Adyen completed its $335 million acquisition of Orb on July 1, 2026, bringing usage-based billing infrastructure into its broader financial technology platform. Orb continues to operate as a stand-alone product while integration between the platforms progresses.
For Adyen users, that changes how billing software can be evaluated. The market includes Adyen-owned infrastructure, open-source platforms, subscription-management products, and enterprise revenue systems that connect with Adyen as a payment gateway. At the same time, AI is increasing the relevance of consumption-based pricing alongside subscriptions, credits, seats, and hybrid models.
Key takeaways
- Orb is the most directly aligned option for Adyen users following Adyen’s acquisition, while remaining a stand-alone billing product that supports customers using their preferred payment processors
- Lago, Hyperline, Chargebee, Recurly, Maxio, Zuora, BillingPlatform, Aria Systems, and Ordway document Adyen payment connectivity
- Usage-based billing requirements extend beyond payment processing into metering, billable metrics, credits, invoicing, historical corrections, and finance workflows
- Open-source, subscription-led, finance-led, and enterprise platforms take different approaches to connecting usage data with Adyen payments
- Adyen users should evaluate payment integration alongside pricing flexibility, data architecture, customer visibility, and downstream financial operations
What Adyen users should look for in usage-based billing software
Usage-based billing connects product activity with financial outcomes. Tokens, API calls, compute, storage, transactions, and other usage measures need to be captured, transformed into billable metrics, priced, invoiced, and ultimately collected through a payment provider.
Relevant capabilities include:
- High-volume usage metering
- Usage-based and hybrid pricing
- Dimensional pricing
- Prepaid credits and commitments
- Historical usage corrections
- Customer-specific pricing
- Invoicing
- Accounts receivable and collections
- Revenue recognition
- Customer usage visibility
- ERP and CRM connectivity
- Adyen payment processing
A 2026 recurring billing evaluation covers 17 vendors across subscription, usage, invoicing, revenue, and payment workflows, reflecting how billing requirements extend beyond recurring invoice generation.
1) Orb
Why it matters for Adyen users
Orb is now part of Adyen, bringing usage-based billing infrastructure into Adyen’s broader product portfolio while integration between the platforms continues.
The important distinction is where Orb sits in the revenue flow. Adyen provides payment infrastructure, while Orb turns product usage and commercial terms into billable charges before payment collection occurs. Orb continues operating as a stand-alone product and supports customers using their preferred payment processors.
For Adyen users, Orb brings together capabilities across the revenue workflow, including:
- Product usage and metering
- Pricing and commercial terms
- Invoice generation
- Finance operations
- Payment collection workflows
From product usage to billable revenue
Orb’s standard metering architecture retains raw usage events, which can be transformed into billable metrics using custom SQL and priced through flexible commercial models.
Core capabilities include:
- Custom SQL billable metrics
- Usage-based, subscription, credit-based, seat-based, and hybrid pricing
- Dimensional price groups
- Prepaid credits and commitments
- Customer-specific pricing
- Backfills and eligible backdated changes
For more complex products, dimensional price groups can apply different rates across combinations such as region, instance type, model, or environment without requiring separate pricing configurations for every combination.
Evolving pricing without rebuilding billing
Orb is designed for companies whose monetization changes as their products mature.
Pricing simulations let teams apply proposed pricing to historical usage before rollout. Teams can use these workflows to:
- Compare proposed pricing structures
- Assess customer-level effects
- Model revenue changes
- Test new billable metrics
- Plan pricing migrations
These capabilities connect with broader price evolution workflows for introducing new pricing and managing commercial changes over time.
Connecting billing with finance
After usage is rated and priced, Orb carries the resulting billing information into downstream financial workflows.
The platform supports:
- Invoicing
- Accounts receivable
- Collections
- Revenue recognition
- Salesforce workflows
- NetSuite integration
- Customer-facing usage and billing experiences
For Adyen users, this provides infrastructure spanning product consumption, billing, finance operations, and downstream payment collection.
Scale and customer results
Orb supports companies with high-volume and operationally complex billing requirements.
Customer-specific results include:
- Vercel: 80% reduction in engineering time required to launch billing for new products
- Stytch: 75% reduction in time spent processing bills and invoicing
- Supabase: More than 1.5 million invoices per month processed through Orb
Orb uses custom pricing across Core, Advanced, and Enterprise plans. Pricing is based primarily on billings and event volume, with platform fees applying to Advanced and Enterprise tiers.
Adyen completed its acquisition of Orb on July 1, 2026. The combination gives Adyen customers access to billing infrastructure designed around evolving usage-based monetization while Orb remains available as a stand-alone product.
2) Lago
Overview
Lago is an open-source billing platform for usage-based, subscription, prepaid-credit, and hybrid pricing.
Companies can self-host its AGPLv3 Open Source edition or use its commercial cloud and self-hosted offerings.
Adyen compatibility
Lago supports Adyen as a payment provider alongside other payment-processing options.
Billing logic, invoices, and payment collection remain separate layers, allowing companies to connect Adyen while Lago manages billing infrastructure.
Key capabilities
- Usage-event ingestion
- Billable metrics
- Usage-based and hybrid billing
- Dimensional pricing
- Prepaid credits and wallets
- Subscriptions
- Customer portal
- Invoice generation
- Cash collection workflows
- CRM and ERP integrations
- Cloud and self-hosted deployment
Pricing and fit
Lago’s Open Source edition has a $0 software license for self-hosted deployment.
Its commercial cloud and self-hosted offerings use custom pricing.
Lago can be relevant for companies that want Adyen payment collection alongside open-source billing infrastructure or customer-managed deployment.
3) Hyperline
Overview
Hyperline provides billing and revenue-management workflows spanning subscriptions, usage-based pricing, CPQ, invoicing, collections, and revenue recognition.
Its platform supports both standard plans and negotiated B2B contracts.
Adyen compatibility
Hyperline supports payment orchestration across Adyen and several other payment providers.
This allows Adyen to operate as the payment provider while Hyperline manages billing and related revenue workflows.
Key capabilities
- Usage-event metering
- Subscription and hybrid pricing
- Prepaid credits
- CPQ and quoting
- Invoicing
- Collections and dunning
- Revenue recognition
- Customer billing portal
- Data warehouse connections
- Multi-currency and multi-entity workflows
Pricing and fit
Hyperline’s Launch plan starts at $299 per month plus 0.7% of processed revenue.
Usage-based and hybrid billing are included in its Growth offering, which uses custom pricing. Larger enterprise deployments also use custom pricing.
The platform can support Adyen users that want billing, quoting, collections, and finance workflows within the same revenue system.
4) Chargebee
Overview
Chargebee provides recurring billing and subscription-management infrastructure across SaaS, self-service, and enterprise revenue models.
It supports subscriptions, usage-based components, hybrid pricing, payments, revenue recognition, and retention workflows.
Adyen compatibility
Chargebee provides a documented Adyen gateway integration for recurring and one-time payments.
Supported workflows include card processing and applicable direct-debit payment methods, with payment information flowing between Adyen and Chargebee.
Key capabilities
- Subscription billing
- Usage-based billing
- Hybrid pricing
- Tiered and volume pricing
- Prepaid credits
- Customer portals
- Collections and dunning
- Revenue recognition
- Multiple payment gateways
- CPQ workflows
Pricing and fit
Chargebee’s current Flow pricing includes:
- Pay as you go: $0 platform fee plus 0.80% of monthly invoicing volume
- Commit monthly: $99 per month plus 0.65% of monthly invoicing volume
- Usage events: Up to 100 million events per month included
- Enterprise: Sales-led pricing for larger requirements
Chargebee can support businesses combining Adyen payment processing with subscription and usage-based revenue models.
5) Recurly
Overview
Recurly provides subscription management, recurring billing, usage-based charging, payment orchestration, retention, and related revenue workflows.
Usage charges can operate alongside recurring subscription plans and other commercial structures.
Adyen compatibility
Recurly provides a dedicated Adyen integration across its subscription plans.
The integration supports recurring payments, cards, bank debits, digital wallets, regional payment methods, refunds, verification, and other Adyen payment workflows.
Recurly also supports multiple gateways within the same deployment, allowing transactions to be routed according to currency, geography, or business requirements.
Key capabilities
- Subscription management
- Usage-based billing
- Tiered and volume pricing
- Hybrid plans
- Customer portals
- Dunning
- Payment recovery
- Multiple payment gateways
- Revenue recognition through the RevRec add-on
- Reporting and analytics
Pricing and fit
Recurly’s Starter plan begins at $249 per month plus 0.9% of billing volume, with the first $40,000 in monthly billings included before the percentage fee applies.
Its All-Access offering uses volume-based pricing for larger businesses.
Recurly can be relevant for Adyen users managing recurring subscriptions alongside usage charges and payment-recovery workflows.
6) Maxio
Overview
Maxio combines subscription and usage billing with financial reporting, accounts receivable, collections, and SaaS revenue operations.
The platform primarily serves B2B SaaS finance teams.
Adyen compatibility
Maxio Advanced Billing supports Adyen as a configurable payment gateway for recurring credit-card processing.
Its payment infrastructure also supports multiple gateways, allowing Adyen to operate alongside other processors where required.
Key capabilities
- Subscription billing
- Usage-based billing
- Metering and rating
- Revenue recognition
- Accounts receivable
- Collections and dunning
- SaaS financial reporting
- Consolidated invoicing
- Multi-entity workflows
- Multiple payment gateways
Pricing and fit
Maxio’s Grow plan starts at $599 per month for up to $100,000 in monthly billings. Larger Scale deployments use custom pricing.
Maxio can support Adyen users that want billing and payment workflows connected with SaaS financial operations.
7) Zuora
Overview
Zuora provides enterprise monetization infrastructure spanning subscriptions, usage-based pricing, billing, payments, collections, and revenue recognition.
Its acquisition of Togai expanded its usage metering and rating capabilities.
Adyen compatibility
Zuora provides a dedicated Adyen gateway integration supporting recurring and one-time payment workflows.
Its Adyen integration includes support for multiple payment methods, tokenization workflows, refunds, reconciliation features, and regional payment capabilities.
Key capabilities
- Usage metering and rating
- Subscription billing
- Hybrid and dynamic pricing
- Credits and commitments
- Enterprise contracts
- Multi-entity operations
- Multi-currency billing
- Revenue recognition
- Collections
- CRM and ERP integrations
Pricing and fit
Zuora uses custom enterprise pricing rather than a standard public pricing structure.
The platform can support Adyen users managing complex enterprise account structures, global payment requirements, and multiple revenue models.
Zuora became a private company in February 2025 following its acquisition by Silver Lake and GIC.
8) BillingPlatform
Overview
BillingPlatform provides enterprise billing and revenue-management infrastructure covering metering, rating, subscriptions, invoicing, payments, collections, and revenue recognition.
It supports subscription, consumption, hybrid, and outcome-oriented commercial models.
Adyen compatibility
BillingPlatform works with Adyen through BP Pay, its embedded payments offering.
Adyen’s payment infrastructure supports payment processing within BillingPlatform’s broader billing, collections, and revenue-management environment.
Key capabilities
- Usage metering and mediation
- Configurable rating
- Subscription and hybrid billing
- Credits and commitments
- Dimensional and formula-based pricing
- Multi-entity support
- Revenue recognition
- Collections
- Enterprise account hierarchies
- CRM and ERP integrations
Pricing and fit
BillingPlatform uses custom enterprise pricing.
It can support Adyen users with complex enterprise billing requirements spanning usage data, contracts, finance workflows, and payment collection.
9) Aria Systems
Overview
Aria Systems provides enterprise billing infrastructure for subscription and consumption-based businesses.
Its Aria Allegro product provides usage metering, mediation, and rating capabilities that can also operate independently from its broader billing platform.
Adyen compatibility
Aria lists Adyen among its integrated payment-processing options.
The payment layer can connect with Aria’s subscription and usage-based billing workflows while keeping payment processing and billing functionality distinct.
Key capabilities
- Usage metering
- Mediation and rating
- Subscription billing
- Usage-based and hybrid pricing
- Product catalogs
- Account hierarchies
- Billing and invoicing
- Payment workflows
- Salesforce and ServiceNow integrations
- Enterprise revenue operations
Pricing and fit
Aria uses custom commercial pricing.
It can support Adyen users operating high-volume enterprise billing environments or managing complex account and product structures.
10) Ordway
Overview
Ordway provides billing and revenue-management software for recurring subscriptions, usage-based pricing, invoicing, accounts receivable, and revenue recognition.
Its usage capabilities include event metering, prepaid credits, spend commitments, allowances, overages, and matrix pricing.
Adyen compatibility
Ordway provides a direct Adyen gateway integration for payment collection.
Supported workflows include credit-card payments, US ACH debit, Canadian pre-authorized debit, recurring payments, hosted payment experiences, and Adyen webhook synchronization.
Key capabilities
- Usage-event metering
- Usage-based billing
- Matrix pricing
- Subscriptions
- Prepaid credits
- Spend commitments and true-ups
- Invoice generation
- Accounts receivable
- Revenue recognition
- ERP and CRM integrations
Pricing and fit
Ordway uses custom commercial pricing.
The platform can support Adyen users looking to connect usage-based billing with accounts receivable, revenue recognition, and broader finance workflows.
Why Orb stands out for Adyen users
Orb’s position is different from the other platforms in this list because Adyen now owns the billing platform while Orb continues to operate as a stand-alone product.
That creates a closer relationship between sophisticated usage-based billing and the payment infrastructure already used by Adyen customers as integration between the two platforms develops.
A direct path from usage to payment operations
For usage-based businesses, payment collection starts long before a transaction reaches the processor. Product activity must first become a billable metric, commercial terms need to be applied, credits and commitments accounted for, and an invoice generated.
Orb manages those upstream revenue workflows while Adyen provides the payment infrastructure. As integration between the platforms develops, Adyen users have a path toward connecting contract-to-cash processes with payment operations without reducing Orb to a payment-specific billing product.
Pricing can evolve with the product
AI companies, cloud platforms, developer tools, and SaaS businesses often change pricing as products, infrastructure costs, and customer usage evolve.
Orb supports that process through customer-specific pricing, dimensional price groups, custom SQL metrics, credits, commitments, and scheduled commercial changes.
Teams can use price modeling to explore new structures before changing live customer pricing. Historical simulations add another layer by applying proposed pricing to actual past usage.
For Adyen users, this means the billing layer can continue evolving without requiring the payment processor itself to become the source of pricing logic.
Stand-alone flexibility within the Adyen ecosystem
Adyen’s ownership does not make Orb exclusive to Adyen payment processing.
Orb continues operating as a stand-alone product and supports customers using their preferred payment processors. This gives businesses the ability to adopt Orb’s billing architecture while determining the payment setup that fits their markets and operations.
For existing Adyen customers, the relationship creates additional potential for closer billing and payment coordination as integration continues.
Finance continuity after billing
Billing does not end when an invoice is generated. Finance teams still need to manage receivables, collections, accounting, reporting, and revenue workflows.
Orb’s finance operations capabilities connect usage and pricing information with those downstream processes.
That continuity is particularly relevant for usage-based businesses because the commercial data behind an invoice can be more dynamic than in a fixed subscription model.
Enterprise foundation
Orb supports enterprise requirements around access controls, audit history, data protection, and security and compliance.
Its customer deployments demonstrate how the platform is used across different billing environments. Vercel, Stytch, Supabase, and other software companies use Orb for revenue workflows spanning product usage, pricing, billing, and finance operations.
Combined with Adyen’s payments infrastructure, Orb gives Adyen users a revenue platform designed to support pricing complexity upstream of payment collection while remaining flexible enough to evolve with the business.
Frequently asked questions
Why is Orb relevant to companies already using Adyen?
Orb is now part of Adyen, bringing usage-based billing technology into Adyen’s broader platform while integration between the products continues.
Orb still operates as a stand-alone product, giving Adyen users access to usage metering, pricing, invoicing, and finance workflows while retaining payment-processor flexibility.
Which billing platforms currently support Adyen?
Current documented options include Orb, Lago, Hyperline, Chargebee, Recurly, Maxio, Zuora, BillingPlatform, Aria Systems, and Ordway.
The depth of each integration varies, so payment methods, reconciliation, tokenization, and regional support depend on the individual platform.
What should Adyen users compare beyond payment integration?
Adyen compatibility is only one part of the billing architecture.
Teams should also compare usage-event handling, raw-data retention, billable metrics, dimensional pricing, prepaid credits, historical corrections, invoicing, customer visibility, revenue recognition, ERP connectivity, and pricing-change workflows.
How does Orb support pricing changes?
Orb combines flexible billable metrics, dimensional price groups, customer-specific pricing, scheduled changes, historical simulations, and price-evolution workflows.
Teams can evaluate proposed pricing against historical usage before rollout and carry approved changes through billing and downstream finance operations.
Why consider Orb for usage-based billing with Adyen?
Orb connects raw usage events with flexible pricing, historical simulations, invoicing, customer-facing usage experiences, and finance workflows.
Combined with Adyen’s ownership and ongoing product integration, this gives Adyen users a direct path for connecting sophisticated monetization infrastructure with global payments while Orb continues supporting payment-processor flexibility.