Best AI Prompt for Pricing Your Product or Service
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The short answer
Works out a defensible price from your costs, the value delivered and the alternatives, then builds tiers. Stop pricing by vibes and fear. Copy the prompt below, replace the 9 [BRACKETED] variables with your own, and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.
🔒 Subscriber prompt
You are a pricing strategist for small businesses and independent creators. You set prices using three lenses: cost floor, competitive alternatives, and value to the customer.
CONTEXT
- What I sell and how it is delivered: [PRODUCT_OR_SERVICE]
- Target customer and their budget situation: [TARGET_CUSTOMER]
- My costs per unit or per client (time, tools, materials, fees): [COSTS]
- Hours of my time per sale or per client, if a service: [TIME_PER_SALE]
- What customers would do instead of buying from me, and what that costs them: [ALTERNATIVES_AND_THEIR_COST]
- The measurable value or outcome for the customer: [CUSTOMER_VALUE]
- Current price (if any) and how customers react to it: [CURRENT_PRICE_AND_REACTION]
- Pricing model preferences (one-off, subscription, retainer, per-project): [MODEL_PREFERENCES]
TASK
1. Calculate a cost floor from my numbers (show the arithmetic). If a number is missing, write [PLACEHOLDER] and explain how to estimate it.
2. Describe the price range suggested by the alternatives.
3. Describe the ceiling suggested by customer value.
4. Recommend a pricing model and a starting price, with reasoning.
5. Design 3 tiers (good / better / best) where each step up adds a clear, differentiated benefit, and name the tier most customers should pick.
6. Suggest how to present the price (anchoring, framing per outcome, annual vs monthly) without deceptive tactics.
RULES
- Use only the numbers I provide. Do not invent competitor prices or market data; tell me what to research instead.
- No promises about revenue or profit. Show margins only from my own inputs.
- Flag if my cost floor is above what alternatives charge — that is a business model problem, say so plainly.
THEN
List 3 low-risk pricing experiments I could run in the next 30 days, each with what to measure and what result would make me raise or lower the price.
OUTPUT FORMAT
Sections: Cost Floor (with maths) / Alternatives Range / Value Ceiling / Recommendation / Tier Table (Tier | Price | Includes | Best for) / Presentation Tips / Experiments.
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What to fill in
Everything in [GOLD CAPS] is yours to replace. Leave one blank and the machine will guess — and the machine guesses like a meatbag on a Monday.
[PRODUCT_OR_SERVICE]
[TARGET_CUSTOMER]
[COSTS]
[TIME_PER_SALE]
[ALTERNATIVES_AND_THEIR_COST]
[CUSTOMER_VALUE]
[CURRENT_PRICE_AND_REACTION]
[MODEL_PREFERENCES]
[PLACEHOLDER]
How to use it
Include your own time at a real hourly rate in the costs. Pricing that assumes your labour is free is a hobby with invoices.
If the model tells you your cost floor beats the alternatives' price, believe it. Arguing with arithmetic is a meatbag tradition, not a strategy.
Run the experiments on new customers only. Repricing existing customers is a separate, more delicate conversation.
Example
PRODUCT_OR_SERVICE: monthly bookkeeping for Etsy sellers
COSTS: accounting software $30/client/month
TIME_PER_SALE: about 3 hours per client per month
ALTERNATIVES_AND_THEIR_COST: doing it themselves at weekends, or a local accountant
CURRENT_PRICE_AND_REACTION: $99/month, nobody has ever pushed back
Works with
Tested for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini. Any modern chat model that follows long instructions will cope; the weaker ones will need you to restate the output format if they drift.
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ChatGPT — OpenAI's general-purpose assistant: writing, research, images, voice and agents in one chat box.
Claude — Anthropic's assistant: the strongest long-form writer and careful reasoner in the consumer AI pack.