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How Anthropic Rocketed to $4B ARR — And Why Your B2B Playbook May Already Be Obsolete

SaaStr

API-First Revenue Model Unlike the subscription-heavy models of traditional SaaS, 70-75% of Anthropic’s revenue comes from API calls through pay-per-token pricing. The key is ensuring that increased usage correlates with increased customer success.

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Dear SaaStr: How Should I Calculate Gross Dollar Retention For Our Investors?

SaaStr

Here’s the best-practice way to calculate it: Start with your Beginning ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) : This is the ARR from your existing customers at the start of the period you’re measuring. Subtract Churned ARR : This is the revenue lost from customers who canceled their subscriptions during the period.

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GTM in The Age of AI: The Top 10 Learnings from ICONIQ’s 2025 B2B SaaS Report

SaaStr

It’s about fundamental organizational redesign —from pricing models (hybrid consumption/subscription) to team structures (forward-deployed engineers vs traditional CSMs) to investment priorities (94% AI spend increases among high-growth companies). vs $8.7K), and dramatically leaner operations.

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How Do SaaS Companies Actually Make Money from Payments?

USIO

revenue share earns you $400,000 —on top of your subscription revenue. That’s the beauty of embedded payments: your customers gain convenience and control, while you gain a passive, scalable revenue stream. That might sound small, but let’s do the math: If your users process $100 million annually through your platform, a 0.4%

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Usage-Based Revenue Models: Successes and Pitfalls from Checkr COO Lindsey Scrase on CRO Confidential

SaaStr

Naturally, their first customer was DoorDash and the quickly captured 95% of the gig economy market in their early days. When Lindsey joined, she inherited an already built-out self-serve/PLG model for small businesses and a mid-market and enterprise sales, customer success, and post-sales team.

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The New Standard for Subscription Renewals: Intelligent, Automated, and Scalable

Blulogix

By Kegham Khrigian The New Standard for Subscription Renewals: Intelligent, Automated, and Scalable For subscription businesses, renewals are the foundation of predictable revenue and long-term growth. Subscription models thrive on automation, accuracy, and data-driven decision-making and renewals should be no different.

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Dear SaaStr: We Have More Than 20% Churn Our First Month. What Should We Do?

SaaStr

This is pretty common in the prosumer space and especially in mobile subscription apps. Tools like Intercom or Pendo can help guide users through onboarding flows, but you also need a strong customer success team to handhold new users if necessary. Segment Your Churn : Break down your churn by customer type.

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