💰 Usage-based pricing sounds sexy… and just as risky, but what’s the alternative?

Pure pay-per-use? CFOs can’t forecast it, vendors can’t plan capacity. Even hybrids with overages can backfire, like the time a client’s sloppy code torched thousands in API credits and refused to pay. And rigid pricing plans with locked-in yearly commitments are totally outdated.

Instead there is a proven model hiding in plain sight:

📀 Decades ago, databases mastered space management: instead of running out, they quietly grow in steps that double each time. It’s predictable, smooth, and remarkably effective.

Here’s the SaaS equivalent we created:
• Start on an entry-level subscription tier.
• Run out of credits? Step up to the next plan that simply doubles your credits.
• Each step-up unlocks a rate discount and new features, rewarding growth.
• Not using it next month? Scale back down, no penalties.

✅ It’s simple for customers, friendly for finance, and keeps vendors sane on capacity planning. A “step-up, step-down” subscription is the most balanced usage-based model, based on years of database engineering that taught us how predictable scaling should work.

✨ Let pricing feel like progress: a clear next level when you grow, and the freedom to step back when you don’t need the extra room. Flexible growth at any time and no shocker bill when you make a mistake.