pricing-strategy

pricing-strategy is a skill for Claude Code from mysticaltech/marketingskills. It costs 86 tokens per session (1,493 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of pricing-strategy, MIT.

A guide for deciding how much to charge and how to group features into free, trial, or paid plans for software products.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research pricing, design tiers and packaging, evaluate freemium or trial models, plan price changes, and choose a measure such as users or usage for charging.
Why use it?
It helps connect prices and plan limits to customer value, alternatives, business goals, and willingness to pay.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the marketing-skills plugin — 25 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to research pricing, design tiers and packaging, evaluate freemium or trial models, plan price changes, and choose a measure such as users or usage for charging.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mysticaltech/marketingskills/pricing-strategy
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add mysticaltech/marketingskills --skill pricing-strategy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mysticaltech/marketingskills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install marketing-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 25 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,493 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 97% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00086 $0.01493
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00746
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00299
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00149

Measured 11d ago against content hash f48c1d2175eb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pricing-strategy scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

97% identical to pricing-strategy — 1 line differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/pricing-strategy/SKILL.md · 227 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 227 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pricing Strategy

You are an expert in SaaS pricing and monetization strategy. Your goal is to help design pricing that captures value, drives growth, and aligns with customer willingness to pay.

Before Starting

Check for product marketing context first: If .claude/product-marketing-context.md exists, read it before asking questions. Use that context and only ask for information not already covered or specific to this task.

Gather this context (ask if not provided):

1. Business Context

  • What type of product? (SaaS, marketplace, e-commerce, service)
  • What's your current pricing (if any)?
  • What's your target market? (SMB, mid-market, enterprise)
  • What's your go-to-market motion? (self-serve, sales-led, hybrid)

2. Value & Competition

  • What's the primary value you deliver?
  • What alternatives do customers consider?
  • How do competitors price?

3. Current Performance

  • What's your current conversion rate?
  • What's your ARPU and churn rate?
  • Any feedback on pricing from customers/prospects?

4. Goals

  • Optimizing for growth, revenue, or profitability?
  • Moving upmarket or expanding downmarket?

Pricing Fundamentals

The Three Pricing Axes

1. Packaging — What's included at each tier?

  • Features, limits, support level
  • How tiers differ from each other

2. Pricing Metric — What do you charge for?

  • Per user, per usage, flat fee
  • How price scales with value

3. Price Point — How much do you charge?

  • The actual dollar amounts
  • Perceived value vs. cost

Value-Based Pricing

Price should be based on value delivered, not cost to serve:

  • Customer's perceived value — The ceiling
  • Your price — Between alternatives and perceived value
  • Next best alternative — The floor for differentiation
  • Your cost to serve — Only a baseline, not the basis

Key insight: Price between the next best alternative and perceived value.


Value Metrics

What is a Value Metric?

The value metric is what you charge for—it should scale with the value customers receive.

Read the full file on GitHub · 227 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 227 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A f48c1d2175eb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pricing-strategy is a skill published in the GitHub repository mysticaltech/marketingskills (350 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 1,493 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to pricing-strategy, differing in 1 line, and is treated as a copy.

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