# Use-case economics

The total cost of achieving a specific business outcome, measured per unit of that outcome.

Narrower than unit economics generally — it is unit economics applied to one named use case, which is exactly the level at which Pay-i's Value Policy and Paid's delivered-value formula operate. Neither of those figures generalizes across use cases without being reconfigured, which is worth knowing before comparing one vendor's "value" number to another's.

**Related research:**
- [Tokenomics and FinOps: How Do They Fit Together?](https://measuredvalue.ai/research/tokenomics-and-finops-how-do-they-fit-together/)