Moesif vs Orb
Monetize your APIs and apps with a usage-based billing platform designed for high throughput. With a powerful analytics engine and features like scripted fields, have flexibility to go beyond simple consumption models. Experiment with prepaid credits, tiered discounts, quotas and entitlements, and more. Moesif combines metering with real-time analytics for better-decision making to accelerate growth.
With integrations for API gateways, Segment, and more, accurately ingest raw events in minutes without building your own data infra. As an open platform unlike Orb, automatically invoice through your preferred tooling like Stripe, Zuora, or a custom invoicing solution as requirements change. Get direct access to your usage data via API or bulk export.
End-to-End API Monetization Loved By Engineers
Flexible Metering in a Few Clicks
Meter any metric whether event count, volume, compute time, or unique users with a few clicks.
Handle complex needs with numeric/date math, different windowing and aggregations, and more.
With a powerful scripting language, create new metrics from multiple fields, even retroactively.
Invoice Automatically Via Existing Tools
Connect Moesif to your billing provider like Stripe for automatic invoicing.
With webhooks and API, support custom invoicing solutions and complex accounting workflows.
Implement prepaid, postpaid, tiered, PAYG, and other pricing models with a few clicks.
Enforce Quotas and Entitlements
Enforce quotas, entitlements, and contract terms automatically with a simple server integration.
Automatically revoke access after trials expire or subscriptions cancelled.
Drive upsells by limiting specific features and APIs to higher plans.
Monitor High Throughput APIs Easily
Integrations for API gateways, frameworks, and Segment that install in minutes.
Track custom events outside your API as well via custom actions
With dynamic sampling, collect only what you need to reduce your analytics cost.
Build Custom Logic
Create billable metrics from fields in your API payloads, from custom events, and more.
With a powerful scripting language, create new metrics from multiple fields, even retroactively.
Moesif supports date math and numeric math, aggregations, windowing functions, and more.
Provide a Great Customer Experience
Leverage Moesif's open-source developer portal to easily deploy a pricing and subscription portal.
Provide metrics to customers on their current usage with a few lines of code.
Automatically email customers on their consumption or issues with their subscription.
| Moesif | Orb | |
| Usage-Based Billing | Moesif | Orb |
| Create Metrics on any API Body Fields, Custom Metadata Fields, and more | Only Custom Metadata | |
| Date and Numeric Math with Scientific Formulas | SQL Only | |
| Windowing Functions and Advanced Aggregations | ||
| Scripted Fields | SQL Only | |
| Automatically Invoice via Stripe, Zuora, Chargebee, Recurly, and more | Stripe Only | |
| Automatically Invoice via Custom Solutions, Marketplaces, and more | ||
| Customer Portal | Moesif | Orb |
| Open-source Portal for Self-Service | ||
| Embedded Usage Metrics | ||
| Behavioral Emails | ||
| Quotas & Governance | Moesif | Orb |
| Create & Enforce Quota Plans | ||
| Automatically Revoke API Access | ||
| API Analytics | Moesif | Orb |
| API Product Analytics | ||
| Event Logs and Metrics | ||
| Subscription and Billing Analytics | ||
| Funnel Analysis | ||
| Retention Analysis | ||
| Dashboards and Reporting | Moesif | Orb |
| Custom Dashboards | Not Customizable | |
| Customer Profile Dashboards | ||
| Public Share Links | ||
| API Monitoring | Moesif | Orb |
| Real-Time Usage Alerts | ||
| Anomaly Detection | ||
| Customer Notifications and Webhooks | ||
| Implementation | Moesif | Orb |
| Integrations for most API gateways and frameworks | ||
| API to Track Custom Events | ||
| Scale to Billions of API Calls At Low Cost | ||
| Client-Side Encryption for Sensitive Data | ||
| Multi-year data retention | ||
| Open Platform | Moesif | Orb |
| Bulk Export Raw Events | ||
| API to Query Usage Data | ||
| Custom Webhooks | ||
| Integrate with BI Tools like Tableau | ||
| Sync with your CRM, Marketing Tools, and More | ||
| Moesif | Orb |
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