Meteroid Helps You Design Billable Metrics That Reflect Your Business Model

What is metering?

Metering is the process of collecting, measuring, and recording how customers use your product over time. In Meteroid, billable metrics form the foundation for usage-based pricing.

Think of a metric as a stream of usage events, like "GB stored," "messages sent," or "support tickets resolved."

How billable metrics work in Meteroid

You send your product's usage data to Meteroid via API. Meteroid then aggregates this raw usage into billable metrics using logic you configure:

• What to count

• Over what period

• With what aggregation rule

Once defined, billable metrics become reusable building blocks across your Plans.

Aggregation types Meteroid supports

Each billable metric can be aggregated using the method that fits your business model:

Sum

Add up all usage events over the billing period.

Works well for: API calls, emails sent, credits used.

Count

Count the number of events that occurred.

Works well for: Support tickets, logins, app launches.

Max

Take the highest value recorded during the period.

Works well for: Peak bandwidth, max storage used.

Min

Track the lowest recorded value.

Useful for SLAs or thresholds.

Last

Use the most recent value sent before invoicing.

Works well for entitlements like "number of seats provisioned."

Unique Count

Count distinct users, sessions, or custom identifiers.

For account-level or per-user pricing.

Need more flexibility? Use metric segmentation

For advanced use cases, Meteroid lets you segment metrics to apply different prices based on different attributes.

Types of segmentation Meteroid supports:

• Single Dimension: Vary pricing by one attribute (e.g., Cloud Provider: AWS, Azure, GCP).

• Two Dimensions, Independent: Set prices for each combination of two independent attributes (e.g., Cloud Provider x Region).

• Two Dimensions, Dependent: Limit pricing to valid combinations (e.g., AWS only available in Europe and North America).

Try Meteroid's metering engine

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