We enable organizations to achieve pricing excellence through evidence-based insights and strategic advisory. Leveraging advanced analytics, custom benchmarking, and engagement reviews, we help align pricing with performance, strengthen negotiation outcomes, and capture sustainable value. Clients leveraging our pricing services typically achieving savings that translate to an ROI of 30x to 80x, translating analysis into tangible financial results.
Pricing Research & Metrics
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The evolution of pricing teams
Deal pricing teams have evolved from cost-focused roles to strategic partners in commercial strategy and negotiations. Today, they drive profitability by offering market insights, innovative pricing strategies, and creative contractual models that significantly boost deal profitability and overall success.
Discover how deal teams are structured across providers and explore insights into pricing research and support dynamics in our featured blog.
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Pricing Analytics as a Service
Pricing Analytics as a Service is an annual membership providing access to custom price benchmarks, performance metrics, and ongoing access to our pricing research and contracting experts.
Software license and cloud platform diagnostics
Enterprises typically spend 0.5-2% of their revenue on software products and cloud platforms. Improving contracts and pricing can yield significant savings. We offer due diligence, license model assessment, contract optimization, and price benchmarking across.
Strategic Engagement Review
Everest Group’s proprietary Strategic Engagement Review (SER), built on insights from hundreds of outsourcing contracts, provides a comprehensive assessment of your deal. An SER evaluates the solution design, commercials, performance metrics, contract terms, transformation roadmap, and other critical elements.
Price benchmarking catalog
The catalog is an off-the-shelf roster of the most common contemporary roles and resource unit price benchmarks. It covers all major IT and BPO functions across key onshore, nearshore, and offshore locations. The catalog is refreshed bi-annually and includes on-call experts to respond to queries.
Solution sizing insights
Solution misalignment can cause service provider eviction during RFXs and client friction in sole sourced scenarios. We help pursuit and delivery teams accurately estimate effort and delivery guidelines for right-sizing engagements. This enables service providers to structure appropriate solutions at competitive fees.
Client comments
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Telecommuncations CompanyEverest Group’s insights enabled us to minimize costs and negotiate confidently with our strategic suppliers.
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Information Services CompanyWe needed to partner with someone that would be readily accepted within our organization. With Everest Group’s reputation from prior engagements, you were the best choice.
Pricing research: coverage across pricing models
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Input-based pricing
Input-based pricing
This model is ideal for situations where delivery risks cannot be quantified, or scope of services is relatively unclear. Example: Rate per hour for a developer resource.Our coverage includes all key IT, BPO, and professional services roles for delivery locations across the globe.
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Output-based pricing
Output-based pricing
Fees are tied to service outputs, ensuring payment for deliverables rather than time. They depend heavily on volume, scale, and complexity, making implementation and tracking challenging. Example: Price per invoice processed.Our advanced normalization approach enables accurate comparisons by factoring in service, skills, and contract specifics.
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Outcome-based pricing
Outcome-based pricing
Fees are tied to measurable business outcomes, offering high impact but significant risk and complexity. For example: Strategic outsourcing fees linked to savings achieved.Our pricing insights for this model include tailored contextual analysis and relevant comparison sets.
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