Metering and
Usage-Based Billing

Accelerate the launch of applications and infrastructure with billing that supports any pricing model, sales enablement, and revenue recognition.
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Platform Features

Real-time Usage Metering

Amberflo delivers predefined and configurable usage meters for any kind of AI, database, or compute service. Simply send usage events into Amberflo and get live dashboards.

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Usage-based Pricing and Billing

Use data to build any pricing model including usage-based and hybrid subscriptions. Delight customers with live, interactive dashboards and accurate metered invoicing.

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Built-in Cost Tracking and Analytics

Allocate service costs at a tenant-level no mater how complex your infrastructure. Always know who is using what, when and where.

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Flexible Terms, Contracts, Discounts

Create a wide variety of internal and external pricing plans, including department chargebacks, and customer billing in arrears or upfront draw-down models.

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We surveyed the landscape and selected Amberflo as our metering and billing provider as it could scale to meet our high volume needs, metering tens of billions of events per day"

Jonathan Nolan
SVP, Product & Engineering • LaunchDarkly
Features

Build and Support any Pricing Model

Launch and iterate with any flavor of SaaS, hybrid or usage-based Pricing.

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Usage-Based

Support modern usage-based models such as pay-as-you-go, prepaid, commits, true-ups, and more.

Subscription with Overages

Construct any hybrid combination of subscriptions with usage-based overages. Amberflo automatically calculates usage and charges in real-time.

Seats and Counts

Build pricing plans with any combination of seats, counts, trials, free-tiers, and usage-based items.

Free Trials

Enable time or spend-based trials with automated workflows for transitioning to paid with real-time usage notifications.

Credits and Commitment

Model enterprise-grade commitments with custom prepaid amounts, payment and invoicing schedules, and renewals.

Custom Billing Schedules, Discounts and Coupons

Highly flexible discount workflows that can be applied to any billable metric including plan, item, credits, and more.

Solutions

Total Monetization Platform

The Most Comprehensive and Flexible Platform for Modern Use Cases

Business Intelligence

Built-in usage, cost, and revenue tracking analytics with lightning fast response times.

De-coupled Metering and Billing

Make billing errors a thing of the past. Full audit trails with automated-replay backfills and corrections help developers move fast.

Advanced Metering and Price Machines

Proprietary non-relational backends provide next generation idempotency, accuracy, and scalability.

Revenue and Finance Workflows

Automate rev recognition, credit ledgers, reconciliations, and more.

Cloud Marketplaces, CRM, Payments, and More

Full suite of integrations including hyper-scalar marketplaces, CRMs, ERPs, tax tools, and more.

Customer Billing Portal

Interactive and highly customizable customer-facing usage and billing portal supporting JS react or no-code building.

Integrations

A platform approach
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Integrations

Integrations for Fast and Successful Deployment

Fast track your launch with prebuilt integrations to leading front and back office systems and streamline end-to-end workflow from customer onboarding to revenue recognition.

Stripe
Quickbooks
Netsuite
Saleforce
Segment
Elastic
Avalara
TaxJar
Workato
AWS Marketplace
Amazon Cloudwatch
Amazon S3
Teams

Operational Insights Across Your Organization

Drive agility, pace of innovation, and improved customer experience with an error free and flexible billing solution.

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Product
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Sales teams

Provide prospects with actionable quotes for a usage-based pricing agreements. Easily add promotions or discounts to help move deals along, and access usage insights to drive cross-sells and up-sells.

Sales teams

Provide prospects with actionable quotes for a usage-based pricing agreements. Easily add promotions or discounts to help move deals along, and access usage insights to drive cross-sells and up-sells.

Sales teams

Provide prospects with actionable quotes for a usage-based pricing agreements. Easily add promotions or discounts to help move deals along, and access usage insights to drive cross-sells and up-sells.

Sales teams

Provide prospects with actionable quotes for a usage-based pricing agreements. Easily add promotions or discounts to help move deals along, and access usage insights to drive cross-sells and up-sells.

FAQ

Answers to all
your queries

Why is it important to have a decoupled Metering from Billing architecture?

There is no usage-based pricing and billing without accurate usage instrumentation. Outages are a given. Is the system architected to auto recover? Ask the vendor to prove it. Do real POCs and test this out. What is the cost profile? How long does it take? Is there manual intervention?

How does metered billing work?

Metered billing is a pricing model where customers are charged based on their actual usage of a service or resource. It allows for flexible billing based on consumption rather than a flat fee.

What is the best practice for getting started with usage metering and usage-based pricing?

From day-one, begin tracking usage and meter exhaustively. Usage data is valuable all throughout an organization, from engineering and product development, to sales and marketing. Leverage this data to begin understanding customer usage and adoption and find the optimal pricing model for your solution.

What kind of businesses can benefit from metered billing?

Metered billing is a pricing model where customers are charged based on their actual usage of a service or resource. It allows for flexible billing based on consumption rather than a flat fee.

What is metering?

Metering is a technology category that is responsible for tracking all usage as it occurs. The metering service is the system of record and source of truth throughout the business for answering all questions relating to: “Who consumed what resource? How much of it? And for how long?

Why is metering important for usage-based pricing?

Meter data serves as the foundation of all usage-based pricing models. In order to succeed with usage-based pricing, it is critical to have a complete, accurate, and scalable usage metering service. This usage is then rated and billed to customers based on their consumption. 

What are the benefits of usage-based pricing?

Usage-based pricing is a more fair and transparent business model where customers pay only for what is consumed. Contrast this with a traditional subscription where customers pay a flat rate in exchange for some amount of usage or permissions. In a usage-based model, the billable amount scales with usage and customers can right-size their usage to align with their budget. It also helps mitigate churn as companies can simply reduce usage rather than completely churning to a new solution.

What types of companies or products is usage-based pricing a good fit for?

Usage-based pricing is ideal for companies looking to shorten the sales cycle and implement a product-led go-to-market motion. By eliminating contracts and charging only for what is used, enable companies to get started via self-service and bypass the time-consuming negotiation and contracting process.
 
It is also ideal for products built on cloud resources. That is products where the underlying resources consumed by users scale up and down should also have pricing models that scale accordingly. This includes cloud platform solutions, infrastructure providers, and especially generative AI technologies built on commercial LLMs with tokenized pricing models. 

What is the best practice for getting started with usage metering and usage-based pricing?

From day-one, begin tracking usage and meter exhaustively. Usage data is valuable all throughout an organization, from engineering and product development, to sales and marketing. Leverage this data to begin understanding customer usage and adoption and find the optimal pricing model for your solution.

We like to say, you cannot back into metering from pricing, so don’t neglect this key artifact for succeeding with monetization from day one.

Testimonials

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Have to Say

Jonathan Nolan
SVP Engineering & Product

We surveyed the landscape and selected Amberflo as our metering and billing provider as it could scale to meet our high volume and high reliability needs, metering tens of billions of events per day.

Krishna Raj Raja
Founder & CEO

We shifted to usage-based pricing in record time using Amberflo. The realtime usage and billing insights enables our sales, support, and product teams to proactively formulate customer engagement and growth plans.

Zachary Smith
Managing Director

Building accurate, on-demand, and scalable Usage-Based Pricing and Billing solutions is hard. Amberflo's team has the right background and experience to solve this effectively.

Patrick O'Keeffe
SVP, Technology

Amberflo’s idea of separating metering from pricing and billing is a stroke of genius in my opinion because it lets you separate the conversations of 'what will we meter' and 'how will we price and package.

Itay Link
VP Finance

With Amberflo, we are able to delight our customers with accurate, on-demand real time billing and usage dashboards, which are an integrated part of our overall product experience.

Suman Kanuganti
Founder and CEO

We selected Amberflo because usage-based metering, pricing and billing is an integral part of our product experience and Amberflo platform had the flexibility and depth to meet our modern use case.

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The Challenges of Usage Tracking and Cost Management in Generative AI

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