API Monetization with Zuplo
Zuplo provides a flexible and powerful approach to API monetization, allowing you to choose the billing provider that best fits your business needs while leveraging our world-class API management platform.
Our Approach: Best of Both Worlds
Rather than building monetization features from scratch, Zuplo partners with leading billing and metering platforms to give you:
- Industry-leading API management - Zuplo's blazing-fast gateway, beautiful developer portal, and comprehensive management features
- Best-in-class monetization - Purpose-built billing solutions with all the features your business needs
- Seamless integration - Pre-built policies, examples, and documentation to connect everything together
Available Integrations
OpenMeter Integration
Our OpenMeter Policy provides production-ready integration with OpenMeter, a modern usage-based billing platform. Features include:
- Real-time usage tracking - Track API requests and custom metrics as they happen
- Flexible pricing models - Support pay-as-you-go, credits, tiers, and custom models
- Usage enforcement - Automatically block requests when customers exceed their limits
- CloudEvents support - Industry-standard event format for maximum compatibility
Learn more about monetization with OpenMeter →
Amberflo Integration
Our Amberflo Metering Policy enables real-time usage metering and billing through Amberflo, a usage-based billing platform. Features include:
- Real-time event ingestion - Track usage events with sub-second latency
- Flexible metering - Define custom meters for any billable metric
- Usage-based pricing - Support complex pricing models and tiers
- Customer dashboards - Provide usage visibility to your customers
Moesif Integration
The Moesif Analytics Policy integrates with Moesif, providing API analytics and monetization capabilities. Features include:
- API analytics - Deep insights into API usage patterns and customer behavior
- Usage tracking - Monitor API calls, latency, and error rates
- Customer segmentation - Analyze usage by customer cohorts
- Billing alerts - Set up notifications for usage thresholds
Learn how Zuplo and Moesif work together in this blog post: API Observability and Monetization at the Edge
Stripe Integration
Stripe is a powerful option for API monetization when combined with Zuplo's API management capabilities. You can:
- Build custom integrations - Use Stripe's APIs with Zuplo's programmable gateway
- Leverage webhooks - Process subscription events and update access in real-time with our Stripe Webhook Verification Policy
- Implement quality-based pricing - Charge more for better API performance
- Create tiered access - Different rate limits and features per subscription level
Learn how improving API quality can increase revenue in this blog post: Increase Revenue by Improving API Quality
Enterprise Solutions
For organizations with complex monetization requirements that go beyond standard billing integrations, Zuplo offers advanced enterprise solutions. Our enterprise monetization is built on our globally distributed infrastructure and provides:
- Custom billing systems - Integrate with any billing provider or proprietary systems
- Global quota enforcement - Consistent usage tracking across all edge locations
- Advanced analytics - Real-time revenue monitoring and predictive insights
- White-label solutions - Fully branded experiences for your customers
Learn more about enterprise monetization →
Developer Portal Integration
The Zuplo Developer Portal can be customized to integrate with any monetization provider.
Custom Pages and Plugins
Build tailored experiences for your customers:
- Custom pages for pricing, billing, and account management
- Custom plugins to integrate billing widgets and dashboards
Example Implementation
Check out our complete OpenMeter example that demonstrates:
- Self-service API key creation
- Automatic customer provisioning
- Plan assignment on creation of API key
- Usage tracking and quota enforcement
Programmable API Gateway
Zuplo's API gateway is fully programmable, allowing you to implement any monetization logic your business requires:
Custom Policies
Create custom inbound and outbound policies to:
- Calculate dynamic pricing based on request/response characteristics
- Track custom metrics and dimensions
- Integrate with any external billing API
Event-Driven Architecture
Use Zuplo's hooks system to:
- Send usage events to your billing system
- Update customer limits in real-time
- Send metrics to external systems using plugins like the Azure Event Hubs Plugin