Unify your metering, billing, and payments

Stripe’s usage-based billing lets you meter, ingest data, bill users, and process payments all in one place. Launch any usage-based pricing model without maintaining your own metering infrastructure, and operate on the reliable foundations of Stripe Billing – the world’s largest billing platform.

Launch usage-based pricing

Offer pricing that aligns with your business model, including consumption-based, flat-fee plus overage, and credit burndown – without writing code.

Meter and ingest in real-time

Send raw or pre-aggregated usage data without maintaining your own database and capture relevant insights as they happen.

Simplify revenue operations

Consolidate metering, billing, payments, tax, and revenue recognition on a single platform to save valuable finance and engineering time.

Scale billing with confidence

Build and innovate with confidence on Stripe’s best-in-class billing and payments infrastructure, with historical 99.999% API uptime.

Use cases

A billing solution for any business type

AI

Build on top of event-driven architecture with high meter event rate limits. Use rate cards to implement new pricing models without code, manage cohort-specific product and pricing versions in a few clicks, go to market faster with integrated billing and payments.

Cloud infrastructure

Access flexible metering capabilities and real-time analytics for both you and your customers. Set up no-code usage and spend alerts, and configurable pricing models for high-SKU businesses.

SaaS

Grow revenue with new products and pricing, including flat-rate plus overage. Integrate Stripe Billing with your existing systems, such as Salesforce and NetSuite, to reduce manual processes.

Direct to consumer

Drive adoption through subscriptions, credits, tiered pricing, and free trials. Access customisable customer interfaces, easy-to-use analytics, and churn prevention tools so you can focus on building your brand.

Features

Usage-based billing designed for ambitious growth

Launch a usage-based pricing model in minutes. Stripe’s revenue and finance automation suite seamlessly integrates with existing billing, revenue recovery, and reporting tools so your systems scale with your business.

Metering and analytics

  • Metering and data aggregation
  • Near real-time usage and spend analytics
  • Usage dimension filters
  • Up to 100K events per second
  • Alerts on usage and spend
  • Data ingestion via API, Amazon S3 bucket, or the Stripe Dashboard

Pricing and billing

  • In-arrears and real-time billing
  • Credit burndown model
  • Rate cards
  • Hybrid pricing plans
  • Enterprise contracts
  • Decimal quantities
  • Rounding quantities
  • Billing on spend threshold
  • No-code versioning management by cohort
  • Embeddable end-user components Coming soon

Billing fundamentals

  • Invoicing
  • Customer portal
  • Subscription migration
  • Discounts
  • Pro rata calculations
  • Free trials
  • Online checkout
  • Custom quotes
  • CRM integrations
  • CPQ integrations
  • Automatic tax collection

Accounting and reporting

  • SaaS and Billing analytics
  • SQL-based reporting
  • Data warehouse sync
  • Automated reconciliation
  • Connector for NetSuite
  • Accounting integrations
  • Integration with Revenue Recognition, Sigma, and Data Pipeline Coming soon
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Stripe Billing named a Leader

See why Stripe was named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Recurring Billing Applications.

We chose Stripe because of the range of pricing model options, their ability to move fast, and their high bar for excellence. Usage-based pricing can be complex, but Stripe makes our systems much simpler.

Darragh Curran, CTO, Intercom

Stripe makes us more efficient with everything in one place, and we don’t have to worry about incomplete data flowing between systems. We get a complete picture of the customer with automated reporting and accurate data.

Luke Franklin, Controller, Retool

Stripe’s new usage-based billing has been a great upgrade for us. Stripe turns a complex process into something we hardly have to think about. We know that we can grow and that Stripe will scale right along with us.

Jeff Dwyer, Founder and Engineer, Prefab

Stripe’s usage-based billing gives us the flexibility to keep up with customer needs. We’re able to focus on delivering the best experience for our users, and we can count on Stripe to handle the rest.

Meredith Garcia, Manager, Revenue Accounting, SimplePractice

A powerful billing engine

Get all the billing tools you need through a single integration

Take advantage of Stripe Billing’s end-to-end functionality, from automated billing to centralised data and analytics.

Subscriptions and invoicing

Automate every part of recurring relationships – from managing customer events to retrying failed payments at the ideal time. You can also send invoices in a few clicks.

Data and financial reporting

Unify data across payments, billing, tax, and revenue recognition using our revenue and finance automation suite. With one integrated platform, you can view revenue pipeline reports, sync data into your ERP, and close your books faster.

Ready to get started?

Usage-based billing is included with Stripe Billing, up to 100M usage events per month.

Determine if usage-based pricing is right for your business

Explore business and operational considerations to successfully launch consumption pricing.