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1. Fixed Price.

The customer pays a fixed price (e.g., $29/month) to access a defined set of features for a billing cycle (e.g., monthly or annually). The cost remains the same regardless of how much or how little they use the product.

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2. Dynamic Pricing

In Metrifox, Dynamic Pricing for a metered feature is built using Tiers. The behavior of these tiers determines how the total cost is calculated.
  • A Tier is a pricing rule that applies to a specific billable unit bracket (e.g., “$0.10 per unit for 1-1,000 units”).
  • A Pricing Model (e.g., per unit, percentage, flat fee, and package) is attached to each tier.
    • Flat: A fixed charge per billing period, regardless of the number of billable units.
    • Per Unit: Fixed rate for each unit consumed or outcome. e.g.$0.20/GB of storage, $20/qualified_leads , $0.01/AI token
    • Per Package: Predefined bundles of units. e.g. $10 for 100 email sends
    • Percentage: Charge a % of revenue or transaction value. e.g.2.5% of each payment processed, 15% of incremental sales.
  • You can set an additional optional flat fee per tier.

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a. Standard Pricing (Single Tier)

  • Setup: A single pricing tier is defined.
  • Behavior: This is a simple pricing. ****It does not blend. Every billable unit consumed is charged based on the pricing model rules.
  • Example: $0.10 per API call for all usage. 1,000 units = 1,000 * $0.10 = $100

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b. Graduated Pricing (Multiple Tiers - Default)

  • Setup: Multiple tiers are defined. This is the default behavior.
  • Behavior: The usage is blended across tiers. Units are grouped into their respective tiers and each group is charged at that tier’s rate. The total cost is the sum of these blended calculations.
  • Example:
    • Tier 1: $0.10 per unit for the first 1,000 units
    • Tier 2: $0.08 per unit for units 1,001-5,000
    • For 2,500 units:
      • First 1,000 units: 1,000 * $0.10 = $100
      • Next 1,500 units: 1,500 * $0.08 = $120
      • Total (Blended): $100 + $120 = $220

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c. Volume Pricing (Multiple Tiers + Discount)

  • Setup: Multiple tiers are defined with the “Volume Discount” option enabled.
  • Behavior: It does not blend. Instead, the price of the highest tier reached applies to all units consumed. This gives a discount on the entire volume.
  • Example:
    • Tier 1: $0.10 per unit for the first 1,000 units
    • Tier 2: $0.08 per unit for units 1,001-5,000 (Volume Discount enabled)
    • For 2,500 units (which reaches Tier 2):
      • All 2,500 units are charged at the Tier 2 rate: 2,500 * $0.08 = $200