About usage-based-pricing-review
A skill for analyzing usage-based pricing and producing a pricing architecture, event contract, guardrails, and experiment plan. It guides teams through value metrics, metering, billing states, and customer risk.
Key features
- 01Identify buyer, value metric, and cost driver
- 02Map metering and billing states
- 03Assess predictability, abuse, and growth incentives
- 04Produce pricing architecture and experiment plan
Use cases
- 01Design a usage-based pricing model
- 02Review metering, quotas, alerts, and invoices
- 03Plan guardrails for variable usage bills
Install
Copy the command and run it in a terminal.
$
npx skills add https:/ / github.com/ sylphxai/ skills --skill usage-based-pricing-reviewAfter installing, type/usage-based-pricing-reviewin Claude Code to confirm it loaded.
Bundled filesagents/openai.yamlreferences/usage-based-pricing-systems.md
Details
From the project READMEUsage Based Pricing Review
Use this skill to turn usage pricing into a trustworthy revenue system instead of a surprise bill generator.
Workflow
- Identify buyer, user, value metric, cost driver, usage unit, billing period, and expansion path.
- Read
references/usage-based-pricing-systems.md. - Map metering, aggregation, quota, alert, invoice, adjustment, dispute, and support states.
- Separate customer value, provider cost, predictability, abuse risk, and growth incentives.
- Produce pricing architecture, event contract, guardrails, and experiment plan.
When not to use
- Do not use for generic advice the base model already handles without this skill's specific artifact contract.
Guardrails
- Do not hide metering logic, renewal price, overage rules, or invoice timing.
- Do not choose a metric solely because it is easy to meter; it must correlate with customer value.
- Provide budgets, caps, alerts, and support evidence before exposing high-variance bills.
Output format
Pricing context:
Recommended value metric:
Usage system:
- meter, unit, aggregation, allowance, overage, cap, alert
Plan architecture:
- free/trial:
- core paid:
- expansion:
- enterprise/control:
Risks and mitigations:
- <risk> -> product, billing, support, analytics response
Instrumentation:
- <event> with properties
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