Chargebee puts tech’s biggest unresolved challenge — billing — on blast, offering customers 1 billion free usage events to fix it NORTH BETHESDA, Md., April 02, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Billions of dollars have been poured into artificial intelligence, but a fundamental question remains unanswered: what is the best way to monetize it? As AI-native companies race to build bigger models, and as legacy players build AI into existing products, AI monetization remains one of the industry’s greatest unsolved challenges. Rather than just talking about it, Chargebee, a leading billing and monetization platform, is forcing the issue into the spotlight—literally. Introducing: New High-Volume Usage Ingestion and Billing Capabilities This week, Chargebee announced the availability of its new high-volume ingestion capabilities, integrated with its robust billing engine, which allow companies to determine their best path to monetizing their AI products by better understanding the value they deliver and using that understanding to inform pricing decisions. Chargebee’s new capabilities, which include schemaless usage data ingestion, support for multiple pricing models, and granular usage controls, bring together commonly disparate datasets and link AI product usage to billing while supporting multiple pricing strategies. "As companies build, invest, and experiment with AI, the tech industry is at a crossroads," said Krish Subramanian, Co-founder and CEO of Chargebee. "There’s no silver bullet when it comes to monetization

Subramanian also revealed that Chargebee recently acquired AI payments management platform Inai