APIs · AI Agents · Agentic APIs · MCP Servers

The Commerce Platform for the AI Economy.

Catalog every API, AI agent, and MCP server you sell. Price with compound usage models. Meter at the gateway edge with drop-in plugins for Kong, Apigee, AWS, Azure, and MuleSoft. No application code change. Bill, invoice, and recognize revenue. Your brand, your domain, end-to-end.

SOC 2 Type IIGDPRHIPAAISO 270015 gateway plugins4 SDK languages
LIVE SIMULATOR
M:N Compound Pricing
M: Raw Infrastructure Telemetry
Input Tokens
@ $3.00/M
12,000
Output Tokens
@ $15.00/M
4,500
Vector DB Lookups
@ $0.02/query
6
Total COGS$0.2235
N: Customer-Facing Charge
QTYITEMAMOUNT
1xContract Reviewed$0.85
TOTAL$0.85
Margin Health
Gross Margin73.7%
0%40% safe100%
Where We Fit

Amberflo and Metronome meter AI usage. Aforo runs AI commerce.

Most billing platforms stop at the rating engine. Aforo doesn't.

One tenant. One contract. One audit trail.

Pricing Architect AI

Describe your pricing. Watch it deploy.

No more engineering tickets for pricing changes. Type pricing in English—Pricing Architect AI configures, simulates on 30 days of usage, and ships to staging for one-click approval.

97/500
Or pick an example
Metricstokens_in
RateplansTiered
Usage Charges
Token Usage Pay Per Use
0 – 10K tokensFree
10K – 1M tokens$0.001 per token
1M+ tokens$0.0008 per token (20% off)
Last 30 days
Usage1.2M Tokens
Revenue Generated$18,420
Plan validated against 30-day usage. No engineering ticket required.

Demo runs canned animations against 3 example inputs. The live Pricing Architect AI service runs Claude Sonnet with tool_use against your real Aforo workspace — sandboxed simulation against your last 30 days of real usage data before any deploy.

THE PLATFORM

APIs. LLMs. Agents. One platform for Monetization

THE TENANT FLOW
The Event
Starts
Client
Inbound request
Aforo Sidecar
Entitlement check · key validation
API Gateway
5 native plugins, drop-in
Upstream
Your Products
APILLMAGENT
The Event Ingestion
<50ms P99 usage ingest
  1. Quota01
  2. Rollover02
  3. Aggregate03
  4. Allowance04
  5. Rate05
  6. Commit06
  7. Discount07
  8. Tax08
  9. Route09
  10. Settle10
Margin Guard
Alert Only
Throttle
Block
Reconciliation
Cycle30s
Drift bands±1% · 5% · 15%
Coverage99.87%
Aforo Ledger
ASC 606 mapping at the line item · multi-entity rollup
Revenue Intelligence
AI Cost Tracking
The White Label
Storefront
  • Product Catalog
  • Payments
  • Invoices
  • Usage Analytics
  • Developer center
Canonical line items
ASC 606 to the line item · finance
Tenant / billing rail
Stripe
NetSuite
Xero
QuickBooks
Avalara
Custom Webhook
BUILT FOR MONETIZATION

Everything you need to monetize, in one platform.

Organize everything you want to monetize into one clean catalog.

Register APIs, AI models, and data products
Attach plans, rate limits, and feature flags per product
Manage all versions from one place — no sprawl
Product Catalog+ Add Product
Standard APIActive
Translation API
2 plans · 273 subscribers
v2.1.0 · Native
MCP ServerDraft
DataPipe MCP
2 plans · 0 subscribers
v0.9.0 · Native
Agentic APIActive
AI Model — Enterprise
3 plans · 115 subscribers
v3.0.1 · Cloned
gRPC APIActive
Account Service
2 plans · 180 subscribers
v1.4.2 · Native
SaaS FunctionDraft
Serverless Functions
1 plan · 0 subscribers
v0.1.0 · Native
+
New product
Revenue Intelligence

Eight pricing models. Margin protection. Audit-grade reconciliation.

Give your Product and Finance teams the tools to scale pricing without filing a Jira ticket.

8 / 8 native

8 Native Pricing Models

Launch multi-dimensional rate cards instantly. From per-unit overages to outcome-based billing, change rate cards from the UI.

PER_UNIT
GRADUATED
VOLUME_TIERED
INCLUDED_QUOTA
FLAT_RATE
PERCENTAGE
STAIRCASE
OUTCOME_BASED
CLEAN · 04:30 UTC

Automated Reconciliation

Nightly drift detection reconciles estimated versus invoiced revenue, ensuring complete SOC 2-ready accuracy across millions of events.

events reconciled14,802,617
drift band±1% · 5% · 15%
coverage99.87%
severityCLEAN
Agentic & AI Monetization

First-Class Infrastructure for AI Agents.

Don't build custom billing for the agentic economy. Aforo natively understands tokens, tool calls, and model contexts.

3 transports

MCP Standard Support

Deploy the @aforo/mcp-proxy sidecar to intercept and monetize Model Context Protocol JSON-RPC calls instantly.

$ npm i -g @aforo/mcp-proxy
$ aforo-mcp-proxy \
--transport stdio \
--command "npx -y @mcp/server-fs"
stdiossestreamable-http
tokens · outcomes

Token & Outcome Billing

Move beyond flat API calls. Bill dynamically on exact LLM input/output tokens or weighted AI outcomes.

tokens_in1,842
tokens_out612
outcomeSUCCESS · w=1.0
modelclaude-3-5-sonnet
auto-discovered

Repository Auto-Discovery

Point Aforo at your GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket agent manifests to instantly generate billable products in your Pricing Studio.

github.com/acme/agent-platform
parsing agent.yaml…
✓ 14 capabilities discovered
✓ 3 tool registries indexed
capabilitySource = AUTO_DISCOVERED
GitHubGitLabBitbucket
How We Compare

You have options. Here's where each one fits, and what Aforo adds.

Four credible alternatives, each strong at one job. Aforo runs the full AI commerce stack around them.

ALTERNATIVE
WHAT AFORO ADDS
Stripe Billing
Subscription billing rail
Aforo runs upstream, meters and prices the event, then writes clean line items into Stripe or your ERP. Complementary, not competitive.
Metronome · Orb · Lago
Usage-billing platforms
Single-metric by design. Aforo treats compound pricing (tokens + sessions + tool calls in one rate card) as first-class, with sub-2ms entitlement at the gateway edge.
Amberflo
AI usage metering platform
Metering-first. Aforo treats metering as one layer in a 9-layer commerce stack: gateway entitlement, compound pricing, ASC 606, and white-label storefront are first-class.
Build-your-own
In-house billing infrastructure
12-18 engineering-months for the billing pipe, plus ~6 for a Plan Studio. Aforo ships it today.
Built For The Buying Committee

Four teams. One platform. Four ways to win.

Enterprise AI deals are sold by Engineering, scoped by Product, closed by Sales, and audited by Finance. Aforo gives each team what their part of the deal actually needs.

Engineering

Drop-in at the edge of your existing stack

Native plugins for Kong, Apigee, AWS, Azure, and MuleSoft. SDKs in Node.js, Python, Java, and Go. P99 sub-50ms ingest, replay-safe across APIs, AI agents, and MCP servers.

For Engineering teams
Product

Ship a new pricing tier without an engineering ticket

Pricing Architect AI turns plain-English pricing into metrics, rate plans, and entitlements, sandboxed against 30 days of usage first. Eight models stack into compound rate plans without custom code.

For Product teams
Finance

Every invoice line ties back to a timestamped event

ASC 606 applied at the line item, not bolted on after close. 10-stage pipeline with FX, tax, and spend caps. Native sync to QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite, or any ERP via Custom Webhook.

For Finance teams
Sales & Revenue Ops

Quote, negotiate, and close without leaving the platform

Five-step quote builder with approval routing on discount thresholds. Signed-URL customer acceptance with full audit trail. On accept, the quote becomes a subscription atomically, no handoff drops.

For Sales teams

Keep your gateway. Keep your books. Add Aforo.

Aforo plugs in alongside the gateways, clouds, payment providers, and ERPs your team already runs. Engineers don’t ship a migration. Finance doesn’t close on a new system.

Enterprise Grade

Built for the procurement process, not just the proof of concept.

Multi-tenant isolation at the database level. SAML + OIDC SSO with an immutable, exportable audit trail. A full operations console — uptime, incidents, system health, event logging. Nested tenants and per-entity branding for holding companies, resellers, and partner ecosystems. Production-ready, not a roadmap promise.

Read the Enterprise Security architecture
Founding cohort · Q3 2026 · 4 of 8 slots filled

Ship pricing in minutes. Recognize revenue by quarter close.

Start free, no credit card. Up to 1M events/month at no cost. When you scale, gateway plugins, white-label storefront, ASC 606 recognition, and dedicated support are already built in. Founding-cohort members lock in pricing for the life of their contract, get a named architect through onboarding, and join the weekly founder product-input session.

Free up to 1M events/month · SOC 2 Type II · GDPR · ASC 606 · Volume Tiers · Dedicated Support