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Usage-based (or token-based billing) billing maps customer charges to resource consumption. AI inference costs scale linearly. Flat seat licenses fail in this context. Metering ensures margin protection.

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Metering lifecycle

1

Response generation

Model generates response and sends usage metrics back to the caller.
2

Normalization

Narev normalizes usage metrics into a dollar value.
3

Report to billing provider

Narev reports the dollar value to the billing provider (for example, Stripe, Polar, Lago, etc.)
4

Aggregation and chargeback

Billing provider aggregates usage and charges the user.