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SaaS Statistics 2026: 150+ Numbers on Spend, Pricing, Security and Contracts

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What are the key SaaS statistics for 2026?

Gartner forecasts worldwide software spending of $1,468 billion in 2026, up 15.5%. The average organization runs 305 SaaS apps and wastes $19.8 million a year on unused licenses, per Zylo. SaaS costs reached about $9,100 per employee at the end of 2025, and 48% of data breaches involved a third party such as a vendor.

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Worldwide software spending forecast for 2026 (Gartner), up 15.5% (2026 (forecast, July 2026), Gartner, Inc.)
$1,468 billion
U.S. business investment in software in 2025 (BEA) (2025, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, via FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
$751.3 billion
Average number of SaaS applications per organization (Zylo) (2026 edition, Zylo)
305
Average annual spend wasted on unused SaaS licenses per organization (Zylo) (2026 SaaS Management Index, Zylo)
$19.8 million
SaaS cost per employee at the end of 2025 (Vertice) (End of 2025, Vertice)
$9,100
Share of data breaches involving a third party such as a vendor (Verizon DBIR) (2026 DBIR, Verizon Business)
48%
Company spending on generative AI in 2025, up from $11.5 billion (Menlo) (2025, Menlo Ventures)
$37 billion
Median 2025 growth rate of private B2B SaaS companies (SaaS Capital) (2025, SaaS Capital)
22%

This page collects more than 150 SaaS statistics in twelve groups: market size, U.S. software investment, revenue at the largest SaaS companies, app sprawl, spend and license waste, pricing, contract and auto-renewal rules, security, AI, growth and retention benchmarks, funding and deals, and India and the software workforce.

Each figure links to a named source: government data from the BEA, Census Bureau, BLS and FTC, company filings, court opinions and statutes, plus industry surveys and spend-management vendors whose numbers come from their own customers. Forecasts are labeled as forecasts, and the data was checked on October 17, 2026.

SaaS Market Size and Spending Forecast Statistics

Market size estimates for SaaS vary by more than $100 billion depending on who is counting and how SaaS is defined. Gartner's software and cloud forecasts sit alongside five commercial research estimates here.

Figure 1: Estimates of the 2026 global SaaS market, by research firm (billions of USD)

Figure 1: Estimates of the 2026 global SaaS market, by research firm (billions of USD): Grand View Research $530.0B; Statista Market Insights $488.5B; Precedence Research $465.0B; Mordor Intelligence $435.4B; Fortune Business Insights $375.6BGrand View Research$530.0BStatista Market Insights$488.5BPrecedence Research$465.0BMordor Intelligence$435.4BFortune Business Insights$375.6B
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Grand View Research$530.0B
Statista Market Insights$488.5B
Precedence Research$465.0B
Mordor Intelligence$435.4B
Fortune Business Insights$375.6B
Commercial forecasts, not measured outcomes; each firm defines SaaS differently, so the spread (about $154 billion) reflects scope, not error. Grand View Research's summary gives $530.0 billion for 2026 while its scope table lists $540.0 billion. Source: Grand View Research, Software as a Service Market Size, Share and Trends Analysis Report.
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U.S. Software Investment and Government SaaS Data

Government data gives the most consistent long-run view of U.S. software spending. These figures come from the BEA, the Census Bureau, the BLS and federal IT sources.

Figure 2: U.S. private investment in software, 2016 to 2025 (billions of USD)

Figure 2: U.S. private investment in software, 2016 to 20252016: $347.9B; 2017: $382.9B; 2018: $422.8B; 2019: $447.4B; 2020: $478.2B; 2021: $533.1B; 2022: $601.0B; 2023: $638.0B; 2024: $686.0B; 2025: $751.3B$347.9B$382.9B$422.8B$447.4B$478.2B$533.1B$601.0B$638.0B$686.0B$751.3B2016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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LabelValue (billions of USD)
2016$347.9B
2017$382.9B
2018$422.8B
2019$447.4B
2020$478.2B
2021$533.1B
2022$601.0B
2023$638.0B
2024$686.0B
2025$751.3B
Current dollars, not seasonally adjusted. BEA private fixed investment, nonresidential, intellectual property products, software (prepackaged, custom and own-account), via FRED. Covers all business software, not only SaaS, and is subject to revision. Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, via FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Private fixed investment: Nonresidential: Intellectual property products: Software (B985RC1A027NBEA), annual CSV.
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Largest SaaS Companies Revenue Statistics

Public filings from the largest SaaS vendors show how much revenue is already locked in by signed contracts. Remaining performance obligation is revenue customers have committed to but the vendor has not yet recognized.

Figure 3: Contracted future revenue (remaining performance obligations) at major SaaS companies, latest reported (USD billions)

Figure 3: Contracted future revenue (remaining performance obligations) at major SaaS companies, latest reported (USD billions): Salesforce (Jan. 31, 2026) $72.4B; ServiceNow (Dec. 31, 2025) $28.2B; Workday, subscription backlog (Jan. 31, 2026) $28.1B; Adobe (Aug. 28, 2026) $22.16B; Atlassian (June 30, 2026) $4.8BSalesforce (Jan. 31, 2026)$72.4BServiceNow (Dec. 31, 2025)$28.2BWorkday, subscription bac…$28.1BAdobe (Aug. 28, 2026)$22.16BAtlassian (June 30, 2026)$4.8B
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Salesforce (Jan. 31, 2026)$72.4B
ServiceNow (Dec. 31, 2025)$28.2B
Workday, subscription backlog (Jan. 31, 2026)$28.1B
Adobe (Aug. 28, 2026)$22.16B
Atlassian (June 30, 2026)$4.8B
Each bar is from the company’s own earnings release; period ends differ. Workday reports total subscription revenue backlog, a similar but not identical measure. Microsoft (commercial RPO of $678 billion at June 30, 2026) is left off the scale. Source: Salesforce, Inc., Salesforce Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2026 Results.
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SaaS Adoption and App Sprawl Statistics

How many apps a company runs depends on how they are counted: purchased tools, apps found through discovery, or apps connected to a single sign-on system. The figures below show each method.

Figure 4: Average SaaS apps per organization by company size (Torii 2026 SaaS Benchmark)

Figure 4: Average SaaS apps per organization by company size (Torii 2026 SaaS Benchmark)Under 100 employees: 448; 100 to 499: 679; 500 to 1,499: 1,189; 1,500 to 3,999: 1,250; 4,000+: 2,1914486791,1891,2502,191Under 100 e…100 to 499500 to 1,4991,500 to 3,…4,000+
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LabelValue
Under 100 employees448
100 to 499679
500 to 1,4991,189
1,500 to 3,9991,250
4,000+2,191
Torii counts every app its discovery tools find, including shadow IT, in calendar 2025 customer data with an unpublished sample. Survey and SSO-based counts are far lower (Okta 98, Zylo 305), so figures are not comparable across vendors. Source: Torii, SaaS Statistics (Torii 2026 SaaS Benchmark findings).
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SaaS Spend Management and Wasted License Statistics

SaaS is now a large line item, and a share of it pays for seats nobody uses. These numbers cover spend per employee, license utilization, renewals and audits.

Figure 5: SaaS cost per employee, 2023 to 2025 (USD per employee)

Figure 5: SaaS cost per employee, 2023 to 20252023: $7,900; 2024: $8,700; 2025: about $9,100$7,900$8,700about $9,100202320242025
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LabelValue (USD per employee)
2023$7,900
2024$8,700
2025about $9,100
Vendor data from Vertice; the 2025 figure is end-of-year and stated as approximate. Vertice does not publish its sample on the report page. Source: Vertice, SaaS Inflation Index Report.
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SaaS Pricing and Price Increase Statistics

Official price indexes and vendor-reported SaaS inflation tell different stories. This section also covers the move to usage-based and AI-linked pricing.

Figure 6: Year-over-year change in U.S. software publisher producer prices vs. consumer prices (CPI-U), September of each year
SeptemberSoftware publishers PPI (index)PPI changeCPI-U (index)CPI-U change
202087.600+0.8%260.280+1.4%
202187.453-0.2%274.310+5.4%
202288.240+0.9%296.808+8.2%
202391.954+4.2%307.789+3.7%
2024100.039+8.8%315.301+2.4%
202599.746-0.3%324.800+3.0%
2026102.101+2.4%336.940+3.7%

SaaS Contract, Auto-Renewal and Cancellation Statistics

Auto-renewal and cancellation rules shifted in 2025 when a federal court vacated the FTC's click-to-cancel rule. State laws, FTC enforcement and vendor contract terms fill the gap.

Figure 7: Timeline of the FTC negative option (click-to-cancel) rule
DateMilestoneDetail
Apr. 24, 2023Proposed rule publishedExtend the 1973 rule to all negative option marketing in all media
June 23, 2023Comment period closedMore than 16,000 comments; 1,162 unique comments published
Jan. 16, 2024Informal hearing before an ALJ beginsFTC estimated 106,000 entities offer negative option features
Nov. 15, 2024Final rule publishedAdopted by a 3-2 Commission vote
Jan. 14, 2025Rule effective dateOriginal compliance date May 14, 2025
May 9, 2025Compliance deferredCompliance deadline moved to July 14, 2025
July 8, 2025Eighth Circuit vacates ruleCourt found the FTC skipped a required preliminary regulatory analysis
Mar. 13, 2026New advance notice of proposed rulemaking publishedComments due Apr. 13, 2026; complaints rose to more than 90 per day in 2025

SaaS Security and Data Breach Statistics

A growing share of breaches runs through vendors and their cloud accounts. These figures show how often that happens and what breaches cost.

Figure 8: Share of breaches involving a third party, by DBIR edition (%)

Figure 8: Share of breaches involving a third party, by DBIR edition2024 DBIR: 15%; 2025 DBIR: 30%; 2026 DBIR: 48%15%30%48%2024 DBIR2025 DBIR2026 DBIR
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LabelValue (%)
2024 DBIR15%
2025 DBIR30%
2026 DBIR48%
Global breach datasets. The 2024 figure is as restated in the 2025 DBIR executive summary. Each edition covers roughly the prior year of incidents. Source: Verizon Business, 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report, Executive Summary; Verizon Business, 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report, Executive Summary (19th edition).
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AI in SaaS Statistics

AI now takes a large share of venture funding, and spending on AI-native apps more than doubled in Zylo's data. The numbers below cover enterprise AI spend, adoption by developers and how budgets are shifting.

Figure 9: Enterprise spending on generative AI applications by category, 2025 (USD billions)

Figure 9: Enterprise spending on generative AI applications by category, 2025Horizontal AI: $8.4B; Departmental AI: $7.3B; Vertical AI: $3.5B$8.4B$7.3B$3.5BHorizontal …Departmenta…Vertical AI
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LabelValue (USD billions)
Horizontal AI$8.4B
Departmental AI$7.3B
Vertical AI$3.5B
Menlo Ventures estimates, based on a survey of 495 U.S. enterprise AI decision-makers plus market data. The three categories make up the $19 billion application layer. Source: Menlo Ventures, 2025: The State of Generative AI in the Enterprise.
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SaaS Growth, Churn and Net Revenue Retention Benchmarks

Growth slowed for many private SaaS companies in 2025 while median net revenue retention held near 100%. Survey samples and definitions differ, so compare figures within the same source.

Figure 10: Median SaaS growth and retention benchmarks, by survey (definitions and samples differ)
SurveySamplePeriodMedian growthRetention
SaaS Capital1,000+ private B2B SaaS companies202522% (25% in 2024)NRR 102% at $25K to $50K ACV
Benchmarkit 2026 B2B SaaS & AI-Native MetricsB2B SaaS and AI-native companies (count not stated)CY-22 to CY-25n/a (Rule of 40 median 15% to 25%)GRR 88% to 84%; NRR 108% usage-priced vs. 98% seat-priced
ChartMogul SaaS Growth Decay Report700+ private software companies that grew at least 20% in 20242024 to 202565% in 2024, 28% in 2025n/a
High Alpha SaaS Benchmarks800+ respondents2025Steady across ARR bands (no figure published)About 9 in 10 customers retained
Salesforce Form 10-KSingle public companyFY2026n/aAttrition about 8%

SaaS Funding, M&A and Valuation Statistics

Venture money in 2026 has gone heavily to AI companies, and the largest SaaS acquisitions listed here were in security and data. These figures cover funding, valuations and major acquisitions.

Figure 11: Selected large software and SaaS acquisitions announced 2025 to 2026 (from each buyer's announcement)
AnnouncedBuyerTargetDeal valueTerms
Mar. 18, 2025GoogleWiz$32 billionAll cash, subject to closing adjustments
July 30, 2025Palo Alto NetworksCyberArkAbout $25 billion (equity value)$45.00 cash plus 2.2005 PANW shares per share
Dec. 8, 2025IBMConfluent$11 billion (enterprise value)$31 per share in cash
May 27, 2025SalesforceInformaticaAbout $8 billion (equity value)$25 per share in cash
Oct. 15, 2026ProofpointVaronisAbout $6.3 billion$49.75 per share in cash; expected to close in first half of 2027

India SaaS Market and SaaS Workforce Statistics

India is a growing source of SaaS companies and developers, and the U.S. software workforce is projected to keep expanding. This section covers both.

Figure 12: U.S. software occupations: employment 2025, projected 2035 and median wage (BLS)
OccupationJobs, 2025Projected jobs, 2035Change, 2025-35Median annual wage, May 2025
Software developers (15-1252)1,717,8001,892,600+10% (174,700)$135,980
Software QA analysts and testers (15-1253)187,600198,200+6% (10,600)$104,300
Combined1,905,4002,090,800+10% (185,400)$134,040

What the numbers mean for businesses buying SaaS

SaaS is now a large fixed cost, and it keeps rising. Vertice puts SaaS spend at about $9,100 per employee at the end of 2025, up from $7,900 in 2023, and estimates that $1 in every $8 of a typical organization's spending now goes to SaaS. Zylo's data shows the average company running 305 applications and handling 211 renewals a year, roughly four every week.

Much of that spend is idle. Average license utilization was 54% in 2025, so close to half of paid seats went unused, and Zylo customers wasted an average of $19.8 million a year on unused licenses. The cost of not watching is real: 61% of IT leaders said they cut projects in the past year because of unplanned SaaS cost increases, and 8% of organizations told Flexera they do not track SaaS costs at all.

The practical step is to treat each renewal as a decision rather than a default. Check seat counts against actual use before the notice deadline, and make sure the contract lets you reduce seats at renewal instead of only adding them.

Price increases and new pricing models

Official price data and vendor data tell different stories. The U.S. producer price index for software publishers rose 2.4% in the year to September 2026, below 3.7% consumer inflation. Vertice, using its own customer data, reports SaaS inflation of 13.2% and says 60% of vendors mask their price rises.

Pricing is also moving away from flat per-seat fees. 85% of SaaS companies in Metronome's January 2025 survey had adopted usage-based pricing, and 78% of IT leaders reported unexpected charges tied to AI features or consumption pricing in the past year. List price changes add up too: Salesforce raised Enterprise and Unlimited Edition prices by an average of 6% in August 2025, and Google Workspace Business Standard with Gemini costs $2 more per user per month than the plan without it.

If a contract allows price increases at renewal, ask for a fixed cap in writing. For usage-based plans, ask for spending alerts, a monthly ceiling and a clear rate card for overages.

Vendor risk, renewals and what to check

Your vendor's security is part of your security. Verizon's 2026 DBIR found that 48% of breaches involved a third party, up from 15% two editions earlier, and only 23% of third parties fully fixed weak multifactor authentication on their cloud accounts. IBM put the global average cost of a breach at $4.99 million in 2026. Compare the contract's liability cap with that figure, and read it together with the security commitments and the breach notice terms.

Cancellation rules are less settled than many buyers assume. The Eighth Circuit vacated the FTC's click-to-cancel rule on July 8, 2025, although the FTC still pursues hard-to-cancel subscriptions, as the $2.5 billion Amazon Prime settlement shows. State laws such as New York's require renewal notices 15 to 45 days before the cancellation deadline on paid terms of one year or longer. Whether or not a state law covers your agreement, the contract sets the notice windows you have to meet, so note each one before you sign.

Check your SaaS agreement before you sign or renew

The figures on this page point to a few clauses that decide what SaaS really costs you: renewal terms, price increase rights, usage charges and how much the vendor owes you if your data is lost. An automated review of your agreement flags those clauses and explains them in plain English, so you know what to ask the vendor to change.

  • Auto-renewal terms and how many days' notice you must give to cancel
  • Price increase rights at renewal and whether there is a written cap
  • Usage-based or AI feature charges, overage rates and spending limits
  • Who owns your data and whether the vendor can use it to train AI models
  • The liability cap compared with the cost of a data breach
  • Security commitments, breach notice timing and uptime SLA credits
  • Whether the vendor can change the terms by notice or continued use
  • Data export and deletion when the contract ends
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Frequently asked questions

How big is the SaaS market in 2026?

Estimates differ by source. Statista projects worldwide SaaS revenue of US$488.53 billion in 2026 and Mordor Intelligence estimates USD 435.41 billion. Gartner forecasts total worldwide software spending of $1,468 billion in 2026, up 15.5% from 2025.

How many SaaS apps does the average company use?

Zylo's 2026 SaaS Management Index puts the average at 305 applications and the median at 240. Torii, which counts apps found through discovery including unsanctioned ones, found 831 at the average organization, and 61.3% of those were shadow IT.

How much do companies waste on unused SaaS licenses?

Zylo customers wasted an average of $19.8 million a year on unused SaaS licenses, down 5.3% from $20.9 million. Average license utilization rose to 54% in 2025 from 47% in 2024, so nearly half of paid licenses still went unused.

How much do SaaS prices go up each year?

It depends on the measure. The U.S. producer price index for software publishers rose 2.4% in the year to September 2026, while Vertice reports SaaS inflation of 13.2% from its customer data. Salesforce raised some edition list prices by an average of 6% in August 2025.

What is a typical net revenue retention rate for SaaS companies?

SaaS Capital reports a median net revenue retention of 102% for private B2B SaaS companies with annual contract values of $25,000 to $50,000. Benchmarkit found usage-priced companies at 108% against 98% for seat-priced companies in its 2026 report.

How often are vendors involved in data breaches?

Verizon's 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report found that 48% of breaches involved a third party such as a vendor or software supplier. In the 2025 edition the figure was 30%, double the 15% of the year before.

Is the FTC click-to-cancel rule in effect?

No. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit vacated the rule in full on July 8, 2025, on procedural grounds. The FTC said negative option complaints reached more than 90 per day in 2025, and state auto-renewal laws still apply.

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Sources and method

Every number on this page comes from the sources below, each opened and read on or before October 17, 2026. A second, independent review checked every figure against its source and corrected anything that did not match. Figures that could not be confirmed were left out.

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  50. Verizon Business, 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report, Executive Summary (2025 edition)
  51. IBM, IBM Report: 13% Of Organizations Reported Breaches Of AI Models Or Applications (Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025 press release) (July 30, 2025)
  52. AppOmni, State of SaaS Security Report 2025 (2025 (803 respondents))
  53. Mandiant, Google Cloud, UNC5537 Targets Snowflake Customer Instances for Data Theft and Extortion (June 10, 2024)
  54. Cloud Security Alliance, New Cloud Security Alliance Survey Finds Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Often Detects Data Loss Only After It Happens (October 13, 2026)
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  56. Thales, 2025 Thales Cloud Security Study (2025 edition)
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  58. Crunchbase News, Global venture funding, Q3 2026 (October 5, 2026)
  59. Crunchbase News, Sector Snapshot: AI Takes A Growing Share Of Sales And Marketing Startup Funding (September 15, 2026)
  60. Crunchbase News, Sector Snapshot: Legal Tech Funding Down Slightly From All-Time High (August 26, 2026)
  61. Bessemer Venture Partners, BVP Nasdaq Emerging Cloud Index data file (Last updated Oct. 16, 2026)
  62. Google, Google signs agreement to acquire Wiz (March 18, 2025)
  63. Palo Alto Networks, Palo Alto Networks Announces Agreement to Acquire CyberArk, the Identity Security Leader (July 30, 2025)
  64. IBM, IBM to Acquire Confluent to Create Smart Data Platform for Enterprise Generative AI (December 8, 2025)
  65. Salesforce, Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Informatica (May 27, 2025)
  66. Thoma Bravo, Proofpoint to Acquire Varonis in a $6.3 Billion Transaction (October 15, 2026)
  67. Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Cloud and AI Strength Fuels Fourth Quarter Results (FY26 Q4 press release) (July 29, 2026)
  68. Salesforce, Inc., Salesforce Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2026 Results (February 25, 2026)
  69. Adobe Inc., Adobe Reports Record Q3 Results (Q3 FY2026 earnings press release) (September 10, 2026)
  70. ServiceNow, Inc., filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, ServiceNow fourth quarter and full year 2025 financial results (Form 8-K, Exhibit 99.1) (January 28, 2026)
  71. Workday, Inc., filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Workday fiscal 2026 fourth quarter and full year financial results (Form 8-K, Exhibit 99.1) (February 24, 2026)
  72. Atlassian Corporation, filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Atlassian fourth quarter and fiscal year 2026 results (Form 8-K, Exhibit 99.1) (August 6, 2026)
  73. HubSpot, Inc., filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, HubSpot fourth quarter and full year 2025 results (Form 8-K, Exhibit 99.1) (February 11, 2026)
  74. Shopify Inc., Shopify Delivers Big: 30%+ Growth Across GMV, Revenue, Gross Profit, and Free Cash Flow (Q2 2026 results) (August 5, 2026)
  75. Freshworks Inc., Freshworks Reports Record Second Quarter 2026 Results (August 4, 2026)
  76. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, via FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Producer Price Index by Industry: Software Publishers (PCU511210511210), BLS data (Updated Oct. 15, 2026 (data through Sept. 2026))
  77. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, via FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: All Items in U.S. City Average (CPIAUCNS), BLS data (Updated Oct. 14, 2026 (data through Sept. 2026))
  78. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index - September 2026 (news release) (October 14, 2026)
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  81. Salesforce, Inc., Salesforce pricing update: Agentforce add-ons and Enterprise and Unlimited Edition list prices (June 17, 2025)
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  85. Stack Overflow, 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey: AI (2025)
  86. GitHub, Octoverse: A new developer joins GitHub every second as AI leads TypeScript to #1 (October 28, 2025 (updated February 28, 2026))
  87. Bain & Company, India Venture Capital Report 2026 (April 1, 2026)
  88. Reserve Bank of India, Developments in India's Balance of Payments for the Month of August 2026 (October 15, 2026)
  89. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, All employees, software publishers, seasonally adjusted (CES5051320001) (Data through August 2026 (preliminary))
  90. 1Lattice (with SaaSBoomi), Beyond the Valley: Unlocking India’s US$ 100B Domestic Software Opportunity 2035 (March 25, 2025)
  91. SaaSBoomi, India’s $100B Domestic Software Opportunity: Why the Next Decade Demands a New Revolution (March 25, 2025)
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  93. IBM, IBM Study: One in Four Malicious Breaches are AI-Enabled, Costing Companies $6 Million on Average (Cost of a Data Breach Report 2026 press release) (July 29, 2026)
  94. UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2025/2026 (April 30, 2026)
  95. Benchmarkit, 2026 B2B SaaS & AI-Native Metrics (2026 (CY-22 to CY-25 longitudinal data))
  96. Stack Overflow, 2026 Stack Overflow Developer Survey: AI (October 6, 2026)

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