O4 USAGECLOUD CapABILITY
Agile Pricing
Built natively into the UsageCloud platform, our agile pricing and rating software runs on the same high-fidelity usage data that powers your usage intelligence, metering, entitlements, and revenue data automation. Create, launch, and continuously evolve usage-, outcome-, and hybrid-based commercial models—without engineering bottlenecks or disconnected pricing tools.
What You Can’t Price, You Can’t Grow.
In the first generation of SaaS and licensed software, pricing lost its strategic value. Everyone looked the same. Three plans. Per seat. Annual subscriptions. Three-year licenses. Pricing was set once and rarely changed. That era is over.
Today, pricing is one of the fastest ways to innovate, differentiate, and grow. AI monetization and the shift to usage-, outcome-, and hybrid-based business models demand continuous experimentation with units of value, prices, bundles, credits, commitments, and customer-specific offers.
As pricing complexity rises, we saw the need for a different kind of pricing and rating engine—agile, usage-data-driven, and AI-powered.
That’s why we built Agile Pricing & Rating. Create, test, launch, and continuously evolve commercial models—without engineering bottlenecks, disconnected tools, or commercial compromise.
Price and rate anything. Worry nothing
What We Hear Every Day.
Pricing Is Still a Guesswork
Pricing decisions should be driven by real life realities—not assumptions. Without trusted usage data and intelligence, teams can’t confidently predict customer adoption, revenue, or margin impact. So pricing innovation slows.
45%
Name new pricing and rating as the biggest must-have capability when moving to new dynamic pricing models.
Pricing Becomes an Engineering Spiral
Every new pricing model adds more code, integrations, and exceptions. As pricing becomes more dynamic, multidimensional, and usage-driven, commercial logic spreads across production systems. Every change increases complexity, technical debt, and engineering dependency.
52%
of teams running usage pricing rank better pricing agility as a top engineering challenge.
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Every Price Must Be Defensible
In the seat era, customers rarely called Finance. Today they do. Every disputed invoice demands proof of the usage, outcomes, performance, pricing, and commercial terms that applied to invoices. Without complete lineage, every customer inquiry turns into a forensic investigation.
42%
say they can’t reliably reconstruct invoices on customer and product level.
Agile Pricing Explained
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Solution. Agile Pricing.
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How Agile Pricing Works?
Three functions. One continuous, intelligent and agile pricing capability.
Pricing was never designed to live in production applications or standalone tools. UsageCloud makes pricing a connected, decoupled platform capability—running on the same metered, high-fidelity usage data, live entitlement state, and commercial intelligence that powers the entire monetization flow. Built from the ground up for AI monetization and usage-, outcome-, -, and hybrid models.
UsageCloud Pricing Management lets you continuously design, simulate, and evolve any pricing model—from subscriptions to hybrids and from usage to outcomes. Natively connected to UsageCloud every pricing decision runs on the same high-fidelity usage data, metering, live entitlement state and commercial truth. For users it offers an AI powered pricing experience based on usage intelligence revealing usage behaviors, commercial patterns, revenue, cost, and margin impacts—so every pricing decision is based on evidence, not guesswork.
Every metered event is deterministically rated against the exact pricing configuration, customer agreement, and commercial conditions effective at the event timestamp. Built on the same commercial truth as metering and entitlements, the Rating Engine supports usage-, outcome-, subscription-, credit-, and hybrid-based models while continuously calculating revenue, cost, and margin. Every result is traceable, repeatable, and ready for finance.
Every rated event is transformed into finance-grade charges ready for downstream billing, ERP, revenue recognition, partner settlement, and analytics. Every charge is fully traceable to the original usage, pricing configuration and commercial agreement—creating complete financial lineage for compliance, audits, and customer disputes. Automatic re-rating ensures downstream financial systems always reflect the latest commercial truth.
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Agile Pricing. Reimagined.
Decouple Commercial Logic. Completely.
Commercial innovation shouldn’t wait for engineering—and engineering shouldn’t carry commercial complexity. Pricing, packaging, customer-specific agreements, AI offers, and hybrid business models belong in a dedicated pricing capability, not production applications. Decoupling commercial logic breaks the cycle between commercial debt and technical debt.
02 Price on One Data. One Commercial Truth.
Pricing should never rely on disconnected systems or stale data. UsageCloud Pricing runs natively on the same high-fidelity usage data, metering, entitlement state, costs, and commercial context as the rest of the platform. Every pricing decision, rating, revenue, cost, and margin calculation is based on one trusted commercial truth—not assumptions or data copies.
03 Continuously Optimize with AI and Intelligence
Pricing shouldn’t be set and forgotten. AI and Usage Intelligence should continuously reveal changing customer behavior, commercial patterns, pricing opportunities, cost drivers, and margin impact. Every pricing decision is informed by evidence—not guesswork—so commercial models continuously improve as your business evolves.
Agile Pricing. Built Differently.
Traditional pricing software was designed for subscriptions and static price books. Modern monetization demands continuous commercial innovation driven by trusted usage data, intelligence, and financial precision. That’s why UsageCloud Pricing is built natively into the UsageCloud platform—sharing the same high-fidelity usage data, metering, entitlement state, costs, and commercial truth. The result is pricing that moves as fast as your business without sacrificing trust, compliance, or control.
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Decoupled Commercial Logic
Commercial innovation without technical debt.
We decouple pricing from production. Commercial models can evolve continuously while engineering keeps production stable. Decoupling commercial logic breaks the cycle between commercial and technical debts.
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Connected to one data and One Data. One Commercial Truth.
Every pricing decision starts with trusted data.
Unlike standalone pricing tools, UsageCloud Pricing runs on the same high-fidelity usage data, metering, entitlement state, costs, and commercial context. No silos, no room for errors. Revenue, cost, and margin are always calculated from one trusted commercial truth.
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AI Intelligent & Headless UX
Intent-aware pricing. Trusted execution.
UsageCloud Pricing combines AI, Headless UX, MCP, and a live System of Usage Record, enabling pricing to be managed effective by teams and AI agents. People define the commercial intent. AI executes it—automating pricing operations and continuously optimizing commercial models using trusted usage intelligence.
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Deterministic Rating
Every event. Correct rate. Every time.
Every usage event is rated against the exact pricing model effective at the moment it occurred. Rating decisions are consistent, repeatable, explainable, and fully deterministic—even when pricing models evolve or late events arrive.
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Full Finance-grade lineage
Every number has a source and is audit ready
Every charge traces back to the original usage, pricing model, and commercial agreement. Finance-grade lineage provides the evidence required for compliance, audits, revenue recognition, and customer disputes—without reconstruction or guesswork.
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Enterprise Scale
Built for commercial complexity.
Having millions of customers. Billions of usage events. Unlimited pricing dimensions. UsageCloud is made for that scale and complexity. Without compromising performance, latency, or financial accuracy.
Agile Pricing. What Changes?
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The Entitlement Enforcement Advantage.
Live entitlement enforcement is not just a way to change how products are defined and monetized it also fundamentally transforms how teams operate every day. Here’s what their new every day life looks like.
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For engineering —
Decoupling commercial logic from production code
Pricing logic moves into a configurable pricing layer. Commercial changes no longer require engineering projects, usage pipeline rewrites, or production re-architecture. Commercial agility no longer creates technical debt—engineering gets back to building products.
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For Product & Pricing — from guesswork to intelligent continuous optimization
Launch, test, and evolve any pricing model with speed and confidence. Decisioning is backed by real life usage data and cost, revenue, and margin intelligence—not assumptions. AI helps execute commercial intent and continuously identifies opportunities to improve pricing performance
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For finance — Margin fragility to full control
Every rated charge is finance-grade, fully traceable, and audit-ready. Revenue, costs, margins, and pricing history always reconcile to the underlying usage and commercial model—giving Finance confidence instead of surprises.
Agile Pricing. Impact.
Agile pricing changes how enterprises innovate, monetize, and operate. These are examples of measurable business outcomes our customers have achieved after moving pricing to UsageCloud.
6 Changes O Tickets
A customer introduced six AI monetization model changes in three months—without a single engineering project.
12% Higher Margin
Pricing driven by live usage intelligence increased gross margins by 12%..
32 countries, in 60 days
A global media company launched a new 100% usage-based pricing model across 32 countries in just 60 days.
From 15 to 5
A CTO reduced the engineering team supporting commercial changes from 15 people to just 5.
300% higher productivity
AI-assisted pricing made pricing teams three times more productive.
7× Fewer disputes
Invoice disputes dropped from 150 to 20 per month, enabling Finance to resolve issues independently.
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Case study:
(Gogo)
How a Beverage Company Modernized and Automated IT for Efficient Billing and Reimbursement.
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(Lexmark)
How a Leader in Printing Achieved Significant Growth by Introducing Usage-Based Billing
Case study:
(Dutch Railways)
Integrates with and collects raw usage data from any product, service system, network architecture.