How To Succeed With Usage-Based Pricing: The Mini-Playbook for SaaS Companies

Akash Khanolkar

3/9/2023

Credits solve a lot of billing problems

As you might imagine, moving from a traditional subscription-based pricing model to a usage-based one isn’t without its complexities.

Salem Hilal

10/1/2022

How To: Usage-based Billing with Prepaid Credits

Using prepaid credits can add more predictability to usage-based pricing models. With it, businesses can capture upfront revenue on usage.

Karan Dhabalia

8/26/2022

Guide to Revenue Recognition on 4 Common Pricing Scenarios

It is critical to ensure that your business is recognizing revenue on a timely basis and correctly.

Andrés Vélez

5/1/2022

Creating a Competitive Advantage: Switching to Usage-Based Pricing

Usage-based pricing is becoming a market standard for SaaS companies worldwide.

Habiba Shalaby

7/28/2022

How ContainIQ Uses Octane to Power Its Kubernetes Monitoring Platform’s Metered Billing

Pricing is a notoriously difficult thing to figure out as a SaaS startup.

Nate Matherson, Co-founder & CEO of ContainIQ

5/20/2022

Comparing Octane with Stripe for Usage-Based Billing

While Octane and Stripe Billing may seem similar, they take radically different approaches to usage-based billing.

Salem Hilal

2/23/2022

MRR doesn't work for usage-based models

MRR is a good KPI for subscription businesses, not usage-based billing models.

Karan Dhabalia

4/29/2022

SaaS Inception: The gotchas of dogfooding

With SaaS inception, we dogfood our product and benefit from using it.

Karan Dhabalia

7/1/2021

SaaS billing isn't fair

SaaS billing is rarely fair. Either the vendor gave away too good a deal or the customer just got ripped off.

Akash Khanolkar

5/3/2021

The Complexity of Usage Based Billing

Implementing usage-based billing may seem easy on the surface, but if you dig under the covers its a much more complex engineering problem.

Karan Dhabalia

7/28/2020