Billing, Pricing, and Metering for SaaS companies
Archetype is the pricing, billing and metering stack you won't have to build. Create any pricing model and charge on usage, seats, and more with infinitely flexible pricing and automated invoicing.
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API Usage
12,830 Calls
$334.90
Free up to 5k calls
$0.00
5-10k
$0.05 / Call
$250.00
10-12k
$0.03 / Call
$84.90
Discounts & Coupons
-$108.49
Startup Discount
-$50.00
Coupon: '10OFF'
-$58.49
Subtotal$226.41
Taxes$18.11 (8%)
Total$244.52
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End-to-End Revenue Infrastructure
Automate revops, financial invoicing, and collection workflows. Save your engineering teams thousands of hours from building an in-house billing, metering, and invoicing stack.
Features
Dynamic Billing
Archetype powers SaaS pricing, freeing your team to focus on product and saving your engineering and revops teams thousands of hours.
Flexible pricing models
Charge for total or peak usage. Offer free trials. Flexible pricing models scale with your needs.
Custom metrics
Bill by anything: seats, minutes, API calls. Define your unit, log events, and start collecting.
Revenue analytics
Monitor revenue, usage, and churn to address spikes and identify trends.
Price experimentation
Run real-time pricing experiments. Track conversion, usage, and churn to optimize your pricing.
Usage alerts
Let your users set usage thresholds. Alert your sales and support to resolve issues or upsell.
White-label
We offer white-label solutions for embedded pricing pages, self-serve checkout workflows, dashboards, and payment links
Discounts galore
Offer coupons, discounts, and overages. Track their progress in the dashboard.
Gating
Implement paywalls, product bundles, and upsell triggers to drive revenue.
Integrations
Seamless integration with API management vendors, CRMs, and accounting software. If you have a special request, contact us.
24/7 support
Get access to our RevOps experts. Never leave users in the dark.
Use cases
Archetype makes billing easy
Scalable monetization, experimentation, and revops - without being bottlenecked by engineering.
Real-Time Pricing Adjustments
Run real-time pricing experiments to drive revenue. Track conversion, usage, and churn to optimize your pricing.
Subscription Orchestration and Alerts
Orchestrate upsells, plan renewals, and subscription changes automatically. Alert your users before hitting their usage threshold and alert your sales and support to resolve issues and upsell.
Revenue Recognition
Discounts, overages, and plan upgrades updated on our append-only ledger and visible in our dashboard.
Pricing and Customer Portals
Generate self-serve pages for subscription management.
Why Archetype?
Archetype is the best choice for SaaS businesses looking to scale quickly and focus on their core business.
Feature
Archetype
Manual (Stripe)
Chargebee
Other Metering Solutions
Billing and Invoicing
Let your users track spend and download invoices.
Usage-Based Pricing
Bill flexibly by volume, bracket, or tier. Provide discounts, coupons, and overages.
Limited
Limited
Integrations
Connect your billing data with Stripe, Braintree, Slack, and others.
Limited
Limited
Metered Usage Analytics
Data powers business decisions. Track usage, churn, and retention by customer or product.
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Price Experimentation
A/B test pricing as easily as you would a website. Treat billing as yet another feature.
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Customer Portal
Let your users manage their subscription and access.
Limited
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Access Control / Entitlements
Set usage and rate limits. Paywall features and endpoints seamlessly.
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Embedded Pricing Portal
Deploy pricing changes in seconds for current and future customers, without wrangling engineering and sales involvement.
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Embedded Payment Flows
Checkout sessions without friction. Power self-serve upgrades programmatically.
Limited
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Alerts
Automate upselling, send behavioral emails, and streamline sales ops and customer success.
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Average Implementation
Avoid dedicating a team of engineers to spend months building billing.
1-2 weeks
2-3 months
2-3 months
Setup
How it works
Archetype wraps your API with a billing layer. Define a unit, billing model, then simply log usage. We handle the rest.
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Create a Price Model
Charge by any unit you can think of from seats to API calls and more.
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Track Events
Track events through our easy-to-use SDKs or hook us up directly to your warehouse.
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Collect Revenue
Integrate with Stripe, Netsuite, Quickbooks or more and automate invoicing.
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Experiment
Leverage our system to dynamically adjust pricing and find the optimal pricing strategy.
Fits into your stack.
Seamless integration with API management vendors, CRMs, and accounting software. If you have a special request, contact us.
Enterprise-Grade Security
Data is encrypted with TLS in transit and at rest. We use the same security standards as Stripe and other leading companies.
SOC2 Compliance
SSO / SAML
Uptime SLAs
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Archetype gives you usage-based billing, analytics, and custom payment flows. Get started for free!
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