{"slug": "simpler-outcome-based-ai-pricing", "title": "Simpler, outcome-based AI pricing", "summary": "Mintlify moved its AI features to fixed, outcome-based credit pricing, charging 25 credits per assistant answer and 250 credits per automation docs update while making failed answers and no-op automation runs free, co-founder Han Wang announced. The company said 96% of teams will spend the same or fewer credits on the assistant and more than 99% on automations, with automation users expected to spend roughly 70% fewer credits than last month. Mintlify also made its editor agent and Slack agent unlimited at no charge on Pro and Enterprise plans, with existing plans, included credits, and per-credit prices unchanged and the new pricing applied automatically.", "body_md": "Han Wang\n\nCo-Founder\n\n#### Share this article\n\nHan Wang\n\nCo-Founder\n\n#### Share this article\n\nStarting today, every AI action in Mintlify has a fixed credit price, and you only pay when we deliver a result. Assistant answers and automation updates cost credits. Everything else is free.\n\nWe are also providing unlimited editor agent and Slack agent usage with Pro and Enterprise plans. Your plan, included credits, and the price per credit remain unchanged.\n\nFor almost everyone, that's a price cut. Based on current usage, 96% of teams will spend the same or fewer credits on the assistant, and more than 99% will spend the same or fewer on automations. Automations change the most: most runs check for changes and find nothing to update. Those are now free, so teams using automations should spend around 70% fewer credits than they did last month.\n\n## [What's changing](#what-s-changing)\n\nCredits previously varied with the tokens used by each run. Now every action has a fixed price, and actions that produce nothing cost nothing:\n\n- Assistant answers a question: **25 credits**\n- Assistant can't answer: **0**\n- Automation updates your docs: **250 credits**\n- Automation finds nothing to update: **0**\n\nFor details on what counts as an answer or an update, see the [**credits documentation**](https://www.mintlify.com/docs/credits).\n\n## [Why we are changing it](#why-we-are-changing-it)\n\nIn the spring, we moved every AI feature onto a single credit meter based on the tokens used to perform the work. The goal: you would pay for exactly what you used, and one meter would cover every feature we shipped.\n\nIt solved our problem, not yours. Tokens are how we buy AI, not how teams plan to use it. The same automation could cost a different amount every run. The assistant charged for every message, including the ones it couldn't answer. The meter counted effort instead of results.\n\nWhen we asked customers what made credits difficult, nearly every one of them gave the same answer: unpredictability.\n\n## [Pay for outcomes, not effort](#pay-for-outcomes-not-effort)\n\nYou can't budget against a black box. Customers couldn't predict what an automation would cost, which made it difficult to plan around.\n\nNow pricing reflects the value we visibly provide. An assistant answer is 25 credits. A docs update from an automation run costs 250. If the Assistant can't answer, or an automation determines nothing needs updating, you pay nothing.\n\nYou know the price before you act, and you never pay for a run that produces nothing. When the agent gets smarter, the price stays the same, and you just get a better result.\n\n## [Editor and Slack agents are included](#editor-and-slack-agents-are-included)\n\nThese editor and Slack agents help teams turn a support thread, a PR, or a rough idea into finished content with a person in the loop. We want teams doing more of this work and metering was getting in the way.\n\nBoth are now included with Pro and Enterprise at no charge.\n\n## [What you need to do](#what-you-need-to-do)\n\nNothing. The new pricing applies automatically. Your existing plan and prepaid credits are unaffected. You can see every action and its cost on the [**Usage page**](https://app.mintlify.com/settings/organization/usage).\n\nCredits now measure what you get, not what it took to produce it. If this change leaves you worse off, email [**support@mintlify.com**](mailto:support@mintlify.com) and we'll make it right.\n\n#### More blog posts to read\n\n[AI TrendsDI](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/knowledge-engineer)\n\n### Rise of the Knowledge Engineer\n\nAgents are one of the largest audiences for company knowledge, accounting for 66% of measured web traffic across documentation powered by Mintlify. The emerging role responsible for keeping that knowledge accurate and retrievable is the knowledge engineer.\n\nSeptember 16, 2026\nDavid Isquick\n\nProduct Marketing\n\n[AI TrendsLV](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/the-state-of-knowledge-2026-highlights)\n\n### Highlights from the 2026 State of Knowledge Report\n\nAI agents overtook humans as the primary readers across Mintlify-powered sites. In August alone, agents made 257 million web requests compared to 131 million human page loads, which means agent traffic now outnumbers human traffic by nearly 2:1.\n\nSeptember 16, 2026\nLauren Volpi\n\nMarketing", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/simpler-outcome-based-ai-pricing", "canonical_source": "https://www.mintlify.com/blog/outcome-based-ai-pricing", "published_at": "2026-09-08 00:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-19 14:24:53.171788+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "ai-agents", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Mintlify", "Han Wang"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/simpler-outcome-based-ai-pricing", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/simpler-outcome-based-ai-pricing.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/simpler-outcome-based-ai-pricing.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/simpler-outcome-based-ai-pricing.jsonld"}}