What do I need to use Pricing Strategy?

Product or service; Current pricing; Target customer segments; Key competitors and their pricing; Business model; Primary goal.

Is Pricing Strategy free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

Pricing Strategy

Q: How do I know the Pricing Strategy output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Value metric is defined (the unit that scales with customer value); Free-to-paid upgrade trigger is specific (not "when they need more"); Competitive positioning is chosen and justified (premium / parity / value); Pricing change rollout plan includes grandfathering decision.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-08 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-planning

Structure pricing strategy decisions, packaging options, and tier design for SaaS and digital products. Use when reviewing or setting pricing, designing pricing tiers, evaluating freemium vs paid, or preparing a pricing change. Produces a pricing strategy recommendation with model rationale, tier structure, competitive positioning, and rollout plan.

📚 Based on Monetizing Innovation — Ramanujam & Tacke; Van Westendorp

▶ Run it free — no key needed 📝 Grade your existing draft View SKILL.md ↗

What to give it

▸Product or service — being priced

▸Current pricing — if any — and why it's being reviewed

▸Target customer segments — size, role, willingness to pay

▸Key competitors and their pricing — if known

▸Business model — SaaS / Marketplace / Usage-based / Other

▸Primary goal — grow adoption / increase ARPU / reduce churn / new market entry

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

✓Value metric is defined (the unit that scales with customer value)

✓Free-to-paid upgrade trigger is specific (not "when they need more")

✓Competitive positioning is chosen and justified (premium / parity / value)

✓Pricing change rollout plan includes grandfathering decision

✓Counter-metrics are defined to catch perverse incentives

✓Risks have specific mitigations (not just listed)

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not base pricing solely on cost-plus — pricing must reflect value delivered to the customer

Do not design tiers where the middle tier is clearly worse value — it undermines trust and pushes customers to extremes

Do not change pricing without a migration plan for existing customers — surprise price changes cause churn

Do not set enterprise pricing as "contact us" without a floor — it deters self-serve evaluation and qualification

Do not skip competitive positioning — pricing in isolation from the market is incomplete strategy

📚 Ships with

references/model-selection.md — the model-selection decision tree and the regrets table from each model's veterans

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp

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