Meteroid is an open-source, cloud-native pricing and billing infrastructure designed to support usage-based billing, subscription management, invoicing, and cost-tracking — particularly for SaaS or product-led businesses that need flexible billing models beyond flat subscriptions. It provides an API-driven billing engine: you feed Meteroid usage data from your application (e.g. API calls, storage usage, seats, feature usage), define custom pricing rules or plans, and Meteroid calculates charges, generates invoices, tracks usage, and supports cost limits or quotas. The system is written in Rust, emphasizing performance, reliability, and safety, making it suitable for production use in small startups up to large enterprises. Meteroid handles complexities like plan versioning, usage-based billing, re-invoicing, grandfathering of plans, experiments, and cost limiting — giving teams a robust billing backend without building one from scratch.
Features
- API-driven billing engine that processes usage data to compute charges according to custom pricing models
- Support for subscription management, usage-based billing, invoices, quotes, and re-invoicing workflows
- Cost-limiting and quota enforcement to prevent over-usage beyond defined limits
- Plan versioning and grandfathering support to manage changes in pricing schemes over time
- Written in Rust for performance, safety, and reliability in production environments
- Open-source under AGPLv3 — enabling self-hosting, customization, and community contributions