Metering & Billing Documentation Index

Learn how to meter and bill for your features with Metering & Billing.

Understand what Konnect Metering & Billing does and where it fits in your revenue infrastructure.

Learn how metering works in Konnect Metering & Billing.

Learn how the Product Catalog work in Konnect Metering & Billing and how they relate to usage tracking and external billing systems.

Learn how billing and invoicing work in Konnect Metering & Billing.

Use Metering & Billing Notifications to receive webhook alerts when customers reach entitlement thresholds or billing events occur.

Real-time usage metering for Kong Gateway API requests. Monetize API traffic with flexible pricing models.

Learn how to meter and bill AI Gateway LLM tokens.

Meter any billable usage, like compute, storage, or application layer. Learn how to ingest usage events.

Examples to meter AI, API, compute, GPUs, and storage usage.

Learn how usage events are ingested, processed, deduplicated, and enriched in Metering & Billing.

Meter external systems and data sources like Kubernetes, GPUs, and databases with the Metering & Billing Collector.

Features are what you want to price or govern. Features are customer-facing, and when priced, they show up on the invoice.

Plans are a collection of rate cards that can be assigned to customers by starting a subscription.

Pricing models describe how to price a feature, for example, free, flat fee, usage-based, or tiered.

Entitlements describe customer access, usage-limits, and configuration to features.

Learn how to use the Kubernetes collector to meter pod resource usage in Konnect Metering & Billing.

Learn how to use the OpenTelemetry collector to meter usage from logs in Konnect Metering & Billing.

Learn how to use the Prometheus collector to meter usage from Prometheus metrics in Konnect Metering & Billing.

Learn how to use the Nvidia Run:ai collector to meter GPU workloads in Konnect Metering & Billing.

Learn how to use the S3 collector to meter usage from S3-compatible object storage in Konnect Metering & Billing.

Understand how prepaid credits work in Konnect Metering & Billing: key concepts, terminology, and correctness guarantees.

Learn how credit grants work in Konnect Metering & Billing: funding methods, priority, and expiration.

Understand the two credit balance types in Konnect Metering & Billing: settled and pending.

Learn how credits are consumed by charges and how unused credits expire in Konnect Metering & Billing.

Understand credit movements, transaction history structure, ordering, and corrections in Konnect Metering & Billing.

Restrict credit grants to specific product features and query balances or transaction history scoped to a single feature.

Reference for common prepaid credit workflows in Konnect Metering & Billing.

Konnect Metering & Billing keeps credit balances correct through a double-entry ledger, immutable movements, and deterministic consumption order.

Customers represent individuals or organizations that subscribe to plans, gain access to features, and are invoiced for their consumption.

Subscriptions are a collection of active rate cards that can be assigned to customers.

Billing profiles handle invoicing, payment, and tax settings for a customer.

Learn how to set up invoicing in Konnect Metering & Billing.

Manage tax codes and configure tax behavior for invoices.

Learn how tax codes work in Konnect Metering & Billing, including tax behavior, organization defaults, and the fallback chain.

Learn how to collect revenue with Stripe Invoicing, Stripe Tax, and Stripe Payments with the Metering & Billing Stripe integration.

Learn how to meter and bill active users using generic metering in Konnect Metering & Billing.

Learn how to review system-managed tax codes, create custom tax codes, and apply them at the organization and rate-card level in Konnect Metering & Billing.

Configure a credits-only billing plan, create a customer, start a subscription, and issue a prepaid credit grant in Konnect Metering & Billing.