Introducing multi-dimensional pricing: Launch usage pricing that keeps up with product complexity

However you charge your customers, the base usage unit is rarely the whole story. What sets the rate depends on what you sell. For AI token usage, it is the model, token type, context length, and processing tier. For messaging, the channel, destination country, and number type. For compute, the region, processor, and memory profile.

The unit you sell stays the same. What it is worth to your customer, and what it costs you to deliver, do not.

Traditional one-dimensional billing setups only hold one price per usage unit. So you either blend your rates and lose margin on your most expensive usage, or you shelve the pricing model you actually want. And when you do change pricing, it takes a release cycle rather than an afternoon.

Airwallex Billing changes that with multi-dimensional pricing, letting you charge different rates for different combinations of usage attributes, from a single meter and rate card.

Price the way your product actually creates value, and change it as the product changes. Airwallex carries the detail underneath.

In practice, that means you can:

• Monetise what your product really does. Charge on model, region, channel, or any attribute your product varies on.

Monetise what your product really does. Charge on model, region, channel, or any attribute your product varies on.

• Change pricing as fast as your product changes. Update an existing rate card instead of rebuilding one, with no engineering after the initial integration.

Change pricing as fast as your product changes. Update an existing rate card instead of rebuilding one, with no engineering after the initial integration.

• Protect customers as your pricing evolves. Version rate cards so existing subscriptions keep their agreed rates until you migrate them.

Protect customers as your pricing evolves. Version rate cards so existing subscriptions keep their agreed rates until you migrate them.

• Reduce pricing operations work. Manage hundreds of prices in one versioned rate card and flag missing prices before publishing, so gaps are caught prior to billing.

Reduce pricing operations work. Manage hundreds of prices in one versioned rate card and flag missing prices before publishing, so gaps are caught prior to billing.

Turn any product attribute into a pricing dimension

The pattern is easiest to see in AI. Any major LLM pricing page prices on four dimensions: model, token type, context length, and processing tier. Across 40 or more models, one flagship model can carry up to two dozen published prices.

Capture every attribute that affects your unit cost so you can turn it into a pricing dimension. Until now, that meant a separate meter for every combination. Now your engineers send usage events once, carrying those attributes as natural properties, and your billing team chooses which ones become pricing dimensions as your pricing evolves.

That is what protects your margin as your product changes. Record more attributes than you price on today, and when a new model or tier shifts your costs, you can charge for it without a new integration and without waiting on a release.

Change prices fast and keep existing deals intact

When an LLM provider releases a new model, you may want to offer it with a new price. Our rate card supports versioning, enabling you to simply add the new model and publish it when you are ready. This allows you to launch new pricing through configuration instead of rebuilding billing logic.

Each subscription is tied to a specific rate card version, so customers on multi-year contracts keep their agreed pricing even as you update your rate card. You control which customers move to new pricing and when, with mid-cycle changes giving you control over how the transition is invoiced.

Your pricing should move at the speed of your product roadmap, not your billing system.

Run detailed pricing without the manual work

Your pricing can be as precise as your costs require. A rate card in Airwallex Billing mirrors the pricing terms you give your customers. Currency, tax behaviour, and billing frequency are set once and apply to every row, so a change to your terms is one edit, not a reconciliation across hundreds of prices.

Legacy systems stop at one price per meter. With Airwallex Billing, a single meter can carry a different price for every combination of dimensions. You can also set one rate across a whole dimension and override it only where your costs differ.

Finance teams can configure pricing changes directly, without waiting on an integration update or a release cycle.

Never leave usage unbilled by accident

When your pricing has hundreds of combinations, the ones you forget are the ones you never bill for. A provider ships a new model, and finance hasn't configured a price for it yet.

Before you go live, your rate card tells you which combinations are missing a price, so gaps surface while you are configuring rather than at the end of the billing cycle. From there you choose what happens: apply a fallback rate, or leave that usage unbilled deliberately rather than by accident.

Bill and get paid in one place

Standalone billing tools meter your usage, then hand off to a payment provider to collect it. Because multi-dimensional pricing sits inside Airwallex Billing, the platform that meters your usage also:

• Issues the invoice and collects payment across 160+ global and local payment methods

Issues the invoice and collects payment across 160+ global and local payment methods

• Settles funds like-for-like in 20+ currencies

Settles funds like-for-like in 20+ currencies

• Applies the correct GST, VAT, or sales tax to every line

Applies the correct GST, VAT, or sales tax to every line

The same model applies whether you are metering tokens, messages, compute hours, or transactions.

Stop flattening your pricing to fit your billing system. Make it as multi-dimensional as your business needs, and let Airwallex do the heavy lifting.

Ready to see how it works? Visit our product page for more information or reach out to the Airwallex team to get started today.

The material presented here is for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal, regulatory, taxation, or investment advice. Readers should engage their own advisors or counsel for advice unique to their circumstances.