OpenMeter
Open-source usage metering and billing infrastructure for usage-based products
- Vendor
- Kong
- Also known as
- openmeter
What is OpenMeter?
A platform for ingesting usage events, tracking consumption in real time, and enabling usage-based billing with support for subscriptions, credits, and invoicing.
OpenMeter pricing
We don't have OpenMeter's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.
What OpenMeter does
The capabilities that matter for billing & invoicing software, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Subscription billing
- ✓
- Usage metering
- Real-time
- Pricing models
- Subscription, usage-based, tiered, per-unit, package, and dynamic pricing; credi
- Invoicing & AR
- ✓
- Catalog management
- ✓
- Merchant of record
- ✗
- Revenue recognition
- -
- Tax handling
- Integration
- Dunning
- -
- GL / ERP sync
- ✓
- API-first / developer-first
- ✓
- Self-hostable
- ✓
- Revenue analytics
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Self-hosted
Integrations (2)
Independently observed- Stripe
- Slack
Security & compliance
Independently observed- SOC 2 Type IIactive
OpenMeter FAQ
Common questions about OpenMeter, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is OpenMeter?
A platform that captures and analyzes high-volume usage events in real-time, enables flexible pricing models and subscription management, enforces usage limits, and automates invoice generation for usage-based products. It is indexed under Billing & Invoicing Software.
Is OpenMeter free?
OpenMeter offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
What platforms does OpenMeter support?
We have confirmed browser-based access to OpenMeter. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.
Can OpenMeter be self-hosted?
Yes. OpenMeter can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.
What security certifications does OpenMeter have?
We have independently confirmed SOC 2 for OpenMeter. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as OpenMeter not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.
Source: https://openmeter.io/security
OpenMeter alternatives
Other billing & invoicing software we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- Stripe BillingSubscription and usage-based billing platform with automation and compliancemedium · 61%
- RecurlyA platform that automates subscription billing, revenue management, and customer lifecycle engagementmedium · 74%
- MetronomeA cloud-based billing platform that scales with your revenue model and business growthmedium · 74%
- MaxioSubscription billing and financial operations platform automating revenue processes for growing SaaS and AI companieslow · 47%
- ChargebeeCloud billing platform for managing subscriptions and usage-based pricing modelsmedium · 74%
- ViobusinessMobile invoicing and expense app with optional cloud backuplow · 14%
Compare OpenMeter
Side by side against other billing & invoicing software, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for OpenMeter, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security posture | 45 | 0.16 | 7.1 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 87 | 0.08 | 6.8 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 14 | 0.07 | 1.0 | ✓ |
| Stars | 0 | 0.03 | 0.0 | - |
| Dependent projects | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
| Development activity | 0 | 0.09 | 0.0 | - |
| Release cadence | 0 | 0.05 | 0.0 | - |
| Package downloads | 0 | 0.14 | 0.0 | - |
| Security score | 0 | 0.04 | 0.0 | - |
| Developer Q&A activity | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 5 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 62% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Gl sync: Yes · Analytics: Yes · Api first: Yes · Invoicing: Yes · Tax handling: integration · Self hostable: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-09-18 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 2 | mediumsource · 2026-09-03 · 60% |
Pricing
Reliability
Security
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