fixed price
All-in≈ $3,100/mo≈ $255/mo

The $255 is not a trick — it decomposes in public: $105 in seats, a 10 GB storage pack, and roughly $140 of credits buys ~15,000 credits, which is on the order of 600 full Harness tool runs in a month if literally every conversation needed one. The number is computable before you sign anything, because every meter is flat and published.

Why the meter shape matters more than the rate

A per-resolution price of $0.99 looks cheap when you imagine 50 resolutions. The problem is structural:

Flat meters aren't automatically cheaper everywhere — but they are predictable, and predictability is what a growth month needs. The full side-by-side is on our comparisons page.

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