Prepaid credits

We’re excited to introduce prepaid credits, giving you a flexible, transparent, and scalable way to monetize usage-based and AI-driven features.

🌟 What's Included

Core Concepts

Credit currencies – Define your own credit types and unit costs (e.g., 1 AI Credit = $0.001).
Credit pools – Real-time customer credit balances used across multiple features.
Credit grants – Add blocks of credits with rules like amount, effective/expiration dates, category, cost basis, and priority.
Credit consumption – Map metered features to credit costs (e.g., 1 summarized email = 3 AI credits).
Credit ledger – A full audit trail of every credit change: grants, top-ups, consumption, expirations, and adjustments.

🆕 What's New

Custom credit currencies
Feature-to-credit mapping
Near real-time credit deduction and enforcement
One-time credit top-ups and self-service management
Webhooks and activity log events (low balance, grant lifecycle)
Full visibility into balance, utilization, grants, and usage
Management via the Stigg app or customer self-service
Native integration with all existing Stigg billing connectors

💡 Why This Matters

Credits have become the standard for monetizing AI and other variable-cost features. They make usage predictable for customers and provide finance and product teams with a transparent, auditable, and scalable model.

Most billing systems don’t support credits, forcing companies into complex migrations or expensive in-house builds. Stigg removes that friction and delivers:

Flexibility – Update credit pricing and mappings without code. Use versioning to roll out changes safely.
Neat real-time enforcement – Prevent overuse and protect margins with low-latency entitlement checks.
Predictability – Customers purchase usage upfront, reducing billing surprises.
Transparency – Every grant, deduction, and expiration is recorded for customers and finance.
Speed to value – Launch credit-based pricing without engineering heavy lifting.

📦 Availability

Available for all Stigg customers in the Stigg app.

Supported in the latest SDKs:

Node.js: v4.0.0
Python / Ruby / Go / Java / .NET: v3.75.0
Sidecar SDK: v4.0.0
JavaScript: v3.68.1

🛠 Get Started

Start monetizing like today's leading AI platforms. Learn more in our documentation.