Pricing Elasticity of AI-as-a-Service: How Cost Structures Shape Enterprise Adoption Curves

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Cost structures and pricing elasticity significantly shape the enterprise adoption curves of AI-as-a-Service. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

Олег Ивченко; Iryna Ivchenko

doi:10.5281/zenodo.22288523

September 4, 2026Open Access

Pricing Elasticity of AI-as-a-Service: How Cost Structures Shape Enterprise Adoption Curves

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To evaluate how foundational cost structures and pricing elasticity govern enterprise adoption curves for AI-as-a-Service platforms.
Examined microeconomic demand elasticity models applied to software-as-a-service and cloud infrastructure purchasing patterns.
Modeled organizational adoption thresholds across variable inference pricing, token-based metering, and tiered subscription frameworks.
Enterprise demand exhibits significant elasticity when exposure to volatile, un-capped operational compute costs increases.
Adoption rates accelerate markedly under predictable fixed-tier pricing relative to purely consumption-based billing models.

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Economic analysis demonstrates how cost structures dictate pricing elasticity in enterprise software adoption, highlighting critical thresholds for scaling artificial intelligence.

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