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Agentic API billing

Price and control machine-speed usage before it becomes margin risk.

Agent loops, background workflows, and customer integrations can create traffic faster than people can react. Meter the outcome, enforce policy at call start, and keep billing records trustworthy.

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✓Pre-call policy checks
✓Burst and allowance controls
✓Idempotent usage events
✓Forecast and runout signals

Before work

Authorize expensive activity.

Decide whether the customer is entitled to begin an agent action or API request before vendor cost is created.

  • Check plan and customer policy
  • Apply burst, allowance, and hard-limit rules
  • Return the action your product should take

After work

Meter the result, not only the attempt.

Connect a begin event to its completion so usage, cost, and the customer outcome remain reconcilable.

  • Record success, failure, and actual units
  • Use idempotency for retry-safe events
  • Attribute model, feature, and customer context

Before surprise

Forecast machine-speed runout.

Give operators and customers time to act before an autonomous workload reaches a limit or an unexpected bill.

  • Predict allowance runout
  • Detect spikes and behavior changes
  • Route top-up, upgrade, or support signals

Implementation pattern

Begin → perform work → end → synchronize.

The same lifecycle supports AI calls, agent actions, background jobs, and custom API meters while Stripe or your internal commerce system continues to own invoicing and payment.

Put commercial policy in front of autonomous traffic.

Instrument one high-cost workflow first and prove the usage record from entitlement check through billing output.

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