Stigg is a usage runtime for engineering teams that need to manage entitlements, consumption, and spending limits for AI products. Its credits engine includes wallets, ledgers, expiry rules, burn-downs, and priority consumption. Teams can change entitlement logic outside the codebase without a deployment, meter tokens, inference calls, and agent actions, and set per-user, team, or agent budget caps enforced when calls are made. Stigg states that entitlement checks have p99 latency under 10ms and that metering handles over 1M events per second. It syncs with existing billing providers, including Stripe and Zuora. Deployment options include Stigg’s hosted Cloud API, a customer’s cloud, and a bring-your-own-database setup; it is also available through web, API, and self-hosted platforms. The free Build plan includes 10,000 managed entities and 5M monthly usage events. Pro costs $399/mo (annual) or $499/mo. Build is free forever.
Who it is for
Stigg suits engineering teams managing usage, access, and spending controls for AI products. Its API, web, and self-hosted options give teams several deployment approaches.
What is good
- Entitlements can change without a code deployment.
- Budget caps can be enforced at call time.
- Supports credits, usage-based, subscription, and hybrid billing.
- Offers hosted, customer-cloud, and BYOD database options.
- Free Build plan includes 5M monthly usage events.
What to know first
- Build is limited to 5M monthly usage events.
- Pro costs $399/mo (annual).
- Scale and BYOC pricing is custom.
Verdict
Stigg brings usage metering, credits, entitlements, and budget enforcement into one runtime. The free Build plan offers a starting point, while larger plans add higher event capacity and support options.
Stigg plans and pricing
All plansCompared on API monetization software
- Free plan
- Yes
- Paid from
- $399/mo
- Usage metering
- Yes
- Subscription billing
- Yes
- Overage billing
- Yes
- API plan builder
- Yes
- Payment gateway support
- third_party
- Developer portal
- Yes
- Supported billing models
- subscription, usage-based, per-unit, credits, hybrid
