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Metering & SaaS Entitlement — Zenmeter

Monetize and Meter Flexibly
in the AI era

Zenmeter is a usage metering and modern SaaS entitlement engine for AI tokens, API calls, seats, credits, and hybrid pricing.

Deciding how to price and package is the easy part.

Implementing it — seats, tokens, credits, overages, hybrid plans — without rewriting your product every time the market shifts, is where most teams get stuck. We solve that.

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Pricing model construct
Starter
$29
/month
Popular
Pro
$79
/month
Enterprise
Custom
/month
Any of these pricing dimensions — Nalpeiron powers all of them.
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Sony
Hexagon
Zebra
Sennheiser
TechSmith
GE
Minitab
UiPath
Intergraph
AnyVision
Chromaflo
Creative Edge
Daifuku
Datacolor
Dialogic
Erwin
HyTrust
Nitro
Pointfuse
Quark
Rosetta
Spacelabs
Synapse
Volexity
Ytria
Sony
Hexagon
Zebra
Sennheiser
TechSmith
GE
Minitab
UiPath
Intergraph
AnyVision
Chromaflo
Creative Edge
Daifuku
Datacolor
Dialogic
Erwin
HyTrust
Nitro
Pointfuse
Quark
Rosetta
Spacelabs
Synapse
Volexity
Ytria
Usage-based monetization guideAI Monetization
Zenmeter
Every pricing model. Delivered.

Any pricing page you can imagine — we can power it.

Launch the pricing model that works for you today. Iterate without changing code when the market changes tomorrow.

Tiered subscription

The classic SaaS model. Multiple editions with increasing value — features, limits, support. One price per tier, billed monthly or annually.

e.g. ChatGPT Free/Go/Plus/Pro · Netflix Basic/Standard/Premium

Starter
$29
/month
5 projects
10GB storage
Basic analytics
Email support
Most popular
Pro
$79
/month
Unlimited projects
100GB storage
Advanced analytics
Priority support
Custom domains
Enterprise
Custom
Unlimited everything
Dedicated infra
SLA guarantee
Account manager
Custom contracts
AI Era Metering

Meter Every AI Token.
Monetize Interaction.
Billing connected.

Capturing consumption data is hard. Nalpeiron's monetization engine makes it a solved problem. Capture, rate, and trigger billing events for high-frequency AI and infrastructure models.

With Nalpeiron, ingesting token consumption analytics in real-time can be applied to rate cards and pricing and plan structures, even across complex multi-user B2B customer accounts.

See how this powers AI monetization at scale — from per-token metering to margin-safe pricing across every customer.

High-Frequency Ingestion
api.nalpeiron.com/v2/meter
Awaiting stream...
MTD Rated Spend
$12,429.18
Ingestion SLA
99.9%+
“

The software companies winning right now are the ones who can test, launch, and iterate on pricing as fast as the market moves. That requires infrastructure most teams don't have.

”

Jon Gillespie-Brown

CEO & Founder, Nalpeiron

Why now?

AI changed the rules of pricing.

It used to be fine to price purely by seats. One number, one invoice, done. But AI features cost real money per token, per inference, per call — and those costs are tied to specific customers.

Now you need to attribute expensive AI consumption accurately. You need caps so a single customer can't burn your margins. You need add-on credit packages when customers hit their limits. And you need all of this to change quickly, without a sprint.

Yesterday
Traditional pricing
Price model$X / seat / month
AI usage billed Not tracked
Change pricing3-month sprint
Today
AI-era pricing with Nalpeiron
Price modelSeats + Credits + Overages + Add-ons
AI usage billed Rate Card + True Ups + Add-on Purchases
Change pricingIn the Nalpeiron UI. No code.
AI provider driven functionality & features
OpenAIOpenAI
AnthropicAnthropic
Google GeminiGemini
AWS BedrockBedrock
Azure OpenAIAzure
The complete picture

Metering is only half the problem.

Controlling what each customer can actually access — and enforcing it in real-time — is the other half. Most platforms only solve one side.

Metering-only tools
(e.g. Metronome, M3ter)
Usage metering
Billing event triggers
Entitlement enforcement
Feature access control
Usage caps & gates
Billing systems
(e.g. Stripe, Zuora, Chargebee)
Payments & invoicing
Subscription management
Entitlement enforcement
Real-time usage metering
Usage caps & gates
Nalpeiron Growth Platform
(Zenmeter + Zentitle)
Usage metering
Billing event triggers
Entitlement enforcement
Feature access control
Usage caps & gates

Connect to your billing system of your choice.

The cost of inaction

Stop guessing your margins

If AI token consumption isn't accurately tracked and attributed to each customer, margins erode fast. Tokens are a variable cost to you — and provider pricing can shift dramatically while your customer pricing is already locked in.

Unattributed Consumption

Every AI token not traced back to a customer is revenue you've already spent but can never recover.

Volatile Provider Costs

AI provider pricing changes without warning. If your rate cards can't adapt in real-time, your margins absorb the hit.

Hidden Dev Cost Spikes

A single feature change by your dev team can inadvertently spike token consumption — costs you won't catch until the invoice arrives.

Full Visibility with Nalpeiron

Every token is tracked, attributed, and billed in real-time. Cost changes are identified instantly and passed through as appropriate.

Healthy marginsMargin erosion
Tracked & attributedUntracked AI token spend

Built for every team at the table

From product to finance to engineering — one platform, no gaps.

For Product Managers

Test and deploy new GTM strategies 10x faster

Change pricing tiers, grace periods, and rate plans in a UI — not a sprint. Iterate on pricing with zero dev friction.

For Finance & RevOps

Real-time revenue recognition and auditable logs

No more "billing month" delays. Automated invoicing triggers and sub-ledger accuracy for consumption.

For Engineering

High-throughput ingestion with low latency

Built for processing consumption data events at speed. Focus on the core app, not the data pipes.

Any pricing model.
Any billing system.
No rewrites.

Join fast-growing software companies who changed how they price — without changing their code.

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Key Terms

What Zenmeter is, in plain terms.

What is a metering platform?

A metering platform captures, rates, and reports usage events from a software product — API calls, AI tokens, data ingested, compute hours, seats consumed — and turns them into billable line items in real time. It sits between your application and your billing system, enforcing entitlements at runtime so customers can't exceed paid limits and revenue isn't lost to unattributed usage. Zenmeter is Nalpeiron's metering platform, built for sub-millisecond rating at any scale.

What is a SaaS entitlement engine?

A SaaS entitlement engine decouples what a customer is allowed to do from your application code. Instead of hard-coding feature checks and seat counts, the entitlement engine stores plans, features, and limits as data and serves real-time checks via API or SDK. When a customer upgrades, downgrades, or hits a usage cap, the engine reflects the change immediately — no release required. Zenmeter handles entitlement enforcement for modern cloud-native SaaS.

What is consumption-based entitlement?

Consumption-based entitlement is a model where customer access is governed by usage, not static feature toggles or seat counts. Limits, credits, and overage rules are enforced in real time as events stream in. It is how modern SaaS — especially AI products — sells: pay-as-you-go, hybrid plans (seats plus usage), and credit-based packaging are all consumption-based entitlement models. Zenmeter powers this across every pricing model and event type.

The Platform

Three core engines. One unified platform.

Frequently Asked

Questions about Zenmeter.

All five are modern metering platforms. Zenmeter differs in two ways. It covers hybrid licensing where 'seats + usage' is required, suited to SaaS sold B2C and B2B, covering rate card complexity with ease for AI functionality token consumption. Also it ships as part of the Nalpeiron Growth Platform — metering, runtime entitlement enforcement, and revenue intelligence in one connected system designed to increase revenues.

A metering platform captures and rates usage events in real time, turning raw events into rated line items and enforcing entitlements at runtime. A billing platform takes those line items and generates invoices, manages subscriptions, runs collections, and posts revenue. They are complementary. Zenmeter is a metering platform — it hands rated usage to your billing system for invoicing and charging.

Yes. Zenmeter is the metering and entitlement layer, not a billing system. It integrates with your billing platform of choice. Rated usage and entitlement state flow downstream so invoices and revenue recognition reflect what has actually been consumed.

Yes. Zenmeter checks entitlements at runtime via API with sub-millisecond latency, so customers can't exceed paid limits even at high event volumes. Caps, credits, and overage rules are evaluated inline — the application asks 'is this customer allowed to do X?' and gets back an authoritative answer before the action completes. Both soft warnings (notify before cutoff) and hard caps (block at cutoff) are supported.

Pay-as-you-go (rate per event), prepaid credits (deplete a bucket), hybrid-flex (seats plus usage plus features), tiered consumption (rate changes by volume), and credit-based packaging (AI token packs, API call packs, data bundles). You can combine any of these in a single plan — for example, a per-seat base price plus prepaid AI credits plus pay-as-you-go overages on API calls.

Both. Zenmeter was built to handle AI-grade event volumes (tokens, inferences, embeddings), but the same architecture meters API calls, data ingestion, compute hours, feature usage, seat consumption, and any other countable event. If your product generates a usage event, Zenmeter can capture, rate, and enforce against it.

Yes. Zenmeter is built for sustained high-throughput ingestion with sub-millisecond rating — designed for AI infrastructure and SaaS products that emit billions of events per month. Hard caps and overage logic are evaluated inline so high event rates don't bypass entitlement checks.

Hosting to meet your requirements

Host in the US or Europe

Two production data centers — choose the region that fits your customers and compliance — single-tenant option also available

Nalpeiron maintains two separate data center locations for our service: clients in Europe can choose to host their data exclusively in the Eurozone (Frankfurt), or in our US-based data centers for global presence.

US / Global Data Center

United States

US-based infrastructure for worldwide coverage and global clients

Global Clients
Worldwide presence
Europe Data Center

Frankfurt, Germany

Eurozone-only hosting for European clients with full GDPR compliance

European Clients
Data stays in the EU