Metronome is the leading usage-based billing platform that helps software companies launch and scale their business models with real-time billing capabilities. It provides metering infrastructure and a pricing engine to measure customer usage precisely and bill accordingly, supporting any combination of pricing models.

Metronome powers real-time billing for software and AI companies by measuring customer product usage with high precision and applying flexible pricing models. The platform processes over 10,000 invoices per second and streams billions of events daily with zero data loss. It enables companies to deploy any SaaS pricing strategy using centralized rate cards, commits, and credit models. Metronome is trusted by OpenAI, Cockroach Labs, Starburst, and Cribl for managing complex usage-based billing at scale. In 2025, Stripe announced an agreement to acquire Metronome to enhance its billing platform.
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