2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Recurring Billing Applications: A Leader
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Metronome
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Now part of Stripe
Usage-based billing built for speed and scale
Launch fast and iterate pricing with no-code setups for meters, credits, and flexible plans. Scale on a reliable platform that is trusted by leading AI companies to handle billing, payments, tax, and reporting in one place.
Quickly launch new pricing and products
Save months of development time and launch AI products quickly with support for any pricing model.
Optimise pricing with real-time insights
Adapt pricing quickly with real-time analytics and agile versioning and cohort management tools.
Offer greater pricing transparency
Give customers real-time visibility into usage and spend to strengthen their autonomy and build trust.
Scale with a unified reliable platform
Unify all your revenue operations on the most reliable financial infrastructure, backed by 99.999% uptime.
Move with the speed of AI
Build, iterate, and manage usage-based pricing plans without code
Launch new AI products and iterate pricing quickly to optimise and grow revenue. Whether you’re billing for compute, outcomes or other AI-powered features, you can build and launch new offers with no-code rate cards and pricing plans, directly from the Stripe Dashboard.
Launch new pricing in a few clicks
Model and manage any hybrid or usage-based package, with out-of-the-box support for 15+ pricing models.
Bill based on what customers value
Define, meter, and bill on the custom usage attributes your customers value, from outcomes to workflows and more.
Test and iterate pricing easily
Update pricing across plans instantly with tools that simplify versioning and cohort management – no custom engineering needed.
Flexible monetisation
Launch quickly with any pricing model
Subscriptions and overages
Combine seat-based or flat-fee subscriptions with usage-based overages. Automatically bill for base plans and additional usage. A flexible option for predictable revenue while supporting variable usage.
Outcome-based pricing
Charge based on tangible results, like leads generated, tasks completed, or savings achieved. Great for AI agents, automation tools, and services where value scales with outcomes.
Complex consumption pricing
Bill for complex usage scenarios – tokens, GPU hours or custom metrics. Model multi-dimensional pricing and configure high‑cardinality rates so invoices match consumption. Ideal for AI models and infrastructure. Supported by Metronome, a Stripe product.
Real-time credit burndown
Let customers prepay with credits that they can spend in real time on units you define, like tokens or API calls. Great for bundling value, controlling spend, or offering promotional incentives.
Subscription with credits
Grant recurring credits for users to spend across services. Prorate grants, set rollover policies, and surface balances in the dashboard. Great for simplifying billing and encouraging multiproduct usage.
Negotiated, customised contracts
Manage complex, sales-led deals with out-of-the-box support for prepaid and postpaid commitments, mid-cycle amendments, and custom discounts. Supported by Metronome, a Stripe product.
Usage monitoring
Use real-time data to guide pricing decisions and build customer trust
Gain visibility into how customers use and pay for your products. Use spend and usage data to forecast revenue, detect anomalies, and guide product, pricing, and go-to-market decisions, while giving your customers transparency and control.
Insights to inform pricing strategy
Optimise your pricing and product strategy with analytics on usage trends and revenue performance.
Alerts to mitigate risks
Detect risks early, spot unexpected usage spikes, and stay ahead of potential fraud with real-time usage visibility and alerts.
Data for transparency and control
Give customers visibility into their usage with API-powered dashboards and spend controls.
Comprehensive revenue platform
Focus on growing and optimising revenue, not managing point solutions
Manage your entire revenue lifecycle in one place with Stripe's Revenue suite, with billing, payments, tax, revenue recognition and reporting all natively integrated. Reduce fraud and recover more revenue with Stripe’s best-in-class payment optimisation tools.
38%
fraud reduction with Radar
Metering and analytics
Pricing and billing
Billing fundamentals
Accounting and reporting
Infrastructure for modern monetisation
Metronome is now part of Stripe
Spend less time maintaining billing infrastructure with a product that supports complex pricing models across all your go-to-market motions. Manage your billing workflows with ease, scale confidently, and provide real-time insights your customers can trust.
Manage complex, granular pricing at scale
Easily set up pricing based on usage metrics like API calls, storage or seats. Tailor pricing per customer with volume tiers and discounts, and push updates instantly across your entire customer base.
Unify billing across go-to-market motions
Go live on cloud marketplaces quickly with prebuilt integrations. Manage enterprise contracts and marketplace transactions from one product.
Gain insights with real‑time reporting
Inform strategy with a unified, real-time view of revenue that's accurate to the account, contract and product level. Share account‑ and cohort‑level consumption across teams to act on signals.
Industry-leading reliability
Scale confidently on a revenue platform that grows with you
99.999%
historical uptime
200k
usage events processed per second per business
100M
usage events per month included with Stripe Billing
500M+
API requests per day
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.
Stripe accelerated our time to market, reduced our costs, and just made our lives a whole lot easier. It let us focus on finding product-market fit, not building billing infrastructure.
Stripe is a flexible, easy-to-partner-with platform. The ease of transitioning to Stripe’s usage-based billing meant we could move quickly and keep focusing on building a great product for our customers.
Stripe's support for usage-based billing helped us build trust with customers, reduce AR time and reach profitability early on without adding headcount. That foundation lets us grow revenue quickly and focus our team on building better products.
Industry leadership
Recognised by top analysts as a leader in billing
The Forrester Wave™: Recurring Billing Solutions, Q1 2025
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Built for fast-moving AI
Trusted by top AI companies
AI companies move fast and stay ahead with Stripe. From usage-based billing and prepaid product credits to payments, tax, and revenue recognition, Stripe gives AI businesses everything they need to monetise, optimise, and scale on one platform.
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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.