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Clocknext

Usage metering, credits and margin tracking for billing AI agents

Clocknext is a payments & billing tool for Developers and Small businesses, offered as freemium ($300/mo). Popular alternatives include MRRaudit, Stripe, Craftgate.

About Clocknext

Clocknext is a billing and monetization platform for AI-native apps and agents, founded by CEO Vijayanand Kailash, formerly of Zoho and MediBuddy. It captures usage signals from your product, prices them with credits, wallets, outcomes or units, generates invoices and shows what each customer, agent and model costs you next to what you charge.

A workspace keeps a catalog of AI models with per-million-token input, output and cache prices, so every credit or outcome is costed against real provider rates. Plans can mix prepaid and postpaid entitlements, bundle sub-agents into composites, and mark an outcome delivered only when all its sub-agents succeed. Payments are collected through Stripe or Paddle, and an MCP server with a Claude Code plugin can record usage. All features are on every plan; tiers differ by billed revenue: Free up to $100K a year, then $300, $500 and $900 a month for $250K, $500K and $1M.

It fits AI startups whose pricing mixes credits and outcomes and who want margin per agent run. Chargebee and Recurly are mature subscription billing systems with deeper revenue recognition, and Stripe Billing is simpler if you already live in Stripe, while Clocknext puts model cost beside price. Clocknext is young and does not process payments itself.

On November 5, 2026 Clocknext launched on Product Hunt and ranked #6 on Product Hunt's daily leaderboard for November 5, 2026. Buying tip: the Free plan covers up to $100K of billed revenue with no gated features, so model your real pricing there before paying, and check annual billing for the 20% discount.

Key features of Clocknext

  • Usage metering that captures signals at the source through API and SDK
  • Prepaid credit wallets with customer top-ups
  • Outcome pricing that bills only when all sub-agents succeed
  • Composites that bundle several meters into one line item
  • Per-token model catalog for costing credits and outcomes
  • Margin per invoice, customer, agent and model
  • Live pricing experiments without an engineering deploy
  • Invoices, credit notes, refunds and a customer portal

Pros and cons

Pros

  • Every pricing model and feature on every plan, including Free
  • Free up to $100K of billed revenue a year
  • Shows provider cost beside price for each agent run
  • Supports prepaid, postpaid and hybrid billing in one plan
  • No percentage-of-revenue fee listed on the pricing page

Cons

  • Does not process payments; you still need Stripe or Paddle
  • Only one payment gateway per workspace at a time
  • MCP support is live for Claude Code only, other clients coming soon
  • Big jump from Free to the $300 Pro plan
  • Official SDK covers Node.js only; other languages use the REST API

Clocknext pricing

Clocknext uses a freemium model.

PlanPriceIncludes
Free$0Up to $100K billed revenue a year; all pricing models
Pro$300 / moUp to $250K billed revenue/yr, 1:1 Slack support; 20% off yearly
Business$500 / moUp to $500K billed revenue/yr, 1:1 Slack support
Premium$900 / moUp to $1M billed revenue/yr, priority onboarding
CustomCustomNo revenue cap, SSO/SAML, 5-year retention, solutions engineer

Source: www.clocknext.com · checked on Nov 6, 2026

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How Clocknext compares in Payments & billing

Rank by votes
#1 / 22

0 votes from members

Starting price
$300

512% above the category median ($49/mo)

Free alternatives
3

Free or open-source tools in Payments & billing

Clocknext ranks #1 of 22 payments & billing tools by community votes and is priced above most tools in the category.

Common use cases

  1. 1Billing an AI agent product with prepaid credits and top-ups
  2. 2Charging per completed outcome instead of per token
  3. 3Tracking gross margin per customer, agent and model
  4. 4Testing new price points without shipping code
  5. 5Combining seat fees and usage credits in one invoice

Best for

AI startups that want to price agents by credits or outcomes and see margin per run without building billing in-house.

Not ideal for

Classic SaaS companies with plain seat subscriptions or teams needing mature revenue recognition (Chargebee, Recurly, Stripe Billing).

Integrations

  • Stripe
  • Paddle
  • Claude Code (MCP plugin)
  • MCP server
  • REST API
  • Webhooks

Our take

Clocknext is a sensible first billing layer for AI products whose costs vary per request, and the Free tier is generous enough to prove it out. Larger companies should confirm integrations and data export before committing, since the product is still young.

FAQ

What is Clocknext?
Clocknext is a Payments & billing tool: Usage metering, credits and margin tracking for billing AI agents.
How much does Clocknext cost?
Clocknext uses a Freemium model; paid plans start at $300 per month.
What are the best alternatives to Clocknext?
Community-listed alternatives to Clocknext include MRRaudit, Stripe, Craftgate, Mercury.
What does Clocknext integrate with?
Clocknext integrates with Stripe, Paddle, Claude Code (MCP plugin), MCP server, REST API, Webhooks and more.
Which platforms does Clocknext support?
Clocknext is available on web.
Who is Clocknext for?
AI startups that want to price agents by credits or outcomes and see margin per run without building billing in-house.

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