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Research
The conversation around usage-based monetization is moving fast. Explore original research from DigitalRoute alongside curated third-party studies to stay ahead of where the industry is heading.
State of AI Monetization 2026
AI made usage commercial — and broke the conventional pricing model. A diagnosis of where the market stands, and what shifted since 2025.
From Usage to Revenue 2026
Usage pricing has gone mainstream — 49% are already live. But can the systems beneath capture, bill and defend it?
State of Monetization Infrastructure 2026
AI services are exposing legacy monetization stacks. Usage-native doesn’t mean future-ready.
The Year Customers Audited the Invoice
56% are confident their invoices are accurate. Only 22% can produce the evidence within 24 hours. Confidence has become a lagging indicator.
The State of AI Monetization 2025
AI is no longer a side project—it’s a strategic revenue engine. But are organizations really ready to monetize it?
Appledore Research
Powering Telco AI with Usage Data
56% are confident their invoices are accurate. Only 22% can produce the evidence within 24 hours. Confidence has become a lagging indicator.
ESG Research
Unlocking Usage-based Revenue Models
With DigitalRoute™ on AWS
AI made usage commercial — and broke the conventional pricing model. A diagnosis of where the market stands, and what shifted since 2025.
ISG Research
The Usage Insights Mandate Harnessing Usage Data for Innovation and Revenue Growth
Usage pricing has gone mainstream — 49% are already live. But can the systems beneath capture, bill and defend it?
MGI Research
How Will Gen AI Impact Quote-to-Cash (Q2C)?
AI services are exposing legacy monetization stacks. Usage-native doesn’t mean future-ready.
Blogs
Practical insights on usage data, monetization, and pricing — straight from our team.
DigitalRoute Expands AWS Marketplace Offering with Usage Engine Cloud Edition
DigitalRoute Introduces Pricing and Rating on UsageCloud™
Unlocking AI Success in Telco: The Crucial Role of Quality Data
SaaS Companies and Usage-Based Pricing: The Perfect Match
How to Move to Usage-Based Pricing with Salesforce Revenue Cloud
Monetizing AI Is a Usage Game — You Can’t Price What You Can’t Track
Podcasts
Every pricing transformation breaks something. UsageMoments™ is for the product, finance, and engineering leaders making usage-based pricing and AI monetization actually work.
Why usage-based pricing doesn’t have to break predictability.
Andrea De Franceschi — Senior Manager at Strategy& (PwC) — tackles the question that stalls usage-based pricing transitions more than any technical obstacle: how do you forecast revenue you don’t fully control? Andrea argues predictability hasn’t disappeared — it’s moved from contract guarantees to real-time consumption visibility, hybrid pricing structures, and historical usage data most companies aren’t yet collecting. He puts C-suite confidence in usage-based models at 5 out of 10, and explains what gets it to 10. For CFOs, pricing leaders, and teams moving from seat-based certainty to consumption-based revenue.
Why pricing gets harder as companies grow.
In this episode, pricing expert Ulrik Lehrskov-Schmidt — CEO of WillingnessToPay.com — defines commercial debt: the operational variance from years of bespoke contracts, custom pricing, and exceptions. Ulrik explains why this debt is invisible on the balance sheet but expensive on the org chart, why administering existing customers eventually eats into the budget for acquiring new ones, and walks through his 4M framework — Map, Measure, Monetize, Manage. For CFOs, RevOps leaders, and pricing teams asking why their pricing function feels more expensive every year.
Pricing is no longer something teams figure out later.
Rob Litterst — co-founder of PricingSaaS — discusses how pricing has shifted from a post-launch cleanup decision to a structural choice made before product-market fit. He covers how AI-driven costs distort the traditional pricing playbook, why credit-based models became 2025’s dominant structure, and the catch-22 of designing monetization before you have any usage data. For founders, product leaders, and anyone designing pricing that has to survive real customers.
Webinars
Every pricing transformation breaks something. UsageMoments™ is for the product, finance, and engineering leaders making usage-based pricing and AI monetization actually work.
Monetize or Miss Out: The Rules of AI Pricing
This webinar gives SaaS companies actionable strategies for pricing AI-powered products effectively — helping businesses move beyond outdated models and capture real value before the competition does.
AI to ROI: Unlock the Capabilities
You Need to Monetize AI
This webinar bridges the gap between AI adoption and real revenue — covering the practical capabilities like real-time usage tracking and data governance that businesses need to turn AI investments into sustainable growth.
AI Monetization: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
This webinar examines AI monetization through the CFO lens — exploring the financial challenges, strategic opportunities, and research-backed insights that help finance leaders turn AI into measurable revenue.
Differences between mediation systems, ETL’s and iPaaS for consumption models
This webinar breaks down the key differences between mediation systems, ETL tools, and iPaaS platforms — and which is best suited for managing usage data in consumption-based and AI monetization models.
Simplify your network operations through an advanced data platform and Gen AI
This webinar shows telecom operators how to combine an advanced data platform with Gen AI — using DigitalRoute, Snowflake, and AWS — to simplify network operations, resolve issues faster, and cut costs.
Featured
Editor’s picks
The topics gaining momentum in the market handpicked by the DigitalRoute team.
RESEARCH
State of AI Monetization in 2026: The Year Pricing Broke
AI made every prompt a commercial event. Pricing changed more in twelve months than in the previous twelve years. The report maps the new terrain — what broke, who is closing the gap, and where the next phase of monetization is being won.
PODCAST
Pricing is no longer something teams figure out later.
Rob Litterst — co-founder of PricingSaaS — discusses with Ari Vänttinen, CMO of DigitalRoute how pricing has shifted from a post-launch cleanup decision to a structural choice made before product-market fit.
Webinar
Monetize or Miss Out: The Rules of AI Pricing
This webinar gives SaaS companies actionable strategies for pricing AI-powered products effectively — helping businesses move beyond outdated models and capture real value before the competition does.