The SSO tax is not a price for SSO. It is a segmentation fence, and the features behind it are chosen for willingness to pay, not cost to build.
Open weights do not commoditize AI. They relocate the toll booth to compute, distribution, and evaluation, and reshape who captures the AI margin.
AI agents break the per-seat model at the root. The pricing ladder replacing it, the failure modes of each rung, and the buyer playbook for the transition.
Per-seat assumed humans were the unit of value. AI agents break that. Four emerging pricing models, who wins, and what buyers should demand.
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