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  1. Billing
  3. Usage Based Billing
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  1. Billing
  3. Usage Based Billing
  4. Use Cases

Usage-based billing use cases

Usage-based billing use cases help you turn product consumption into invoices by combining included usage, overages, and billing cadences that match how you sell. Whether your commercial pricing is fully prepaid, purely Pay as you go, or hybrid billing, the tutorials below are some end-to-end examples of how to put these approaches into practice with Chargebee's Usage-based Billing.

Bill annually with annual included usage and monthly overages➔

Bill only for what customers use with pay-as-you-go pricing➔

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