# Topic: Pricing

> Pricing models that compound: seats, usage, credits, and outcome-based bets.

- 11 entries

- [Revenue Optimization: The Four Levers, Ranked](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/revenue-optimization) (Aug 7, 2026) — Revenue optimization has four levers and they are not equal. Ranked by how much each moves, why teams start at the weakest, and what to fix before price.
- [The Trojan Horse Playbook: How Ramp Built $32B on a Loss Leader](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/ramp-growth-teardown) (Mar 28, 2026) — How Ramp’s customer acquisition strategy used a loss-leader corporate card to reach $1B revenue, a $32B valuation, and 30%+ of profit from software.
- [Credits Are the New Seats (And They'll Die the Same Way)](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/ai-pricing-credits-vs-seats-vs-outcomes) (Mar 23, 2026) — Seats, credits and outcomes compared. Why credits are seats in a new costume, when outcome pricing actually works, and how to pick the model that fits.
- [Freemium](https://www.productgrowth.blog/calculators/freemium) — Freemium conversion rate is paying users divided by free users. Run your own numbers against real free-to-paid benchmarks across seven industries.
- [Revenue Per User (RPU)](https://www.productgrowth.blog/calculators/revenue-per-user-rpu) — Revenue per user, or ARPU, is total revenue divided by active users. Run the formula, see a worked example, and compare against ARPU benchmarks by industry.
- [Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR)](https://www.productgrowth.blog/calculators/annual-recurring-revenue-arr) — ARR is your monthly recurring revenue times twelve. Annualize your MRR, then check year-over-year growth against real benchmarks by industry.
- [Expansion Revenue](https://www.productgrowth.blog/calculators/net-revenue-retention) — Expansion revenue is what existing customers add through upgrades, seats and usage. Calculate it, then judge it against net revenue retention benchmarks.
- [So, You're Thinking About Product-Led Growth (PLG), Huh?](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/so-youre-thinking-about-product-led) (Jun 17, 2024) — Whether product-led growth suits you comes down to who you sell to, how easily the product is adopted, and your pricing. A straight assessment before you commit.
- [Grammarly's Product-Led Growth: Deconstructing Their Tactics & How You Can Replicate Them](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/grammarlys-product-led-growth-deconstructing) (May 20, 2024) — Inside Grammarly's customer activation strategy: the demo document, the minimal sign-up, and the freemium carrot behind 30 million daily active users.
- [Exploring the Rise of Product-Led Growth: A Brief History and Methodology](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/exploring-the-rise-of-product-led-growth-a-brief-history-and-methodology) (Apr 8, 2023) — Product-led growth traced from 1980s door-to-door selling through telesales, outbound and content marketing, to the era where the product does the selling.
- [The Innovative Netflix Business Model: From DVD Rentals to Original Content Creation](https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/the-innovative-netflix-business-model-from-dvd-rentals-to-original-content-creation) (Feb 18, 2023) — Netflix from DVDs by post to original content: the channel switches, the subscription model underneath them, and what each shift bought the company.

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