Metronome + Stripe: Building the future of billing

Stripe has finalized its acquisition of Metronome, a leader in usage-based billing, to build a more complete monetization platform.

• •Stripe Billing already supports diverse billing models: credit burndown (Lovable), outcome-based billing (Intercom), subscriptions (Anthropic), and complex usage-based models (OpenAI)
• •Metronome adds capabilities for multidimensional metering, product catalogs with thousands of SKUs, sales-led business models, and revenue analytics
• •Metronome customers gain immediate access to Stripe's global reach and reliability
• •The combined roadmap targets a unified platform covering self-serve PLG, high-touch sales, and cloud marketplace channels
• •Integrated payments, analytics, revenue recognition, and tax capabilities will be part of the single system