Amberflo

Cloud Metering and Usage-Based Pricing and Billing for SaaS

5.0•3 reviews•

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Cloud Metering and Usage-Based Pricing and Billing for SaaS

5.0•3 reviews•

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Developer-first Cloud Metering and Usage-Based Pricing and Billing Platform built from the ground up to enable modern Usage-Based Pricing with real-time metering, and on-demand invoicing and billing.

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Writing this as a Product Manager whose job it is to build, maintain and enhance a billing platform, as well as on-premises agents and cloud metering services. I cover a $1 billion market for my company and focus on Usage as the focus of my role. Having tested and played with Amberflo using their free-tier (yes free, so there is no reason not to try it!), I'm very impressed with what they have brought to the table. The Usage-Based Billing and Pricing space is still very early. As companies look to take on metering and billing in a consumption like fashion, Amberflo provides an extremely easy onboarding experience, and makes integrating into the necessary data model seem almost as easy as using Microsoft's Power Automate tooling (it's VERY easy, in case you aren't aware). The calculation models provided cover several different ways to charge for your product and align with many of the different ways companies use consumption models today. By providing a processing layer, and providing an easy model to implement it, you can go from product usage data, to generating a bill fairly quickly. One of the gotcha's that you'll need to be cognizant of is how much data you generate, as this affects your cost of the service. Its a full service billing solution, so you'll have the ability to work across: • Usage Data Ingestion • Usage Calculation • End-User / Customer Management • Pricing Management • Discounts • Tiering • Promotions • Credits • Prepay • Rewards • Currency Management • Billing / Invoice Management • Billing Processor Management The only thing that's on you, is to generate usage data. That is an incredible position to be in, trust me. Building, maintaining and enhancing these functions can be extremely cumbersome. The level of control in the pricing management section should help any company not only get started in Usage-Based pricing, but it should help you succeed in handling one-off deals, customizations, and most of the craziness that you'll find your sales team tries to sell (Without talking with you first). Could there be more? Sure. Support for two-tier seller models, complicated metering ingestion where you base pricing of multiple products based on a combination of data points (thats really just for me), and maybe contract models with different revenue recognition flows and revenue buckets. But thats typically something you'd need as a fortune 500 where you typically build your own. Again, this is a solution for the larger market and will meet the needs of 99.99% of companies out there. Are there other options on the market? Sure. But established companies like Stripe and Zuora put more of the usage side on your plate. Are there other companies doing as much as Amberflo? Sure but thats on you to do your due diligence. This is just a comment about Amberflo. If you are looking for a solution to introduce Usage-Based Metering, Billing and Pricing then Amberflo gets you there and does a good job of supporting you. Give their free tier a shot. Why not? Its free! No better way to understand if it will work or not if you don't try and then throw some test data at it. As the homelab adage goes, "Test it, push it, unplug it, do your worst and see if it's still standing".

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4yr ago

Amberflo

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@layuso Thank you for your support! great to get such feedback from a usage-based expert like yourself. Exciting.

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4yr ago

@layuso thanks for the feedback Luis, we greatly appreciate your support and perspective

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4yr ago

@layuso Very thoughtful feedback.

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4yr ago

Amberflo

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@layuso You too have come at this from the school of hard knocks and have a lot of experience and depth. We continue to learn and be inspired by you.

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4yr ago

Amberflo

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Hey ProductHunt 👋 Puneet and Lior here, founders of Amberflo.io 🤝 www.amberflo.io https://docs.amberflo.io/docs We started Amberflo with a mission to help transition the world to a more fair and transparent business model - in the form of Usage-Based Pricing (UBP). We spent a lot of time at Amazon Web Services (AWS) building and scaling Usage-Based cloud services with on-demand metered pricing, invoicing and billing and saw first-hand the spectacular benefits of leading with a Usage-Based business model. It drives the highest levels of revenue and product adoption, while reducing friction and improving overall organizational efficiency. And offering users a business model that is fully aligned with value and outcome. We also experienced first-hand the challenges of designing, building, maintaining and scaling a platform that needed to consistently deliver accurate metering and real-time usage-based pricing and billing. 💡 Amberflo is the platform we wished we had! Building the necessary infrastructure and tooling to enable accurate Metering and Usage-Based Pricing is a heavy lift, and requires a long and drawn out product roadmap and features. We feel companies can greatly benefit from having a reliable, scalable, fully-managed, and cost-effective platform delivered by Amberflo versus spending prized core engineering and product resources on building it in-house. 👋 How is Amberflo different? We lead with Metering, not as a feature of pricing and billing but as a decoupled, stand alone platform product, that while integrated with our Billing Cloud operates and scales independently. This allows product and engineering teams to holistically and comprehensively instrument their technology stack, irrespective of customer facing pricing vectors. ✌️ Metering as a product (not a feature) Full-featured Cloud Metering Service. De-coupled (yet integrated) with Pricing and Billing. Use Metering independent of pricing and billing. ✌️ 100% Developer and API First Built AWS style as developer and API first Rich SDKs. Easy integration, automation, and extension ✌️ Generous Free Tier 100 Million Meter Events free in 1st month (contact us if you need more) 1 Million Meter Events free each month (forever) First 25 invoices free No per user or per customer based pricing. No hidden charges. ✌️ Self-service Sign up directly on our website No credit card needed Platform Features: 🛠️ Metering Cloud Monetize APIs, Platforms, and Marketplaces - Meter any resource for any use case at any scale - Pre-built meter aggregation types - Ingest meter events; see aggregated and grouped values in real-time - Build-in Time Series data warehouse and dashboards - Highly scalable. Easily and accurately ingest billions of meter events - Highly cost-effective. 1/10th to 1/100th the cost of doing it yourself - Fully automated via APIs and scripting 📶 Billing Cloud Accurate, real-time, on-demand Metered Invoicing and Billing - Turn meter events into customer facing pricing plans and line items - Build any type of Usage-Based or Hybrid pricing plans - Prepaid credits with usage drawn-down in real time - Granular level discounts - Price Modeling - Usage and Billing Customer Portal (with drop-in UI widgets) - Fully automated via APIs and scripting We’d love to know what you think! Let us know if you have any questions and we’ll respond in the comments below. ⬇️

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4yr ago

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@puneet_gupta1 way to go!

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4yr ago

Amberflo

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@hunterwalk Thank you Hunter.

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4yr ago

Amberflo

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@hunterwalk Thank you for your support!

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4yr ago

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Such a powerful platform! Metering is the foundation for a host of incredible applications, starting with billing and invoicing. So excited for your launch! Congrats!

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4yr ago

Amberflo

Maker

@satyap Thanks! Metering is the foundation!

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4yr ago

@satyap thanks for your support and guidance Satya

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4yr ago

Amberflo

Maker

@satyap Thanks Satya. We wouldn't be here without your support. And as we used to say at Amazon - it's Day 1.

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4yr ago

Personal AI

Love Amberflo. Personal.ai metering and rewards, credits and redemption is built on Amberflo product. We were happy to get to know about their platform at the right for our company, they even abstract the payment and invoicing reducing a lot of effort from our team who is focused on building product and models. Also love the team, they made our commercialization plans come to fruition with speed and ease! Congrats Puneet and Lior.

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4yr ago

@kanugantisuman grateful for your feedback and support, Suman

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4yr ago

Amberflo

Maker

@kanugantisuman Thank you Suman! it is our pleasure to support Personal.ai commercialization. A very modern usage-based pricing, with prepaid models, custom currency and rewards.

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4yr ago

Amberflo

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@kanugantisuman Thank you Suman. It has been a pleasure to work with you and your team.

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4yr ago

This products is very amazing and wonderful. In this products is very usefull for me. So thanku so much sharing this products

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4yr ago

@new_user_075c783bb435a Thanks for the feedback Amit, we're glad to hear Amberflo is meeting your need. Do let us know if you have any additional questions or would like a deeper dive into your use case

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4yr ago

Amberflo

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@new_user_075c783bb435a Thank you!

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4yr ago

Amberflo

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@new_user_075c783bb435a Thank you Amit.

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4yr ago

Personal AI

We were introduced to the Amberflo team by our lead investor at the start of our commercialization implementation. From our first meeting to our most recent (this past Tuesday) - Amberflo team has done a tremendous amount for us in term of saving our development time and serves as our unified platform for tracking usage, rewards, custom credit, and billing; seamlessly plugs between our application and blockchain layer. The caliber of the team and the product they have build is top-notch.

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4yr ago

Amberflo

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@xiaoran_zhang Thank you! It is a pleasure working with you. We learned a lot helping personal.ai with metering, usage-based billing, rewards and it made our product much better.

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4yr ago

Amberflo

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@xiaoran_zhang Thank you Sharon. It's been super awesome working with you and your team. And we look forward to continuing to bring to you innovation in this area.

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4yr ago

SetOps

What a great way of bringing transparency to something that can often be daunting to measure. Great Job Team 🚀

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4yr ago

Amberflo

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@arunpariyar Thanks Arun!

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4yr ago

Amberflo

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@arunpariyar Thank you Arun

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