Stripe Metered Billing & Usage Orchestration

1. Deep Architecture

Metered billing charges clients based on usage (e.g., video seconds analyzed). We track usage events in Redis cache buffers to avoid writing to the database on every event, sending usage reports to Stripe in scheduled batches.

2. The Feynman Gatekeeper

[KNOWLEDGE CHECK] What is the performance difference between reporting usage to Stripe on every request and using memory-buffered batch updates?

3. The Code

import stripe

def report_tenant_usage(subscription_item_id, quantity):
    # Sends accumulated video evaluation volume directly to Stripe billing
    stripe.SubscriptionItem.create_usage_record(
        subscription_item_id,
        quantity=quantity,
        timestamp=int(time.time()),
        action='increment'
    )

4. The Funnel

Stat Level-Up: Meter Master (Lvl 1).
Sanjaya Integration: Bill clients dynamically based on the volume of video data processed.