Some customers blow through tiers and get forced into expensive upgrades. Others barely touch their subscription and feel guilty enough to cancel. Drip bridges the gap — let heavy users pay-as-they-go while keeping everyone else on predictable subscriptions.
Agent-native billing infrastructure where autonomous agents decide how software runs, spends, and scales
Watch the agent catch a customer before the pricing cliff forces them to churn.
See how Drip transforms the economics for users who don't fit neatly into subscription boxes.
Monthly subscription
$29.00
Days actually used
2 days
93% wasted. User feels guilty. Likely to churn.
Credits consumed
$2.10
From deposit
$5.00
Usage breakdown
Paid exactly what they used. No guilt. No churn.
Your customers aren't predictable. One might generate 50 reports today, 500 tomorrow, zero next week. Fixed tiers punish both the power user hitting limits and the occasional visitor paying for silence.
User A uses 2,900 units this month. They're on the $50 tier that includes 3,000.
User B uses 3,100. They're forced onto the $100 tier — 70% more expensive for just 200 extra units.
Every month, users like User B churn at the cliff instead of paying a fair price for their actual usage.
Pays $50 — uses 97% of tier. Content.
Forced to $100 tier for 200 extra units. Feels ripped off.
Light users sit on $50/mo subscriptions they barely touch. They feel guilty. They rationalize canceling. "I'll resubscribe when I need it."
They rarely do. The churn isn't because your product is bad — it's because the billing model doesn't fit their usage.
You deploy once. Drip automatically creates isolated containers for each user. They spin up on activity. Hibernate when idle. Resume instantly.
Deploy your app once via BuildWithLocus. Drip handles the rest.
Customer adds credits. Their personal container spins up instantly.
Every API call, every compute unit. Metered in real-time.
Credits hit zero? Container hibernates. Top up? Resumes instantly. State preserved.
Users pay only for compute they actually consume. No monthly subscription waste. No idle infrastructure costs. No churn from users who forgot to cancel.
An autonomous agent that monitors every customer's actual consumption. When someone approaches a tier boundary, Drip intervenes — catching them before the cliff.
Track every API call, every operation, every compute unit with one decorator.
@drip.meter(cost=0.007)
The agent detects tier-cliff risk. Offers pay-as-you-go top-ups. Suggests plan switches. Catches customers before they churn.
Low balance warnings via email. Consumption receipts. Plan optimization suggestions. "Switch to monthly — you'd save $12 this period."
Drip layers onto your existing Stripe/Paddle/Chargebee setup. It doesn't replace your billing — it makes it smarter.
Add the Drip SDK to your Python app. Use the @meter decorator on any function that costs compute.
Drip polls user balances every 60 seconds. It tracks who is approaching tier limits. It knows projected monthly usage from patterns.
User gets a helpful email: "You're tracking to exceed your plan. Switch to consumption billing for this month? You'll pay ~$17 instead of $50 for the next tier up."
Drip is middleware. It doesn't replace Stripe. It doesn't force you off your existing auth. It layers onto what you have.
Python SDK
Async-first. Decorator-based. 5-minute integration.
Any container platform
AWS, GCP, Fly, Railway, or BuildWithLocus.
Flexible persistence
SQLite for dev. Postgres for prod.
Self-hosted or managed
Run the agent yourself or let us host it.
Set up Drip in minutes. Connect your BWL account, drop in our SDK, and start catching tier-cliff churn today.
Free for up to 100 users. No credit card required.