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Smarter Revenue Management with Vayu

Vayu gives finance teams complete control of pricing, metering, billing, revenue recognition and forecasting, not just subscription billing. If you’ve outgrown Zuora’s subscription/usage-centric stack and need a unified, finance-operated revenue engine for hybrid/usage models, real-time margin visibility, and no-code flexibility, Vayu is the smarter choice.

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At-a-Glance Comparison

Feature / Capability

Zoura Billing

Vayu

Setup Time

Enterprise deployment inside NetSuite/Ecosystem; setup time may stretch for complex usage/hybrid pricing.

Rapid no-code setup guided for finance and RevOps; minimal engineering required.

Who Controls Pricing Logic

Admin/config inside Zuora; usage meters often require custom integration/event streams.

Finance + RevOps configure pricing, metering, entitlements in a no-code UI; engineering only sets event feed once.

Usage Pricing Support

Strong support for subscription + usage + hybrid billing, with mediation/rating engine.

Full support for usage, hybrid, outcome-based models; billing tied to forecasting & rev-rec.

Billing Model Flexibility

Robust subscription/consumption capabilities, but often requires advanced configuration in enterprise stacks.

Broad model support: usage + SaaS + entitlements + contract-specific logic, finance-configurable.

Revenue Recognition

Native ASC 606/IFRS 15 support via Zuora Revenue module; enterprise focus.

Built-in ASC 606 compliant recognition tied directly to billing/usage/contract logic, no separate module required.

Multi-Currency / Multi-Entity

Multi-currency and global billing support; enterprise grade.

Native multi-currency and multi-entity finance configuration as part of platform, ERP-agnostic.

Reporting & Forecasting

Dashboards + subscription metrics; deeper analytics may require BI/warehouse.

Real-time dashboards + forecasting + margin/NRR insights, built into revenue engine.

Engineering Dependency

Medium to high for complex usage/event/rating setups, customizations.

Low: pricing & billing logic configured by finance; engineering limited to initial event integration.

AI Support & Automation

Offers automation for billing and revenue operations; finance-native AI for pricing simulation less prominent publicly.

Finance-native AI: contract/usage term extraction, anomaly detection, pricing simulation built-in.

Why Teams Switch from Zoura to Vayu

Zuora is built for subscription/usage billing at scale; Vayu is built for hybrid/usage/outcome pricing + full revenue lifecycle

Problem

Zuora handles subscription/consumption well, but teams still rely on separate tools or BI for forecasting, margin visibility, contract logic.

Why it matters

Finance teams need one source of truth for pricing - billing - rev-rec - forecasting.

Vayu solves it

One unified platform operated by finance with no stitching required.

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%).

Usage event processing and pricing iteration still depend on technical setup in Zuora; Vayu removes that bottleneck

Problem

Complex metering schemas, rating workflows, integrations are labor-intensive in enterprise setups.

Why it matters

Every new pricing model or usage unit delays time-to-revenue.

Vayu solves it

No-code metering, pricing logic owned by finance, enabling fast iteration.

Finance wants real-time forecasting/margin visibility, not just billing + rev-rec compliance

Problem

Zuora delivers strong billing + rev-rec features but forecasting/margin often external.

Vayu solves it

Built-in forecasting, margin tracking, NRR drivers right in the platform.

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 more of the stack

Vayu

With Vayu, finance teams consolidate usage metering, billing, rev-rec, forecasting, reporting,  instead of layering multiple tools.

What Makes Vayu Different

Full revenue lifecycle

pricing - metering - billing - rev-rec - forecasting, end-to-end in one place.

Finance-owned platform

no code, no tickets for pricing or billing logic.

Hybrid/usage/outcome billing

adapt models quickly without re-implementation.

Revenue intelligence

real-time margin/NRR drivers and forecasting tied to live data.

AI for Finance

contract terms extraction, anomaly detection, pricing simulation to reduce close times and surface risk early.

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Ready to Go Beyond Subscription Billing?

Vayu puts the entire revenue engine, pricing, metering, billing, rev-rec, forecasting, reporting, into the hands of Finance. If you’ve outgrown the legacy subscription/usage stack and want real-time revenue control without engineering delays, Vayu is built for you.

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