A superior usage-based billing alternative to Stripe Billing
Unlike Stripe Billing, Orb is uniquely architected to give you seamless control over pricing, ability to ship products, and reporting. Teams choose Orb to save engineering time, simplify closing their books, and accelerate growth.
Why teams are choosing Orb when
Stripe Billing comes up short
Orb is the only billing engine that cleanly handles the complexities of usage-based billing. A billing system should be accurate, flexible, auditable, and efficient.
Stripe Billing wasn’t designed to handle usage tracking challenges
Orb accounts for usage accurately — down to every event. Unlike Stripe, Orb handles non-integer quantities and has workflows for backfills and amendments, saving teams from reconciling data each month.
Orb has the most flexible pricing features on the market
Orb customers love migrating pricing in bulk and scheduling price changes in advance. Stripe Billing can’t model common pricing use cases, like mixed-cadence annual fees with monthly overages.
Stripe Billing customers grapple with reporting limitations
Without mid-period reporting, teams using Stripe Billing suffer. With Orb, every unit of usage is accounted for, at any point in time, for any pricing model. Orb lets you query raw usage with SQL and real-time alerting notifies you when customers hit usage or cost thresholds.
Billing shouldn’t hold back your product and finance teams
Unlike Stripe Billing, you don’t have to build workarounds in Orb to account for most bespoke contract terms and complex use cases. No more reworking product logic to make simple pricing changes. Engineers can focus on shipping and finance teams can close books faster.
Raise the bar on billing — see why Orb beats Stripe Billing at a glance
As companies grow, their pricing becomes more complex - Orb is designed to provide you with all of the control you need for your usage and hybrid-based pricing.
Raw data architecture: Built for usage-based billing
Pricing control: Manage bulk pricing changes, contract overrides, and bespoke terms
Subscription management: Bundle products and manage true-ups and overages without having to patch around limitations
Backfills and amendments: granularly correct billing data and support backdating contracts
Alerting: Threshold notifications on usage and spend
Engineering and finance teams of every size love Orb
As companies grow, their pricing becomes more complex — Orb is designed to provide you with all of the control you need.
Stop creating workarounds to fit billing to your pricing needs
Saves engineers from fixing faulty billing that detracts from building core-product
Isn’t architected for usage-based billing; eng teams constantly have to patch their systems
Update pricing and billing without added engineering time
Handles all of the orchestration for pricing updates within its UI
Doesn’t have robust subscription management; engineers are needed to update pricing
Ensure your billing data is accurate
Encourages usage patterns that ensure that data is complete and correct
Misattributes data because it can’t handle non-integer quantities in invoices
Integrate easily with the rest of your revenue stack
Moves data easily between systems through its integrations; don’t need to replace your payment processor
Integrates well with other Stripe tools, which don’t offer the visibility necessary for usage-based billing
Calculate monthly revenue entries for the most complex accounts
Aggregates data across any pricing structure, making it easy to calculate your month-end revenue entries
Architected for seat-based billing, and requires data manipulation to model common plans like prepaid commitments
Answer invoice questions from customers and auditors
Offers SKU granularity, custom time frames, and custom fiscal years for reporting
Has inflexible time filters and can’t handle late event reporting, leading to inaccurate billing data
Check and trace revenue metrics at any point in time
Gives finance teams real-time visibility into usage and revenue
Surfaces summaries through its API or grouping key, but unable to fetch real-time or historical usage records
Gain insight into your revenue drivers at the highest level of granularity
Provides visibility down to the usage event, allowing you to study revenue drivers by invoice line item over any time horizon
No event-based visibility, pivoting, filtering, or alerting capabilities
Make finance inquiries into customer data self-serve
Allows finance to analyze accounts, invoices, and usage in Orb’s UI without eng support
Requires dashboard and spreadsheet work to reconcile inconsistent data
FAQs
Orb is the modern billing engine, built for businesses that need to be flexible in their pricing. We are designed to allow you to bill on seats, consumption, and everything in between but with unparalleled granularity, flexibility, and control over your pricing. Fast growing companies of all GTM motions use Orb to win more deals with a tool that scales with them without compromising control.
Orb’s pricing starts at $720 / month and includes invoicing, finance and tax integrations, pricing controls, and real-time event ingestion. See our pricing page for more detail.
No - Orb integrates seamlessly with your existing payment processor. You can also migrate billing and invoicing separately from one another.
You can start sending billable events to Orb within hours. Sending events requires no setup or explicit field schemas for event shapes.
Orb plugs into your existing stack - you can integrate with the following tools and more right away.
We understand how sensitive customer data is - security and compliance are a central part of Orb’s practices. See more detail on our data practices here
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