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Products that do what BillingEngine does
Usage-based billing for APIs — real-time rating
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Hi HN! We’re building an open-source pricing & packaging engine for SaaS with a built-in billing system. (https://github.com/uselotus/lotus). We strongly believe pricing is the largest untapped growth lever for SaaS, primarily because pricing affects so many critical systems that don’t talk to each other (billing, payments, feature limits, metering, and CRM). We’re building this infrastructure to fix this and enable quick experimentation. Lotus acts as a central repository for all of your pricing plans and utilizes your payment gateway, to manage usage-based, per-seat,…
2022 · github.com
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2018 · pubilling.io
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Hey HN! We discovered that no one innovates on pricing because every billing software is inflexible. Excited to share our progress with Lotus entering beta (full MIT license, https://github.com/uselotus/lotus). New features: * backtest and run analysis comparing multiple plans * version pricing plans like you version code * Meter and aggregate usage flexibly with custom SQL * billing for usage-based pricing, hybrid, bespoke contracts * generate invoice pdfs or integrate with Stripe, Braintree, Netsuite, Salesforce * webhooks to send alerts when usage thresholds are high…
2023 · demo.uselotus.io
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Hey HN, I’am Koshima, co-founder of Flexprice (https://flexprice.io/). Flexprice is an open source monetization platform for AI & Agentic companies. You can build usage-based, credit-based, or hybrid pricing models with full control. Usage-based billing works on paper, but breaks fast in production: (1) High-volume data (e.g., 10k API calls/sec from AI inferences) breaks naive pipelines, dropping events and causing underbilling or customer complaints. (2) Backfilling missing events or retroactive discounts screws up invoices, forcing 3 AM log stitching to avoid revenue…
2025
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