Nue's Usage Accelerator separates usage rating from billing execution, processing high-volume usage events while maintaining pricing flexibility. Capture revenue from every API call, storage gigabyte, and compute minute without having to build custom metering infrastructure.
Most billing systems require pre-aggregated data and complex SKUs for every usage scenario, which often causes discrepancies between calculated charges and actual customer consumption.
- Engineering teams build custom metering systems that don't scale.
- Finance discovers billing discrepancies during month-end processes.
- Customers dispute charges because usage data arrives late or incomplete.
- Launching new usage-based products requires significant development time.
Let your engineering teams focus on product development while Nue's billing engine handles the rest.
Nue processes usage events through its dedicated rating engine before they ever touch billing. This separation enables real-time pricing calculations, flexible credit models, and seamless integration with existing metering systems.
When usage events flow into Nue, the rating engine immediately calculates their value based on your pricing rules, determining the appropriate charge for each customer's usage. An API call might cost 0.5 credits. A gigabyte of storage might cost 2 credits. A compute minute might cost 0.1 credits.
Your engineering team can send high volumes of events to Nue, and let it handle all pricing complexity without worrying about performance.
Nue supports three distinct usage models, each designed for specific business scenarios.
Overage Usage tracks consumption beyond included limits. When your customer's plan includes 1,000 API calls and they hit 1,001, Nue automatically calculates overage charges based on your tiered pricing.
The Credit Model works like a prepaid phone plan. Customers purchase credits upfront and draw them down through usage. Best for businesses who want predictable revenue with consumption-based pricing.
Credit Burndown takes the credit model one step further by supporting multiple credit pools with different expiration dates and consumption rates. Enterprise customers, for instance, might maintain separate pools for development and production usage, with each pool tracking independently according to its own rules.
Nue knows real usage pricing isn't one-dimensional. A gigabyte of storage in Asia costs differently than in North America, enterprise customers receive volume discounts, and partner transactions have special rates.
Nue's multi-attribute pricing handles up to 10 pricing attributes simultaneously. Define rates based on region, customer tier, partner status, time of day, or any custom attribute. The rating engine evaluates all conditions in real-time while reducing SKU complexity.
Credits sound simple until you implement them. How do you handle partial consumption? What happens when credits expire? How do customers track multiple credit pools?
Nue's credit management system answers these questions with production-ready features. Create multiple credit pools per customer with independent rules. A customer might have 10,000 production credits expiring in 12 months, 5,000 development credits expiring in 6 months, and 2,000 bonus credits with no expiration.
Intelligent credit consumption handles different services consuming credits at different rates. Nue's conversion multipliers handle this elegantly. Configure once and the system handles the math: API calls at 1 credit per 100 calls, storage at 2 credits per GB per month, and compute at 0.5 credits per minute.
Full credit lifecycle management handles credit expiration with automatic notifications, allows credits to roll over between periods or expire based on your business model, and prorates partial credit consumption precisely.
- Increased revenue capture through accurate usage tracking and real-time rating
- Faster product launches with usage-based offerings
- Higher customer satisfaction from transparent usage tracking and real-time visibility
- More efficient operations with streamlined reconciliation and improved month-end processes
- API-first architecture that maintains existing metering systems without disruption
This approach ensures no revenue is lost from delayed processing while dramatically reducing support tickets about billing confusion.
Consider a SaaS company offering API services with complex usage patterns. They need to track API calls, data processing, and storage across different customer tiers and regions.
With Nue's Usage Accelerator:
- API calls: 0.001 credits per call for standard tier, 0.0005 for enterprise
- Data processing: 1 credit per GB processed
- Storage: 0.1 credits per GB per month
- Regional multipliers: 1.2x for EU, 0.8x for APAC
An enterprise customer in the EU processes 500GB of data, makes 100,000 API calls, and stores 50GB. The automatic rating is as follows:
- Data processing: 500 GB × 1 credit/GB × 1.2 (EU factor) = 600 credits
- API calls: 100,000 calls × 0.0005 credits/call × 1.2 (EU factor) = 60 credits
- Storage: 50 GB × 0.1 credits/GB × 1.2 (EU factor) = 6 credits
Total: 666 credits consumed.
All calculations happen in real-time with complete transparency for both the customer and finance team.
Engineering teams reduce custom metering infrastructure while maintaining their existing usage tracking. They can launch new usage-based products without building billing complexity.
Finance teams get accurate revenue recognition with real-time usage rating and reduce manual reconciliation. They can close books faster with complete confidence in usage calculations.
Product teams can experiment with pricing models without engineering dependencies. They can test new usage metrics and deploy pricing changes quickly.
If your business has:
- Consumption-based products requiring real-time tracking
- Complex pricing rules with multiple attributes
- Credit-based business models needing flexible management
- High-volume usage events requiring accurate rating
Nue's usage approach becomes essential for scaling consumption-based revenue.
It especially benefits SaaS companies with API products, infrastructure providers with compute/storage offerings, communications platforms with message/minute billing, and any business experimenting with usage-based pricing models.
See how Nue transforms usage-based billing. Our revenue experts will show you real-time usage rating in action, credit pool configuration and management, multi-attribute pricing scenarios, and actual customer success metrics.
Stop wasting time building usage infrastructure. Start monetizing consumption.