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Introducing Governance: The First Milliseconds-Latency Usage Control Layer for AI

Announcing Stigg 2.0

Every AI request is a spend decision. Make it in milliseconds.

Bringing More Visibility and Control to Stigg Credits

Deepening our capabilities with granular event dimensions, isolated credit pools, and advanced time-series filtering to give you complete control over your credit-based pricing.

Now Live: Stigg Agent Skills for Claude Code

Announcing Agent Skills for Claude Code. Eliminate the trial and error prompt loop and give your AI coding agent the structural domain knowledge it needs to safely integrate Stigg.

How Miro Shipped AI Credits in Six Weeks and Cut Pricing Changes from Months to Days

A Stripe Sessions recap: how Miro's Growth Engineering Lead revealed the architecture shift that cut pricing changes from months to days.

Stigg now lives in your terminal: MCP and CLI in public beta

Stigg now ships native MCP support and a CLI, so developers can operate Stigg directly from their terminal

The Great Packaging Rebuild: What's Actually Changing in SaaS Monetization Right Now

The rules of software pricing have changed, and the companies winning aren't just tweaking price points, they're redesigning how value is packaged, sometimes multiple times a year.

The Audit No One's Talking About: Why Entitlements and Credits Are Suddenly Mission-Critical for AI Companies

Why entitlements infrastructure is the SOX compliance problem engineering teams at AI and SaaS companies are about to get pulled into.

Introducing Stigg on the Stripe App Marketplace

Stigg is now available on the Stripe App Marketplace: entitlements enforced in real time, usage-based metering, and pricing control layer that runs alongside Stripe billing - keeping product access and billing in audit-level sync.

AI Usage Management at Scale: Limits, Allocations and Budgets

AI usage doesn’t break all at once, it creeps until you’re explaining spikes, inconsistent blocking, and blown budgets, and this post dives into the real control layer needed to manage limits, allocations, and enforcement at scale.

OpenAI Just Published the Blueprint for AI Monetization. We’ve Been Building It for 3 Years.

OpenAI’s “Beyond Rate Limits” reveals the entitlement-first architecture behind modern AI monetization and why billing alone is no longer enough.

Your AI Billing Works. Your Usage Control Doesn't. Here's Why That's the Next Engineering Problem

Scaling AI in production introduces an infrastructure challenge that existing systems were never designed to solve. Your enterprise customers will feel it before you do.

The Rise of AI Usage Governance: Why Enterprise AI Needs Guardrails, Not Just Billing

How the shift from seat-based to token-based pricing is forcing engineering teams to rethink real-time consumption controls

The Post-M&A Billing Integration Nightmare Nobody Warns You About

Why acquiring three companies often means inheriting three billing systems, three entitlement models, and one massive architectural headache

Why Your Billing System Becomes the Bottleneck at Scale (And What to Do About It)

As SaaS pricing gets more dynamic, billing systems are quietly becoming the biggest constraint on how fast companies can move.

Stop Pricing the Cheese: Why “Just One More Usage Limit” Makes Pricing Harder to Sell

If your pricing has turned into a maze of usage limits, entitlements, and exceptions, this post explains why, and how it’s quietly killing adoption, velocity, and sales.

Introducing AI Usage Management: The First Real-Time Governance Layer for AI-Native Products (Early Access)

AI Usage Management is the first real-time governance layer for AI-native products, giving companies control over AI spend as it happens, not after it breaks.

Stigg is now on AWS Marketplace

Buy the way your company already buys, and stop letting monetization slow product teams down. With Stigg now available on AWS Marketplace, you can simplify procurement, unify pricing and entitlements, and move faster without duplicating logic or fighting internal process.

The "Pricing AI" Snake Oil: Why Your Billing Vendor Can’t Tell you How to Price your Product (And Shouldn't Try)

If your billing vendor says they can simulate the “right” price for your AI product, they’re replaying the past and calling it strategy. Here’s why pricing is a human, adversarial system that ML models fundamentally can’t solve.

When Your Customer Is an Algorithm

Why 2025 Was the Wake-Up Call, and What 2026 Will Demand From Every AI Company

Announcing Custom Credit Consumption Formulas

Pricing for AI products is no longer linear, and now your credit model doesn’t have to be either. Meet Custom Credit Consumption Formulas: a precise, flexible way to translate real product usage into accurate credit burn.

Unbundle to Enable: Modern Infrastructure for Selling AI

Recapping my packed Stripe Tour NYC talk: the future of AI monetization isn’t about perfect pricing—it’s about how fast you can change it.

We've built AI Credits. And it was harder than we expected.

We thought building AI credits would be simple. Turns out, we were building an entire economy. Here’s what we learned creating a credit system that powers AI monetization for modern SaaS.

Launch AI Credits Fast. Keep Your Billing Stack.

Credits, without the billing migration. Stigg's Credits Suite is the first enterprise-grade platform that lets you launch AI and SaaS credit models fast, right on top of your existing billing stack.

Introducing HTTP 402: Where Monetization Infrastructure is Shaped

HTTP 402 is a new, curated community for engineering and product leaders building the future of monetization infrastructure: pricing, billing, usage metering, entitlements, and beyond. If you’re shaping how SaaS gets paid, this is where your peers are.

Why Traditional Pricing Models Break in the Age of AI

AI is rewriting the rules of value, and with it, the way we price software. Traditional seat- and usage-based models can’t keep up, leaving companies to rethink how pricing should work in an AI-first world.

Launching Enum Entitlements: A New Primitive for the Agent Era

As AI agents reshape how software is consumed, traditional licensing models fall short. Enum Entitlements introduce structured, dynamic controls that pave the way for agent-ready monetization in the new era of software.

The Engineer's Case for Buying Monetization

What started as a quick script to handle subscriptions has snowballed into a brittle, high-risk billing monolith that’s slowing your entire business. In this post, we unpack the hidden costs of building monetization in-house—and why modern, API-first platforms like Stigg give engineers the flexibility and control to escape the velocity tax.

From Billing to Growth Infrastructure: The Expanding Mandate of the Commerce Platform

As SaaS companies face mounting pressure to grow revenue, a new layer of infrastructure is emerging: the MonetizationOS. Learn how forward-thinking teams are replacing brittle billing systems with programmable, scalable platforms that turn monetization into a growth engine.

Metering Isn’t Billing. It’s Infrastructure, and It Needs to Be Right.

Most teams underestimate metering. Until it breaks. If you're building usage-based pricing or AI features, reliable usage tracking isn't optional, it's core infrastructure.

Integrating Stripe with Stigg: A Deep Dive into Decoupled Monetization

Stop letting hard-coded billing logic slow down your growth. Learn how to decouple pricing from billing and move faster.

The Engineer’s Guide to Entitlements: What They Are and Why Your Current Setup Isn’t Enough

You’ve got pricing plans, feature tiers, maybe even usage limits. But if your infrastructure can’t enforce those in real time, it’s not built to scale. Here’s what engineering teams need to know about building entitlements that actually support modern SaaS.

The Rise of the Commerce Platform: Redefining Monetization Infrastructure at Scale

Legacy billing is breaking. The fastest-growing SaaS companies are quietly building a new layer: the Commerce Platform. Here’s why.

Stigg Secures SOC 1 Type 2 Certification

Stigg has achieved SOC 1 Type 2 certification, reinforcing its commitment to secure, enterprise-grade monetization infrastructure. This milestone gives customers added confidence in the accuracy, governance, and reliability of the systems powering their revenue.

The Future of Access - Managing Entitlements for AI Agents

AI agents are scaling fast - but are you giving them unlimited access without guardrails? Discover why traditional access control isn’t enough, and how modern entitlement management is the missing piece to keep costs, risk, and chaos in check.

Beyond Limits: Replatforming Webflow’s Monetization Infrastructure With Stigg

Discover how Webflow reimagined its monetization infrastructure with Stigg to break through growth bottlenecks and unlock rapid pricing innovation—straight from one of the most talked-about sessions at Stripe Sessions 2025.

"Billing" is productized; Monetization is the Challenge.

Billing is out-of-the-box. Monetization is in your code. Pricing, entitlements, usage limits — they live deep in your product and require engineering to change. Stigg is built to fix that.

Unbundle. Orchestrate. Automate. Introducing MonetizationOS.

Break free from the monetization infra you never meant to build.

Introducing Billing Orchestration: The Future of Multi-Billing Management

The Billing Burden No One Talks About

The End of an Era: Zuora Goes Private in a $1.7 Billion Deal – What’s Next for Your Billing?

Zuora's recent struggles highlight the decline of the billing monolith, as enterprises demand more flexible, modular solutions. The rise of specialized tools is reshaping the billing market, as companies seek interoperability and tailored solutions for different teams. Discover what’s driving this shift and what it means for the future of subscription management.

RBAC: Secure, Scalable Collaboration for Your Monetization

Your Sales team just closed a huge enterprise deal—without waiting on engineering. With Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), business teams can now provision customers, extend trials, and add entitlements - all while engineering retains full control over critical systems. Faster deals, tighter security, no bottlenecks. Let’s dive in!

Breaking Billing; The Billing Engine Monolith is dead. Unbundled Monetization Infrastructure is the future.

The B2B Monetization Infrastructure Manifest.

The Agents Are Coming: Are Your APIs Ready for Agentic AI Consumption?

AI agents are coming - and they’ll hammer your APIs with usage humans or human-generated code could never match. Skyrocketing costs, overloaded systems, and unpredictable spikes - these will all consequently disrupt your business and your new *Agentic customer* purchase experience. Here’s how to get your infrastructure ready and turn this chaos into a growth opportunity.

Transforming App Monetization: Auth0 and Stigg Partner to Simplify Pricing for App Builders

Unlock seamless pricing and monetization strategies with the new Auth0-Stigg integration - designed to empower app developers everywhere

The Billing Monolith is Dead: Announcing Stigg’s $17.5M Series A Funding to Build the Future of Monetization

We've just raised $17.5M in Series A funding, led by Red Dot Capital Partners. Here is what's next!

Beyond metering. The only guide you’ll ever need to implement usage-based pricing.

Don’t get lost in the fine print. Hard limits, soft limits, overages, true-ups, top-ups, auto-upgrades and more. Your product never looked so messy to bill. Time for some good-ol’ house cleaning.

Deal closed won in Salesforce. Now what?

How to engineer a modern, fail-safe and fine-grained account provisioning automation workflow without breaking whiteboards.

Scalable Subscription Migrations - To Infinity and Beyond

Learn how we had to completely rethink about the way we process subscription migrations to support tens of millions of customers

The easiest way to sell your SaaS on AWS Marketplace

Are you selling on AWS marketplace? Or thinking to add this to your growth strategy? With Stigg's AWS integration, you'll never need to write - or maintain - the same entitlement logic ever again!

Easily accept payments with Stigg’s snap-in checkout flows

If you're charging your customers money, you'll need a checkout flow. And with our launch today, you'll be able to add a fully customizable checkout flow, tailored to your pricing model and independent of any billing provider, in just a few lines of code. 🎉

This is how PagerDuty quickly launched new pricing tiers and a self-service free trial

A couple of weeks ago in a status meeting, we were talking about entitlements. I told someone ‘I think all things are possible through the power of Stigg’ and they told me that ‘That’s the kind of quote that we would absolutely kill to get about our product’.

Introducing true hybrid pricing: Stigg is the first and only (!) platform to support entitlements AND advanced metering

For the first time ever in SaaS, you'll get advanced metering *and* entitlements out of the box, making Stigg the first and only platform to build true hybrid pricing.

Pricing for developers, at scale: Why 3 ex-New Relic just joined Stigg

This month, three incredible ex-New Relic developers join Stigg. Here's why we're so excited they're here, and why they've decided to join our mission.

New feature: Go to market like Webflow, Hotjar, and Heroku

Stigg now supports multiple resource-based subscriptions per customer, so you can slice and monetize your product by the various apps, sites, or resources separately.

Introducing price localization capabilities in Stigg

In this product update, we introduce Stigg's price localization capability - an absolute must to enter new markets, cater to different purchasing power, and build exceptional buyer experiences.

How a fast-growing open-source platform drives paid subscriptions using Stigg

“The best thing with Stigg is, we have the option. Whatever we plan to do with our pricing in the future, we know we can.”

Wix’s Sergei Sorin on building a monetization infrastructure that scales

Your infrastructure should never be a blocker to your company’s growth. In this episode, Sergei Sorin shares what has enabled the growth of Wix in the past 2 years and how the team can run dozens of A/B tests on pricing per year.

The only guide you’ll ever need to implement upgrade & downgrade flows [Part 2]

In the second part of this two-part series, we go behind the scenes of Stigg's code and share the 5 most crucial learnings from our engineering team when building scheduled downgrade flows.

We’ve tested the top 40 SaaS companies: This is how they handle upgrades & downgrades [Part 1]

With ever-growing competition in SaaS, you’ll need to provide seamless experiences to your buyers and full flexibility in changing pricing plans. Building Stigg, we’ve researched how the fastest-growing SaaS companies handle upgrades & downgrades. Here’s what we found.

Stigg streamlines pricing for Swimm’s developers and sales to create better buyer experiences

"I saw Stigg and thought ‘Why would we even consider building something like this.’ It allows us to offload a lot of the pricing pressure and fully focus on the core product again."

How we built our CI/CD pipeline for velocity and quality

Velocity is a core element for us at Stigg. Yet, moving fast requires the right pipelines and safety nets in place to deploy code safely to production. In this article, we share the 5 principles we’ve built our CI/CD pipeline upon to support velocity, without compromising on quality or safety.

An engineer’s step-by-step guide to plan versioning

Versioning is a critical concept for engineers building pricing plans in SaaS. In this article, we're sharing everything we've learned about plan versioning and how you can enable it in your codebase.

How Stigg helped DoubleLoop change their entire pricing model in the week before the launch

"Stigg gives pricing a solid structure. It allows me to launch immediately, significantly speed up the learning curve, and get to a pricing model that works for the business and our customers."

You integrated with Stripe, but are you confident that it works?

Implementing Stripe is not enough. We've learned this the hard way, when we found internal server error responses from Stripe after deploying bad code. So, we've built end-to-end testing to never fear revenue loss again.

Introducing Stigg’s no-code designer

In this product update, we introduce Stigg’s no-code designer - the absolute easiest and quickest way to turn Stigg’s out-of-the-box widgets into fully customized paywalls and customer portals.

Guidde builds better pricing plans, using minimal R&D resources with Stigg

“The moment I heard about Stigg, I was sold. We finally have a way to change things in our pricing and sync it with marketing and product, without talking to R&D!!”

Best practices I wish we knew when integrating Stripe webhooks

In this article we will describe what are the best practices to create the webhook integration with Stripe. We will be focusing only on one side of our two-way integration. The side that is listening to webhooks and acting on them.

Talkbase launches agile pricing plans while saving months of development

Using Stigg, the team saved initial 4 weeks of engineering time to build their pricing in-house and saved at least half a developer per month to focus on product innovations instead of ongoing pricing model maintenance.

Trial pricing implementation: 6 best practices for developers

Trial pricing is a smart way for SaaS businesses to capture and convert customers. But it can be tricky for engineering teams to implement. Here are 6 best practices to help you better implement trial pricing and creates a seamless experience for customers.

Get up and running fast with Stigg’s API Gateway integration

This product update introduces Stigg’s API Gateway integration - the fastest way to gating feature access based on the pricing plans built in Stigg.

Introducing Stigg’s customer portal widget

In this product update, we introduce Stigg’s customer portal widget - the fastest way to introduce best-in-class customer portals to let your customers manage their pricing plan, view usage data, or update billing information.

Launch new pricing with Stigg. Get started now.

A better buying experience is what stands between free to paid customers. Today, Stigg’s makes its APIs & SDKs available, so you can develop and launch new pricing plans in seconds, and roll-out exceptional self-service buying experiences.

Pricing is an ongoing quest. Follow the trail others have left.

Truth is that like your product, pricing development never stops. And the most successful SaaS companies make radical changes to their pricing continuously. How do we know? Because we went ahead and did the research for you! Meet pricing.quest.

Snyk’s Ben Grohbiel On Building A Monetization Infrastructure

Treating software monetization as a platform instead of separate systems allows your business to build a powerful buyer experience and adapt to business needs faster. What does Snyk’s monetization infrastructure look like and what did they learn while building it?

Stigg Is Now Officially SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 Compliant

Data security and reliability are fundamental elements for us at Stigg, so we chose the strongest form of compliance. Here's what we did.

Learnings from Building a Pricing Infra with Reclaim's Co-Founder & CEO

Reclaim.ai's co-founder shares his insights and learnings from building the infrastructure they built to manage their pricing model and handle trials and subscriptions

How Pleo Built a Pricing & Packaging Infrastructure With Arnon Shimoni [Video]

We sat down with Pleo to talk about their pricing infrastructure and the pricing iterations they run with it.

Calling All Founders- Don’t Wait For Your Next Board Meeting. Launch These New Pricing Plans. Now.

As the economic downturn deepens and continues to reveal its implications, revenue optimization is king.

Building pricing plans in SaaS is rigid, slow and uninformed. Enter Stigg.

Today, we’re excited to launch Stigg, the platform that changes the way SaaS companies define, refine, and execute their pricing strategy.

Developer First as a company value

Today, we’re excited to launch Stigg, the platform that the way

Why We Named Stigg "Stigg"

Read on to know where "Stigg" comes from and how this is connected to ants.

Consumerization of SaaS: Apps, Apps Everywhere

No matter how niche, there's a SaaS for it. This trend might imply an even further future disruption to the way organizations adopt new software.

This is how Webflow engineered its high-scale pricing & packaging infra to the next level with Stigg

“One thing which I could say is, ‘We got this. We have it supported for you.’ Just that is empowering for all teams, because they can focus on pricing strategy and don’t have to worry about spending 6 months to launch this from an engineering point of view.”

Billing System Architecture vs. Entitlements Explained

Billing system architecture manages invoices and payments. Entitlements control product access and limits. See how both layers fit into a modern software stack.

Consumption-Based Pricing Models: Types and Systems

Explore types of consumption-based pricing models and how systems track usage, apply pricing, and enforce limits in production.

Entitlement Management: The Complete Guide for AI Products

Learn what entitlement management is, how it enforces credit and token limits in real time, and how to build a system that decouples pricing from code.

8 AI Billing Platforms for Tokens, Credits, and Inference

8 AI billing software platforms compared for tokens, credits, and inference pricing. Includes pricing, implementation complexity, and honest pros and cons.

6 Subscription Management Software Built for AI Product Teams

Flat monthly plans are the easy case. Here are 6 subscription management platforms that handle the harder requirements most AI products actually run into.

Product Monetization Models and Engineering Trade-Offs

Explore product monetization strategies and what they require from your stack, including pricing catalogs, metering, and real-time limits.

A Guide to Quote-to-Cash (Q2C) for AI Products

How the quote-to-cash process works for AI products, where it breaks for usage-based and credit models, and what the enforcement layer looks like.

Revenue Leakage & How AI Products Can Prevent It

Most revenue leakage guides were written for subscription SaaS. AI products leak differently and earlier. Here is what causes it and how to close the gap.

Usage-Based Pricing Examples: 5 Models Explained

See real usage-based pricing examples and what it takes to build them. Covers metering, enforcement, credits, and scaling challenges.

Price Localization: Strategy, Examples, and Infrastructure

Understand price localization, regional pricing strategies, and the infrastructure needed to manage pricing across markets and currencies.

Dynamic Paywalls: From Feature Gates to Metered Usage

See how dynamic paywalls handle feature gates, trials, credit balances, and dynamic metered paywalls without hardcoded plan logic.

Usage Metering Explained: Architecture and Pipelines

Learn how usage metering works across ingestion, aggregation, and enforcement. Covers real-time tracking and scaling for production systems.

Credit Pricing: Models, Infrastructure, and Pitfalls

Credit pricing breaks under scale without the right setup. This guide covers concurrency, ledgers, and enforcement for production credit systems.

8 Best Generative AI Usage-Based Billing Software in 2026

Generative AI usage-based billing software compared across 8 platforms. Includes pricing, engineering complexity, AI metric support, and pros and cons.

API Monetization: Pricing, Enforcement, and What Billing Misses

API monetization fails when the enforcement layer is missing. Here's what each pricing model requires and why billing tools alone aren't always enough.

Usage-Based API Billing: The Architecture Behind AI Credits

The credit layer in usage-based API billing is different from standard metering. Here's what it requires in real-world production deployments.

AI Billing Infrastructure: Why Billing Alone Isn't Enough

AI billing infrastructure for production means more than wiring up Stripe. Here is the enforcement and entitlements layer most engineering teams skip.