Konnect Metering & Billing is a real-time metering and billing engine that helps you track usage, enforce limits, manage subscriptions, and automate invoicing in one platform. Ingest events through a simple API, define meters with flexible aggregations, and connect usage data to billing, entitlements, and customer-facing dashboards. Launch new products and iterate on pricing without code changes.
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Metering & Billing features
The following table provides and overview of Metering & Billing features:
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Feature |
Description |
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| Usage metering | Collect real-time usage metering from AI and compute to outcomes. |
| Usage-based billing | Invoice after usage is metered and automate your revenue collection. |
| Usage quotas | Enforce usage quotas in real time per feature. |
| Entitlements | Metered, boolean, and static entitlements. |
| Product catalog | Define plans, add-ons, features, and rate cards. |
| Subscriptions | Manage subscriptions with mid-cycle changes, prorating, and alignment. |
| Notifications | Webhook-based alerts with configurable rules and channels for usage thresholds and billing events. |
| Cost analytics | First-class support for metering AI token usage and computing LLM model costs. |
Billing pipeline
The following diagram shows how Konnect Metering & Billing turns raw usage events into a finalized invoice. Events flow through metering and unit conversion, are rated against your product catalog’s rate cards, and then credits and discounts are applied before an invoice is generated. From there, the invoice is handed off to downstream systems for tax calculation, delivery, and payment collection.
Where Metering & Billing fits in the revenue infrastructure
Getting from a usage event to a charged credit card involves many steps. Konnect Metering & Billing covers the core of that pipeline while integrating with specialized vendors for tax, payments, and invoice delivery.
The following table describes which features Metering & Billing handles and which rely on third-party integrations to complete your revenue pipeline:
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Capability |
Supported by |
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| Usage metering (ingest, dedupe, real-time usage) | Metering & Billing |
| Product catalog (prices, plans, discounts) | Metering & Billing |
| Subscription management (start, cancel, billing periods) | Metering & Billing |
| Entitlement management (feature access and usage limits) | Metering & Billing |
| Rating (unit × price, discounts, etc.) | Metering & Billing |
| Invoice generation (billing periods, lines) | Metering & Billing |
| Sales tax calculations (based on geo and tax code) |
Third-party integrations:
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| Invoice delivery (email, dunning, compliance) |
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| Credit card payment (storing credit cards, payment rails) |
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Tax, payments, and invoice delivery
Konnect Metering & Billing doesn’t handle sales tax, payment processing, or invoice delivery directly. Instead, it integrates with vendors that specialize in these areas so you can choose the best fit for your business.
Combining multiple vendors is common. A startup might pair Metering & Billing with Stripe Payments for credit card processing, while a telecommunications company might use Avalara for tax because their industry’s tax law is more complex than what general-purpose tools support. You connect these vendors through apps and integrations. Billing profiles in Metering & Billing let you use different vendors for different segments of your customers.