A curated list of usage-based billing providers for AI-native products.
Maintained by the Credyt team. Credyt is listed alongside every competitor and evaluated against the same rubric. Detailed head-to-head comparisons, pricing tables, and alternatives pages live at aibilling.dev.
- Real-time billing for AI
- Enterprise usage-based platforms
- Open source
- Subscription-first incumbents
- Comparing providers
- Contributing
- License
Platforms built around pre-usage authorization, real-time wallet debit, and per-event spend control.
- Credyt — Real-time billing infrastructure for AI: pre-usage authorization, multi-asset wallets, and event-level profitability. Founded 2025, San Francisco. Profile on aibilling.dev →
- Stigg — Pricing orchestration layer for entitlements and credit management, layered above existing billing infrastructure. Founded 2021, Tel Aviv. Profile on aibilling.dev →
Invoice-based metering platforms designed for high event volumes, SQL-defined metrics, and enterprise contract management.
- Metronome — Usage-based billing and enterprise contract management for high-volume AI and software companies; now part of Stripe. Founded 2019, San Francisco. Profile on aibilling.dev →
- Orb — Enterprise usage-based billing with SQL-defined metrics, pricing simulation, and deep finance integrations. Founded 2021, San Francisco. Profile on aibilling.dev →
Self-hostable platforms under open-source licenses with managed cloud upgrade paths.
- Flexprice — Open-source usage metering and wallet-credit billing with a no-code pricing dashboard for SaaS and AI teams. Founded 2023. Profile on aibilling.dev →
- Lago — Open-source billing platform for usage-based pricing, self-hostable under AGPLv3 with managed cloud tiers. Founded 2022, Paris. Profile on aibilling.dev →
Established platforms built primarily around subscription billing that have extended into usage-based models.
- Stripe Billing — Subscription and usage-based billing tightly integrated with Stripe payments, tax, and revenue recognition. Founded 2010, San Francisco. Profile on aibilling.dev →
All providers are evaluated against the same fixed rubric: billing model, usage authorization, wallet architecture, multi-asset support, payment processing, customer portal, open source status, and pricing transparency.
- Full provider index — side-by-side rubric for all 7 providers
- Head-to-head comparisons — 17 pairwise comparisons with sourced, dated findings
- Pricing comparison — canonical scenario pricing across all providers
All listings reflect public information and are updated as facts change. There are two ways to contribute.
If information about a provider is wrong or outdated, open an issue titled "Update: [Provider Name]" and include:
- Provider name
- What is wrong or what changed (specific claim, not a general note)
- Source URL backing the correction: a pricing page, docs page, press release, or blog post
- Date you accessed the source
- Contact email (optional, if we need to follow up)
Corrections are reviewed against the same sourcing standard as the original listing. Changes without a verifiable public source will be noted but will not be merged until one is available.
If you know of a billing platform that belongs on this list, open an issue titled "Add: [Provider Name]" and provide:
- Name and website
- Docs URL
- One-line description (under 25 words, no marketing language)
- Founded year
- Headquarters (city, country)
- Funding stage (bootstrapped, seed, Series A, etc.) and total raised if public
- Billing model (subscription, usage-based, or hybrid)
- Usage authorization (pre-usage or post-usage)
- Open source? If yes: license and GitHub URL
- Self-hosted option? Yes or no
- Pricing page URL and whether pricing is publicly listed
- 2 to 3 notable customers with a public source URL for each
- Why it fits the AI billing lens (1 to 2 sentences)
Submissions are reviewed against the same rubric used on aibilling.dev. Sourced and dated facts are accepted; marketing claims without attribution are not.
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