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name: Pricing and Usage Meters description: See the main Usage-Based Pricing skill for comprehensive coverage of metering and billing implementation.

Pricing and Usage Meters

This skill is covered in detail in the main Usage-Based Pricing skill.

Please refer to: 42-cost-engineering/usage-based-pricing/SKILL.md

That skill covers:

• Usage-based pricing models (pay-per-use, tiered, volume-based, hybrid)
• Metering fundamentals and aggregation methods
• Usage tracking architecture (event streaming, time-series DB)
• Stripe Billing integration with code examples
• Cost attribution and margin calculation
• Usage limits and quotas (soft/hard limits)
• Customer usage dashboards
• Unit economics (COGS, gross margin, LTV/CAC)
• Pricing strategy and tier design
• Real examples (Twilio, AWS, Stripe, Datadog)

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Related Skills

• 42-cost-engineering/usage-based-pricing (Main skill)
• 42-cost-engineering/cost-observability
• 45-product-thinking/metrics-north-star