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Consumption-Based Pricing Forces a Billing Model Reckoning
The shift by AI vendors toward consumption-based pricing is surfacing a structural contradiction in how law firms charge for work, [as analyzed by The Brief on AI (Substack)](https://pimbetist.substack.com/p/consumption-based-pricing-is-forcing). When a firm's own tool costs scale with usage volume, the billable-hour model — which has historically rewarded inefficiency — becomes economically incoh