Kribana is usage-based billing with metering, wallets, invoicing, a portal and an AI agent. Pricing is a share of billed revenue, free at the start.
Researched and fact-checked by Bartu Cavusoglu · Updated October 26, 2026
Kribana is a usage-based billing platform aimed at go-to-market teams instead of engineering teams. It combines metering, pricing, credit wallets, invoicing, payments and a customer portal in one product, and the company describes it as complete billing in a box that works on day one.
The company positions it against API-first billing engines such as Orb, Lago and Metronome, which it says leave checkout, the portal, upgrade flows, entitlements and recovery for customers to build. Kribana states that it replaces those tools, along with Stripe Billing, Chargebee and custom in-house billing software.
Kribana is a product of Simplify Revenue Software Private Limited and runs on technology from the company's earlier product, Simplify.
Engineering sends one event stream to Kribana. The platform aggregates those events in real time and turns each unit, whether tokens, API calls, compute seconds or seats, into a billable line and an entitlement check.
From there, the pricing engine, wallets, invoicing and portal are run from a dashboard by non-engineers. A full API sits underneath for teams that want to work with it directly.
An AI agent works on top of this stack. It watches accounts for events such as low wallet balances, failed charges, accounts approaching committed usage and sharp usage drops, then acts or notifies the right person. Teams choose how much autonomy it has: alert mode only, or full autopilot on the Scale plan.
Metering handles token counting, event ingestion, real-time aggregation and credit burn-down. The pricing engine supports credits, volume tiers, hybrid seat-plus-usage plans, per-model rates, experiments on a cohort, enterprise commits, and new regions and currencies.
Credit wallets support auto top-up and one-click top-up links. Invoicing reconciles itself and includes tax, and payments run on the processor the customer chooses. The customer portal covers checkout, plan changes, top-ups, payment methods and invoice history, branded and either hosted or embedded.
Entitlements enforce plans, seats and balances at request time. Recovery diagnoses declines such as insufficient funds or expired cards and schedules retries and dunning emails. Forecasting uses live consumption and syncs to a warehouse hourly, with audit-ready exports.
Kribana is a usage-based billing platform that includes metering, pricing, credit wallets, invoicing, payments and a customer portal. It is built for go-to-market teams and is operated from a dashboard. An AI agent also acts on events such as low balances and failed payments.
Kribana takes a percentage of the revenue it bills, and the percentage shrinks as a company scales. There are no per-event fees or seat licenses, and billing is free until it is real. Exact rates are not published, so buyers need to book a call.
The Launch plan is for startups and the site says billing is free until it is real. Once a company passes the free tier it starts paying automatically, with no plan migration or feature changes. The site does not state the free-tier threshold.
Kribana supports Stripe, Razorpay, Adyen and Braintree, and a company can use several at once. Pricing, wallets and history stay in place if the processor changes. It also syncs to a customer's data warehouse.
The agent monitors accounts and acts on revenue events. It sends top-up links when wallets run low, recovers failed payments with smart retries, flags expansion signals to sales and notifies owners of churn risk. Alert mode is on every plan and full autopilot comes with Scale.
Kribana suits SaaS and AI-native companies that bill on usage, tokens or credits. It targets teams in engineering, finance, product, sales, customer success and RevOps. Enterprise is aimed at platforms and regulated industries.
Kribana says it replaces Stripe Billing, Chargebee, Orb, Lago, Metronome and custom in-house billing software outright. It can still run on Stripe as a payment processor. Customers integrate one event stream and Kribana handles checkout, portal, entitlements and recovery.
The Kribana site lists SOC 2 Type II and GDPR. The Enterprise plan adds dedicated infrastructure, SSO and a HIPAA-ready deployment.