See what every route and customer earns, live
Traffic, spend and margin on dashboards built for usage data — not a blank canvas you have to model first. 1.28M events a day is a quiet Tuesday for the demo tenant.
Usage billing & analytics, reimagined
Every event. Priced, billed, audited.
The usage-based billing and analytics platform that installs in one command — dashboards, statements and supplier reconciliation in 15 minutes.
- 15-minute setup
- No contracts
- Cancel any time
$curl -sL https://thepixeldata.com/install.sh | bash
First event received — rating it now
- Detects FreeSWITCH and Asterisk
- No inbound ports, no root
- Buffers to disk if the network drops
One command on the box that already has your usage.
A three-part demonstration. First, a single install command and the first event arriving. Then a dashboard showing £7,842.18 spent today across 1.28M events. Then a supplier invoice reconciliation that found £14,821.36. All figures are sample data.
If your revenue is calculated from events — calls, tokens, API requests, deliveries — billing isn’t optional. It just shouldn’t take a platform team.
Built for modern operators
Simple to start. Powerful at scale.
- Uptime
- 99.99% — sample figure, not a live claim
- Query speed
- < 200ms — sample figure, not a live claim
- Found for customers
- £2.7M+ — sample figure, not a live claim
Get started in 15 minutes
Card required. Not charged until day 15.
Sample figuresplaceholders until launch, replaced with audited numbers
What you get in 15 minutes
Not a trial that shows you someone else’s data. One command, and these are your own numbers.
Every charge priced and traceable
Click any amount through to its events, and any event through to the arithmetic: what was recorded, what it was rounded to, which minimum applied, which prefix matched and why.
Voice call · AlphaComms£0.1562
- Recorded372 seconds
- Rounded to 1s increment372 seconds
- Minimum 30s appliedno change
- Prefix 447 · £0.000420£0.1562
Supplier invoices audited for you
Upload a carrier invoice and every line is checked against what your own switch recorded. Rate differences and missing charges are money you can go and ask for.
- United Kingdom — fixed — 44£455.08 recovered
- United Kingdom — mobile — 447£694.18 recovered
- United Kingdom — mobile, premium band — 4479£525.12 recovered
Who this is for
Three situations. If none of them is yours, the last line on this page is the honest answer.
You bill from usage today
VoIP and CPaaS · AI APIs · MSPs and hosting
You already rate calls, tokens or requests, probably in a spreadsheet or a platform you have outgrown. The events exist; nobody can see what they earn until the month closes.
See what every route and customer earns, live — and find what your suppliers over-charged you.
How the reconciliation worksYou're launching usage pricing
SaaS adding metering to a flat plan
You have decided to charge for what people use and discovered that metering, rating, statements and an audit trail are a quarter of engineering work before the first invoice.
Bill your first customer this week, not next quarter.
Read the quickstartYou're outgrowing your stack
On a billing platform that no longer fits
Your platform works but bills you for a sales call every time something changes, or your warehouse-plus-BI arrangement needs an engineer whenever finance asks a question.
Move without a leap of faith: run both systems in parallel and compare the numbers daily.
Compare the alternativesComing at launch
The Switch Kit — import your existing plans, run both systems against the same traffic for a month, and get a daily report of every figure that disagrees. Nothing moves until the numbers match.
Selling flat subscriptions with no usage? Stripe Billing is probably all you need. Nothing here will help you, and we would rather say so now.
Three tools. One platform.
For your usage data, this replaces the billing platform, the warehouse and the dashboard tool — and the engineering that joins them together.
A billing platform
Usage collection, rating and price plans, statements ready for your accountant.
A data warehouse
Every raw event kept and queryable, with no schema to design and no pipeline to maintain.
A dashboard tool
Live traffic, spend and margin, with every figure clickable through to its events.
From £199/monthLower cost, more margin, and one bill instead of four.
Pixel Data vs Grafana, Snowflake and CDR billing platforms
You may already run one of these. Here is what each one does for your usage data, and what it leaves you to build.
| For your usage data | Pixel Data | Grafana | Snowflake | CDR billing platforms |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live usage dashboards | Yes | Yes, build itbuild it | Yes, add BIadd BI | Yes, basicbasic |
| Rating engine (events → money)Increments, minimums, longest-prefix matching, versioned plans. | Yes | No | Yes, write SQLwrite SQL | Yes |
| Statements and audit trail | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Supplier invoice reconciliationYour supplier's invoice checked line by line against what you metered. | Yes | No | Yes, build itbuild it | Yes, add-onadd-on |
| One-command install | Yes | Yes, then modelthen model | No | No |
| Self-serve with published pricingSign up with a card and see the number before you speak to anyone. | Yes | Yes | Yes, then quotedthen quoted | No |
| Flat, predictable pricingPublished, and not moved by how much you query. | Yes | Yes, self-hostself-host | Yes, if capacityif capacity | No |
What it means for you
Every one of these tools does part of the job well. Only one of them does all six without an engineering project in the middle — which is the difference between seeing your usage next quarter and seeing it this afternoon.
On Grafana pricing: Grafana Cloud is sold per active series, per log and trace volume, and per active user, so the bill moves with what you monitor. Grafana OSS is free to run, and then the cost is your own infrastructure and the time to maintain it.
On Snowflake pricing: Snowflake is sold per credit consumed, with rates varying by edition, cloud and region, plus separate storage. The bill moves with how much your team queries.
Also compared: Lago, Orb, Metronome, m3ter, Zenskar, Amberflo, Flexprice, OpenMeter
All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Pixel Data is not affiliated with or endorsed by any company mentioned.
The only billing platform that finds money, not just charges it
Every other tool meters what you sell. Pixel Data also audits what you’re charged.
Step 1
Upload
Drop in the CSV your carrier or vendor sent. Any encoding, any delimiter, any date format — the parser shows you its mapping before it imports anything.
Step 2
Compare
Every line is checked against what your own switch recorded, and the differences are separated: rate differences, timing differences, missing charges.
Step 3
Recover
You get a line-by-line verdict you can send to your supplier, with the events behind every disputed figure attached.
Plugs into what you already run
An agent that pulls, an API that receives, a sync that reads your warehouse.
The only platform with all three. No competitor offers more than one.
Agent and API are live today; the warehouse sync is on the roadmap. Check it against the eleven comparisons.
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One command. Live in minutes.
Three ways in, one API key, all of it in the same dashboards. No schema workshop, no data engineering project, no waiting on a sprint.
- 1
Install
Three ways in: one command, an SDK, or a plain HTTPS call.
- 2
Send events
Your usage arrives and is stored, exactly as sent.
- 3
We rate it
Priced against your plan, traceable to the penny.
- 4
See the money
Dashboards, statements, and what you are owed.
Install in one line
curl -sL https://thepixeldata.com/install.sh | bashThe installer asks for your ingest key, writes one config file and starts a service.
Simple, transparent pricing.
Published pricing, in a category that makes you book a call to hear a number.
Starter
£199/ month
For start-ups and small teams.
- Up to 1M events / month
- 1 team member
- All core features
- Email support
No charge until day 15
Most popular
Growth
£499/ month
For growing businesses.
- Up to 10M events / month
- 5 team members
- All core features
- Priority support
No charge until day 15
Scale
£999/ month
For high-volume operators.
- Up to 100M events / month
- Unlimited team members
- All core features
- Dedicated support
No charge until day 15
Flat tiers. One overage rate.
No per-seat licences. No per-query billing. No per-product meters. Your bill is the tier you chose, plus one published rate if you go over. The bill you can predict.
Live now
See it working right now — no signup, no card
The whole product on sample data for a fictional operator. Click a figure through to its events, open one of them and read the arithmetic, then look at a finished reconciliation that found £14,821.36.
A preview of the Pixel Data dashboard showing sample data: spend today £7,842.18, spend this month £198,241.67, margin £68,732.11, and 1.28M events today.
See your own usage on a dashboard today.
One command on the machine that already has it. Or look at ours first — the sandbox needs no card and no signup.