Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Pay for Results, Not Effort: Introducing Task-Based AI Pricing

Raheel Ahmad
Task Based Pricing Virtuans AI

The Problem with Traditional SaaS Pricing

Businesses today face a fundamental disconnect between how they pay for AI agents and the value they receive.

Traditional SaaS models charge by seats or users—making sense when humans use software as a tool. But AI agents aren't tools waiting for human operators. They're autonomous workers completing entire workflows independently. When an AI agent can do the work of multiple employees, seat-based pricing simply doesn't align with the actual value delivered to your business.

Even usage-based models miss the mark. Paying for tokens, API calls, or compute time means you're charged for the effort—not the results. This creates unpredictable costs and makes it impossible to directly connect your spending to business outcomes.

What businesses really need is a pricing model that mirrors how they measure human productivity: by tasks completed and outcomes achieved.

Our Solution: Task-Based Pricing

At Virtuans.ai, we've built a simple pricing model: $0.05 per completed task. This approach directly connects what you pay to the concrete value you receive.

What Counts as a Task?

A task is any specific action our AI agent completes for your business:

  • Sending a message to a customer
  • Following up on a conversation
  • Sending a calendar invite
  • Scraping a website for information
  • Performing a custom action in your workflow

Each task represents work that would otherwise require human time and attention.

Why We Built Task-Based Pricing

We built our pricing model on three core beliefs:

  1. You should pay for results, not effort. When you pay per task, you only pay when something valuable gets done.
  2. Pricing should be predictable. At $0.05 per task, you can easily calculate costs based on your business needs.
  3. AI agents should be compared to human performance, not software licenses. This allows businesses to make clear ROI calculations.

The Real Benefits for Your Business

Our calculator shows that a business handling 1,000 tasks monthly spends $50 with us versus approximately $3,575 for equivalent human staffing—a 99% reduction.

Beyond direct savings, you get:

  • Instant scaling without hiring delays
  • Perfect knowledge retention even as your business evolves
  • Consistent performance 24/7/365
  • Clear ROI calculation tied directly to completed work

Head over to our pricing page to checkout our interactive ROI calculator.

AI and Humans Working Together

We don't believe our AI should replace your entire team. Instead, our AI handles routine, repetitive tasks while your team focuses on complex problems, creative solutions, and building relationships.

This partnership delivers better customer experiences at a fraction of the cost.

Start With a Simple Test

We believe in our pricing model because it aligns our success with yours. Start for free and see how task-based pricing can transform your business operations.

Build your AI Agent ... for free? Huh. Never heard that one before.