Use cases

Usage-Based & API Billing for AI Agents

Can I bill by usage instead of a flat subscription?

Yes. PingBusiness supports usage-based billing - meter an action (an API call, a generation, a query) and charge per unit rather than a flat recurring fee.

Who this fits:

  • Developer tools and APIs billing per call or per request
  • AI-native products charging per generation, per token, or per task
  • Infrastructure and data services with variable, usage-driven costs
  • Builders experimenting with pricing before committing to a flat-rate plan

This is also where PingBusiness connects to the broader agentic-payments picture - as AI agents increasingly transact on a user's behalf, usage-based billing is the natural pricing model for that traffic, not a flat human-facing subscription.