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extensionCommon Features
extensionMachine-Readable Pricing Tiers
Plans expose subscription tiers (Free, Pro, Enterprise, Custom) as structured artifacts that downstream tooling can parse, compare, and reconcile against billing records.
extensionAPI Commons Plans Specification
Providers can publish a normalized API Commons Plans YAML file describing plan IDs, entries, metrics, limits, time frames, and prices — the canonical machine-readable representation used across this network.
extensionIn-Band Plan Catalog APIs
Billing platforms such as Stripe, Chargebee, Recurly, Lago, Metronome, Orb, and Apigee expose plan and price catalogs through their own APIs, enabling programmatic synchronization of pricing into product, billing, and entitlement systems.
extensionPricing-Page Scrapers and Reconciliation
When providers do not publish in-band plan catalogs, scaffolded pricing-page scrapers extract tier and entry data from public pricing pages, then reconcile them against provider documentation to produce a verifiable plans artifact.
extensionPlan Entitlements and Feature Flags
Plans declare entitlements — included features, request quotas, seat caps, retention windows, support SLAs — that platforms like Schematic and Stigg consume to drive in-product gating, packaging experiments, and trial flows.
extensionRate Plans and Metered Entries
Plans capture metered usage entries (transactions, requests, events, GB-ingested, seats) with per-unit pricing, tier breaks, and overage rules — the underlying contract for usage-based billing engines.
task_altUse Cases
task_altPricing Page to Catalog Sync
Marketing-published pricing pages are scraped into API Commons Plans YAML, validated against the provider's catalog API, and used to keep public pricing and billed prices in lockstep.
task_altPlan Comparison and Procurement
Procurement platforms like Vendr and cost tools like Infracost ingest normalized plan artifacts across vendors to compare tiers, identify overpayment, and surface negotiable line items.
task_altEntitlement Enforcement in Product
Product teams use entitlement platforms like Schematic and Stigg to read plan definitions and gate features, meter usage, and present in-product upgrade prompts driven by the same artifact billing uses.
task_altUsage-Based Billing Configuration
Engineering teams seed billing platforms (Lago, Metronome, Orb, Amberflo, Togai, M3ter) with plan artifacts that declare metrics, tier breaks, and commitments — replacing per-tenant pricing spreadsheets with a versioned source of truth.
task_altAPI Marketplace Plan Tagging
API hubs and gateways (Postman, Apigee, Zuplo) tag listed APIs with the plan tiers under which they are accessible, letting consumers filter discovery by subscription level and authentication scope.
task_altPricing Governance and Audit
Finance and revenue operations use machine-readable plan artifacts to audit historical pricing changes, detect drift between the website and the billing system, and produce SOC-2-friendly pricing change logs.
integration_instructionsIntegrations
integration_instructionsStripe
Products and Prices APIs expose subscription plans, tiered pricing, and metered components — the most widely integrated plan catalog in the SaaS billing ecosystem.
integration_instructionsLago
Open-source usage-based billing platform whose Plans API is a first-class resource for declaring subscription tiers, charges, and minimum commitments.
integration_instructionsMetronome
Usage-based billing platform exposing customer plans, rate cards, and commit balances designed for high-throughput consumption pricing.
integration_instructionsOrb
Billing platform whose Plans and Prices APIs model tiered, volume, package, and matrix pricing alongside metered events.
integration_instructionsSchematic
Entitlements and packaging platform that consumes plan artifacts to drive in-product feature gating, paywall experiments, and pricing-page rendering.
integration_instructionsStigg
Pricing and packaging platform exposing plans, features, and entitlements as a managed catalog consumed by application code and billing systems.
integration_instructionsGoogle Apigee
API management platform whose Rate Plans (Apigee Monetization) model entitled API products, included quotas, overage rates, and revenue share.
integration_instructionsPostman
API hub that tags published APIs with subscription tiers and plan metadata for marketplace discovery and access control.
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