HubSpot Moves Breeze Agents to Outcome-Based Pricing

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HubSpot is restructuring how it charges for its Breeze AI agents, moving to a model in which customers pay for results rather than by usage. It’s a significant bet that the company can deliver measurable value at a moment when business leaders are scrutinizing every AI line item.

“Businesses are being asked to make big bets on AI right now,” Jon Dick, HubSpot’s chief customer officer, says in a statement. “Too often, that means paying for potential rather than performance. Outcome-based pricing removes that risk. You pay when it works, full stop.”

Starting April 14, customers will spend $0.50 per resolved conversation and $1 per lead recommended for outreach. The updated pricing plan applies to HubSpot’s Breeze Customer and Prospecting Agents. Previously, customers were charged based on usage and paid with credits.

Introduced in 2025, the Breeze Customer and Prospecting Agents are tailored for small- to medium-sized businesses, offering AI capabilities similar to those of their enterprise peers, just without the hefty budgets and resources.

The Customer Agent works across email, websites, WhatsApp, and other channels to help answer customer questions. It can be trained on any knowledge base. HubSpot reports that the Customer Agent now achieves a 65 percent conversation resolution rate and does so 39 percent faster. And as for the Prospecting Agent, this bot serves as a sales tool businesses can use to research potential customers, identify decision-makers, score leads, and develop better outreach strategies. HubSpot states it has helped increase quarterly activations by 57 percent and improve close rates by 10 percent.

The shift to outcome-based pricing matches with HubSpot’s core message of simplifying AI adoption and making it seamless and accessible for SMBs. Compared to the enterprise, these organizations may not have the dedicated personnel needed to handle complex pricing. Instead, charging based on resolution might make buying AI tools more palatable for SMB owners and executives, especially if they can just plug it in and get started immediately.

HubSpot is part of a growing trend by SaaS companies to transition towards outcome-based pricing. Other vendors that have made the switch include Intercom, Sierra, Zendesk, and Decagon. Even in the CRM space, Salesforce has slowly embraced this model for Agentforce, though it has consumption-based pricing that factors costs alongside business outcomes.

The underlying bet is straightforward: remove the anxiety around AI spend, and customers will do more with the technology, not less. For SMBs—HubSpot’s core market—that’s the whole point. Outcome-based pricing doesn’t just change what they pay. It changes how willing they are to try.

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