Billing for Developers
As the world shifts toward AI, agentic systems, and usage-based pricing, engineers lack standards for metering, and businesses struggle to monetize and turn consumption data into actionable insights.
Our Story
While working at Stripe, Peter realized how challenging it was to collect usage data across different components due to the lack of standardized metering. High-quality data was critical for collaborating with Finance and Efficiency, yet collecting, aggregating, and analyzing usage required significant time and effort.
In 2023, we joined Y Combinator and quickly discovered this was just the tip of the iceberg. Companies adopting usage-based pricing face challenges that cut across engineering, finance, product, and sales. Once revenue depends on usage, it becomes critical not only to measure it accurately but also to surface actionable insights from it.
This need is especially urgent for AI and DevOps companies, where pricing is driven by massive volumes of data points — from seconds of compute time to tokens processed to API calls made.
To change the status quo, we launched OpenMeter as an open-source project. We believe standardization can only be achieved through community, and we’re building it together — with you.
Who We Are
We’re a team of engineers with backgrounds in observability, infrastructure, and chargeback at companies like Stripe, Netflix, IBM, Ustream, Banzai Cloud, and Cisco. Before OpenMeter, we built a Node.js APM together and helped lead the Node.js Diagnostics Working Group.
We are fortunate to work with some of the best angels and investors in the world.
