This piece was written for enterprise technology leaders and originally published on the Wednesday Solutions mobile development blog . Wednesday is a mobile development staffing agency that helps US mid-market enterprises ship reliable iOS, Android, and cross-platform apps — with AI-augmented workflows built in. Most mobile development vendors price by the hour. Outcome-based pricing ties what you pay to what gets delivered. Here is how the three main models work, what vendors will and will not commit to, and when outcome pricing is the wrong frame. Zero broken releases in the first quarter. That was the commitment Wednesday made to a US payments platform in 2024 - and the metric on which the engagement was partly evaluated. Not zero defects, not 100% uptime, but zero releases that broke core user flows. Measurable. Attributable to the vendor. Achievable without requiring the vendor to control factors outside the app. That is what outcome-based pricing looks like when it is structured correctly.…