Elevate your usage-based
pricing strategy

Uncover how various usage-based pricing strategies can optimize revenue and align with customer value.

INTRODUCTION

Align pricing with go-to-market strategies to match how you reach, sell to, and deliver value to target customers

Product-led growth

Acquire users and drive product adoption

  • Freemium or trials to remove barriers to entry
  • Automated workflows for account setup, billing, and upgrades
  • Usage-based pricing where customers pay only for what they use

Product-led sales

Expand usage within accounts and move upmarket

  • Sales assistance to convert high-value customers
  • Dimensional pricing that aligns with more features and increased usage
  • Flexible discounts to incentivize customer commitment
Product-Led Growth

Sales-led growth

Secure large enterprise deals and build strategic partnerships

  • Relationship-driven sales to win enterprise customers
  • Enterprise-ready pricing, including multi-year contracts, bundled packages, and commit models
  • Highly customized enterprise agreements with flexible terms
Product-Led SALES
Product-Led Growth
Go-to-market motion
Levers

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Usage-based
Input and Output Tokens
from OpenAI.com
Product-led growth
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Outcome-based
Per resolved user query
from intercom.com
Product-led growth
Product-led sales
Sales-led growth
Pricing metric
Seat-based
Per user, per month
from atlassian.com
Product-led growth
Product-led sales
Sales-led growth
Pricing metric
Pricing metric
Hybrid
Developer seats (seat-based)
Successful models built (usage-based)
from getdbt.com
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Product-led growth
Product-led sales
Sales-led growth
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Fixed
Flat monthly fee for unlimited users and projects
from basecamp.com
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Product-led growth
Product-led sales
Sales-led growth
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Flat rate
Product-led growth
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T-shirt sizing
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Tiered
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Dimensional
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Pay As You Go (PAYGO)
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Prepaid credits
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Included basic support
Basic support included with all paid plans
from Slack.com
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Product-led sales
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Support is charged monthly based on either a set percentage of total monthly usage or the minimum support plan fee, whichever is greater
from mongodb.com
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OpenAI uses Metronome for scalable billing infrastructure

OpenAI leveraged Metronome to move from a homegrown, manual billing solution to an automated billing platform to quickly launch new products and easily manage pricing.

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“Metronome allows us to monitor credit usage, track customer health in real time, and drive upsells at the right time."

Peter Welinder

VP of Product and Partnerships, OpenAI

Cribl saves thousands of development hours with Metronome

When Cribl, the leader in enabling open observability, was preparing to launch their new cloud service, Cribl.Cloud, the team wanted to adopt modern cloud pricing with a consumption-based model.

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“Metronome provides value from day one. Partner with Metronome and they will help you monetize a SaaS service far more simply than anyone else can.”

Manish Bhaskar

Director of Product Management, Cribl.Cloud

Luminai accelerates upstream enterprise growth

When Luminai rapidly scaled to serve the enterprise segment, they switched from seat-based to usage-based pricing to better align with value. They needed a flexible billing platform to support their contract customers.

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"The hard part of our billing is to support bespoke contract terms for our enterprise customers. Metronome clearly did this right."

Ashwin Mudaliar

Operations Lead, Luminai

Starburst launches new product and pricing model with Metronome

Starburst was gearing up to launch Starburst Galaxy, their next flagship product, with a self-serve motion and usage-based pricing model.

Read the full story

“With Metronome, you're getting a partner that's an expert in usage-based billing and takes all of that pain away from you.”

Bob van Leeuwen

Director of Product, Starburst

Fly.io is solving usage-based billing challenges with Metronome

Fly.io switched from Stripe to Metronome to bring billing clarity to customers, handle multi-dimensional pricing, and keep pricing flexible, without burdening their engineers.

Read the full story

“Metronome showed us the most direct path to clearly tying pricing dimensions to the associated dollars and reliably displaying it to customers.”

Jon Phenow

Staff Software Engineer

OpenAI uses Metronome for scalable billing infrastructure

OpenAI leveraged Metronome to move from a homegrown, manual billing solution to an automated billing platform to quickly launch new products and easily manage pricing.

Read the full story

“Metronome allows us to monitor credit usage, track customer health in real time, and drive upsells at the right time."

Peter Welinder

VP of Product and Partnerships, OpenAI

Cribl saves thousands of development hours with Metronome

When Cribl, the leader in enabling open observability, was preparing to launch their new cloud service, Cribl.Cloud, the team wanted to adopt modern cloud pricing with a consumption-based model.

Read the full story

“Metronome provides value from day one. Partner with Metronome and they will help you monetize a SaaS service far more simply than anyone else can.”

Manish Bhaskar

Director of Product Management, Cribl.Cloud

Luminai accelerates upstream enterprise growth

When Luminai rapidly scaled to serve the enterprise segment, they switched from seat-based to usage-based pricing to better align with value. They needed a flexible billing platform to support their contract customers.

Read the full story

"The hard part of our billing is to support bespoke contract terms for our enterprise customers. Metronome clearly did this right."

Ashwin Mudaliar

Operations Lead, Luminai

Starburst launches new product and pricing model with Metronome

Starburst was gearing up to launch Starburst Galaxy, their next flagship product, with a self-serve motion and usage-based pricing model.

Read the full story

“With Metronome, you're getting a partner that's an expert in usage-based billing and takes all of that pain away from you.”

Bob van Leeuwen

Director of Product, Starburst

Fly.io is solving usage-based billing challenges with Metronome

Fly.io switched from Stripe to Metronome to bring billing clarity to customers, handle multi-dimensional pricing, and keep pricing flexible, without burdening their engineers.

Read the full story

“Metronome showed us the most direct path to clearly tying pricing dimensions to the associated dollars and reliably displaying it to customers.”

Jon Phenow

Staff Software Engineer

Focus on building, not billing

Billing should just work. We’re built for every product launch, every pricing change, every “what if?” edge case.

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