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How do you bill customers for what your AI agents do?

Billing for AI agents

Nikhil Mishra, co-founder and CTO of Flexprice, on open source billing for AI agents: metering, credits and wallets, and agents that run accounts receivable.

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Nikhil Mishra is co-founder and CTO of Flexprice, open source metering and billing software for companies that sell AI agents and AI products.

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In brief

  1. Flexprice is open source billing software built to monetize AI agents: metering, usage-based billing and credit-based pricing, for any pricing model.
  2. It charges the end customer, manages credit wallets, shows the ledger and offers a customer portal that plugs into the application; invoicing and payments run behind the scenes.
  3. It does not depend on the agent framework: usage is streamed from most AI gateways or from the application, or pulled from traces already sent to Langfuse.
  4. All it needs is the users' traces of how they use an AI agent or product; billing starts from there.
  5. Next: AI agents for finance teams that run accounts receivable, setting up contracts, sending invoices, matching payments and sending reminders.
  6. Flexprice can be self-hosted from GitHub with a one-click setup, or used as Flexprice Cloud with a free sandbox.

Why this conversation

AI products are sold by usage, and usage happens inside agents. In San Francisco, Nikhil Mishra explained how Flexprice turns the traces an agent already leaves into metering, credits and invoices, and why the next step is agents that do the finance team’s receivables work. The written version is Flexprice: open source billing for AI agents.

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About Nikhil Mishra

Nikhil Mishra is co-founder and CTO of Flexprice, open source metering and billing software for companies that sell AI agents and AI products.

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