billing

Stripe charges 0.7% of billing volume for pay-as-you-go, Metronome starts at 0.8% plus $0.04 per 1,000 ingest events, Orb runs $6.00 per credit, and Stigg is free up to 10,000 entities. Stripe moved usage-based billing into Metronome in July 2026, which changed the math for a lot of founders. Here is what a metered billing stack really costs a one-person company.