Orb Alternative
Smarter Revenue Management with Vayu

Vayu gives finance teams full control over pricing, billing, and revenue automation without engineering dependencies, ideal when you need real-time margin visibility and faster iteration than Orb’s developer-led approach.

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At-a-Glance Comparison

Feature / Capability

Orb

Vayu

Setup Time

Weeks / requires engineering setup

Days / no-code setup

Who Controls Pricing Logic

Product / Engineering

Finance + RevOps , fully no-code

Usage Pricing Support

Strong

Strong + real-time forecasting + margin visibility

Billing Model Flexibility

Requires technical configuration

No-code, hybrid pricing, custom entitlements

Revenue Recognition

Integrates with external tools

Built-in, ASC 606 compliant

Multi-Currency / Multi-Entity

Limited / engineering-led

Native & finance-owned

Reporting & Forecasting

Requires external BI or manual export

Real-time dashboards, forecasting, margin insights

Engineering Dependency

High for pricing, billing changes

Zero ongoing dependency

AI Support & Automation

Not finance-specific

AI-assisted ops for forecasting, usage insights, anomaly alerts

Why Teams Switch from Orb to Vayu

Orb requires engineering to maintain and ship pricing, Vayu is finance-owned

Problem

Orb is optimized for technical pricing ownership: product and engineering drive configuration, testing, and deployment.

Why it matters

Every pricing experiment or customer exception becomes a ticket in the engineering backlog, slowing revenue agility.

Vayu solves it

Pricing, billing, and revenue rules are 100% no-code. Finance can launch, test, and update pricing in minutes, not sprints.

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%).

Orb handles metering, not revenue workflows end-to-end

Problem

Orb stops at pricing and usage calculation, requiring Chargebee, Maxio, or in-house systems for invoicing, collections, rev rec, and forecasting.

Vayu solves it

Replaces multiple disconnected systems, metering, billing, quoting, invoicing, revenue recognition, reporting, and forecasting, all in one stack.

Reporting is export-based in Orb - Vayu offers real-time visibility

Problem

Orb requires manual exports or a BI layer for revenue insights.

Vayu solves it

Real-time dashboards for billing status, revenue forecasts, margin analysis, NRR signals, and pricing impact, instantly available to finance.

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.

Finance-first workflows - 
not developer-first

Orb

Great if your pricing infrastructure will always be owned by engineers.

Vayu

Built for finance, revenue ops, and GTM leaders who need control, visibility, and speed without mediation.

What Makes Vayu Different

Finance-owned revenue stack

no engineering required

Full revenue lifecycle

pricing, billing, rev rec, forcasting

Hybrid billing made easy

usage + subscription + tiered entitlements

Live revenue intelligence

forecasting, margin, 
NRR drivers     

Built-in AI for finance

detect anomalies, simulate pricing impact

Compare Vayu to Other Platforms

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Ordway
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Ready to Move Faster Than Your Backlog?

Vayu gives finance and ops teams the control, visibility, and automation they’ve been waiting form without sacrificing flexibility.

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