Last week, Stripe finalized its acquisition of Metronome, the industry leader in usage-based billing. Over the past two years, we’ve extended Stripe Billing to provide first class support for usage-based and hybrid billing models. Thousands of customers, including some of the fastest-growing AI companies in the world, use Stripe Billing for complex usage-based revenue models. With Metronome, we’ll build on this momentum; the next phase of usage-based billing at Stripe will cover product catalogs with thousands of SKUs, sales-led business models, and powerful revenue analytics. Together, we’re building the most flexible and complete billing solution on the market—one that works for everyone, from a couple of engineers in a garage figuring out their business model to public companies monetizing at global scale.

At Stripe, we’ve always worked with businesses at the frontier of product innovation. We’re now seeing a parallel trend in pricing innovation. Companies are embracing consumption-based models and treating monetization as an active part of product development rather than a static, back-office function. With Stripe Billing, we provide the modern monetization infrastructure that lets companies move faster and experiment commercially—without needing to stand up large, specialized engineering teams.

We already support companies with a broad range of billing models, including credit burndown (Lovable), outcome-based billing (Intercom), and subscriptions (Anthropic). With Metronome now a part of Stripe, we’re able to extend our capabilities to support multidimensional metering for the complex product catalogs of AI infrastructure companies (OpenAI), as well as custom contracting for companies that combine a sales-led growth motion with usage-based pricing (Confluent, Anyscale). 

Metronome customers will immediately benefit from Stripe’s global reach and industry-leading reliability. Going forward, we’ll build a unified roadmap for one monetization platform that lets you sell any way your customers want to buy—from self-serve PLG flows and high-touch sales motions to direct purchases through cloud marketplaces. Integrated payments, analytics, revenue recognition, and tax capabilities mean one system to help you grow your revenue and scale. 

To learn about our latest Stripe Billing updates and how we’re evolving our products together, join us at Stripe Sessions. 

Contact us to chat about how we can work together to support your monetization needs.