A pricing strategy where customers are charged based on the actual consumption of a service or resource, such as compute time, API calls, or data tokens, rather than a fixed periodic fee.
Overview
- [Industry analysis] Stripe’s token billing feature will make usage-based pricing a viable and sustainable business model for AI apps by allowing tokens to be priced as a commodity to the end user. (Source: Host, via AI Daily Brief, 2026-08-24)