Today, we’re excited to share that Vantage and Metronome have partnered to give customers a centralized view of revenue, usage, and cost. This partnership will help joint customers to understand and optimize their margins, influence top-line pricing decisions, and make better business decisions by analyzing usage, cost, and revenue data in a single place.

Metronome is the leader for usage-based billing. They support companies as the system of record for top-line revenue pricing, invoicing, and collection. Vantage is the leader for usage-based cost management and is the system of record for analyzing and optimizing consumption-based costs, which can heavily impact gross and net margins. Customers who leverage both Metronome for revenue management and Vantage for cost management expressed an interest in combining data from both platforms for easier margin analysis and influencing top-line pricing considerations.

Through this partnership, joint customers can link their Metronome and Vantage accounts together, bringing revenue and cost together in one place to analyze margin and inform pricing decisions. This integration syncs revenue and product usage information from Metronome into customers’ Vantage accounts. Metronome revenue and usage data will be imported into Vantage as business metrics and updated daily. These metrics can be exposed in Cost Reports, via the Vantage FinOps Agent, and available on Canvas for ad-hoc analysis.

This integration allows customers to do the following:

• Customer-Level Gross Margin Visibility: View revenue and gross margin tied to specific customers.
• Cost-Informed Pricing and Packaging: Make more informed pricing and rate-setting decisions on Metronome as underlying AI, Cloud, and SaaS costs fluctuate.
• Margin Alerts: Receive alerts when a customer’s usage becomes unprofitable or reaches concerning levels.
• Improved Forecasting: Forecast revenue and underlying costs in a single place.
• Auto-generated Unit Economics: Calculate unit economics on the cost and usage data for standard units of measure for providers, such as average cost per token with Anthropic.

This integration is available to all joint customers of Metronome and Vantage. To get started, head to the integrations portion of the Vantage console to add a Metronome API key, or read more in the Vantage documentation.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. What is being launched today?

Vantage is launching a new integration with Metronome that lets joint customers import Metronome revenue and product usage data into Vantage as business metrics. Customers can then analyze that data alongside their Vantage cost data in cost reports, Canvas, and the FinOps Agent to understand customer-level margins, unit economics, and pricing efficiency.

2. How much does this cost?

There is no cost to this integration.

3. How do I connect my Metronome and Vantage accounts?

To connect Metronome to Vantage, head to the Apps section of the Vantage console, and click Metronome. You’ll need to provide a Metronome API key with “write” permissions. See the Metronome documentation for details. Once you have set up the integration, your Metronome data will be imported into Vantage.

4. What Metronome data will Vantage import?

Vantage performs an initial sync of Metronome data, followed by daily updates. The integration syncs two types of metrics into your Vantage account:

• Top-line revenue data: A labeled daily business metric for top-line revenue, with each label representing a customer. This metric is named “Metronome: Daily Revenue”.
• Per product usage data: For each product in Metronome, a labeled daily business metric for product usage, with each label representing a customer. For example, if you have a product named “Compute Hours” Vantage creates a labeled business metric named “Metronome: Compute Hours” with daily usage for each customer.

5. I am a Metronome customer but not a Vantage customer, how can I get started?

You can create a free Vantage account by signing up here.

6. I am a Vantage customer but not a Metronome customer, how does this impact me?

If you’re a Vantage customer but not a Metronome customer, there’s no impact to your account. This feature may simply not be relevant for you today, though Vantage is exploring support for additional systems of record for revenue and product usage data.

7. I just connected my Metronome account, what can I do now?

Now that your Metronome account is connected, you can use revenue and product usage data along with the following tools in Vantage:

• FinOps Agent: You can ask the FinOps Agent any question that involves your Metronome revenue and product usage data. As long as you reference the Metronome data, the agent will access the data from the corresponding business metrics.
• Canvas: Similar to the above, you can define prompts you want to persist as regular reports. A few example prompts include:
  • Show me my product usage every single day from Metronome.
  • Plot my gross margin using my Metronome Revenue with my COGS Cost Report to intertwine the two data sources.
• Business Metrics: Use your Metronome usage or revenue data as ancillary metrics to your costs for native calculations based on COGS, such as Unit Costs or Margin Calculations within Cost Reports.

See the Vantage documentation for more example prompts and use cases.

8. How often does data sync, and how up-to-date is the data?

Vantage automatically syncs all Metronome data when you first connect the integration, then refreshes it daily at midnight UTC.

9. Can I use this integration to calculate customer-level margins?

Yes. Customers can import Metronome revenue as a customer-labeled business metric in Vantage, then compare it against a relevant COGS Cost Report using Canvas or the FinOps Agent. This lets teams calculate gross margin by customer, such as revenue minus COGS and gross margin percentage. Customers can also import Metronome usage metrics, like compute hours, API requests, or tokens, and assign them to Cost Reports to calculate unit economics like cost per compute hour, cost per request, or cost per token.

10. Does Vantage send cost data back to Metronome?

No. This integration imports Metronome revenue and usage data into Vantage for analysis. Vantage does not send cost data back to Metronome automatically. Customers can use the analysis in Vantage to inform pricing and packaging decisions in Metronome.