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Q3 2026 Earnings Call· Tue, Nov 25, 2025

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Operator

Operator

Hello, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for standing by, and welcome to PagerDuty's Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2026 Results Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Please note, this conference is being recorded. I will now turn the call over to your host, Christine Cloonan.

Christine Cloonan

Analyst

Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining us to discuss PagerDuty's Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2026 Results. With me on today's call are Jennifer Tejada, PagerDuty's Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer; and Howard Wilson, our Chief Financial Officer. Before we begin, let me remind everyone that statements made on this call include forward-looking statements based on the environment as we currently see it, which involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include our growth prospects, future revenue, operating margins, net income, cash balance and total addressable market, among others, and represent our management's belief and assumptions only as of the date such statements are made, and we undertake no obligation to update these. During today's call, we will discuss non-GAAP financial measures which are in addition to and not a substitute for or superior to measures of financial performance prepared in accordance with GAAP. A reconciliation between GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures is available in our earnings release, which can be found on our Investor Relations website. Further information on these and other factors that could cause the company's financial results to differ materially are included in filings we make with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our most recently filed Form 10-K as well as our subsequent filings made with the SEC. With that, I will turn the call over to Jennifer.

Jennifer Tejada

Analyst

Thank you, Christine. Good afternoon, and thanks for joining us today. In the third quarter, PagerDuty delivered revenue of $125 million, up 5% year-over-year. Non-GAAP operating margin of 29% exceeded guidance, expanding 750 basis points over last year. We also achieved GAAP profitability for the second consecutive quarter, evidence of disciplined execution and a durable profitable growth model. Annual recurring revenue of $497 million represents 3% year-on-year growth. New and expansion bookings were consistent with the first half, offset primarily by customers rightsizing seat licenses amidst budget caution. We accelerated our product innovation and operational efficiency in the market, which extends our leadership in the increasingly important and complex digital and emerging AI operation space. In order to build long-term and near-term shareholder value in an evolving budgetary environment, we're focused on 3 objectives: One, expanding operating and free cash flow margins as we further increase operational efficiency; two, extending our product advantage and surface area in AI operations and incident management; and three, scaling the initial successes in our go-to-market transformation to drive faster adoption of the full PagerDuty Operations Cloud and effectively monetizing the value we created for customers. This will be our sixth consecutive year of expanding operating margins as part of our commitment to profitable growth. Structural efficiency initiatives are accelerating product and business execution while lowering our cost base. With the added benefit of modern software and AI, we expect to continue expanding operating margin towards our long-term target of 30%. Demand for our platform remained strong with double-digit year-over-year growth in new customer acquisition and in total paid and free customers. Customer retention and growth remain our top priority. While the number of customers expanding with us each quarter has remained consistent throughout the year, we're focused on increasing our average transaction size by more effectively attaching new usage-based products like AIOps and PagerDuty Advance and by driving adoption through new professional services and customer success playbooks. Targeted customer retention efforts, including a more efficient, proactive coverage model, delivering high demand features and flexible pricing have stabilized customer loyalty and retention. That said, seat license compression continues to be our most significant challenge in large enterprises, where budget caution and rightsizing have had the most impact on our incident management business. During the quarter, we mitigated longer-term risk by leveraging multiyear agreements, expanding to a broader product footprint, and including professional services to ensure fast time to value. We are scaling this motion with a refined adoption and value realization program through the customer success team while at the same time, enabling the field to focus on our agentic offering, both of which will support improved retention and growth over time. We have also sharpened renewal forecasting to identify, measure and address risk earlier in what is now a multi-quarter cycle.

Jennifer Tejada

Analyst

On a strong foundation of financial and operational discipline, we extended our product advantage in end-to-end incident management and AI and agentic operations. In the past, AIOps referred to modern event management techniques that support root cause analysis and incident triage. Now in an environment where trillions are being deployed on AI investments, yet enterprise resilience is more important than ever, the need for a new operating model has emerged. Agentic orchestration is one of many new operational aspects that enterprises must manage. The new ecosystem required to support AI includes energy, storage, compute, data management, large language models, applications, agents and the systems to test, control and run AI solutions safely and responsibly. Connected intelligent orchestration and operations of the entire AI stack and the functional automation applications across the business create new surface area that PagerDuty is uniquely positioned to support. The Operations Cloud connects seamlessly via our integration ecosystem and our model context protocol, or MCP. It intelligently detects potential disruptions and drifts and orchestrates human-led agent-based and model-centric events to prevent and resolve issues. This is the new era of AI operations, real-time orchestration and action across AI agents, applications and infrastructure. We continue to invest in our road map to ensure our position as a central nervous system for both digital and AI operations going forward. PagerDuty pioneered and defined the incident management space starting in DevOps and expanding to enterprise IT, security and business operations in service of supporting the largest and most innovative companies in building resilience at scale. In October, we released over 150 platform enhancements in the industry's first agentic end-to-end incident management offering. Customers can now leverage PagerDuty agents to address unstructured high-value time-critical work at every point in the value chain. PagerDuty agents have the unique advantage of being…

Jennifer Tejada

Analyst

Go-to-market excellence is critical to our success. We're transforming the way we go to market, especially in enterprise, where we've seen ongoing customer budget caution and organizational rightsizing and change. Over the midterm, we are establishing PagerDuty as the enterprise operations platform for AI. In the near term, we're transitioning from a traditional single-year seat-based license model to a multiyear platform usage model. On a year-over-year basis, our go-to-market execution has improved. In Q3, we advanced customer acquisition, adding 284 net new customers year-to-date, nearly 4x the total in FY '25, validating demand for our products and services. Leading AI native companies like Perplexity and Anyscale continue to choose PagerDuty as their primary operations platform. We've also continued to grow our high-value customer base, those spending over $100,000 per year with us by 5% year-over-year to 867 customers. During the quarter, we welcomed Todd McNabb to PagerDuty as our Chief Revenue Officer. He and the team are focused on accelerating this transformation to improve our land, realize and expand motion, activating new partners to support this effort. In his first 30 days, we have seen nearly 40 customers together and expect to see over 100 by the end of the year. It's clear from those conversations that our customers want to do more with us and need both our expertise and support to realize the full value of our platform. Initial progress in our shift from seat-based to usage-based pricing is encouraging. Flexible Operations Cloud packaging enables customers to seamlessly scale between human responders, agents and automated solutions without needing to precisely predetermine users and product mix. This better aligns with our customer investments to business outcomes rather than head count and licenses. In the quarter, customers across industries made multiyear commitments to PagerDuty. A leading AI native company's multiyear…

Howard Wilson

Analyst

Thank you, Jen, and good day to everyone joining us on this afternoon's call. Before reviewing our third quarter financial results, I want to highlight our strong operational discipline reflected in our second quarter of GAAP operating margin profitability. We expect to be GAAP profitable for the full year next fiscal year. And now, unless otherwise stated, all references to our expenses and operating results on this call are on a non-GAAP basis and are reconciled to our GAAP results in the earnings release that was posted on our Investor Relations website before the call. Moving to results. Revenue for the quarter was $125 million, up 5% year-over-year. Q3 GAAP net income was $160 million. This includes a onetime income tax benefit of $154 million from the release of the valuation allowance. International revenue increased 7% year-over-year contributing 29% of total revenue. Annual recurring revenue exiting Q3 grew 3% year-over-year to $497 million. Although we expected incremental ARR to be higher, there was more pressure on seat licenses and smaller expansion deal sizes this quarter. We delivered 100% dollar-based net retention compared to 102% in Q2. DBNR was negatively impacted by lower gross retention. We expect this pressure on DBNR to continue in Q4. Customers spending over $100,000 in annual recurring revenue increased 5% year-over-year, resulting in 867 by quarter end. Total paid customers grew to 15,398 in Q3, growing 2% year-over-year. Paid and free customers on our platform grew to over 34,000, an increase of approximately 13% compared to Q3 of last year. Q3 gross margin was 87%, above the high end of our 84% to 86% target range. The overachievement demonstrates PagerDuty's ability to drive its own operational efficiency, while ensuring that the platform improves that of our customers. We expect gross margin in the long term to…

Operator

Operator

Thank you, team. We have a number of hands raised already. Analysts, please feel free to raise your hand to be added to the queue. First, we'll hear from Jeff Van Rhee. Jeff, can I have you open up your line, joining us from Craig-Hallum.

Jeff Van Rhee

Analyst

Yes, there we go. I appreciate you taking the questions. And Howard, congrats, 9 years, great run. Wish you all the best. I hope you're doing what you do coming out of here. So Jen, just talk to me about the DBNR, the trend of deceleration there or declines and as Howard addressed, some gross churn issues that sounds like you're trying to figure out, how do you, from a leadership standpoint, evaluate what's going on there and compare it maybe to past periods where you've seen buyers be more cautious about spend, pulling in the reins to say, "Okay, this is like something we've seen before," or "Hey, this is something different here. What's going on?" And how is that thought process for you right now?

Jennifer Tejada

Analyst

Yes. Thanks for the question, Jeff. And as we said, like we have a lot to be proud of in the quarter with a very strong bottom line results, 29% op margin, up 800 basis points over -- year-over-year, 70% free cash flow. But we're unsatisfied with our retention effort at this -- or our retention outcome from this quarter. It is a little different than anything that we've seen in the past in that what we saw this quarter was improvement around logo retention, so less customers leaving the platform and actually less absolute customers downgrading, but the customers that did downgrade tended to be larger downgrades in size tied to pretty significant reorganizations. And those reorganizations, you're hearing about them in the news every day, they come with sometimes thousands of jobs leaving a business, a lot of leadership turnover and change. And that's made it hard to anticipate the scale and scope of those. Having said that, some of the things that we have done to better understand what's happening in those customers is, one, take a multi-quarter view on renewal planning with the customer so that as those customers make changes, we're moving in lockstep with them. Two, giving them an alternative from a flexible pricing perspective. I talked about a gaming platform in prepared remarks, where they came to us with this challenge, we're changing our organization pretty significantly and want to reduce seat-based licensing. And by moving the seat-based licensing conversation off the table, in service of usage and a platform license, we're actually able to expand within in the quarter. So as we scale that motion, we expect this to improve as well. But overall, I'm confident in the long-term outlook because we see the same customers increasing their usage on products and features. So even though there may be less seats in the renewal, their actual usage of the platform is actually improving. And we've seen several examples of that. In addition, you've seen we've really upped our focus on new customer acquisition. And that really I think, reinforces our product leadership and our market leadership, not just in digital operations, but also in this broader new evolving category called AI operations, where I think we're going to continue to be the choice of not only AI natives who can find less expensive offerings in the market, but also large enterprises that want to grow with us. So we are really focused on those large customers and making sure we can anticipate any changes that might be coming and focus on flexible pricing and multiyear agreements to support them and to reduce risk over time with those longer-term agreements.

Jeff Van Rhee

Analyst

Helpful if I could sneak one other in. From a sales standpoint, not long ago, I know you were watching the maturity of the sales reps as what you thought would be kind of a key indicator when they hit their productivity. I think 60% at that time had been there a year. And I'm curious, now, you obviously have got some new leadership, relatively new in the sales or when sitting in the CEO chair, what are the indicators that you're watching most closely there for sales? What are you expecting? What are you looking for there?

Jennifer Tejada

Analyst

Number one is what are customers telling us? What are they telling us about their ability to leverage and get value from the platform? How do they feel about their account coverage and continuity in terms of their engagement with PagerDuty? Are they getting the support that they need, both pre and post sale? And so Todd and I have really been focused on listening to and getting out and talking to our largest customers, and that's been not only very well received, but we've been, I think, pleasantly surprised by the love people have for our products and services, but also the admission that some of the challenges with adoption and realization is not purely due to PagerDuty's engagement model, but also the fact that their organizations are changing pretty rapidly. So they're asking for more proactive help in that area. From a field perspective, I think Allison Corley, who joined us a few quarters ago as Chief Customer Officer, has really gotten their legs under the desk and has really gotten customer success oriented around a much deeper understanding of how customers are actually faring from a pure platform health perspective, and that's enabled us to have higher-level conversations with customers earlier in the process, but also to swarm customers with the care they need, even if their organizations have changed meaningfully. And in the sales organization, Todd is really doubling down on what we call land, realize and expand, making sure that our reps who have ramped have the support that they need to really go after growth and expansion, focus on new product attachment, particularly those usage-based products, but also services attachment to ensure faster time to value for our large customers as we close and move on. And we've seen that result in some really great wins this quarter. I talked about an automotive manufacturer that's doing some really interesting stuff with us and that's a ramped rep who really understands the platform, but is also leading into not just our core incident management, but our new AI and automation features.

Operator

Operator

Next, we'll turn to the representative from RBC. Could you please introduce yourself and join the call.

Michael Steven Richards

Analyst

It's Mike Richards on for Matt. I guess just to start understanding that you're making these changes to sort of get ahead of renewals moving forward. I was wondering maybe -- and it's early with these seat-based compressions, is there an opportunity to go back into these accounts before their next renewal to offer the usage-based pricing or services where you can sort of get back what you lost...

Jennifer Tejada

Analyst

Absolutely. The -- one of the benefits of longer-term agreements is it gives us more time to go in during the period proactively with not only new pricing and packaging offerings, but also more flexibility to get across products and new add-ons. And we have seeded several thousand customers with our PagerDuty Advance products and services and seeing really good engagement there. And in fact, had a lot of success with our SKU that you're aware of called AIOps, which is really about event management, event correlation and root cause analysis, but that is -- that was our first usage-based pricing offering, and that's growing over 50% year-over-year, and it's been consistently growing on a solid base. It's not a small revenue product. So absolutely, this gives us an opportunity to be more proactive. And in fact, the vast majority of customers that Todd and I have seen together are nowhere near a renewal. We're talking about getting feedback on the product, how can we help them attach to new use cases, how do we understand what they're trying to accomplish. And they're telling us a lot of the same things. One, we're actually starting -- we're moving from experimentation to deploying AI investments, and we need to do that in a safe and responsible way, and we need your help doing it. A lot of interest in the MCP, which was released for general availability earlier in the quarter. And also a lot of positive feedback in a very significant feature-based release across our entire platform. I think this is the largest release in the company's history, frankly, and that has been made possible through our developer's own use of AI. So absolutely proactive. It's a team sport, and we have Allison, Todd and their teams, along with Katherine, who leads our digital-first business, and all of the executive sponsors in the business really focused on making sure that there are no surprises, and we're not turning up to the party late.

Michael Steven Richards

Analyst

That's great to hear. And then, Howard, just a quick one for you. Just in terms of guidance assumptions, are you assuming that the dollar-based churn that you're seeing now from seat-based compression is sort of stabilizing from here? Or are you assuming that it continues to worsen?

Howard Wilson

Analyst

Yes. So what -- our guidance has factored in sort of the visibility that we have today around dollar-based net retention through Q4, and that is driven primarily by the renewal rate. And we -- the visibility that we have around those renewals is now sort of taking us out further and earlier into the process. So that gives us a lot of confidence in the guidance that we've given. So we haven't provided a specific number around dollar-based net retention, but we do expect that some of the seat-based pressure that we've had will continue in Q4.

Operator

Operator

Turning next to Andrew Sherman with TD Cowen.

Andrew Sherman

Analyst

Great. Good to see you. How much -- Jen, how much of the surprise in the quarter from some of the reorgs and the layoffs? It sounds like the pressured seats, how much of that do you view as like one time because some big companies had layoffs? And how much is -- like is all of this kind of out of your control? Or are there things that you can do to kind of pinpoint this? It sounds like some of the earlier renewals will help. And I know there's a big renewal base in Q4. So how do you kind of prevent that happen in Q4, too?

Jennifer Tejada

Analyst

A great question, Andrew. And it's nice to see the real Andrew Sherman. We see a name and then see a different face. So thanks for being here today. We already are making some progress by being more proactive and explicit in going to customers before they come to us to say they have problems. And I mentioned earlier that the absolute number of customers downgrading and of customers leaving the platform has improved and has decreased over the quarter. So that is, I think, a good leading indicator. We also are not waiting for customers to tell us that they've got challenges. We're in there all the time asking questions with the pod model now that includes the sales rep, the solutions consulting, in some cases, their first-line managers as well as the customer success manager. And where we're engaging with premium support and professional services that also gives us better visibility, So we do expect that to improve. What we're also seeing generally is just what our customers sort of referred to as being cautious about their budget because they just don't -- they're uncertain about where that's going to be in the next couple of quarters. So by getting further out in advance of renewals, we also can capture budget even ahead of renewal timing. So like I said, we do expect it to improve. I don't expect the macro to change meaningfully, and we're prepared. And I think in a very strong position from a financial perspective with the durable balance sheet, very strong operating margins and free cash flow to work through this process with our customers.

Andrew Sherman

Analyst

Okay. And then on the consumption change, you talked a bunch about it last quarter, too, but it sounds like consumption of the platform was still healthy. Is that the case? And how are you kind of -- how quickly can you move to this consumption model so that the seat pressure becomes less and less of a headwind?

Jennifer Tejada

Analyst

Yes. We're seeing usage go up across almost every usage metric on the platform and also that new customer growth that we talked about earlier, both in terms of new logo lands as well as net new customers and new -- and free and paid customers all growing in double digits. That is heartening in terms of demand for the product. And I would just remind you that it's not a one-dimensional shift from seat-based to usage-based because we have a lot of new customers and frankly, growing customers that are very happy on a seat-based model where we don't see these tailwinds. We're really seeing them the most pronounced in the very largest customers. We have thousands and thousands of employees and therefore, reorganizations that might impact thousands of employees that then cause seat-based compression for us. The other thing that I would say is as we move from single year to multiyear again, that gives us more time to seed some of these usage-based products. And a number of our customers who are engaging in usage-based have credits that they'll be burning down which we expect will then convert to ARR. So we'll get some benefit as those customers spend more time and have more experience with these usage-based solutions. And with our agentic incident management suite now in the marketplace, that gives us more surface area to grow in.

Howard Wilson

Analyst

Maybe just to emphasize one of the points that Jen made there, when we see these customers who had the seat reductions, the good thing is that they're staying with PagerDuty because they recognize us as the leader in terms of how they manage their AI operations today. What we have seen is that as we start moving them to our flexible licensing model, they have access to more product footprint than they would have been in the past. And as they have access to more of that product footprint, it allows them then to use more of the platform. And that we expect over time is going to then lead to them growing with us further. So whilst their base might have shrunk for now, in fact, they're setting themselves up with the foundation to really grow as they continue to scale their operations.

Operator

Operator

Next, from Truist, we have Miller Jump.

William Miller Jump

Analyst

Howard, congrats on your next steps. I'm going to annoy you guys and ask another question about the seat count headwinds. But I guess the question is really, it sounds like it's purely layoff driven. And from that perspective, would you characterize all of these as businesses that are more challenged or was there any evidence you're starting to see that AI is potentially pushing out investments in head count in some of these businesses?

Jennifer Tejada

Analyst

Generally speaking, what I'm seeing, if I try and correlate customers that are making changes to what we're seeing in their earnings announcements, et cetera, there's really a focus on improving operating margin, reducing costs and sort of rethinking how they might be attacking different efforts across the business. Frankly, we're also building more and more automation into the platform as well, right, which over time, means that seat-based licensing isn't really as well tied to the value proposition that we're delivering. So this is natural evolution, but it's more pronounced when you see a large customer with a significant head count reduction that come to us. So on one hand -- it's interesting. It's kind of a dichotomy even within some of the same accounts. On one hand, we'll see the rightsizing as a headwind, but the same customer will then come to us and say, "Our #1 priority is resilience. So now that we've gotten the contract rightsized, how can you help us improve?" And to Howard's point, we almost see immediate growth opportunities following that sort of resizing. And so I think it is a temporal thing because we've seen our -- we've even seen customers who have significantly reduced their spend with us come back a year later and only to build back up. We're also seeing a number of opportunities where we're winning competitor replacement even where the competitor was less expensive but not serving the resilience proposition. And if you think back just over the last 8 to 12 weeks, there have been a number of public service failures where we're the only platform that is still standing and resilient in those environments because of all of the architectural redundancy we've built into the product. And so that sort of reinforces the tailwind that is operational resilience as a priority.

William Miller Jump

Analyst

Makes sense. I guess I want to ask one about the bottom line for Howard. Obviously, a big step-up that you're now projecting this year. Point well taken about 30% is kind of that long-term target that you're working towards. I know you're not guiding the year ahead, but can you talk about trajectory at all and just the potential for these types of gains in the future versus how you would expect it to ramp?

Howard Wilson

Analyst

Yes. Well, thanks, Miller. We are proud of the properties that we've made. I mean this is like our sixth consecutive year of us continuing to drive that improvement in terms of operating margin. And we also have looked to cross the threshold around GAAP profitability for the full year next year. So this has been like a steady program that we've been running. We're not setting expectations for next year. But what I can tell you is that we remain committed to looking at ways in which we can optimize the spend within the business and deliver good results. So we're continuing to make investments in the things that are important for us in terms of our customers, our transition and our product, and you can expect to see more of that.

Operator

Operator

Next, we'll hear from the representative from Morgan Stanley. Again, please introduce yourself and ask your question.

Oscar Saavedra

Analyst

I'm Oscar Saavedra on for Sanjit Singh. And congratulations from me to you, Howard, as well. Hope that you get to do some fun stuff in your retirement.

Howard Wilson

Analyst

I'm planning to.

Oscar Saavedra

Analyst

I guess my first question -- with regards to guidance for Q4 right now calling for 1% of growth at the midpoint. I was wondering like how much of that is based on what you're seeing in the pipeline in terms of the upcoming big renewal quarter versus maybe a bit more conservatism around maybe the time line to when that usage-based part of the model will begin to offset the seat pressure that you're seeing?

Howard Wilson

Analyst

Yes, sure. So when we look at the guide that we provided for Q4, we have factored in the visibility we have around renewals. Q4 is our largest quarter in terms of renewals. We do expect that as we transition customers to the new pricing and packaging model that, that will mitigate the impacts of some of the contraction that we've seen and set those customers up for growth. We're not expecting that to have a major impact in Q4. So whilst we're moving customers to this new pricing, that obviously is not something that you just turn on instantly. But we're making good progress, and we're working with a large number of customers who have renewals in this quarter around moving into that new model. But we have factored in both looking at the engagement that we're having with customers and early engagement, we started with them now months ago with some of the changes we've implemented and also having a look at the customer's own state of usage and adoption of the platform to try and make sure that we can be really targeted to help drive and improve their adoption. So we are expecting some of the same patterns that were emerging in Q3 would still persist to some extent in Q4. We're still expecting to see stabilization in that the number of customers that are downgrading or churning, we've got a good handle on that. And we're looking at ways in which we can mitigate any contraction.

Oscar Saavedra

Analyst

Got it. And maybe as a follow-up, Jennifer, you talked about improvement in customer logo retention and seeing less absolute customers downgrading in size. I was just wondering like if you can sort of -- how do you square that with the downticking we saw in the customer spending over $100,000 in ARR?

Jennifer Tejada

Analyst

Yes. It really comes down to just the impact of downsells at the larger end of the market and customers, I think, are expanding at a similar rate that they have in the past, but they're smaller expansions and a little more cautious than they have been in the past. So it's on us to work with them to see the value from those investments quickly so that they can continue to build on them. I also believe that as Allison has gotten closer to the business, she's identifying more opportunity in the base, particularly, as it relates to giving customers exposure to new products and services across the platform, and that's something that we're working to do a better job of attaching.

Operator

Operator

And turning next to BofA. Again, please introduce yourself and ask your question.

George McGreehan

Analyst

It's George McGreehan on for Koji Ikeda. So I wanted to ask about the agentic suite and kind of the tailwind that, that might be to consumption as we kind of shift to consumption just among the products and features that are generally available today, MCP server, Shift Agent, et cetera. Do you kind of see any difference in the way that customers that are engaging with those products are using the platform today? Maybe any increase? Or is that early? And then also on the other hand, just in terms of how the suite further differentiates PagerDuty from the competition, do you see that kind of showing up in your competitive win rates today? Or is maybe that too early?

Jennifer Tejada

Analyst

Yes, we're seeing -- thank you for the question, George. We're seeing really positive response to the agentic suite for a couple of reasons. One, most agents that you'll hear about in and around the incident management space can only work across the environments that they're built in. And because of our 700-plus strong integration ecosystem and the data that we've built over many, many years focused on incident management, our agents are able to leverage a much broader context to determine what is truly a challenge to troubleshoot and triage that and ultimately resolve it. And with the benefit of MCP, can work hand-to-hand, agent to agent with other platforms, whether it's one of the cloud providers or hyperscalers or in the case of Glean, who we mentioned earlier, where the agents are able to work together seamlessly, right? The other thing is our products and services have always been human in the loop or human in the lead. And so the user can see the agent at work and engage in that process, which builds trust and what we're seeing is that then drives more usage and more adoption and then more usage. So it is a bit of a self-fulfilling cycle in that regard. And I think from a competitive standpoint, because -- it's not a single SRE agent. We have an agentic Scribe, an agentic Shift Agent that takes a lot of the pain out of scheduling and escalation development. We've got an agentic analyst that helps you understand actually what's going on during an incident, what's happened in the past and how you can apply some of those learnings very quickly, like during the incident instantaneously. And then, of course, the SRE who is doing some of the work. And you can imagine where this…

Operator

Operator

Okay. Team, I believe we have one more question queued up from William Blair. Is that Jacob on the line, feel free to turn your video on and unmute?

Jacob Zerbib

Analyst

Yes. This is Jacob Zerbib on for Jacob Roberge. You touched on the solid momentum with new logo adds this year. Could you give us some more color on how these logos are landing in terms of size relative to prior years, especially as you're prioritizing larger deals and multiyear commitments?

Jennifer Tejada

Analyst

Yes, this is one of the things that I look at every quarter. And frankly, we're seeing good new logo acquisition across all of our segments. And remember that the way we land customers is often through our digital-first or self-service environment and then they will either grow unaided within the digital-first organization or they will grow through the -- with the help and support of the go-to-market organization. So we're seeing both showing promising growth. And what I would say is I had a look last week at just the batch of new customers this quarter. And I was really pleased to see this balanced mix between new AI natives, some of the hottest companies you're hearing about, some of the fastest scaling companies in the world. I think we mentioned in Anyscale, you may be familiar with Ray and Perplexity. But also, we're really continuing to see a lot of diversity across industry verticals and digital-first customers as well as more traditional companies that are deep in the middle of transformation. In some of our markets, we've seen some really good competitive replacements where other point solutions have not served customers as they've scaled and we've been able to provide them with a much more resilient, broader product offering. So it really is a pretty balanced base of customers. Howard, anything that you would add there.

Howard Wilson

Analyst

Yes. And I would say that the size of land can vary, as Jen said, like sometimes we have small customers where it may be a few hundred or a few thousand dollars, but within this quarter, we also had a few customers above $100,000. So lands that were large lands, so those tend to be in the enterprise segment, sometimes that's also a mix that can be a more traditional type of industry, but certainly, a lot of the software and technology and AI leaders also tend to come in at some of the higher values north of $500,000.

Jacob Zerbib

Analyst

Got it. Just one more on my end. You had a meaningful decline in stock-based comp this quarter. I guess, as you're positioning for GAAP profitability, should we expect this level of stock-based comp like on a forward basis?

Howard Wilson

Analyst

You can expect stock-based comp to decline. The rate of decline will be different as we sort of move forward through the end of this year and into next year, but that is the trend that you can anticipate.

Jennifer Tejada

Analyst

Yes. And as you know, that's a lagging indicator. It's the result of pretty significant effort over the last several years that you sort of see show up in the out years. And we're continuing to be committed to managing stock-based comp effectively as part of our profitable growth ambition.

Operator

Operator

Howard, Jen, we've made it through another batch of questions. Jen, can I turn it over to you for any final remarks?

Jennifer Tejada

Analyst

Yes, sure. Thank you. Thanks, everybody, for joining us today. We feel we are uniquely positioned to support enterprise resilience across our customers' strategic digital and AI operations. Our product velocity and expansion into cutting-edge use cases continue to widen our competitive moat. We're central, ubiquitous, neutral, connected and everywhere. And the strength of our P&L and balance sheet ensures that we are able to drive differentiated customer value in any market cycle. I just want to mention that we are grateful for the trust of our shareholders, the ingenuity and dedication of all of our employees and the support from our customers and partners. And we wish you a wonderful Thanksgiving. Thank you, everyone.