Glossary · Business & commercial
Seat pricing
Also said as
per-seat pricingseat feeper user pricing
Seat pricing charges per person using the tool — and it's rarely the whole cost, because usage often bills separately on top.
Why it matters to your business
The seat fee is just the door: one major AI product's enterprise seat leads with $20 but lands at $34–43 all-in once the add-on license maze is counted — and usage bills at API rates above that.
The catch · what vendors don't say
Compare billing units before comparing prices — per-seat, per-minute, per-token, and per-unique-caller all reward different usage patterns, and the cheapest sticker is rarely the cheapest tool.
