Metronome

Metronome 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.