Rank #7 of 7 in Billing & Subscriptions
Products
Adyen, product by product →Adyen ships more than one product — each judged line competes in its own arena on the same stories as everyone else.
| Line | Arena | Rank | PA Score | Agent-ready |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online Payments | Online Payments | #7/10 | 38/100 | 65/100 |
| In-Person Payments | Mobile & In-Person Payments | #4/4 | 23/100 | 47/100 |
| Adyen for Platforms | Marketplace & Platform Payments | #3/6 | 23/100 | 40/100 |
| Orbthis pageacquired | Billing & Subscriptions | #7/7 | 18/100 | 33/100 |
| Issuing | Card Issuing Platforms | #5/5 | 15/100 | 22/100 |
Not yet judged (3 — no arena where they compete): Risk Management · Adyen Agentic · Adyen Uplift
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See what an agent can do with Orb before you ever sign up. Pick a story: recorded sessions replay real probe-harness transcripts; commands tagged live-capable can re-run against the real endpoint from our edge, right now (▶ run live — the exact same request, live and recorded lines always labeled); sandboxed self-drive sessions are designed and gated (docs/TRY-IT.md).
$curl -s https://api.withorb.com/v1/customers # keyless → 401 with a docs-linked error bodyrecorded session — replayed, not liveVerified integrations
No integration evidence found in our corpus for this product yet — that means none was found, never that it doesn’t integrate.
By theme — the product's score on each story themeBy theme
Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticnessevidence →
How well agents can access and operate the product
Automation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depthevidence →
How much of the product can run unattended
Billing agent access — stories about billing agent access in this arenaBilling agent accessevidence →
Stories about billing agent access in this arena
Billing math — stories about billing math in this arenaBilling mathevidence →
Stories about billing math in this arena
Dunning recovery — stories about dunning recovery in this arenaDunning recoveryevidence →
Stories about dunning recovery in this arena
Entitlements — stories about entitlements in this arenaEntitlementsevidence →
Stories about entitlements in this arena
Invoicing tax — stories about invoicing tax in this arenaInvoicing taxevidence →
Stories about invoicing tax in this arena
Migration portability — stories about migration portability in this arenaMigration portabilityevidence →
Stories about migration portability in this arena
Openness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpennessevidence →
Open source, data portability, and self-hosting stories
Privacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy postureevidence →
Data-handling and privacy stories
Revenue recognition — stories about revenue recognition in this arenaRevenue recognitionevidence →
Stories about revenue recognition in this arena
Subscription lifecycle — stories about subscription lifecycle in this arenaSubscription lifecycleevidence →
Stories about subscription lifecycle in this arena
Usage metering — stories about usage metering in this arenaUsage meteringevidence →
Stories about usage metering in this arena
Story verdicts — every judged story with its evidenceStory verdicts
Follow the green: where the map greys out is where Orb stops today. ✓ full · ~ partial · ! disputed · — none · n/a not applicable.
Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness
How well agents can access and operate the product
API surface
Drive the product through a documented public API
✓8/10
unlocks → Official SDKs · Scoped API keys · MCP server · Machine-readable spec · Versioning policy · API sandbox · Official CLI · An agent can answer questions about my billing state — MRR, delinquent accounts, upcoming renewals, a customer's invoices — by querying the platform directly
Subscribe to events via webhooks
✓7/10
Build against official SDKs
—0/10
Issue scoped/least-privilege API credentials for an agent
—–
Connect an agent via an official MCP server
—–
Download a machine-readable API spec (OpenAPI or equivalent)
—0/10
Rely on versioned APIs with a documented deprecation policy
—–
Test against a sandbox environment without touching production data
—0/10
Explore an interactive API reference with runnable examples
—0/10
Agentic features
Delegate tasks to a built-in AI assistant inside the product
—–
Operate the product with natural-language commands
—0/10
Plug MCP servers into this product so it can use their tools
n/an/a
Get AI-generated insights and suggestions from my data inside the product
—–
Set up automations that run autonomously in the background
~4/10
Automation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth
How much of the product can run unattended
Billing agent access — stories about billing agent access in this arenaBilling agent access
Stories about billing agent access in this arena
An agent can operate my billing — create a subscription, apply a credit, change a plan — through a programmatic surface with scoped permissions
~5/10
An agent can answer questions about my billing state — MRR, delinquent accounts, upcoming renewals, a customer's invoices — by querying the platform directly
—0/10
Billing math — stories about billing math in this arenaBilling math
Stories about billing math in this arena
Control billing anchors and cycles — calendar vs anniversary billing, alignment across a customer's subscriptions, custom invoice dates
~5/10
Mid-cycle upgrades and downgrades are prorated with documented, auditable math — credits, partial periods, and invoice line items that reconcile to the penny
~6/10
Dunning recovery — stories about dunning recovery in this arenaDunning recovery
Stories about dunning recovery in this arena
Expiring or replaced cards update themselves — network account updater, backup payment methods, and hosted update-payment pages
—0/10
Configure automated dunning sequences — branded emails, in-app banners, grace periods, and final-state rules like cancel vs unpaid
~4/10
Failed renewal payments are retried automatically on an ML- or schedule-optimized cadence that measurably recovers involuntary churn
~5/10
Entitlements — stories about entitlements in this arenaEntitlements
Stories about entitlements in this arena
Invoicing tax — stories about invoicing tax in this arenaInvoicing tax
Stories about invoicing tax in this arena
The platform generates compliant invoices, credit notes, and receipts — sequential numbering, custom fields, memos — delivered to customers automatically
~5/10
Bill customers in their local currency with per-currency price points and consolidated reporting in my home currency
—–
Sales tax, VAT, and GST are calculated on every invoice — natively or through a first-class tax integration — with the right registrations and rates
—–
Migration portability — stories about migration portability in this arenaMigration portability
Stories about migration portability in this arena
Openness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness
Open source, data portability, and self-hosting stories
Privacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture
Data-handling and privacy stories
Revenue recognition — stories about revenue recognition in this arenaRevenue recognition
Stories about revenue recognition in this arena
I get MRR, churn, cohort retention, and LTV analytics computed from the billing source of truth, not a bolted-on BI export
~5/10
Invoices, payments, and recognition entries sync to my general ledger or ERP — QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite — so the close doesn't need CSV surgery
~4/10
Revenue is recognized on an ASC 606 / IFRS 15 basis — deferred revenue schedules and audit-ready recognition reports straight from billing data
✓7/10
Subscription lifecycle — stories about subscription lifecycle in this arenaSubscription lifecycle
Stories about subscription lifecycle in this arena
Create, update, pause, and cancel subscriptions through a documented API — the full lifecycle without touching a dashboard
~6/10
Every subscription state change — renewal, upgrade, payment failure, cancellation — emits a webhook or event my systems can act on reliably
~6/10
My customers can upgrade, downgrade, or cancel themselves through a hosted portal or embeddable components, without a support ticket
—0/10
Run free trials, coupons, and promotion codes with automatic conversion to paid — including trial-end notifications required by card-network rules
—–
Usage metering — stories about usage metering in this arenaUsage metering
Stories about usage metering in this arena
Stream high-volume usage events — API calls, tokens, compute-seconds — into a metering pipeline with idempotent ingestion and backdating support
✓8/10
Price with tiered, volume, graduated, per-unit, and hybrid subscription-plus-usage models — including credits, commitments, and overage — without custom code
✓8/10
Customers and my team can see current-cycle usage and accrued cost in real time, with thresholds and alerts before an invoice surprises anyone
~7/10
Sorted by importance (agentic first) (high → low) · 53/53 stories · click a row’s chevron for the rationale and evidence
Drive the product through a documented public API G Agent access | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 3 | full | 8/10 | Tprobed | |
Connect an agent via an official MCP server G Agent access | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 3 | none | untested | none yet | |
Delegate tasks to a built-in AI assistant inside the product G Agentic features | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 3 | none | untested | none yet | |
Plug MCP servers into this product so it can use their tools G Agent access | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 3 | n/a | untested | none yet | |
Point an agent at llms.txt or agent-oriented docs G Agent access | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 2 | full | 9/10 | Tprobed | |
Subscribe to events via webhooks G Agent access | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 2 | full | 7/10 | Cclaimed | |
Set up automations that run autonomously in the background G Agentic features | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 2 | partial | 4/10 | Cclaimed | |
Run the product headlessly / in CI for automation G Agent access | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 2 | partial | 3/10 | Cclaimed | |
Build against official SDKs G Agent access | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 2 | none | 0/10 | ||
Download a machine-readable API spec (OpenAPI or equivalent) G Api quality | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 2 | none | 0/10 | ||
Explore an interactive API reference with runnable examples G Api quality | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 2 | none | 0/10 | ||
Operate the product with natural-language commands G Agentic features | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 2 | none | 0/10 | ||
Get AI-generated insights and suggestions from my data inside the product G Agentic features | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 2 | none | untested | none yet | |
Issue scoped/least-privilege API credentials for an agent G Agent access | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 2 | none | untested | none yet | |
Rely on versioned APIs with a documented deprecation policy G Api quality | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 2 | none | untested | none yet | |
Use an official CLI G Agent access | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 2 | none | untested | none yet | |
Test against a sandbox environment without touching production data G Api quality | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 1 | none | 0/10 | ||
Price with tiered, volume, graduated, per-unit, and hybrid subscription-plus-usage models — including credits, commitments, and overage — without custom code G Pricing models | finance lead | Usage metering — stories about usage metering in this arenaUsage metering | 3 | full | 8/10 | Cclaimed | |
Stream high-volume usage events — API calls, tokens, compute-seconds — into a metering pipeline with idempotent ingestion and backdating support C Event ingestion | developer | Usage metering — stories about usage metering in this arenaUsage metering | 3 | full | 8/10 | Cclaimed | |
Revenue is recognized on an ASC 606 / IFRS 15 basis — deferred revenue schedules and audit-ready recognition reports straight from billing data G Revrec reports | finance lead | Revenue recognition — stories about revenue recognition in this arenaRevenue recognition | 3 | full | 7/10 | Cclaimed | |
Create, update, pause, and cancel subscriptions through a documented API — the full lifecycle without touching a dashboard C Lifecycle api | developer | Subscription lifecycle — stories about subscription lifecycle in this arenaSubscription lifecycle | 3 | partial | 6/10 | Tprobed | |
Mid-cycle upgrades and downgrades are prorated with documented, auditable math — credits, partial periods, and invoice line items that reconcile to the penny C Proration | finance lead | Billing math — stories about billing math in this arenaBilling math | 3 | partial | 6/10 | Cclaimed | |
An agent can operate my billing — create a subscription, apply a credit, change a plan — through a programmatic surface with scoped permissions G Agent operations | ai-native user | Billing agent access — stories about billing agent access in this arenaBilling agent access | 3 | partial | 5/10 | Tprobed | |
Define rules that trigger actions automatically on events G | ai-native user | Automation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth | 3 | partial | 5/10 | Cclaimed | |
Failed renewal payments are retried automatically on an ML- or schedule-optimized cadence that measurably recovers involuntary churn C Smart retries | finance lead | Dunning recovery — stories about dunning recovery in this arenaDunning recovery | 3 | partial | 5/10 | Cclaimed | |
Export all of my data in open formats and leave G | ai-native user | Openness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness | 3 | partial | 4/10 | Cclaimed | |
Migrate live subscriptions in from a spreadsheet or a competing platform — including PCI-compliant card data transfer — without customers noticing C Import | ops user | Migration portability — stories about migration portability in this arenaMigration portability | 3 | partial | 4/10 | Cclaimed | |
Features and limits are modeled as entitlements attached to plans, and my application can check a customer's entitlements at runtime via API or SDK C Entitlement checks | developer | Entitlements — stories about entitlements in this arenaEntitlements | 3 | none | untested | none yet | |
Prevent my data from being used to train AI models G | ai-native user | Privacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture | 3 | n/a | untested | none yet | |
Self-host the core product G | ai-native user | Openness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness | 3 | none | untested | none yet | |
Customers and my team can see current-cycle usage and accrued cost in real time, with thresholds and alerts before an invoice surprises anyone C Usage visibility | ops user | Usage metering — stories about usage metering in this arenaUsage metering | 2 | partial | 7/10 | Cclaimed | |
Do everything through the API that I can do in the UI G | ai-native user | Openness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness | 2 | partial | 6/10 | Tprobed | |
Every subscription state change — renewal, upgrade, payment failure, cancellation — emits a webhook or event my systems can act on reliably C Lifecycle events | developer | Subscription lifecycle — stories about subscription lifecycle in this arenaSubscription lifecycle | 2 | partial | 6/10 | Cclaimed | |
Change pricing without breaking existing subscribers — versioned plans, grandfathering, and bulk migration tools for moving cohorts to new prices G Plan versioning | ops user | Entitlements — stories about entitlements in this arenaEntitlements | 2 | partial | 5/10 | Cclaimed | |
Control billing anchors and cycles — calendar vs anniversary billing, alignment across a customer's subscriptions, custom invoice dates G Billing cycles | ops user | Billing math — stories about billing math in this arenaBilling math | 2 | partial | 5/10 | Cclaimed | |
I get MRR, churn, cohort retention, and LTV analytics computed from the billing source of truth, not a bolted-on BI export G Analytics | founder | Revenue recognition — stories about revenue recognition in this arenaRevenue recognition | 2 | partial | 5/10 | Cclaimed | |
Perform bulk operations across many items at once G | ai-native user | Automation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth | 2 | partial | 5/10 | Cclaimed | |
The platform generates compliant invoices, credit notes, and receipts — sequential numbering, custom fields, memos — delivered to customers automatically C Invoices | ops user | Invoicing tax — stories about invoicing tax in this arenaInvoicing tax | 2 | partial | 5/10 | Cclaimed | |
Configure automated dunning sequences — branded emails, in-app banners, grace periods, and final-state rules like cancel vs unpaid C Dunning comms | ops user | Dunning recovery — stories about dunning recovery in this arenaDunning recovery | 2 | partial | 4/10 | Cclaimed | |
Export every subscription, invoice, and usage record — and port stored payment methods out to another provider — if I choose to leave G Export | finance lead | Migration portability — stories about migration portability in this arenaMigration portability | 2 | partial | 4/10 | Cclaimed | |
Invoices, payments, and recognition entries sync to my general ledger or ERP — QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite — so the close doesn't need CSV surgery C Gl sync | finance lead | Revenue recognition — stories about revenue recognition in this arenaRevenue recognition | 2 | partial | 4/10 | Cclaimed | |
Schedule recurring jobs or workflows G | ai-native user | Automation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth | 2 | partial | 3/10 | Cclaimed | |
An agent can answer questions about my billing state — MRR, delinquent accounts, upcoming renewals, a customer's invoices — by querying the platform directly G Agent queries | ai-native user | Billing agent access — stories about billing agent access in this arenaBilling agent access | 2 | none | 0/10 | ||
Expiring or replaced cards update themselves — network account updater, backup payment methods, and hosted update-payment pages C Card recovery | ops user | Dunning recovery — stories about dunning recovery in this arenaDunning recovery | 2 | none | 0/10 | ||
My customers can upgrade, downgrade, or cancel themselves through a hosted portal or embeddable components, without a support ticket C Self serve | founder | Subscription lifecycle — stories about subscription lifecycle in this arenaSubscription lifecycle | 2 | none | 0/10 | ||
Bill customers in their local currency with per-currency price points and consolidated reporting in my home currency G Multi currency | finance lead | Invoicing tax — stories about invoicing tax in this arenaInvoicing tax | 2 | none | untested | none yet | |
Choose where my data is stored (region/residency) G | ai-native user | Privacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture | 2 | none | untested | none yet | |
Control data retention and deletion G | ai-native user | Privacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture | 2 | none | untested | none yet | |
Opt out of telemetry and usage tracking G | ai-native user | Privacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture | 2 | n/a | untested | none yet | |
Read the product's source under an open license G | ai-native user | Openness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness | 2 | none | untested | none yet | |
Run free trials, coupons, and promotion codes with automatic conversion to paid — including trial-end notifications required by card-network rules C Trials promos | ops user | Subscription lifecycle — stories about subscription lifecycle in this arenaSubscription lifecycle | 2 | none | untested | none yet | |
Sales tax, VAT, and GST are calculated on every invoice — natively or through a first-class tax integration — with the right registrations and rates C Tax | finance lead | Invoicing tax — stories about invoicing tax in this arenaInvoicing tax | 2 | none | untested | none yet | |
Version, review, and roll back my automations G | ai-native user | Automation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth | 1 | n/a | untested | none yet |
Opportunities — the stories that would move this product's scores, from its own judged verdictsOpportunitiestop 8 of 43 stories with headroom
What would move Orb’s scores — derived from its own judged verdicts, biggest headroom first. Each line quotes what the judge found missing; shipping it (or evidencing it publicly) is the fix.
Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productDelegate tasks to a built-in AI assistant inside the product
nonemoves Built-in AIimpact 45
The axis applies to this product kind (peer products hold positive or none verdicts on this story), so lack of evidence for an applicable capability is "none", never "na".
Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productConnect an agent via an official MCP server
nonemoves agent-readyimpact 45
The axis applies to this product kind (peer products hold positive or none verdicts on this story), so lack of evidence for an applicable capability is "none", never "na".
Openness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesSelf-host the core product
nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 30
The axis applies to this product kind (peer products hold positive or none verdicts on this story), so lack of evidence for an applicable capability is "none", never "na".
Entitlements — stories about entitlements in this arenaFeatures and limits are modeled as entitlements attached to plans, and my application can check a customer's entitlements at runtime via API or SDK
nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 30
The evidence pack covers subscriptions, plans, usage metrics, invoicing, and revenue recognition, but nowhere mentions entitlements, feature-level access modeling, or an API/SDK for checking a customer's entitlements at runtime.
Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productGet AI-generated insights and suggestions from my data inside the product
nonemoves Built-in AIimpact 30
Orb is a billing/usage-metering platform; evidence covers forecasting, revenue recognition, invoicing, and pricing analytics, but none describes AI-generated insights or suggestions surfaced within the product itself.
Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productOperate the product with natural-language commands
nonemoves Built-in AIimpact 30
No evidence anywhere in the pack of a natural-language interface, chat/AI assistant, or NL-driven command execution for Orb; all documented interactions are via UI or REST/SQL APIs.
Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productUse an official CLI
nonemoves agent-readyimpact 30
Orb is a billing platform; the evidence pack shows no official CLI for AI-native or agentic workflows anywhere in its docs, only API/UI/webhooks and data export features.
Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productIssue scoped/least-privilege API credentials for an agent
nonemoves agent-readyimpact 30
The axis applies to this product kind (peer products hold positive or none verdicts on this story), so lack of evidence for an applicable capability is "none", never "na".
Showing the top 8 of 43 — every none/partial verdict in the story verdicts table is headroom.
Think a verdict is wrong? Every verdicts-table row has a Flag link — see the methodology.
Coverage map — which docs area, API section, or community source covers which judged storiesCoverage map12 surfaces · 27 covered stories
Where the cited evidence behind each covered verdict came from — the same citations the verdicts table shows, no extra judging.
docs.withorb.com12 stories
- Set up automations that run autonomously in the background
- Perform bulk operations across many items at once
- Define rules that trigger actions automatically on events
- Change pricing without breaking existing subscribers — versioned plans, grandfathering, and bulk migration tools for moving cohorts to new prices
- Export every subscription, invoice, and usage record — and port stored payment methods out to another provider — if I choose to leave
- Export all of my data in open formats and leave
- I get MRR, churn, cohort retention, and LTV analytics computed from the billing source of truth, not a bolted-on BI export
- Invoices, payments, and recognition entries sync to my general ledger or ERP — QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite — so the close doesn't need CSV surgery
- Revenue is recognized on an ASC 606 / IFRS 15 basis — deferred revenue schedules and audit-ready recognition reports straight from billing data
- Stream high-volume usage events — API calls, tokens, compute-seconds — into a metering pipeline with idempotent ingestion and backdating support
- Price with tiered, volume, graduated, per-unit, and hybrid subscription-plus-usage models — including credits, commitments, and overage — without custom code
- Customers and my team can see current-cycle usage and accrued cost in real time, with thresholds and alerts before an invoice surprises anyone
Product catalog docs12 stories
- Run the product headlessly / in CI for automation
- Drive the product through a documented public API
- An agent can operate my billing — create a subscription, apply a credit, change a plan — through a programmatic surface with scoped permissions
- Control billing anchors and cycles — calendar vs anniversary billing, alignment across a customer's subscriptions, custom invoice dates
- Mid-cycle upgrades and downgrades are prorated with documented, auditable math — credits, partial periods, and invoice line items that reconcile to the penny
- Change pricing without breaking existing subscribers — versioned plans, grandfathering, and bulk migration tools for moving cohorts to new prices
- The platform generates compliant invoices, credit notes, and receipts — sequential numbering, custom fields, memos — delivered to customers automatically
- Migrate live subscriptions in from a spreadsheet or a competing platform — including PCI-compliant card data transfer — without customers noticing
- Do everything through the API that I can do in the UI
- Create, update, pause, and cancel subscriptions through a documented API — the full lifecycle without touching a dashboard
- Every subscription state change — renewal, upgrade, payment failure, cancellation — emits a webhook or event my systems can act on reliably
- Price with tiered, volume, graduated, per-unit, and hybrid subscription-plus-usage models — including credits, commitments, and overage — without custom code
Integrations and exports docs9 stories
- Run the product headlessly / in CI for automation
- Drive the product through a documented public API
- Subscribe to events via webhooks
- Set up automations that run autonomously in the background
- Define rules that trigger actions automatically on events
- Schedule recurring jobs or workflows
- Do everything through the API that I can do in the UI
- Every subscription state change — renewal, upgrade, payment failure, cancellation — emits a webhook or event my systems can act on reliably
- Customers and my team can see current-cycle usage and accrued cost in real time, with thresholds and alerts before an invoice surprises anyone
Invoicing docs9 stories
- Set up automations that run autonomously in the background
- Define rules that trigger actions automatically on events
- Schedule recurring jobs or workflows
- Mid-cycle upgrades and downgrades are prorated with documented, auditable math — credits, partial periods, and invoice line items that reconcile to the penny
- Configure automated dunning sequences — branded emails, in-app banners, grace periods, and final-state rules like cancel vs unpaid
- Failed renewal payments are retried automatically on an ML- or schedule-optimized cadence that measurably recovers involuntary churn
- The platform generates compliant invoices, credit notes, and receipts — sequential numbering, custom fields, memos — delivered to customers automatically
- Every subscription state change — renewal, upgrade, payment failure, cancellation — emits a webhook or event my systems can act on reliably
- Price with tiered, volume, graduated, per-unit, and hybrid subscription-plus-usage models — including credits, commitments, and overage — without custom code
Data exports docs8 stories
- Perform bulk operations across many items at once
- Schedule recurring jobs or workflows
- Export every subscription, invoice, and usage record — and port stored payment methods out to another provider — if I choose to leave
- Do everything through the API that I can do in the UI
- Export all of my data in open formats and leave
- I get MRR, churn, cohort retention, and LTV analytics computed from the billing source of truth, not a bolted-on BI export
- Invoices, payments, and recognition entries sync to my general ledger or ERP — QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite — so the close doesn't need CSV surgery
- Revenue is recognized on an ASC 606 / IFRS 15 basis — deferred revenue schedules and audit-ready recognition reports straight from billing data
Events and metrics docs6 stories
- Run the product headlessly / in CI for automation
- Drive the product through a documented public API
- Perform bulk operations across many items at once
- Do everything through the API that I can do in the UI
- Stream high-volume usage events — API calls, tokens, compute-seconds — into a metering pipeline with idempotent ingestion and backdating support
- Price with tiered, volume, graduated, per-unit, and hybrid subscription-plus-usage models — including credits, commitments, and overage — without custom code
Financial operations docs6 stories
- Set up automations that run autonomously in the background
- Define rules that trigger actions automatically on events
- Schedule recurring jobs or workflows
- Configure automated dunning sequences — branded emails, in-app banners, grace periods, and final-state rules like cancel vs unpaid
- Failed renewal payments are retried automatically on an ML- or schedule-optimized cadence that measurably recovers involuntary churn
- Every subscription state change — renewal, upgrade, payment failure, cancellation — emits a webhook or event my systems can act on reliably
Migration guides docs5 stories
- Perform bulk operations across many items at once
- Change pricing without breaking existing subscribers — versioned plans, grandfathering, and bulk migration tools for moving cohorts to new prices
- Export every subscription, invoice, and usage record — and port stored payment methods out to another provider — if I choose to leave
- Migrate live subscriptions in from a spreadsheet or a competing platform — including PCI-compliant card data transfer — without customers noticing
- Stream high-volume usage events — API calls, tokens, compute-seconds — into a metering pipeline with idempotent ingestion and backdating support
OpenAPI spec4 stories
- Drive the product through a documented public API
- An agent can operate my billing — create a subscription, apply a credit, change a plan — through a programmatic surface with scoped permissions
- Do everything through the API that I can do in the UI
- Create, update, pause, and cancel subscriptions through a documented API — the full lifecycle without touching a dashboard
Revenue reporting docs4 stories
- The platform generates compliant invoices, credit notes, and receipts — sequential numbering, custom fields, memos — delivered to customers automatically
- I get MRR, churn, cohort retention, and LTV analytics computed from the billing source of truth, not a bolted-on BI export
- Invoices, payments, and recognition entries sync to my general ledger or ERP — QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite — so the close doesn't need CSV surgery
- Revenue is recognized on an ASC 606 / IFRS 15 basis — deferred revenue schedules and audit-ready recognition reports straight from billing data
Probe proofs — replayable recordings from the probe harnessProbe proofs
Replayable recordings from our probe harness — see the Prove-It protocol to submit one.
$curl -s https://api.withorb.com/v1/customers # keyless → 401 with a docs-linked error bodyreproduced$ curl -s https://api.withorb.com/v1/customers # [redacted]less → 401 with a docs-linked error body
{"detail":"Authorization header is expected and was not found.","status":401,"title":"The Authorization header could not be verified.","type":"https://docs.withorb.com/reference/error-responses#401-authentication-error"}
$curl -sL https://docs.withorb.com/llms.txt | head -3reproduced$ curl -sL https://docs.withorb.com/llms.txt | head -3 # Orb - [Overview](https://docs.withorb.com/overview.md)
Claims vs evidence — vendor claims reconciled against independent verdictsClaims vs evidence
1 of 15 testable claims verified · 0 contradicted → integrity 7/100
23 distinct capability claims found in Orb’s own claimed-docs/GitHub materials, reconciled against our judge’s independent verdicts.
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Undersold
Verified (2)
“Create subscriptions via the dashboard UI or a subscription creation API endpoint”
Create, update, pause, and cancel subscriptions through a documented API — the full lifecycle without touching a dashboardpartialproof ↗
“Edit a single subscription's pricing configuration without altering the underlying plan”
Create, update, pause, and cancel subscriptions through a documented API — the full lifecycle without touching a dashboardpartialproof ↗
Unverified (18)
“Automatically recalculates affected invoices when usage data arrives late”
Stream high-volume usage events — API calls, tokens, compute-seconds — into a metering pipeline with idempotent ingestion and backdating supportfullproof ↗
“Ingests over 1M billing events per second in production”
Stream high-volume usage events — API calls, tokens, compute-seconds — into a metering pipeline with idempotent ingestion and backdating supportfullproof ↗
“Tracks accrued revenue pre-invoice to forecast and spot expansion opportunities”
I get MRR, churn, cohort retention, and LTV analytics computed from the billing source of truth, not a bolted-on BI exportpartialproof ↗
“Fires usage-threshold alerts to power product-led growth flows”
Customers and my team can see current-cycle usage and accrued cost in real time, with thresholds and alerts before an invoice surprises anyonepartialproof ↗
“Exports recognized/deferred revenue data to external financial systems”
Invoices, payments, and recognition entries sync to my general ledger or ERP — QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite — so the close doesn't need CSV surgerypartialproof ↗
“Align billing cycle anchors to the subscription's creation date”
Control billing anchors and cycles — calendar vs anniversary billing, alignment across a customer's subscriptions, custom invoice datespartialproof ↗
“Managed daily exports of resource data to a destination of your choice”
Export every subscription, invoice, and usage record — and port stored payment methods out to another provider — if I choose to leavepartialproof ↗
“Seamless migration from Stripe Billing for flat, usage, seat, or custom pricing”
Migrate live subscriptions in from a spreadsheet or a competing platform — including PCI-compliant card data transfer — without customers noticingpartialproof ↗
“Backfill historical usage events to keep invoices and analytics accurate”
Stream high-volume usage events — API calls, tokens, compute-seconds — into a metering pipeline with idempotent ingestion and backdating supportfullproof ↗
“Day-based proration credits customers for unused time in a billing period”
Mid-cycle upgrades and downgrades are prorated with documented, auditable math — credits, partial periods, and invoice line items that reconcile to the pennypartialproof ↗
“Per-event idempotency guarantees duplicate usage events aren't double-processed”
Stream high-volume usage events — API calls, tokens, compute-seconds — into a metering pipeline with idempotent ingestion and backdating supportfullproof ↗
“Billable metrics are built from event filters plus an aggregation clause”
Price with tiered, volume, graduated, per-unit, and hybrid subscription-plus-usage models — including credits, commitments, and overage — without custom codefullproof ↗
“Automatically retries failed charges on a fixed 1/4/9-day cadence”
Failed renewal payments are retried automatically on an ML- or schedule-optimized cadence that measurably recovers involuntary churnpartialproof ↗
“Supports minimum charge floors and maximum charge caps on pricing”
Price with tiered, volume, graduated, per-unit, and hybrid subscription-plus-usage models — including credits, commitments, and overage — without custom codefullproof ↗
“Choose automatic invoice issuance after grace periods or require manual approval”
The platform generates compliant invoices, credit notes, and receipts — sequential numbering, custom fields, memos — delivered to customers automaticallypartialproof ↗
“Automatically calculates recognized revenue per ASC 606 guidelines”
Revenue is recognized on an ASC 606 / IFRS 15 basis — deferred revenue schedules and audit-ready recognition reports straight from billing datafullproof ↗
“Real-time webhooks system delivers calls to your endpoint on platform events”
Every subscription state change — renewal, upgrade, payment failure, cancellation — emits a webhook or event my systems can act on reliablypartialproof ↗
“Real-time webhooks system delivers calls to your endpoint on platform events”
Undersold (12)
Point an agent at llms.txt or agent-oriented docsfullproof ↗
Run the product headlessly / in CI for automationpartialproof ↗
Drive the product through a documented public APIfullproof ↗
Set up automations that run autonomously in the backgroundpartialproof ↗
Perform bulk operations across many items at oncepartialproof ↗
Define rules that trigger actions automatically on eventspartialproof ↗
An agent can operate my billing — create a subscription, apply a credit, change a plan — through a programmatic surface with scoped permissionspartialproof ↗
Configure automated dunning sequences — branded emails, in-app banners, grace periods, and final-state rules like cancel vs unpaidpartialproof ↗
Change pricing without breaking existing subscribers — versioned plans, grandfathering, and bulk migration tools for moving cohorts to new pricespartialproof ↗
Do everything through the API that I can do in the UIpartialproof ↗
Export all of my data in open formats and leavepartialproof ↗
Claims outside our story set (4)
Real capability claims found in Orb’s own materials, but no story in this arena’s taxonomy covers them yet — that’s feedback on the taxonomy, not a mark against the product.
“Simulate pricing changes against historical usage before going live”
source ↗“Lets you define complex billing metrics using full SQL control”
source ↗“Preview billing/invoice impact of a change before saving it”
source ↗“Programmatic error responses include a type URI and status code for automated handling”
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Business model
Quote-only: Core, Advanced, and Enterprise tiers priced on billings and events ingested — no public numbers and no free tier; now sold alongside Adyen payments.
pricing ↗Score trend
How this product’s scores have moved as evidence and verdicts are re-derived — a point per change, not per day.
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