About
OpenMeter is a developer-focused usage metering and billing platform for AI and API products. It helps teams turn events, logs, and metrics into real-time usage data, enforce limits and quotas, and power self-service usage-based billing.
The platform is designed to support rapid pricing changes without hardcoding billing logic. It includes a flexible product catalog, integrations with SDKs and external systems, and tools for revenue insights that help teams identify expansion opportunities and manage customer usage more effectively.
- Real-time metering for events, logs, metrics, AI, and API usage
- Usage limits, notifications, quotas, and edge gating
- Usage-based billing workflows and Stripe-oriented invoicing support
- Flexible product catalog for plans, credits, commitments, and packaging
- SDKs and APIs for Node.js, Python, Go, and cURL
- Collectors for Kubernetes, S3, OpenTelemetry, LangChain, Redpanda Connect, and PostgreSQL
- Usage insights for revenue operations and customer expansion analysis
Free Tier Value
The page explicitly says “Get Started With Kong Metering & Billing for Free Today!” and “Start for free access to Kong Metering & Billing,” but it does not provide any concrete free-tier caps, credits, or trial duration, so a conservative free_tier_value_usd_per_month must be null. Because signup is required via cloud sign-up and no explicit no-credit-card claim appears, no_cc_required is false. Feature parity is high since the free tier appears to expose the core metering/billing product, but some enterprise/deployment details are likely gated; paid-plan pricing is not published, so the closest paid offering is Cloud/contact sales.
What's included in the free tier
- Start for free access to Kong Metering & Billing.
- Real-time scalable metering for AI and API usage.
- Govern AI and API access and cost.
- No-code product catalog for rapid pricing iterations.
See OpenMeter pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Cloud
- Real-time metering and usage limits
- Usage-based billing
- Product catalog for plans, credits, usage-based pricing, and commitments
- Usage insights and revenue opportunities
- SDKs for TypeScript, Python, Go, and cURL
- Collectors for Kubernetes, S3, OpenTelemetry, LangChain, Redpanda Connect, and PostgreSQL
- SOC 2-compliant deployments with RBAC and SSO
- Open source Apache 2.0 option available
Open Source
- Apache 2.0 licensed source code
- Self-hosted deployment
- Metering and billing capabilities
- Documentation and API access
Pricing extracted from OpenMeter's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
