Usage-based Billing
Scale your billing with real-time usage metering
Quickly launch pay-as-you-go pricing without the hassle of building your own billing infrastructure.
Usage-based billing built for modern AI and SaaS businesses
Send usage events and create meters that track customer consumption. Launch flexible pricing models that maximise your revenue.
Billing infrastructure that scales
Airwallex’s powerful billing infrastructure provides reliable high-velocity ingestion and low-latency processing of your customer usage data.
Simple metering
Use no-code configurations to define how usage is metered for billing, so your pricing aligns with customer value.
Fast and flexible pricing models
Rapidly launch and test new pay-as-you-go and hybrid plans using our flat, tiered, volume-based, and per-unit pricing models.
Billing Infrastructure
Accelerate your time-to-market with built-in billing infrastructure
Send usage events
Use Airwallex’s API to reliably send large volumes of customer usage data across your products.
Avoid infrastructure overhead
Eliminate the complexity of building and maintaining billing platforms in-house—leverage Airwallex’s high-throughput system to process and store usage data at scale.
Meter with ease
Use the Airwallex WebApp to create new meters and define how events are aggregated. Easily test meters to ensure usage events are tracked and calculated accurately.
Revenue Management
All-in-one billing solution for your usage-based metering
Billing for flexible pricing
Optimise revenue with different pricing strategies by products. Combine pricing models with multi-frequency billing schedules—all within a single subscription.
Streamlined subscription management
Handle the end-to-end lifecycle of your customer’s subscription from creating new products and managing customer information to checking real-time usage and estimated charges for inquiries and disputes.
Seamless invoice automation
Automatically generate and send invoices based on the customer’s usage. Leverage built-in retry logic and reminders to help you recover revenue from failed payments.
Data-driven insights
Analyse usage events, customer consumption, and key financial metrics in real-time to optimise pricing and drive business decisions.
SUBSCRIPTION MANAGEMENT
Put recurring invoice management on auto-pilot
Explore Airwallex’s Subscription Management solution to manage the lifecycle of recurring payments from your global customers, including complex billing use cases and retry logic.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is usage-based billing?
Usage-based billing is a pricing model that charges customers based on how much they use your product or service. Instead of paying a fixed monthly fee, customers pay for specific units of usage like API calls, tokens processed, gigabytes stored, or user actions performed. This model aligns pricing with the value delivered, ensuring your customers only pay for what they use.
How does Usage-based Billing work?
Airwallex’s Usage-based Billing automatically turns real-time product usage into revenue. Create meters that track units of usage. As customers use your product, your system automatically sends usage events to Airwallex via API. Based on your billing rules, invoices are accurately generated and scheduled—no manual work required.
What are the benefits of Usage-based Billing and who should use it?
Usage-based Billing gives your business the flexibility to scale with your customers. It helps you attract a broader range of users, grow revenue in-line with product usage, and better reflect the value your product delivers. Usage-based billing has been successfully adopted in a variety of industries including AI native companies, cloud service providers, and software-as-a-service.