Billing Units

A billing unit where the vendor charges a fixed fee per named user, regardless of how much each user consumes.

A billing unit where customers pre-purchase or are allocated a pool of credits that deplete as they use the product, often at variable rates per feature.

A billing unit common in LLM and AI products, where customers are charged per input and output token processed.

A billing unit where customers are charged per API request, regardless of payload size or processing time.

A billing unit where customers are charged per request served — the generic meter for inference endpoints, search, scraping, and browser infrastructure.

A billing unit where customers are charged per minute of audio or video processed — used by speech, voice, and video AI vendors.

A billing unit where customers are charged per gigabyte of data stored on the platform per month.

A billing unit where customers are charged for GPU time consumed, typically measured per-second or per-hour by GPU type.

A billing unit where customers are charged per event ingested — the native meter of observability and billing-infrastructure platforms.

A billing unit where customers are charged per monthly or daily active user rather than per provisioned seat.

A billing unit where customers are charged for the CPU time their workloads consume, typically measured in vCPU-seconds or vCPU-hours.

A billing unit where customers are charged per document processed or generated — common in AI writing, SEO, and document-intelligence tools.

A billing unit unique to AI customer-support products, where the vendor charges only when an AI agent resolves a customer issue without escalation.

A billing unit used by robotics, hardware AI, and some SaaS companies where the metered object is a physical or abstract 'unit' — a robot deployed, a device sold, or a defined deliverable.

A billing unit where customers are charged per financial or billing transaction processed — the meter of billing and accounting platforms.

A billing unit where customers are charged per character of text processed — the standard meter for text-to-speech and translation.

A billing unit where each end-to-end workflow or automation run is metered and billed, regardless of the compute steps it contains.

A billing unit where customers are charged per gigabyte of data transferred out of the platform.

A billing unit where each individual message or reply in a conversation is metered, common in AI chat and voice platforms.

A billing unit where customers are charged per page crawled, parsed, or rendered — the meter for web scraping and document parsing.

A billing unit where customers are charged per task an automation or agent executes — Zapier's historical unit, now spreading to AI agents.

A billing unit where customers are charged for vectors stored or indexed — the storage dimension of vector database pricing.

A billing unit where customers are charged for the memory their workloads consume over time, measured in gigabyte-hours.

A billing unit where each contact or lead in the database is metered, common in AI sales development and outbound automation platforms.

A billing unit where each discrete action taken by an AI agent or automation is metered — common in browser automation and agentic workflow tools.

A billing unit where each complete customer conversation — from first message to resolution — is metered as a single chargeable event.

A billing unit where each AI-generated image is metered, common in image generation APIs and multimodal AI platforms.

A billing unit used by billing infrastructure platforms where each invoice generated or processed is metered as the primary cost driver.

A billing unit where each data record processed, labeled, or extracted is metered — common in data platforms and web scraping services.

A billing unit common in translation and localization platforms where the metered object is the word count of content processed.

A pricing structure where access to proprietary datasets or data assets is licensed separately from the software or services, common in AI training data and clinical data platforms.

A billing unit used in drug discovery and biotech AI where payment is tied to achieving defined research milestones rather than time or compute consumed.

A billing unit where each individual data measurement or signal ingested is metered — common in cloud cost intelligence and ML evaluation platforms.

A billing unit where each AI-generated creative asset — image, video, or design — is counted as a 'generation' and metered accordingly.

A billing unit where each patient-agent or user-agent interaction is metered, common in healthcare AI and customer engagement platforms.

A billing unit where payment is triggered by verified outcomes delivered — distinct from outcome-based pricing models, this refers specifically to 'outcomes' as a countable billing unit.

A billing unit where each AI-generated video is metered, common in video generation and synthetic media platforms.

A billing unit where each hour of headless browser compute time is metered, common in web scraping and browser automation platforms.

A billing unit where each LLM request log ingested or stored is metered — common in AI observability and evaluation platforms.

A billing unit where each connected email mailbox or sending account is metered, common in AI outbound sales and email automation platforms.

A billing unit where each customer support ticket handled by an AI agent is metered — common in AI customer service platforms.

A billing unit where each distributed trace — a complete record of an LLM request chain — is metered, common in AI observability platforms.

A billing unit where each hour a robot or autonomous system operates is metered — the robotics equivalent of a GPU-hour.

A billing unit used in legal AI platforms where each case or matter processed by the AI is metered.

A billing unit where each hardware device or endpoint connected to the AI platform is metered.

A billing unit where customers are charged per serverless function invocation, often combined with a separate compute-time charge.

A billing unit where each IP address or proxy endpoint allocated is metered — used by web scraping proxy providers.

A billing unit where each AI-generated report or analysis document is metered as a discrete output.