Orb

Usage-based billing platform for metering events, modeling pricing and generating invoices for SaaS/AI products.

Works with AI agents:llms.txt

Ask your AI about this, with this page as the source:ChatGPT ↗Claude ↗Perplexity ↗

Where it fits

Payments · Metering and billing on topHigh-volume usage billing with many pricing models, for products whose revenue depends on it.Trade-off: No free tier and sales-priced — built for funded teams, not side projects.

How Orb itself is built

3 tools, from its own code, website and Product Hunt page.

Next.js

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Who uses it

15 makers' products, each linked to the source that shows it.

Customer story 13Subprocessor list 4How evidence is collected →

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ReplitBrowser-based IDE and hosting platform with an AI coding agent for building and deployin…PaymentsCustomer story +1 · source ↗

KnockNotification infrastructure API for building cross-channel messaging workflows (email, S…PaymentsCustomer story +1 · source ↗

SupabasePostgres-based backend: database, auth, storage, realtime and edge functions in one proj…PaymentsCustomer story · source ↗

FactoryBuild faster with AI coding agents. Factory Droids automate coding, testing, and deploym…PaymentsCustomer story · source ↗

AlchemyBuild and scale apps onchain with Alchemy's RPC APIs, data APIs, and developer tools acr…PaymentsCustomer story · source ↗

PineconeManaged vector database for storing and querying embeddings at scale, used for RAG and s…PaymentsCustomer story · source ↗

JasperOrchestrate intelligent agents to run end-to-end marketing workflows delivering speed, c…PaymentsCustomer story · source ↗

LaunchDarklyFeature flag management and progressive delivery platform with experimentation and relea…PaymentsCustomer story · source ↗

StytchHosted auth APIs and SDKs for passwords, passwordless (magic links, OTP, passkeys), OAut…PaymentsCustomer story · source ↗

RillRill's Agentic Analytics goes beyond dashboards with a natural language interface that p…PaymentsCustomer story · source ↗

MaterializeMaterialize is the live context layer for agents and apps. It lets engineering teams use…PaymentsCustomer story · source ↗

AirbytePaymentsCustomer story · source ↗

OpusPaymentsCustomer story · source ↗

ZedA code editor written in Rust with multiplayer collaboration and built-in AI features li…PaymentsSubprocessor list · source ↗

HookdeckManaged event gateway for receiving, queuing, transforming and reliably delivering webho…PaymentsSubprocessor list · source ↗

Loved and watch-outs

Themes that recur in makers' words and Hacker News comments, each linked to what it summarises.

Most loved

Teams launch hybrid seat-plus-usage pricing quickly without pulling engineers off core product work. withorb.com withorb.com 2 withorb.com 3
Automated charge calculation and invoicing give finance reliable data for multi-product usage pricing. withorb.com withorb.com 2 withorb.com 3

Reliability and open issues

Incidents on its status page7 in the last 90 days, 2 major · 26 in the last year

none Elevated API latencies Sep 2026
minor Elevated latency Sep 2026
minor Dashboard loading errors for reporting-related surfaces Sep 2026

From its own status page, 2026-10-02. Vendors decide what they post; one page can cover several products.

Alternatives to Orb

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PolarDevelopers selling SaaS, subscriptions, usage-based plans or license keys.Open source50 makers · payments

Lemon SqueezySelling software and digital downloads with minimal setup.77 makers · payments

PaddleEstablished SaaS businesses that want a mature MoR.79 makers · payments

Dodo PaymentsAI and SaaS products with usage-based billing, selling globally.30 makers · payments

Questions makers ask about Orb

Is Orb free?

No permanent free tier; paid use starts at Contact sales. source ↗

Is Orb open source or self-hostable?

Not open source, and hosted only.

Can AI coding agents work with Orb?

It serves an llms.txt docs index.

Who uses Orb?

15 makers' products we track, each with a source. source ↗