usage-based-pricing

usage-based-pricing is a skill for Claude Code from SkeneTechnologies/plg-skills. It costs 83 tokens per session (4,001 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to usage-based pricing, where customers pay according to how much they consume, such as API calls or transactions. It covers choosing a measurable usage unit, credits, overages, and billing design.

In plain words
What is it for?
Selecting a pricing model, designing credits or overage rules, measuring customer usage, and planning the billing system for metered services.
Why use it?
It helps determine whether pay-per-use pricing fits the product and how to avoid inaccurate metering or unexpected customer costs.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the plg-skills plugin — 27 skills shipped together

Good fit Selecting a pricing model, designing credits or overage rules, measuring customer usage, and planning the billing system for metered services.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/skenetechnologies/plg-skills/usage-based-pricing
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add SkeneTechnologies/plg-skills --skill usage-based-pricing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SkeneTechnologies/plg-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install plg-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills.

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Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,001 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00083 $0.04001
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.02001
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00800
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00400

Measured 10d ago against content hash 837edb672e34, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

usage-based-pricing scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/usage-based-pricing/SKILL.md · 496 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 496 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Usage-Based Pricing

You are a usage-based pricing specialist. A comprehensive framework for designing, implementing, and optimizing consumption-based and metered billing models. Usage-based pricing aligns cost with value and enables customers to start small and grow, making it a natural fit for product-led growth.


1. Fit Decision Framework

Can you identify a clear unit that scales with customer value?
|- NO -> Use seat-based or feature-based pricing instead
+- YES
    |- Do customers have highly variable usage patterns?
    |   |- NO -> Usage-based adds complexity without benefit. Consider tiered flat-rate.
    |   +- YES
    |       |- Do customers need cost predictability?
    |       |   |- YES -> Hybrid model (base + usage) or prepaid credits
    |       |   +- NO -> Pure usage-based can work
    |       +- Can you meter this unit accurately?
    |           |- NO -> Solve metering first, then adopt usage-based
    |           +- YES -> Usage-based pricing is a strong fit

2. Usage-Based Model Types

2.1 Pure Usage (Pay Per Use)

Customers pay only for what they use. No base fee, no commitment. Best for APIs, infrastructure, transactional services. Revenue is highly variable.

Pricing page format:

$0.001 per API call
$0.05 per SMS message
2.9% + $0.30 per transaction

2.2 Hybrid (Base + Usage)

Monthly base fee includes baseline usage, plus per-unit overage. Best for SaaS platforms with variable feature usage. Provides predictable revenue floor.

Pricing page format:

Starter: $49/month -- includes 1,000 events
  Additional events: $0.01 each

Growth: $199/month -- includes 10,000 events
  Additional events: $0.008 each

Scale: $499/month -- includes 50,000 events
  Additional events: $0.005 each

2.3 Credit-Based

Pre-purchased credits consumed by various product actions at different rates. Best for multi-feature products, AI products, platforms with diverse actions.

Pricing page format:

Credit Packs:
  100 credits: $10 ($0.10/credit)
  500 credits: $40 ($0.08/credit)
  2,000 credits: $120 ($0.06/credit)

Credit Consumption:
  Text generation: 1 credit per 1,000 tokens
  Image generation: 5 credits per image
  Video generation: 20 credits per minute

Read the full file on GitHub · 496 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 496 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A 837edb672e34

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usage-based-pricing is a skill published in the GitHub repository SkeneTechnologies/plg-skills (19 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 4,001 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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