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# Natively meter, bill, and monetize the entire AI connectivity path

Ditch the complex metering pipelines and rigid third-party billing solutions. Turn raw AI and API traffic into revenue with audit-ready metering, flexible billing, and real-time cost control, all without adding latency or infrastructure complexity.

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### Unlock New Revenue

Set up tiering, subscription, metering, and billing for self service access to monetized API, LLM, MCP, and Event streaming resources–natively, in the same platform, in minutes, not weeks. 

### AI Cost Governance

Real-time AI and API cost control via entitlement feature access and usage limits. Govern your costs through credits, usage quotas and notifications.

### Meter and Bill Usage from Any Application

Whether you’re running on Kong or other platforms, any application capable of generating CloudEvents can feed directly into your billing pipeline.

## The AI era runs on pricing agility and margin control

_01/ Metering_

## Real-time usage metering, native to your platform

  • - Natively capture every Kong AI, API, and event request, log, and metric and turn it into revenue.
  • - Universal, open-standards metering ingestion. Capture and meter usage from any application or platform capable of generating CNCF CloudEvents.
  • - High-throughput, low-latency capture. Meter inline at the connectivity layer, no separate pipeline or lag between the request and the billable event.
  • - Built for the granularity AI pricing actually requires. Meter LLM traffic down to the token, per model, per customer, per request.** **
[Learn more](https://developer.konghq.com/metering-and-billing/metering/)Learn more
_02/ Product Catalog_

## Launch faster, close deals faster

  • - One unified catalog for every pricing and packaging model. Manage flat-rate plans, usage-based tokens, prepaid credits, and complex enterprise commitments within a single, scalable system.
  • - Product teams can iterate packages in minutes instead of weeks with no coding required. 
  • - A single platform for self-serve high-volume PLG models and highly tailored enterprise billing.
  • - Empower sales teams to configure complex, structured commitments, discounts, and customizations instantly using flexible catalog features that accelerate deal velocity.
[Learn more](https://developer.konghq.com/metering-and-billing/#product-catalog)Learn more
_03/ Entitlements_

## Control access, cost and usage

  • - Granular feature access and usage limits as entitlements, built as native components of the product plan.
  • - Track usage against a balance, set tier-based access, or turn features on or off per plan.
  • - Real-time visibility of consumption against entitlement eliminating end of month surprises.
  • - Automate guardrails to prevent runaway spend with hard and soft quotas, and automatic notifications as limits approach.
[Learn more](https://developer.konghq.com/metering-and-billing/entitlements/)Learn more
_04/ Billing & Invoicing_

## Billing that adapts to how you sell

  • - Automate accurate, itemized invoices from real usage data without manual data reconciliation with disconnected external billing systems. 
  • - Bill on consumption, flat subscriptions, commitments, or any combination, from the same usage meters.
  • - Native prepaid credit support to decouple purchase from spend and let customers drawdown value across any product or pricing model.
  • - Handle complex enterprise agreements with custom rate cards, commitments, and negotiated terms without leaving the platform.
  • - Bi-directional data sync invoicing and usage data to the payment gateways and ERPs you already run [e.g. Stripe, NetSuite].
[Learn more](https://developer.konghq.com/metering-and-billing/#billing)Learn more
_05/ AI Cost Control_

## Govern and control AI costs

  • - Single unified platform with Kong Konnect to provide spend management and policy execution. 
  • - Eliminate the process lag, security risks, lack of real-time feedback loop, and engineering complexity of multi-vendor solutions. 
  • - Real-time token-level visibility, cost transparency for every model, customer, and request costs, as it happens.
  • - In-line enforcement to stop runaway AI spend at the point of request. Apply token-based rate limits, budgets, and quotes natively in the gateway before real costs reach your LLM.
  • - Universal controls to govern any model, any provider. Apply cost controls consistently across LLM providers and models, without rebuilding governance logic for every new integration.
[Learn more](/products/kong-ai-gateway)Learn more

## Metering For Your Stack

Meter your favorite AI tools, cloud infrastructure, frameworks with our collectors.

## Customer Stories

***OpenMeter Cloud is now Kong Konnect Metering and Billing***

OpenMeter simplified our entire API billing process at Requestly. It automatically tracks how much each customer uses our API and creates Stripe invoices accordingly. What used to be complex manual work now runs smoothly in the background. It's exactly what we needed for usage-based pricing.

Sagar Soni
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Co-Founder & CTO at @ Requestly

We use OpenMeter to do per-millisecond compute billing for the Trigger.dev cloud product. It flawlessly handles sending a massive amount of events and syncing the metering data with Stripe. We use entitlements to restrict our free tier and use the API to power our usage dashboards.

Matt Aitken
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Founder, CEO @ Trigger.dev

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## The usage is already there. The revenue doesn't have to wait.

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