Hey Andreas, there’s a business owner’s side to this that free users rarely convert. It’s in the interest of a saas business generally to not offer a free plan at all or limit the usage of the trademark features!
The commercial logic works against those tools from the start. ProductLed’s 2025 benchmarks put average free-to-paid conversion at around 9%, but companies that actually get users to experience their core product value see roughly three times that rate. Hiding the one feature that distinguishes your tool means the free tier converts nobody. What did those tools offer instead of the AI features in the free tier?
Hey Andreas, there’s a business owner’s side to this that free users rarely convert. It’s in the interest of a saas business generally to not offer a free plan at all or limit the usage of the trademark features!
I reckon the best ones do :)
A free user who uses the AI is way more likely to pay than one who only reads about it.
This is something Gamma.app does really well. You get value fast in the free tier...
The commercial logic works against those tools from the start. ProductLed’s 2025 benchmarks put average free-to-paid conversion at around 9%, but companies that actually get users to experience their core product value see roughly three times that rate. Hiding the one feature that distinguishes your tool means the free tier converts nobody. What did those tools offer instead of the AI features in the free tier?