The phrase "alternative pricing model" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing different methods or strategies for setting prices for products or services.
Example: "The company is exploring an alternative pricing model to attract more customers and increase sales."
Alternatives: "different pricing strategy" or "varied pricing approach".
The Financial Times has rolled out an alternative pricing model which monetises time spent with content as an alternative to CPM (cost-per-thousand), while Bloomberg, The Economist and the Wall Street Journal have also experimented in this space.
Some manufacturers have proposed an alternative pricing model for electric cars under which the battery is leased separately, an arrangement that lowers the initial purchase price of the car but raises the annual costs, matching more closely the cost profile of today's conventional petrol and diesel models.
an alternative pricing model: subscribe for a month or a year, but never buy.
The company previously brushed that concern aside, claiming that it hasn't increased prices but the differences between its costs and Uber's are down to an alternative pricing model.
In order to fit in better with other cloud- and subscription-based services, they're giving their Creative Suite (Photoshop, Premiere, Flash, etc). an alternative pricing model: subscribe for a month or a year, but never buy.
Anyone selling software or services on the Web today has to give some thought to alternative pricing models.
Several alternative pricing models have been proposed in academic research, most notably involving derivatives contracts, such as (European) options[11].
In the future, we will investigate alternative pricing models that will accomplish our primary goals while studying the strengths and weaknesses of each model.
While some provide welcome services to take risk on media buys to provide alternative pricing models like cost per click (CPC) or cost per sale or acquisition (CPA), many others simply obfuscate the true price of media and tack on huge amounts of margin because their customers don't know or don't want to know.
The real question now is whether there is another alternative-pricing model that makes as much sense.
Examples of alternative pricing procurement models are provided in multi-country case studies later in the report.
