Who has a metered pricing model?
I am trying to find a SaaS metered pricing example for my upcoming post on how to setup metered billing with Stripe Billing.
I'm looking for a single-unit pricing example.
If you have a metered pricing model, I'd love to use it as an example in my blog post. I'll link it back to your website :)
Please link your pricing page.
We are trialing metered usage with a base (minimum) price at hookdeck.io/pricing. Webhooks usage doesn't correlate very well with team size since it very much depends on your use case and how important they are to your product. Many teams end up with less events then the threshold but still derive a lot of value from it, if we were only using metered pricing we would leave money on the table for those teams. The metered pricing kicks in after passing the base price threshold. We were inspired by FaunaDB pricing.
This is a great example. Is the retention unit also measured as usage? or is that just statically defined per tier?
It's static and increases per tier! At least that's what we are trying right now.
Neat. I would love to use your pricing page as an example on the next Billflow usage-based billing article :)
Go right ahead!
We have a technical API, so it charges in "total API calls", so it's $0.0011 per call. We use stripe to do this, and while stripe doesn't offer all the features we need, it does provide a workable base. We've had to add features on top to better support some of the lesser used patterns.
Here's a link to the pricing model: https://authress.io/#pricing
I love how simple your pricing is!
What features weren't offered by Stripe?
Also, how did you create your plan picker inside the app once the user registers? Basically, how did you ask users to input credit card?
There's a huge list:
And that's really just the beginning.
The UI for plan selection is custom built based on top of vue-stripe-elements-plus, and we have a billing accounts microservice wrapper around the stripe API to handle all the functionality that is missing from Stripe. We use this library for AWS infra.
I hope that answers everything.
Thanks for that. I know Stripe does allow credits through the API and most of the items you mentioned I've seen. I'll DM you. I'd love to learn more.
I am using a hybrid model where you can choose either metered or subscription. My project is doing chatbots and the base charge $0.01 pr. message. Subscription on the other hand, gives you a monthly allowance at a price starting from $0.0015 - that is, roughly a factor of 7 compared to pay-as-you-go.
While in beta, it is free to use the service and I've lowered the price to $0.0002 / message to reward early testers (so you can buy prepaid credit at a low price, it will first start charging from launch day).
You can see more here: https://wonop.com
Very interesting.
How is the traction on each of these tiers?
what ratio of new subscribers pick which tier?
The page looks great, but it was hard for me to see the number of messages on the subscription plan.
At the moment people are only buying credits as it is a much better deal than a subscription. Since launch, I've sold three subscriptions (one was sold before I started building the project) and I have not done much marketing yet. How subscription vs. pay-as-you-go will pan out, I can first really tell when the product is out of beta.
Re. the number of messages - could you elaborate on this? And do you have any suggestions to make it more clear?
Got it. Would it be useful to have analytics on how well each of your tiers performs over time?
Regarding my feedback: I'd suggest moving the line "7,500 message allowance / month" to the first line in the tier. I almost missed it.
Thanks for the feedback. I will take this into consideration with the next update.
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Thank you :)
@GeoffRoberts at Outseta.com/pricing might be interested.