PRICING

Predictable Infrastructure. Zero "Success Tax."

Stop paying a percentage of your revenue to your billing vendor. Aforo charges based on your infrastructure scale — events, tokens, and sessions — keeping your margins in your pocket.

Starter

$0/ month

For teams proving product-market fit.

Start Buildings
  • 50K events / month
  • 1 Storefront
  • All 6 pricing models
  • Basic Revenue Intelligence
  • Stripe integration
  • Community support

Full platform access. Same APIs, same pipeline, same metering engine as production. Build and validate before you scale.

MOST TEAMS START HERE

Growth

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For scaling platforms with complex billing needs.

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  • 1M+ events / month
  • Negative Margin Alerts
  • 10-stage billing pipeline
  • ERP integrations (NetSuite, SAP)
  • Revenue Intelligence dashboards
  • Email + Slack support (4hr SLA)

Volume-tiered event pricing. The more you process, the lower your per-event cost. No revenue percentage. Your margins stay yours.

Enterprise

Custom

For global organizations requiring total control.

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  • Unlimited events
  • Dedicated instance
  • SSO / SAML + RBAC
  • Immutable audit logs (SOC 2)
  • Multi-tenant isolation
  • Named CSM + custom SLA

Annual contracts with committed volumes. Platform of Platforms. White-label storefront. Data residency. We negotiate terms that fit your business.

Standardize your monetization in minutes. Aforo replaces 6+ months of custom engineering and $250K+ in annual maintenance costs.

VOLUME-TIERED PRICING

Per-event cost falls as you scale.

No revenue percentage. No surprise multipliers. Just transparent volume tiers — the pricing model your CFO can audit on a single page.

volume-tier-curve.chartLIVE PRICING
TIEREVENTS / MONTH$ / EVENTSAVINGS
STARTER
0 — 100K
$0.0080
GROWTH
100K — 1M
$0.0050−38%
SCALE
1M — 10M
$0.0028−65%
PLATFORM
10M — 100M
$0.0014−83%
ENTERPRISE
100M+
$0.0006−93%
committed annual volume · negotiable above 100M events// 92.5% gross margin retained

Included in Every Production Tier

We do not gate features behind pricing tiers. The platform is the platform. The only variable is volume.

All 6 pricing models

Per-unit, tiered, volume, graduated, flat, percentage

10-stage billing pipeline

Quota, rollover, aggregate, allowance, rate, commit, discount, tax, route, settle

Real-time metering engine

Sub-5ms event ingestion with validation and enrichment

Automated invoicing & dunning

Tax-compliant invoices, payment retry sequences, revenue recovery

5 gateway integrations

Kong, AWS API Gateway, Apigee, Azure APIM, MuleSoft

Enterprise Storefront

Self-serve signup, usage dashboard, API key management

Wallet & escrow management

Prepaid drawdowns, hybrid billing, escrow holds

Webhooks & event streaming

Real-time notifications on billing events, subscription changes

Tired of the 0.5% Revenue Tax?

Most billing providers penalize your growth — charging a percentage of every dollar you collect. The more successful you are, the more you pay them. Aforo's infrastructure-first pricing means your margins stay in your pocket. You pay for events processed, not revenue earned.

cost-model-comparison.chartAS YOUR ARR GROWS →
ANNUAL PLATFORM COST
$62K$125K$188KCompetitor 0.5%Aforo per-eventSAVINGS AT$35M ARR$0$10M$20M$35M$50M ARR
Competitor (0.5% of ARR)Aforo (flat per-event)
// shaded area = your retained margin

Compare Plans in Detail

plan-comparison-matrix.diffCURRENT
Starter
Growth
Enterprise
MONETIZATION ENGINE
Product Catalog
6 Pricing Models
10-Stage Billing Pipeline
Multi-Product Offerings
Prepaid Wallets & Escrow
Credits & Waterfall Billing
Enterprise Storefront
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
ERP Export (NetSuite, SAP, Xero)
Platform of Platforms
REVENUE INTELLIGENCE
Revenue Cockpit (KPI Dashboard)
Basic
Negative Margin Alerts
COGS & Margin Visibility
Custom Report Builder
Data Warehouse Export
Live Ingestion View (SSE)
12 Pre-Built Report Templates
SECURITY & COMPLIANCE
Tenant Isolation
TLS 1.3 + AES-256 Encryption
Role-Based Access Control
SSO / SAML / OIDC
Immutable Audit LogsENTERPRISE
Dedicated Instance
GDPR Data Residency
Custom SLA

Enterprise Only

Available on annual contracts. These capabilities require contractual agreements.

SSO (SAML / OIDC)
Audit log with export
Platform of Platforms
Custom SLA (99.9%+ uptime)
White-label storefront
Dedicated CSM + onboarding

How You Pay

An event is any usage data point your customers generate — API calls, token consumption, sessions, storage bytes, or custom dimensions. You define what counts. We meter, validate, and invoice.

event-ingestion.pipelineRUNNING
EVENT ORIGIN
01

Your customers use your product

Every API call, session, or transaction generates a usage event captured at the gateway or via SDK. Sub-5ms latency.

METERING ENGINE
02

We validate and aggregate

Events are deduplicated, validated against your schema, enriched with contract terms, and aggregated into billable units.

INVOICE ISSUED
03

You get billed monthly

Your Aforo platform fee is calculated from total events processed at your volume tier. Higher volume unlocks lower per-event rates.

event ingestion · validation · aggregation · billing calculation// 10-stage pipeline

Frequently Asked Questions

6+
Pricing Models
Per-unit, tiered, volume, graduated, flat, percentage
10
Stage Billing Pipeline
Rate, commit, discount, tax, route, settle + more
99.99%
Uptime SLA
Enterprise-grade availability guarantee
100%
Immutable Audit Coverage
Every config change, every rate plan update
READY TO DEPLOY

Stop building billing. Start billing.

Full platform. No credit card. No per-seat trap. No feature gating. Just events processed.