Accounting · pricing
Orb pricing
Orb publishes 3 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
- Custom pricing based on billing volume and events
- Tiers
- 3
- Free tier
- Not on record
Orb 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.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Core | On request | 6 | Entry tier |
| Advanced | On request | 6 | Priced on request |
| Enterprise | On request | 4 | 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.
Core
On requestThe entry tier. It covers real-time event ingestion (up to 250k+ events/second), real-time alerting, hybrid and usage-based billing, automated price changes, orb invoicing, finance and tax integrations.
Advanced
On requestOver Core, this tier adds:
- All Core features
- Data warehouse sync
- Salesforce integration
- NetSuite integration
- Customer hierarchy
- Premium support
Enterprise
On requestOver Advanced, this tier adds:
- All Advanced features
- Enterprise-grade SLAs
- Dedicated support
- Mission-critical billing guarantees
What the product covers
The full Orb 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
- Usage metering
- Automated billing
- Pricing modeling
Finance
- Revenue recognition
Customer
- Spend controls
- Pricing calculator
Integrations
- NetSuite integration
- Data warehouse sync
People bring Orb in for implementing usage-based billing for cloud infrastructure providers, modeling and testing multiple pricing strategies before launch, automating revenue recognition for financial reporting, managing complex hybrid pricing (seats plus usage) at scale, providing customers real-time spend controls and usage visibility. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Orb 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.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orb (this page) | On request | Custom pricing based on billing volume and events | - | |
| Creem | $3.9/percent | Per-transaction flat rate | - | vs Orb |
| Stigg | Free, then $399/month | Freemium with usage-based and custom tiers | - | vs Orb |
| Lago | Free | Freemium with optional paid tiers | - | vs Orb |
| Dodo Payments | $4/percent + $0.40 | Percentage of transaction plus fixed per-transaction fee | - | vs Orb |
| Metronome | On request | Usage-based and custom | - | vs Orb |
| Polar | Free, then $20/month | Percentage of transaction plus per-transaction fee | - | vs Orb |
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 Orb badges page.
Before you pay for Orb
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: 3 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 Orb against the tools that do have one before committing.
Orb runs on web, api, and is published by Orb. The full record is on the Orb review, and the rest of the category is under best accounting tools.
Orb pricing questions
- How much does Orb cost?
- Orb publishes 3 tiers, from On request for Core up to On request for Enterprise. The cheapest paid tier is On request.
- Does Orb have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: Orb is listed as Custom pricing based on billing volume and events. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- What is the difference between Core and Advanced on Orb?
- Advanced costs On request against On request, and adds all core features, data warehouse sync, salesforce integration, netsuite integration.
- Which accounting tools can I use without paying?
- 3 of the 8 accounting tools listed alongside Orb have a free tier: Stigg, Lago, Polar.
- What am I actually paying for with Orb?
- The record lists 8 features across 4 areas: core, finance, customer, integrations. In practice it is brought in for implementing usage-based billing for cloud infrastructure providers, modeling and testing multiple pricing strategies before launch, automating revenue recognition for financial reporting.
- Does Orb charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 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 Orb 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 Orb against before paying?
- The closest accounting tools in this directory are Creem, Stigg, Lago, Dodo Payments. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Orb covering price, platforms and features.