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Stigg now ships native MCP support and a CLI, so developers can operate Stigg directly from their terminal

The rules of software pricing have changed, and the companies winning aren't just tweaking price points, they're redesigning how value is packaged, sometimes multiple times a year.

Why entitlements infrastructure is the SOX compliance problem engineering teams at AI and SaaS companies are about to get pulled into.

Stigg is now available on the Stripe App Marketplace: entitlements enforced in real time, usage-based metering, and pricing control layer that runs alongside Stripe billing - keeping product access and billing in audit-level sync.

AI usage doesn’t break all at once, it creeps until you’re explaining spikes, inconsistent blocking, and blown budgets, and this post dives into the real control layer needed to manage limits, allocations, and enforcement at scale.

OpenAI’s “Beyond Rate Limits” reveals the entitlement-first architecture behind modern AI monetization and why billing alone is no longer enough.

How the shift from seat-based to token-based pricing is forcing engineering teams to rethink real-time consumption controls

Why acquiring three companies often means inheriting three billing systems, three entitlement models, and one massive architectural headache

As SaaS pricing gets more dynamic, billing systems are quietly becoming the biggest constraint on how fast companies can move.

If your pricing has turned into a maze of usage limits, entitlements, and exceptions, this post explains why, and how it’s quietly killing adoption, velocity, and sales.

AI Usage Management is the first real-time governance layer for AI-native products, giving companies control over AI spend as it happens, not after it breaks.

Buy the way your company already buys, and stop letting monetization slow product teams down. With Stigg now available on AWS Marketplace, you can simplify procurement, unify pricing and entitlements, and move faster without duplicating logic or fighting internal process.

If your billing vendor says they can simulate the “right” price for your AI product, they’re replaying the past and calling it strategy. Here’s why pricing is a human, adversarial system that ML models fundamentally can’t solve.

Why 2025 Was the Wake-Up Call, and What 2026 Will Demand From Every AI Company

Pricing for AI products is no longer linear, and now your credit model doesn’t have to be either. Meet Custom Credit Consumption Formulas: a precise, flexible way to translate real product usage into accurate credit burn.

Recapping my packed Stripe Tour NYC talk: the future of AI monetization isn’t about perfect pricing—it’s about how fast you can change it.

We thought building AI credits would be simple. Turns out, we were building an entire economy. Here’s what we learned creating a credit system that powers AI monetization for modern SaaS.

Credits, without the billing migration. Stigg's Credits Suite is the first enterprise-grade platform that lets you launch AI and SaaS credit models fast, right on top of your existing billing stack.

HTTP 402 is a new, curated community for engineering and product leaders building the future of monetization infrastructure: pricing, billing, usage metering, entitlements, and beyond. If you’re shaping how SaaS gets paid, this is where your peers are.

AI is rewriting the rules of value, and with it, the way we price software. Traditional seat- and usage-based models can’t keep up, leaving companies to rethink how pricing should work in an AI-first world.

As AI agents reshape how software is consumed, traditional licensing models fall short. Enum Entitlements introduce structured, dynamic controls that pave the way for agent-ready monetization in the new era of software.

What started as a quick script to handle subscriptions has snowballed into a brittle, high-risk billing monolith that’s slowing your entire business. In this post, we unpack the hidden costs of building monetization in-house—and why modern, API-first platforms like Stigg give engineers the flexibility and control to escape the velocity tax.

As SaaS companies face mounting pressure to grow revenue, a new layer of infrastructure is emerging: the MonetizationOS. Learn how forward-thinking teams are replacing brittle billing systems with programmable, scalable platforms that turn monetization into a growth engine.

Most teams underestimate metering. Until it breaks. If you're building usage-based pricing or AI features, reliable usage tracking isn't optional, it's core infrastructure.

Stop letting hard-coded billing logic slow down your growth. Learn how to decouple pricing from billing and move faster.

You’ve got pricing plans, feature tiers, maybe even usage limits. But if your infrastructure can’t enforce those in real time, it’s not built to scale. Here’s what engineering teams need to know about building entitlements that actually support modern SaaS.

Legacy billing is breaking. The fastest-growing SaaS companies are quietly building a new layer: the Commerce Platform. Here’s why.

Stigg has achieved SOC 1 Type 2 certification, reinforcing its commitment to secure, enterprise-grade monetization infrastructure. This milestone gives customers added confidence in the accuracy, governance, and reliability of the systems powering their revenue.

AI agents are scaling fast - but are you giving them unlimited access without guardrails? Discover why traditional access control isn’t enough, and how modern entitlement management is the missing piece to keep costs, risk, and chaos in check.

Discover how Webflow reimagined its monetization infrastructure with Stigg to break through growth bottlenecks and unlock rapid pricing innovation—straight from one of the most talked-about sessions at Stripe Sessions 2025.

Billing is out-of-the-box. Monetization is in your code. Pricing, entitlements, usage limits — they live deep in your product and require engineering to change. Stigg is built to fix that.

Break free from the monetization infra you never meant to build.

The Billing Burden No One Talks About

Zuora's recent struggles highlight the decline of the billing monolith, as enterprises demand more flexible, modular solutions. The rise of specialized tools is reshaping the billing market, as companies seek interoperability and tailored solutions for different teams. Discover what’s driving this shift and what it means for the future of subscription management.

Your Sales team just closed a huge enterprise deal—without waiting on engineering. With Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), business teams can now provision customers, extend trials, and add entitlements - all while engineering retains full control over critical systems. Faster deals, tighter security, no bottlenecks. Let’s dive in!

The B2B Monetization Infrastructure Manifest. 

AI agents are coming - and they’ll hammer your APIs with usage humans or human-generated code could never match. Skyrocketing costs, overloaded systems, and unpredictable spikes - these will all consequently disrupt your business and your new *Agentic customer* purchase experience. Here’s how to get your infrastructure ready and turn this chaos into a growth opportunity.

Unlock seamless pricing and monetization strategies with the new Auth0-Stigg integration - designed to empower app developers everywhere

We've just raised $17.5M in Series A funding, led by Red Dot Capital Partners. Here is what's next!

Don’t get lost in the fine print. Hard limits, soft limits, overages, true-ups, top-ups, auto-upgrades and more. Your product never looked so messy to bill. Time for some good-ol’ house cleaning.

How to engineer a modern, fail-safe and fine-grained account provisioning automation workflow without breaking whiteboards.

Learn how we had to completely rethink about the way we process subscription migrations to support tens of millions of customers

Are you selling on AWS marketplace? Or thinking to add this to your growth strategy? With Stigg's AWS integration, you'll never need to write - or maintain - the same entitlement logic ever again!

If you're charging your customers money, you'll need a checkout flow. And with our launch today, you'll be able to add a fully customizable checkout flow, tailored to your pricing model and independent of any billing provider, in just a few lines of code. 🎉

A couple of weeks ago in a status meeting, we were talking about entitlements. I told someone ‘I think all things are possible through the power of Stigg’ and they told me that ‘That’s the kind of quote that we would absolutely kill to get about our product’.

For the first time ever in SaaS, you'll get advanced metering *and* entitlements out of the box, making Stigg the first and only platform to build true hybrid pricing.

This month, three incredible ex-New Relic developers join Stigg. Here's why we're so excited they're here, and why they've decided to join our mission.

What are entitlements? Why should engineering teams care? And how are they different from feature flags or authorization tools? Our CTO Anton takes you into a technical deep dive on entitlements for SaaS monetization.

Stigg now supports multiple resource-based subscriptions per customer, so you can slice and monetize your product by the various apps, sites, or resources separately.

In this product update, we introduce Stigg's price localization capability - an absolute must to enter new markets, cater to different purchasing power, and build exceptional buyer experiences.

“The best thing with Stigg is, we have the option. Whatever we plan to do with our pricing in the future, we know we can.”

Your infrastructure should never be a blocker to your company’s growth. In this episode, Sergei Sorin shares what has enabled the growth of Wix in the past 2 years and how the team can run dozens of A/B tests on pricing per year.

In the second part of this two-part series, we go behind the scenes of Stigg's code and share the 5 most crucial learnings from our engineering team when building scheduled downgrade flows.

With ever-growing competition in SaaS, you’ll need to provide seamless experiences to your buyers and full flexibility in changing pricing plans. Building Stigg, we’ve researched how the fastest-growing SaaS companies handle upgrades & downgrades. Here’s what we found.

"I saw Stigg and thought ‘Why would we even consider building something like this.’ It allows us to offload a lot of the pricing pressure and fully focus on the core product again."

Velocity is a core element for us at Stigg. Yet, moving fast requires the right pipelines and safety nets in place to deploy code safely to production. In this article, we share the 5 principles we’ve built our CI/CD pipeline upon to support velocity, without compromising on quality or safety.

Versioning is a critical concept for engineers building pricing plans in SaaS. In this article, we're sharing everything we've learned about plan versioning and how you can enable it in your codebase.

"Stigg gives pricing a solid structure. It allows me to launch immediately, significantly speed up the learning curve, and get to a pricing model that works for the business and our customers."

Implementing Stripe is not enough. We've learned this the hard way, when we found internal server error responses from Stripe after deploying bad code. So, we've built end-to-end testing to never fear revenue loss again.

In this product update, we introduce Stigg’s no-code designer - the absolute easiest and quickest way to turn Stigg’s out-of-the-box widgets into fully customized paywalls and customer portals.

“The moment I heard about Stigg, I was sold. We finally have a way to change things in our pricing and sync it with marketing and product, without talking to R&D!!”

In this article we will describe what are the best practices to create the webhook integration with Stripe. We will be focusing only on one side of our two-way integration. The side that is listening to webhooks and acting on them.

Using Stigg, the team saved initial 4 weeks of engineering time to build their pricing in-house and saved at least half a developer per month to focus on product innovations instead of ongoing pricing model maintenance.

Trial pricing is a smart way for SaaS businesses to capture and convert customers. But it can be tricky for engineering teams to implement. Here are 6 best practices to help you better implement trial pricing and creates a seamless experience for customers.

This product update introduces Stigg’s API Gateway integration - the fastest way to gating feature access based on the pricing plans built in Stigg.

In this product update, we introduce Stigg’s customer portal widget - the fastest way to introduce best-in-class customer portals to let your customers manage their pricing plan, view usage data, or update billing information.

In the B2B SaaS world, the concept of dynamic pricing plans is still very much based on theory, but research already supports the importance of changing your pricing plans regularly. In fact, just a 1% change in your pricing may result in a 12.7% increase in revenue. Considering that the SaaS market is constantly evolving, and competition is fierce and never dwindling, using a more adaptable data-driven pricing strategy just makes sense.

A better buying experience is what stands between free to paid customers. Today, Stigg’s makes its APIs & SDKs available, so you can develop and launch new pricing plans in seconds, and roll-out exceptional self-service buying experiences.

Truth is that like your product, pricing development never stops. And the most successful SaaS companies make radical changes to their pricing continuously. How do we know? Because we went ahead and did the research for you! Meet pricing.quest.

Treating software monetization as a platform instead of separate systems allows your business to build a powerful buyer experience and adapt to business needs faster. What does Snyk’s monetization infrastructure look like and what did they learn while building it?

Data security and reliability are fundamental elements for us at Stigg, so we chose the strongest form of compliance. Here's what we did.

Reclaim.ai's co-founder shares his insights and learnings from building the infrastructure they built to manage their pricing model and handle trials and subscriptions

We sat down with Pleo to talk about their pricing infrastructure and the pricing iterations they run with it.

As the economic downturn deepens and continues to reveal its implications, revenue optimization is king.

Today, we’re excited to launch Stigg, the platform that changes the way SaaS companies define, refine, and execute their pricing strategy.

Today, we’re excited to launch Stigg, the platform that the way

Read on to know where "Stigg" comes from and how this is connected to ants.

No matter how niche, there's a SaaS for it. This trend might imply an even further future disruption to the way organizations adopt new software.

“One thing which I could say is, ‘We got this. We have it supported for you.’ Just that is empowering for all teams, because they can focus on pricing strategy and don’t have to worry about spending 6 months to launch this from an engineering point of view.”

Learn how Metronome pricing works after the Stripe acquisition: Starter and Custom plans, cost drivers, and where it fits in your stack.

Learn how license entitlements work, why AI products need a real-time usage runtime, and how to decide between building this layer in-house or buying it.

Read Metronome reviews from real users. Learn about its strengths, limitations, and where it fits in a modern AI billing and credits stack.

A hybrid pricing model combines subscriptions with credit or token usage. Learn how it shapes metering, entitlements, and enforcement in modern AI stacks.

AI credits in LLM products are a runtime infrastructure problem. Learn how to architect metering, enforcement, ledger design, and failure points at scale.

Understand what a token in AI is, and how token usage impacts pricing, credits, and enforcement in production systems.

A technical guide to monetizing AI products. Learn pricing models, entitlements, and infrastructure needed to capture ROI from AI features.

An EMS decides what every customer is allowed to do at runtime. Here's how it works, how it differs from RBAC, and when to stop building it yourself.

Each embedded software monetization model hits your infrastructure differently. Here are 7 models, what they demand, and where they break at scale.

Every in-house billing system works well at first. Learn about why it breaks at scale and what the full infrastructure stack actually includes.

Subscription lifecycle management covers every stage of the customer journey. Learn the phases, key metrics, and real-world examples.