usage-based-billing

What problem does it solve?

Usage-based billing lets teams bill customers precisely for the actual usage of services, eliminating guesswork and disputes from flat-rate models.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Metered pricing: Define meters (counts, sums, max, or last) and attach them to products to bill per unit of usage.
• Event ingestion: Ingest usage events with event_name and metadata to drive billing, in real time or batched.
• Flexible pricing & subscriptions: Apply free thresholds, overages, and hybrid models that combine with subscriptions for predictable revenue.

Quick Start

• Create a meter named "API Requests" with Event Name "api.call", Aggregation Count, Unit "calls".
• Create a Usage-Based Product and connect the meter; set Price Per Unit and Free Threshold.
• Ingest events using the client library, for example: client.usageEvents.ingest({ events: [{ event_id: "evt_...", customer_id: "...", event_name: "...", timestamp: "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z", metadata: { ... } }] });