Meter Alternative
Smarter Revenue Management with Vayu

Vayu gives finance teams end-to-end control of pricing, billing, rev rec, and forecasting, not just metering. Ideal if you’ve outgrown Meter’s usage-only focus and need a unified revenue engine for hybrid pricing, real-time margin visibility, and no-code flexibility.

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At-a-Glance Comparison

Feature / Capability

Meter

Vayu

Setup Time

Weeks / requires engineering and mapping

Days / no-code setup

Who Controls Pricing Logic

Product + Engineering

Finance + RevOps, fully no-code

Usage Pricing Support

Strong metering engine

Metering + subscription + hybrid pricing + forecasting

Billing Model Flexibility

Metering only, no native invoicing

Usage + SaaS + discounts + entitlements

Revenue Recognition

Not included, requires integration

Built-in, ASC 606-compliant

Multi-Currency / Multi-Entity

Limited, custom setup

Native, finance configurable

Reporting & Forecasting

Export-based, requires BI/warehouse

Real-time dashboards + forecasting + margin insights

Engineering Dependency

High, metering rules, schema updates

None, built for finance and ops teams

AI Support & Automation

None / not finance-driven

AI-assisted anomaly detection + pricing simulation

Why Teams Switch from Meter to Vayu

Meter only solves usage metering, Vayu solves revenue

Problem

Meter tracks usage, but doesn’t handle billing, invoicing, renewals, rev rec, or forecasting.

Why it matters

You still need Chargebee/Stripe Billing + Maxio + Snowflake or Looker dashboards for finance workflows.

Vayu solves it

All revenue workflows, pricing, billing, rev rec, forecasting, in one product with no stitching needed.

Billing timeline chart showing a 3-month trial period from March 25 to April 25 and a 1-year standard billing phase from January 17 to April 25, with current date markers and invoice summary above.

Dashboard showing Year-to-Date revenue $13,534,481.51, Monthly Recurring Revenue $1,510,500.00, and Annual Recurring Revenue $18,126,000.11 with a donut chart highlighting 6.02% paid invoices and figures for active customers (49, up 4.26%) and active contracts (62, up 5.08%).

Meter requires engineering to configure and update metering logic

Problem

Every unit type, pricing rule, or billed event requires custom mapping or engineering setup.

Why it matters

Finance waits on dev cycles to launch changes, delaying pricing iterations and slowing revenue teams.

Vayu solves it

No-code usage + SaaS pricing models, entitlement logic, and discounting, owned by finance and RevOps.

Meter has no built-in revenue visibility

Problem

No rev rec, no forecast engine, no NRR/margin visibility, all require external data tools.

Vayu solves it

Real-time forecast engine, revenue dashboards, margin impact, pricing analytics, no exports required.

Bar chart showing Backend API calls from September to April, with a sync status pop-up indicating data is synced to Netsuite.

Screenshot showing AWS RDS event data with JSON details and a usage data bar chart for compute time, API requests, storage volume, and wire transactions from July to November.

Vayu replaces the stack, Meter is one component

Vayu replaces

- Meter (usage metering)
- Stripe Billing / Chargebee (billing + invoicing)
- Maxio / RevLock (rev rec)
- Snowflake dashboards (forecasting + margin + NRR)
- Custom finops scripts + entitlement logic