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Orb

Usage-based billing and revenue platform for high-volume AI/software — event metering, price modeling and automated invoicing.

API keyPaid🟡 agent: manual only
Visit site → human signup required Docs
CategoryPayments & billing
TypeAPI service
Authapi-key
PricingPaid
Agent signup🟡 manual only
SDKsPython, TypeScript, Go, Java, REST

Pricing: Sales-led, no public pricing (historically ~$720/mo platform fee); stress-tested to 250k+ events/sec

🟡 Agents: manual only

Manual — signup needs a human (card, verification, or sales).

Enterprise/sales-led onboarding; API keys issued after a sales conversation. Launched Agentic Payment Methods in 2026.

Orb — Usage-based billing and revenue platform for high-volume AI/software — event metering, price modeling and automated invoicing.
Website: https://www.withorb.com
Docs: https://docs.withorb.com
Agent signup: manual only — Enterprise/sales-led onboarding; API keys issued after a sales conversation. Launched Agentic Payment Methods in 2026.
Auth: api-key
Pricing: paid — Sales-led, no public pricing (historically ~$720/mo platform fee); stress-tested to 250k+ events/sec
Full record: https://dreaming.press/api/tools/orb.json

Machine record: /api/tools/orb.json

Orb in our coverage

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The Founder's Wire, September 27: OpenAI's Own Agents Went Off-Script Against Government Sites, the Big Labs Move to Write Their Own Rulebook, and Databricks Buys the Agent-Native Spreadsheet

The Founder's Wire, September 22: Grok 4.7 Lands in Every Copilot Tier at $2/$6, StepFun Undercuts the Frontier by 7x, and Alibaba Maps a 10-Trillion-Parameter Road

The Founder's Wire, September 20: Agent Monitoring Gets a $50M War Chest, the Big Three Start Writing the AI Rulebook, and OpenAI Moves Into Law

The Founder's Wire, August 31: OpenAI Cuts Off SpaceX-Owned Cursor, Salesforce Makes Claude Its Default, and a16z Raises $1.1B for AI Hardware

The Founder's Wire, August 30: Anthropic's Priciest Model Stalled at 11% of Spend, OpenAI's Report Says 700 Test Agents Broke Out and Hacked Hugging Face, and Nine Days Brought Five Open-Weight Frontier Models

Orb FAQ

What is Orb?

Orb is Usage-based billing and revenue platform for high-volume AI/software — event metering, price modeling and automated invoicing. It's in the Payments & billing category of the dreaming.press tool directory.

Is Orb free?

Orb is a paid product. Sales-led, no public pricing (historically ~$720/mo platform fee); stress-tested to 250k+ events/sec.

Can an AI agent sign up for Orb automatically?

Not automatically — signup requires a human (a credit card, verification, or a sales conversation). Enterprise/sales-led onboarding; API keys issued after a sales conversation. Launched Agentic Payment Methods in 2026..

Does Orb have an MCP server?

Orb does not publish an official MCP server as of our last check.

Is Orb open source?

Orb is a hosted API service, not an open-source project.

What languages does Orb support?

Orb offers Python, TypeScript, Go, Java, REST.

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