Stigg is a modern monetization and usage governance platform designed for AI-first SaaS businesses. It provides an independent enforcement layer for managing entitlements, credits, usage metering, and governance—separate from your billing system—so that features, AI agents, customers, and teams are governed in real-time. Its infrastructure aims to deliver decisions in milliseconds while enabling scaling to millions of entities and events daily.
Key Features
- Credits & Entitlements Engine: Stigg offers a financial-grade credits system with wallets, ledgers, expiry rules, and consumption priorities. It supports an append-only immutable ledger for auditability and ensures no overdraft.
- Usage Metering & Aggregation: You can collect usage data either as raw events (for high-throughput systems) or as calculated usage metrics (for simpler use cases). Stigg supports real-time or near-real-time enforcement for limits and usage quotas.
- Product Catalog & Pricing Models: Stigg lets you define features, product plans, and add-ons that map to entitlements. Pricing models include flat fee, per unit, usage-based, tiered, and hybrid pricing. You can also manage trials, free plans, and custom plans.
- Workflow Automation & Custom Logic: With the Workflow Builder, users can automate monetization processes without writing backend code. Use cases include trial extension, promotional entitlements, notifications, alerts, and usage-based upgrades. This feature integrates with over 400 services and is currently in beta for select customers.
- Integration & Deployment Options: Supported APIs and SDKs include REST and GraphQL, and there are client libraries for popular languages and platforms. Stigg works atop existing billing systems like Stripe or Zuora, but also offers deployment in your own cloud (BYOC) or database (BYOD) for full control and data sovereignty.
Who is it for?
Stigg is suited for companies—particularly AI-driven SaaS providers—that need dynamic, usage-based monetization controls and real-time enforcement of feature access. Decision-makers in product, growth, engineering, and finance will find value in separating monetization logic from billing, reducing engineering overhead, and iterating pricing strategies faster. Enterprises with complex requirements—such as data sovereignty, compliance, or high throughput—may use Stigg’s BYOC/BYODB offerings. Smaller startups can use the free-forever plan to begin without upfront costs.
Pricing
- Build (Free forever): This entry plan includes up to 10,000 managed entities, 5 million usage events per month, 1,000 events/sec throughput, and access to full credits and entitlements features. No payment information required.
- Pro ($399/month): Suited for startups needing more scale. Includes 10,000 entities and 25 million usage events per month, higher throughput (10K events/sec), custom-branded widgets, audit logs, and standard support with a 2-hour Sev1 SLA.
- Scale (Custom pricing): For companies scaling up with committed blocks of entities, higher event volumes, enterprise features like RBAC, SSO, and integrations with tools like Zuora, Salesforce, and Netsuite. 99.99% SLA and premium support are included.
- BYOC / BYODB (Custom): Enterprise-grade deployment in your own cloud or with your own database. Offers unlimited throughput (often 1M+ events/sec), full control, fixed license fees, and enhanced compliance, support, and SLAs.
Final Thoughts
Stigg positions itself as a specialized runtime for AI monetization, offering strong capabilities in real-time entitlement enforcement, usage metering, and flexible pricing models. Its separation of monetization logic from billing infrastructure allows product and GTM teams to iterate faster without heavy engineering lift. If real-time control, scalability, auditability, and support for enterprise compliance are vital, Stigg is likely a strong match. On the other hand, organizations with simpler billing needs or fewer usage-based features may not immediately require the breadth of controls Stigg offers. It would be wise to evaluate whether the free Build tier meets your short-term goals, and whether you can justify the costs of higher tiers once usage scales. In either case, Stigg delivers a feature-rich, neutral, mature platform worthy of consideration for businesses seeking to modernize their pricing and usage governance strategy.
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