If you're relying on a flat fee monthly AI subscription to keep costs predictable, you're one usage spike away from a renewal conversation you didn't see coming.

This week, Joël Collin-Demers breaks down the four-step pricing playbook every major LLM provider is running right now (the same one cloud vendors used a decade ago) using Uber's and Microsoft's own AI budget blowouts as the evidence.

You'll walk away with the exact questions to put in front of your next AI vendor before a flat monthly fee turns into a usage-based bill nobody predicted.

For procurement and finance leaders standardizing on a frontier AI provider, or about to face a ProcureTech vendor's new AI-powered features for the first time.

Based on this week's Pure Procurement Newsletter: https://newsletter.pureprocurement.ca/p/the-golden-age-of-cheap-ai-is-ending

Other sources referenced:

• Uber AI spending cap (Simon Willison, citing Bloomberg): https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/3/uber-caps-usage/

• Microsoft cancels Claude Code licenses (Forbes, ties Uber + Microsoft together): https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmarkman/2026/06/01/microsoft-ends-claude-code-licenses-as-it-pushes-copilot-cli/

• Hidden cloud storage cost survey, 403 IT decision-makers (Backblaze, citing Dimensional Research): https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-hidden-cost-of-cloud-storage-what-400-it-leaders-wish-they-knew-sooner/