OpenMeter

What is OpenMeter?

OpenMeter is a robust, scalable platform that simplifies the complex engineering challenges of implementing real-time usage metering and billing for usage-based SaaS products, particularly in AI and developer tool industries. It provides a flexible product catalog for defining plans, pricing, and custom deals without code changes, integrates with payment providers like Stripe, and delivers actionable insights to optimize customer revenue and reduce churn. OpenMeter supports high-volume event ingestion and offers a comprehensive monetization tech stack with APIs and UI tools to accelerate product launches and pricing iterations.

Key Features

• Real-Time Usage Metering

  Processes millions of usage events per second with low-latency aggregation, enabling precise and scalable metering for AI tokens, API calls, compute time, and more.

• Flexible Billing and Pricing

  Supports plans, usage-based pricing, credits, entitlements, and custom deals with a versioned product catalog that allows pricing changes in minutes without developer intervention.

• Custom Deal Provisioning

  Empowers sales teams to create tailored pricing packages with add-ons, discounts, and commitments, streamlining the configure-price-quote (CPQ) process.

• Revenue Insights and Customer Analytics

  Delivers real-time insights into customer usage patterns and revenue trends, enabling sales and customer success teams to identify upsell opportunities and churn risks.

• Seamless Integration

  Integrates with popular payment gateways like Stripe, CRMs, and accounting systems, and provides SDKs for multiple programming languages to embed metering into applications.

• Open Source and Cloud Options

  Available as an open-source project for self-hosting or as a managed SaaS offering with enterprise-grade compliance and support.

Use Cases

• AI Usage Billing : Meter token consumption and GPU time for AI models to accurately bill customers based on their AI resource usage.
• API Monetization : Track API request counts and durations to implement usage-based pricing for developer platforms and SaaS APIs.
• SaaS Subscription Management : Manage recurring subscriptions, usage limits, trials, and discounts with flexible plans and billing automation.
• Custom Pricing and Deals : Enable sales teams to provision customer-specific pricing and discounts quickly without needing engineering support.
• Revenue Operations Optimization : Use real-time usage data and insights to forecast revenue, identify growth opportunities, and reduce churn.

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