The Usage Pricing Playbook — new guide

Orvlin usage-based
billing software.
Built for SaaS and AI.

Connect usage metering, feature entitlements, pricing and invoicing in one managed platform. Turn customer consumption into clear, explainable bills.

  • Managed cloud platform
  • ASC 606 built in
  • Millisecond feature checks
Orvlin usage dashboard showing invoiced revenue, monthly usage breakdown and plan limits

Trusted by fast-growing startups and enterprises

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Billing + entitlements

Replace two tools with one.

Most teams buy one product for billing and another for plan limits, then spend months keeping them in sync. Orvlin runs both from the same usage data.

Billing tool + entitlements tool

  • Two contracts, two integrations
  • Limits drift from invoices
  • Two places to change a plan

Orvlin

  • One engine, one contract
  • Gating and billing share data
  • Change a plan once
How entitlements work
usage events →

Orvlin engine

Meter · Rate · Gate · Recognize

Feature access
Invoices
Revenue

SDK checks are served from a local cache in milliseconds.

Managed platform

One cloud platform for monetization.

For FinTech, Healthcare and AI teams that need reliable metering, entitlements, invoicing and revenue workflows without maintaining billing infrastructure.

Orvlin Cloud

A managed platform for metering, entitlements, invoicing and revenue workflows.

  • No billing infrastructure to operate
  • One platform for product and finance teams
  • Support for enterprise pricing models

Built for critical revenue workflows

Keep pricing, usage, feature access and invoices connected as your business grows.

  • Trace usage through to invoice lines
  • Keep plan access aligned with billing
  • Export data for finance workflows

Pricing intelligence

Test pricing before you ship it.

Orvlin already holds every usage event, so it can tell you what a price change will do before customers see it.

Compliance built in, not bolted on.

ASC 606 revenue recognitionAvalaraAnrokSOC 2 controlsGDPRHIPAA-ready
Compliance →

How it works

From first event to first invoice in three steps.

  1. 01

    Send usage events

    Stream events from your product through a simple API. Duplicates are removed automatically.

  2. 02

    Configure pricing

    Model tiers, credits, commitments and custom contracts — no code changes needed.

  3. 03

    Invoice and report

    Invoices finalize on schedule and finance gets revenue data in one place.

Metering

Every event counted, the moment it happens.

Push usage from any service with a single API call. Orvlin deduplicates, aggregates and exposes live balances your product and your customers can trust.

  • Idempotent ingestion with replay protection
  • Sub-second aggregate reads
  • Backfills without double billing
Explore metering
Live metering event stream with events per second and usage amounts

Pricing

Change pricing without changing code.

Model tiered rates, credit grants, minimum commitments and negotiated enterprise terms in the product catalog — then roll them out per customer whenever you're ready.

  • Versioned rate cards and grandfathering
  • Credits, prepaid balances and auto-reload
  • Custom contract terms per account
Explore pricing
Pricing rule builder with tiered rates and a customer rate card preview

Billing

Invoices your finance team stops checking.

Drafts update continuously through the period, so nothing is a surprise on close day. Finalize, sync to your ledger and collect through the processor you already use.

  • Line-item level audit trail
  • Taxes, currencies and proration handled
  • Two-way sync with your ledger and CRM
Explore billing
Finalized invoice with line items, subtotal, tax and total

Built for the volume that comes after product-market fit.

1.4B

usage events metered per day

<400ms

median aggregate read latency

99.99%

platform uptime over 12 months

6 hrs

median time to launch a new plan

Why Orvlin

One platform vs a stack of tools.

How Orvlin compares with a typical billing-only platform and with building billing in-house.

CapabilityOrvlinBilling-only platformIn-house
Real-time usage metering
Entitlements and feature gating
Managed cloud platform
Pricing experiments
Forecasting and simulations
ASC 606 revenue recognition
Built-in tax integrations

"Partial" means available in some tools or as a paid add-on. General comparison; individual vendors vary.

Built for every usage model

Usage-based billing software for SaaS, API and AI companies.

Comparing Metronome, Orb or Stripe Billing?

Start with your contracts, usage model and finance workflow. Our sourced evaluation guide helps you ask the same questions of every provider.

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We moved from a homegrown metering job to Orvlin in three weeks. Close went from five days of reconciliation to an afternoon, and we finally ship pricing experiments without a migration.
Priya Raman · VP Finance Systems, Northwind

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