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Usage-Based & Consumption Billing

Stripe acquired Metronome for $1B. 64% of Forbes Next Billion-Dollar Startups use usage-based pricing.

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Growth Overview

28%

CAGR

+55%

YoY Growth

+200%

Search Growth

$6.8B

by 2030

12-Month Trend

Growth Rate

0%25%50%

Market Size Projection

$1.8B

Current (2025)

$6.8B

by 2030

Overview

Billing infrastructure that meters product usage and charges customers based on consumption rather than fixed seats. Stripe acquired Metronome for $1B, calling metered pricing "the native business model for the AI era." 77% of the largest software companies now incorporate consumption-based pricing. 64% of Forbes Next Billion-Dollar Startups use usage-based models. Metronome processed an 8x YoY increase in revenue volume.

What's Driving This Growth?

▸AI products with variable compute costs cannot sustain flat pricing
▸77% of largest software companies now use consumption-based pricing models
▸AI agents dismantling per-seat model, forcing industry-wide shift to usage pricing
▸Stripe CEO: "Metered pricing is the native business model for the AI era"

Market Signals

✓Stripe acquired Metronome for ~$1B (Dec 2025); already in use by OpenAI, Anthropic, Databricks for AI-era billing
✓85% of SaaS leaders adopted UBP; 61% of companies use hybrid pricing models; 78% adopted UBP within last 5 years
✓Billing evolving into monetization infrastructure: catalog, subscriptions, metering, rating, invoicing, payments, tax, and revenue recognition