How much does Metronome cost?

Metronome publishes 2 tiers, from On request for Startup up to On request for Custom. The cheapest paid tier is On request.

Does Metronome have a free plan?

Not on the record we hold: Metronome is listed as Usage-based and custom. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.

What is the difference between Startup and Custom on Metronome?

Custom costs On request against On request, and adds all startup features, invoicing integrations with salesforce, netsuite, cloud marketplace integration (aws, azure, gcp), data exports to warehouses and bi tools.

Which accounting tools can I use without paying?

3 of the 8 accounting tools listed alongside Metronome have a free tier: Stigg, Lago, Polar.

Does Metronome charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.

Are these Metronome prices current?

They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.

What should I compare Metronome against before paying?

The closest accounting tools in this directory are Orb, Creem, Stigg, Lago. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Metronome covering price, platforms and features.

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Metronome pricing

Metronome publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

Entry price: On request
Model: Usage-based and custom
Tiers: 2
Free tier: Not on record

Metronome plans, side by side

Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.

Metronome pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Startup	On request	7	Entry tier
Custom	On request	6	Priced on request

What each tier adds

The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.

Startup

On request

The entry tier. It covers real-time usage metering, multiple pricing models, flexible pricing implementation, customer-facing dashboards, self-serve and enterprise contract support, stripe integration.

Custom

On request

Over Startup, this tier adds:

All Startup features
Invoicing integrations with Salesforce, NetSuite
Cloud marketplace integration (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Data exports to warehouses and BI tools
Dedicated account manager
Enhanced SLAs and priority support

What the product covers

The full Metronome feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.

Core

Real-time usage metering
Multiple pricing models
Flexible pricing implementation
Customer-facing dashboards
Pricing experimentation

Analytics

Revenue analytics

Enterprise

Multi-dimensional pricing

Integrations

Stripe integration

People bring Metronome in for implementing usage-based billing for saas products, managing complex enterprise pricing models, testing pricing changes and monetization strategies, real-time revenue analytics and tracking, integration with payment processors and accounting systems. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Metronome are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in Accounting

Too few accounting tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.

Metronome entry price against other Accounting tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Metronome (this page)	On request	Usage-based and custom	-
Orb	On request	Custom pricing based on billing volume and events	-	vs Metronome
Creem	$3.9/percent	Per-transaction flat rate	-	vs Metronome
Stigg	Free, then $399/month	Freemium with usage-based and custom tiers	-	vs Metronome
Lago	Free	Freemium with optional paid tiers	-	vs Metronome
Dodo Payments	$4/percent + $0.40	Percentage of transaction plus fixed per-transaction fee	-	vs Metronome
Polar	Free, then $20/month	Percentage of transaction plus per-transaction fee	-	vs Metronome

Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Metronome badges page.

Before you pay for Metronome

Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.

What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between On request and On request, with the jump itemised above. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare Metronome against the tools that do have one before committing.

Metronome runs on web, api, and is published by Metronome. The full record is on the Metronome review, and the rest of the category is under best accounting tools.

Metronome pricing on the vendor's own site