Advanced usage-based billingVersion bêta privée

Learn how you can use advanced usage-based billing to build your business on Stripe.

SaaS and AI businesses often want to charge customers based on the usage of their product while also charging license fees and burning down credits. Advanced usage-based billing lets you:

Define and charge customers based on specific usage data characteristics (dimensions)
Manage dozens to hundreds of rates on one meter
Set up real-time credit burndown and automate credit issuance
Add usage-based rates to rate cards and roll those changes out to all your users

Supported pricing models include:

Pay as you go for many rates or meters
Flat fee and overages
Credit burndown with automatic top-ups

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Compare advanced and classic usage-based billing

Read the following sections to understand the basic differences between advanced and classic usage-based billing and which one works best for your business.

Classic and advanced usage based billing have different architectures.

With classic usage-based billing, you subscribe your customers directly to prices for each item you want to bill for (based on usage or a flat recurring fee). Each usage-based price is connected to a meter that records usage.
With advanced usage-based billing, you model the components of your plan (license fee, rate card, and service actions) and subscribe your customer to that plan.

Classic usage-based billing