Metered Billing & Usage-Based Pricing
Charge customers for what they actually use by reporting usage to Stripe, configuring metered prices, and building usage-based tiers for your AI SaaS.
Why Usage-Based Pricing?
Flat subscriptions do not fit products where cost scales with consumption — like AI tokens or API calls. Metered billing charges customers for actual usage, aligning revenue with cost.
Licensed vs Metered Prices
Stripe prices come in two usage types:
- Licensed: a fixed quantity (e.g. 5 seats)
- Metered: quantity reported over time and billed at period end
All lessons in this course
- Subscription Management
- Handling Stripe Webhooks
- Customer Portal & Billing History
- Metered Billing & Usage-Based Pricing