UnitPay

Overview

UnitPay is a monetization and billing infrastructure designed specifically for AI-native companies. It enables teams to launch flexible pricing models, including usage, credits, and hybrid configurations, without writing complex billing code. The platform ingests events via a high-throughput API with sub-millisecond precision for accurate real-time rating. Additionally, UnitPay offers revenue intelligence features to track margins, automate tax compliance, and predict churn.

Founder story

UnitPay was founded by ex-CTO Vijay Gorfad. After spending years struggling with complex billing infrastructure, he realized that while building AI products had become easier, charging for them using usage pricing and credits remained painfully hard. He built UnitPay to provide an AI-native billing engine that handles these intricacies, allowing developers to focus purely on their core product.

What it does

• - Ingests high-volume usage events with sub-millisecond precision via REST API to accurately meter AI tokens and compute
• - Features a visual Pricing Studio to construct usage, credit-based, flat-rate, or hybrid pricing models without code deployments
• - Provides real-time revenue intelligence and margin tracking to identify cost leaks per customer and per AI model
• - Handles global invoicing with automatic multi-entity tax calculations and orchestrates payments via Stripe, Razorpay, or Paddle.

Who it's for

• AI Companies
• API Providers
• Agentic AI Platforms
• SaaS Businesses

Why it works

• Replaces legacy billing tools with an AI-native architecture designed specifically for high-volume, granular usage metering
• Allows rapid deployment via an SDK or Cursor MCP server, enabling teams to go live in under ten minutes
• Operates alongside existing payment providers like Stripe to handle complex metering and intelligence layers seamlessly
• Provides a highly accessible free tier until companies reach $500K ARR, drastically reducing the barrier for early-stage startups.

Growth strategies

• Product- led growth offering a generous free tier for startups until they reach $500K ARR
• Developer- focused onboarding enabling integration in 10 minutes via an SDK and Cursor MCP server
• Targeted community launches on platforms like Product Hunt reaching early- stage AI founders
• Strategic partnerships with pricing consultants to offer comprehensive billing and monetization strategies

Alternatives

• Stripe Billing
• Orb
• Metronome
• Chargebee

Comparison overview

• Legacy billing tools and standard payment processors require heavy engineering to support granular per-token usage, credits, and hybrid models.
• UnitPay provides an AI-native monetization engine that ingests high-volume usage events with sub-millisecond latency and tracks real-time margins without custom billing code.