Usage metering

Know what each unit means for revenue

If you bill by usage, the measurement, rate and amount due need to agree. Your agent can record those facts against the contract and inspect the result.

UNIT ECONOMICS · 1,000 CALLSUsage revenue$40.00Cost to serve($12.00)Gross margin$28.0070%

A meter reading is not yet an invoice

Usage businesses often measure activity in one system and calculate the bill somewhere else. A plan minimum, prepaid allowance or tier can change the amount due. Economico keeps the agreed pricing with the contract, so a recorded measurement produces a priced amount and a receipt.

Record the measurement under the agreed terms

Contract activities support exact rates, graduated and volume tiers, allowances and period minimums. Your agent records the observed quantity with its source fact. Economico prices it under the terms in force and posts the billing and any prepaid balance it draws down. The resulting reports let you inspect what was used, billed and left in a prepaid lot.

Check a usage period
Record Acme's measured usage for August under its signed plan. Show the rated amount, allowance used, amount due and source fact.

Bring your own measurement

Economico does not collect API calls or model tokens from your product automatically. You supply measurements and review the contract terms. Costs can be recorded on the same ledger, but a reliable customer margin still depends on attributing those costs correctly; metering alone does not calculate it for you.

Connect your agent

Give usage a traceable price

Start with the agreed terms, record a real measurement and inspect the amount it produced.