Roadmap

Building in public: what's shipping next

We share what we're working on and what's coming up so customers can plan with confidence. Priorities may evolve based on feedback.

In progress

  • Usage plan templates

    One-click presets for common AI billing models (free trial, credits, PAYG, per-seat + usage).

    In progressHigh valueMed complexity
  • Stripe setup wizard

    Guided setup that creates Stripe meters/prices, validates webhooks, and verifies the first invoice end-to-end.

    In progressHigh valueMed complexity
  • Budget & limit policies

    Define budgets and caps by customer, feature, model, and capability with hard/soft enforcement.

    In progressHigh valueHigh complexity

Completed

  • Usage Based Billing Essentials

    Allow customers to set plan tiers, and track customer usage against those tiers.

    CompletedHigh valueMed complexity
  • Central operations dashboard

    Real-time view of calls, tokens, cost, and errors by customer and AI feature.

    CompletedHigh valueMed complexity
  • Prebuilt Usage Dashboard Widgets

    Allow customers to give their users AI usage and billing dashboards.

    CompletedHigh valueMed complexity
  • Overage controls

    Block, throttle, bill overage, or enable PAYG when customers hit limits.

    CompletedHigh valueMed complexity
  • Predictive usage intelligence

    Forecast future usage and spend in dollars and calls with early-warning alerts.

    CompletedHigh valueHigh complexity
  • Usage notifications and alerts

    Allow regular AI feature usage and costs to be sent by email.

    CompletedHigh valueMed complexity
  • End-user usage alerts

    Allow customers’ users to be alerted about usage forecast for upselling and credit purchasing.

    CompletedHigh valueMed complexity
  • PAYG (Pay as You Go) support

    Allow pre-paid AI usage to avoid fronting AI costs.

    CompletedHigh valueHigh complexity
  • Custom Meters

    Allow custom metering of outcome based usage in application.

    CompletedHigh valueMed complexity
  • Stripe integration

    Send and manage usage meters with Stripe.

    CompletedHigh valueHigh complexity
  • OpenTelemetry exports

    Export calls, tokens, and cost to any OTLP endpoint (Datadog, Grafana, New Relic, etc.).

    CompletedMed valueMed complexity
  • Anomaly detection

    Alert when usage patterns differ from normal.

    CompletedMed valueHigh complexity
  • Developer-friendly API & SDK

    Ship metering, limits, and billing quickly with a simple API surface and SDK.

    CompletedHigh valueMed complexity
  • AI Feature Usage Analytics

    A dashboard showing what AI features are being used—Google Analytics for AI features with in-depth analysis.

    CompletedHigh valueMed complexity

Planned

  • Response quality tracking

    Handle application response quality feedback, with visualizations and alerting.

    PlannedMed valueHigh complexity
  • Customer Location Routing

    Return customer geography to help applications route to the right geography.

    PlannedLow valueLow complexity
  • Forecast-to-revenue simulator

    Replay historical usage through a proposed plan to estimate revenue, overage, churn risk, and margin.

    PlannedHigh valueHigh complexity
  • Self-Serve Credit Storefront

    Embed a top-up experience so customers can pre-buy credits, auto-replenish PAYG balances, or gift usage internally.

    PlannedHigh valueHigh complexity
  • Model ROI Scorecards

    Correlate response quality feedback with spend to spotlight which models deserve premium entitlements or downgrades.

    PlannedMed valueHigh complexity
  • Compliance & Audit Snapshots

    Generate exportable reports summarizing policy enforcement, usage, and alerts for procurement or security reviews.

    PlannedMed valueMed complexity
  • SDK-first metering + auto-instrumentation

    Capture tokens, model, latency, errors, and cost automatically for chat/agent calls with minimal code.

    PlannedHigh valueHigh complexity
  • Customer identity & tenant mapping

    Opinionated mapping from workspace/org to billing customer, plus support for projects/teams.

    PlannedHigh valueMed complexity
  • Incident-aware billing controls

    Rules to auto-credit or exclude failed/slow requests from billing with a complete audit trail.

    PlannedHigh valueHigh complexity
  • Upgrade nudges toolkit

    Drop-in UI + API patterns for upgrade/top-up prompts when customers approach limits (with A/B tests).

    PlannedHigh valueMed complexity
  • Feature packaging studio

    Turn AI features, premium models, and capabilities on/off by plan and sell them as add-ons.

    PlannedHigh valueMed complexity
  • Invoice explainability

    Drill down from Stripe invoices to the underlying usage events to reduce disputes and support time.

    PlannedHigh valueHigh complexity
  • Anomaly root-cause analysis

    Explain usage spikes by feature/model/user and recommend guardrails to prevent repeat surprises.

    PlannedHigh valueHigh complexity

Have feedback?

We'd love to hear what would make UsageTap more valuable for your team. Send ideas tosupport@usagetap.com.