Case Study: Browserbase achieves accurate, scalable usage-based billing with Stripe

Browserbase powers web browsing for AI agents and apps with Stripe’s usage-based billing

Browserbase, a 2024 startup building headless browsers for AI agents and apps, needed a highly accurate way to bill customers based on usage as session volume ranged from a few hours to hundreds of millions of browser minutes per month. To avoid spending months building billing infrastructure in-house, Browserbase chose Stripe and Stripe Billing for a flexible usage-based billing model.

Stripe implemented a hybrid subscription and pay-as-you-go setup that automatically tracked usage, invoiced customers, and supported pricing experiments like volume discounts and new tiers. The impact was significant: Browserbase billed hundreds of customers accurately, generated millions in revenue in its first year, sped up go-to-market by launching from day one with Stripe, and increased new customer signups by 17% in one month after introducing a free tier.

Browserbase

Paul Klein

Founder and CEO