Kribana

What is Kribana?

Kribana is a usage-based billing platform for companies that charge by tokens, API calls, or credits. It meters events in real time, generates invoices, and handles payments through Stripe, Razorpay, Adyen, or Braintree. A built-in revenue agent watches every account, sends top-up links, recovers failed payments, and flags expansion or churn signals.

Top Features:

• Real-time metering: counts tokens, API calls, and events, then burns down prepaid credits.
• Pricing engine: change tiered or hybrid prices from the dashboard without new code.
• Revenue agent: sends low-balance alerts, retries declined cards, and spots expansion accounts.

Use Cases:

• AI product billing: charge per token or request with prepaid wallets and top-ups.
• Payment recovery: win back failed card payments without chasing each customer by hand.
• Pricing experiments: test new tiers or hybrid plans without an engineering sprint.

Who Can Use Kribana?

• Finance teams: reconcile usage revenue, export audits, and forecast billing in one place.
• Product teams: adjust pricing and packaging quickly as customer usage patterns shift.
• RevOps teams: see expansion signals and churn risk well before renewals come up.

Pricing

• Launch (free): full platform and agent alerts until your billing produces real revenue.
• Scale (percentage of billed revenue): agent on autopilot with recovery, top-ups, upsell prompts, and warehouse sync.
• Enterprise (contact sales): dedicated infrastructure, SSO, custom agent policies, and a HIPAA-ready deployment.

Pros and Cons

Pros:

• No per-event fees: metering billions of events costs nothing, since pricing follows billed revenue.
• Processor choice: works with Stripe, Razorpay, Adyen, and Braintree, even several at once.
• Self-serve portal: customers upgrade, top up, and view invoices in a branded portal.

Cons:

• Unlisted rates: the exact revenue percentage for paid plans is not published on the site.
• Young product: few public reviews exist yet to judge its long-term reliability.
• Autopilot tier: full agent autopilot is reserved for the Scale plan and above.

FAQs:

1) Which payment processors does it support?

Stripe, Razorpay, Adyen, and Braintree all work, and you can switch processors later.

2) Is there a free plan?

Yes, the Launch plan is free until your billing starts producing real revenue.

3) How is pricing calculated?

You pay a percentage of billed revenue that shrinks as your volume grows.

4) Does the agent act without approval?

It acts autonomously where you allow it and waits for review elsewhere.

5) Can it handle hybrid pricing?

Yes, it supports tiered, hybrid, subscription, and prepaid credit models.