Cloud metering and usage-based pricing and billing for SaaS

Hey ProductHunt 👋 Puneet and Lior here, founders of Amberflo.io 🤝 www.amberflo.io https://docs.amberflo.io/docs

We started Amberflo with a mission to help transition the world to a more fair and transparent business model - in the form of Usage-Based Pricing (UBP).

We spent a lot of time at Amazon Web Services (AWS) building and scaling Usage-Based cloud services with on-demand metered pricing, invoicing and billing and saw first-hand the spectacular benefits of leading with a Usage-Based business model. It drives the highest levels of revenue and product adoption, while reducing friction and improving overall organizational efficiency. And offering users a business model that is fully aligned with value and outcome.

We also experienced first-hand the challenges of designing, building, maintaining and scaling a platform that needed to consistently deliver accurate metering and real-time usage-based pricing and billing.

💡 Amberflo is the platform we wished we had!

Building the necessary infrastructure and tooling to enable accurate Metering and Usage-Based Pricing is a heavy lift, and requires a long and drawn out product roadmap and features. We feel companies can greatly benefit from having a reliable, scalable, fully-managed, and cost-effective platform delivered by Amberflo versus spending prized core engineering and product resources on building it in-house.

👋 How is Amberflo different? We lead with Metering, not as a feature of pricing and billing but as a decoupled, stand alone platform product, that while integrated with our Billing Cloud operates and scales independently. This allows product and engineering teams to holistically and comprehensively instrument their technology stack, irrespective of customer facing pricing vectors.

✌️ Metering as a product (not a feature) Full-featured Cloud Metering Service. De-coupled (yet integrated) with Pricing and Billing. Use Metering independent of pricing and billing.

✌️ 100% Developer and API First Built AWS style as developer and API first Rich SDKs. Easy integration, automation, and extension

✌️ Generous Free Tier 100 Million Meter Events free in 1st month (contact us if you need more) 1 Million Meter Events free each month (forever) First 25 invoices free No per user or per customer based pricing. No hidden charges.

✌️ Self-service Sign up directly on our website No credit card needed

Platform Features:

🛠️ Metering Cloud Monetize APIs, Platforms, and Marketplaces

- Meter any resource for any use case at any scale - Pre-built meter aggregation types - Ingest meter events; see aggregated and grouped values in real-time - Build-in Time Series data warehouse and dashboards - Highly scalable. Easily and accurately ingest billions of meter events - Highly cost-effective. 1/10th to 1/100th the cost of doing it yourself - Fully automated via APIs and scripting

📶 Billing Cloud Accurate, real-time, on-demand Metered Invoicing and Billing

- Turn meter events into customer facing pricing plans and line items - Build any type of Usage-Based or Hybrid pricing plans - Prepaid credits with usage drawn-down in real time - Granular level discounts - Price Modeling - Usage and Billing Customer Portal (with drop-in UI widgets) - Fully automated via APIs and scripting

We’d love to know what you think! Let us know if you have any questions and we’ll respond in the comments below. ⬇️