No clear view into compute costs
You’re flying blind - hard to know what’s driving usage or how to price it.
Wasted engineering time
Your team spends weeks building and maintaining custom billing systems.
Slower time to monetization
Every delay in launching paygo pricing is lost revenue and fewer insights.
Hard to scale or change pricing
Adjusting tiers, discounts, or usage metrics requires constant dev work.
Risk and complexity managing payments
Handling funds, compliance, and infrastructure distracts from your core product.
Usage monitoring that makes pricing easy
Understand what’s driving costs - then turn it into revenue.
Faster time to revenue
Launch pay-as-you-go pricing in minutes - not weeks.
Zero billing overhead
Focus on your product - Lava handles everything from authentication to payments.
Easily experiment with pricing
Update tiers, discounts, and pricing models without writing code.
Peace of mind with built-in infrastructure
Lava manages your billing stack securely and reliably from day one.
Add a wallet to your app so users can pay for usage upfront and spend as they go - Lava handles the rest.
Lava provides everything you need to implement usage-based billing for AI services
Integrating Lava is as simple as changing your API endpoint URL and adding a few lines of code.
Our API proxy forwards all parameters of the original request, ensuring compatibility with your existing code.
We precisely track input and output tokens, characters, seconds, etc for each request, with no performance impact.
Get detailed insights into usage patterns, costs, and API performance.
// Before
const response = await fetch('https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions', {
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'Authorization': `Bearer ${process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY}`
},
body: JSON.stringify({
model: 'gpt-4',
messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'Hello!' }]
})
});// After integrating Lava
const key = {
secret_key: process.env.LAVA_SECRET_KEY,
product_secret: process.env.LAVA_PRODUCT_SECRET,
connection_secret: user.connectionSecret,
};
const response = await fetch('https://api.lavapayments.com/v1/forward?u=https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions', {
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'Authorization': `Bearer ${Buffer.from(JSON.stringify(key)).toString('base64')}`
},
body: JSON.stringify({
model: 'gpt-4',
messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'Hello!' }]
})
});Lava provides everything you need to implement usage-based billing for AI services
Common questions about Lava and how it can help your business
We only make money when you do. No upfront costs or monthly fees.
For new businesses
service charge
For large companies
All plans include unlimited end-users, unlimited products, and no setup fees.
Need a custom solution? Contact us to discuss your specific requirements.
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