Getmetronome
AcquiredFounded 2020 Β· 126 employees on LinkedIn Β· 1 known investors
Metronome provides real-time monetization infrastructure covering usage metering, pricing, billing, and reporting in a single platform. It serves Product, GTM, and Finance teams at software companies with product-led and sales-led business models, supporting usage-based pricing and in-product billing dashboards.
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026Metronome provides usage-based billing and monetization infrastructure for software companies. The platform meters raw usage events and unifies metering, rating, pricing, invoicing and reporting so that Product, go-to-market and Finance teams work from a single real-time record of customer consumption and revenue. It supports usage, seat, subscription and hybrid pricing models across product-led growth, sales-led, and marketplace motions.
Product capabilities include in-product billing dashboards that expose real-time usage and spend to end customers, along with configurable spend alerts and limits; granular billing data that teams can filter and export for consumption monitoring, margin analysis and daily revenue tracking; and centralized pricing management that allows companies to run pricing experiments and roll out changes across customer cohorts without customer migrations or manual contract re-provisioning. Metronome distributes SDKs for Node.js, Python, Go, Java and Ruby as well as a Terraform provider.
The company was founded in 2019 by Kevin Liu and Scott Woody, both formerly of Dropbox, and is based in San Francisco. Scott Woody serves as CEO. Metronome was acquired by Stripe, with the deal confirmed in December 2025 and completed in January 2026.
Founding story
Metronome was founded in 2019 by Kevin Liu and Scott Woody, who previously worked at Dropbox, with the aim of substantially reducing the engineering investment software companies must make to build and maintain billing integrations.
Business model
Metronome sells monetization infrastructure to software companies, which integrate its metering, pricing, billing and reporting capabilities into their own products and revenue operations. It supports both self-serve and sales-led purchasing, with a free Starter plan and a sales-quoted Custom plan, and bills against usage measured in events and transactions.
Metronome charges for its billing platform via a tiered structure comprising a free Starter plan with published usage rates and a sales-quoted Custom plan, with billing units based on events and transactions.
Traction
Metronome reported a sixfold increase in ARR during 2023 and counted OpenAI, Anthropic, Databricks and Nvidia among its customers as of January 2024. Public case studies describe deployments at OpenAI, Cribl, Starburst, Fly.io and Luminai, with Fly.io migrating from Stripe to Metronome.
Latest developments
Stripe's acquisition of Metronome was confirmed in December 2025 at a reported $1 billion and completed on 2026-01-14. Metronome's leadership stated the product would continue and scale within Stripe, becoming a core part of Stripe's product suite alongside Stripe Billing. Through 2026 Metronome continued to iterate on its published pricing, adding a free Starter plan and a Custom plan in February 2026, publishing Starter usage rates in July 2026, and removing the Starter plan's included-volume allotment in August 2026.
βΈFull profile β market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
Metronome is a usage-based billing and monetization infrastructure provider serving fast-growing startups and enterprises, including AI companies adopting metered pricing. Its acquisition by Stripe was framed by Stripe's CEO as adding metered-pricing capability to the Stripe Billing platform.
Metronome positions itself as real-time monetization infrastructure that goes beyond metering, rating and invoicing, combining support for product-led scale with the contract complexity of sales-led enterprise motions. Customers cite the ability to change pricing without engineering resources, support for multi-dimensional pricing, and the ability to surface clear real-time spend data to end users.
Technology
The platform ingests raw usage events and performs real-time metering, rating and invoicing, exposing granular billing data for filtering and export, embeddable in-product billing dashboards with spend alerts and limits, and centralized pricing configuration. Integration is supported through Node.js, Python, Go, Java and Ruby SDKs and a Terraform provider published under the Metronome-Industries GitHub organization.
Go-to-market
The company combines self-serve onboarding with a sales-led motion, offering demo requests and contact-sales paths on its website, published customer case studies, webinars, whitepapers, and an annual conference for pricing and monetization leaders.
Product, go-to-market and Finance teams at software companies using product-led, sales-led and marketplace models, ranging from startups to large enterprises. Named customers include OpenAI, Anthropic, Databricks, Nvidia, HubSpot, Cribl, Starburst, Fly.io and Luminai.
Geography
Headquartered in San Francisco.
History
Metronome was founded in 2019 by Dropbox alumni Kevin Liu and Scott Woody and raised approximately $128 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, New Enterprise Associates, Mango Capital and Activant Capital, most recently a $50 million Series C in February 2025. The company initially served startups and expanded into the enterprise segment in 2023, a year in which it said ARR grew sixfold. In December 2025 Stripe and Metronome confirmed Stripe's acquisition of the company, reported at $1 billion; the transaction was completed on 2026-01-14, after which Metronome continued to operate as part of Stripe's product suite.
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Key figures
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Timeline Β· 5
launches, deals, and filingsMetronome's pricing page introduced a free Starter plan alongside a sales-quoted Custom plan.
Stripe's newsroom noted completion of the Metronome acquisition on 2026-01-14; Metronome's pricing page carried a banner stating it is now part of Stripe.
Stripe and Metronome confirmed that the payments company acquired the usage-based billing startup; press reporting cited a $1 billion price. Stripe CEO Patrick Collison said Metronome's capabilities would be integrated with the Stripe Billing platform, and Metronome said it would become a core part of Stripe's product suite.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Getmetronome do?
- Usage-based billing and monetization infrastructure for software companies; acquired by Stripe.
- Who are Getmetronome's investors?
- Getmetronome's investors include Mango Capital.