Infrastructure providers
Metered nodes, settled in stablecoins
RPC, storage and compute are billed on what ran. Record it as it happens, close the period into a real invoice, and collect without an invoicing week.
- Meters
- Per region, per product
- Writes
- Idempotent
- Billing
- Allowance, then a rate
- Settlement
- Your address, per chain
meters · october period
usage.recorded- eu-westRPC412,9084.21 USDC
- us-eastRPC688,2047.02 USDC
- ap-southStorage92 GB2.76 USDC
Why it suits infrastructure
- You define it
- Any meter
- Billed
- In arrears
- By the approval
- Capped
- Onchain settlement
- No chargebacks
Requests, gigabytes, node hours, egress. Record what your product actually counts.
The period closes on what was recorded, with the figure on the invoice.
A metered period can never collect more than the customer signed for.
A confirmed transaction is final. There is no card network to reverse it later.
Your systems
The period, as a stream of events
Metering is a loop between your platform and your billing. Both ends should know where it is.
$ reclack logs tail --events --format=json
- 22:07:41.102 POST usage.recorded 201 142ms eu-west · 412,908 requests
- 22:07:41.884 POST usage.recorded 200 96ms us-east · 688,204 requests
- 22:07:44.310 POST invoice.opened 200 118ms INV-00221 · 13.99 USDC
- 22:07:44.907 POST payment.confirmed 500 2004ms 0x2e2d…f306 on Base
- 22:07:46.915 POST invoice.paid 200 134ms Receipt emailed
Reclack-Signature: t=1792447200,v1=5d41402abc4b2a76b9719d911017c592
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Recorded as it happens
Post usage continuously or in batches. Idempotency keys make retries safe.
Explained on the invoice
The bill carries the usage figure that produced it, per meter and per region.
Confirmed before paid
A submitted transaction is followed until the chain agrees. Nothing is paid on optimism.
Questions
Before you wire up the meters
- Our customers are other companies. Does that work?
- Yes. Each customer is a record with its own subscription, its own meters and its own invoices, and the payment comes from whichever wallet they fund.
- Can we bill a committed minimum plus overage?
- Price the plan with an included allowance and a rate beyond it. The period bills the minimum, then the overage on what was recorded.
- What happens if a customer disappears?
- A failed collection retries on a spaced schedule and then pauses the subscription rather than retrying forever, so your meters stop against a plan that is no longer paying.
Bill the infrastructure the way it runs
Metered, in arrears, settled in stablecoins with the figure on the document.