CLUSTER BILLING-SAAS-USAGE · 9 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-04-20
API usage billing platforms
These platforms handle usage metering, pricing calculation, invoice generation, and webhook notifications for SaaS businesses, with provider and customer dashboards and API key management. The dated entry history shows a gradual climb from one in April 2026 to two in May and June 2026, indicating a steady early flow. Traction is minimal, with Metered leading the activity signal at zero stars. The cluster's dated history is short but shows a consistent monthly presence before the index start.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 3 hand-coded · 6 unlabelled
Operator · 2 hobby · 3 indie · 1 commercial · 3 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 9 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01Metered0★15 days—Usage-based billing platform that meters usage, calculates pricing, generates invoices, and sends webhooks for SaaS businesses.
- 02api-gateway-platform0★26 days—API gateway platform that manages API access, authentication, rate limiting, usage quotas, analytics, and usage-based billing through a web dashboard.
- 03devpulse2★2 mo—hand-codedindieA backend platform that handles webhook ingestion, real-time streaming with Kafka, and provides analytics with billing.
- 04SpreadSheet0★1 moliveindieSaaS that turns uploaded spreadsheets into live queryable REST APIs with authentication, usage limits, and subscription billing.
- 05smolbill0★3 mo—Usage-based billing service that meters customer events, generates invoices, and verifies each charge against raw usage data to prove correctness.
- 06Meterflow-API0★5 molivehand-codedindieSaaS platform that lets users create APIs, generate keys, track usage, and manage request-based billing with a dashboard.
- 07Meterflow0★5 mo—hand-codedcommercialUsage-based API billing platform with real-time metering, observability, and dynamic pricing models.
- 08api-billing-platform0★5 molivehobbySaaS platform for API billing that provides provider, customer, and admin dashboards, API key management, and Stripe-based subscription billing.
- 09Schematic — Credits, metering, and usage governance on one realtime ledger0★unknownlivehobbyUsage-based billing platform that helps developers launch and manage pricing plans.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.