Moesif vs Orb
Easily monetize your APIs with usage-based API billing. Moesif is designed for metering high throughput APIs up to billions of events. With a powerful analytics engine, create billing meters aligned to customer value, whether it's transaction volume, compute time, unique users, chars in a string, percentage of an order, or even create custom metrics across fields with Moesif scripting language.
With integrations for most API gateways and frameworks, start collecting API traffic in minutes without building your own ingestion pipeline. Automatically enforce quotas and subscription terms through the integration. Moesif connects to your existing billing provider like Stripe or Chargebee for automatic invoicing and payments. With Moesif’s open-source developer portal, make it easy for customers to subscribe to your APIs.
The End-to-End API Monetization Solution
Meter Any Metric in a Few Clicks
Meter any metric such as API call volume, payload size, gross payments, unique users, and more.
Moesif billing meters support date and numeric math, aggregations, functions, array sizes, and more.
With a powerful scripting language, create complex meters even if not tracked directly.
Automatic Invoicing Via Existing Tools
Connect Moesif to your billing provider like Stripe in minutes for automatic invoicing.
Support your existing billing and accounting workflows, even in-house solutions via webhooks.
Implement prepaid, postpaid, PAYG, and other pricing models with a few clicks.
Enforce Quotas and Drive Upsells
Enforce quotas, entitlements, and contract terms without custom code.
Automatically revoke access after trials expire or subscriptions cancelled.
Drive upsells by limiting access of specific APIs to specific plans.
Monetize High Throughput APIs Easily
Native plugins for most API gateways and frameworks that install in a few minutes.
Event collection is handled automatically and scales to billions of events.
With sampling and data , collect only what you need for billing to control cost.
Provide A Great Experience
Leverage Moesif's open-source developer portal to rapidly setup a subscription portal for customers.
Provide metrics to customers on their quota and current usage with a few lines of code.
Automatically email customers on their quota usage or issue with their integration.
| Moesif | Orb | |
| API Monetization | Moesif | Orb |
| No Transaction Fee | ||
| No-code API Metering | ||
| Meter on API body fields, headers, and more | ||
| Scripted Fields and Formulas | SQL Only | |
| Automatically Invoice Via Stripe, Chargebee, Recurly, Zuora, and more | Stripe Only | |
| Automatically Invoice Via In-House Billing Systems | ||
| Open-source Developer Portal | ||
| Quotas & Governance | Moesif | Orb |
| Enforce quotas and contracts | ||
| Automatically Block API Access | ||
| Support freemium and trials | ||
| API Analytics | Moesif | Orb |
| API Product Analytics | ||
| API Logs and Metrics | ||
| Subscription and Billing Analytics | ||
| Funnel Analysis | ||
| Retention Analysis | ||
| Customer Guidance | Moesif | Orb |
| Behavioral Emails | ||
| Embedded Metrics | ||
| Behavioral Cohorts | ||
| API Monitoring | Moesif | Orb |
| Real-Time Usage Alert | ||
| Anomaly Detection | ||
| Customer Notifications | ||
| Dashboards and Collaboration | Moesif | Orb |
| Custom Dashboards | ||
| Customer Profile Dashboards | ||
| Public Share Links | ||
| Implementation | Moesif | Orb |
| Integrations for most API Frameworks | ||
| API to Track Custom Events | ||
| Scale to Billions of API Calls | ||
| Client-Side Encryption for Sensitive Data | ||
| Sync with your CRM, Payment Providers, Marketing Tools, and More | ||
| Multi-year data retention | ||
| Moesif | Orb |
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