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Compare · High-scale meteringPixel Data
Pixel Data
vs Amberflo
Metering at scale is your hard problem — enormous event volumes, many dimensions, real-time counters feeding product limits as well as invoices. Amberflo is built around that and does it properly.
What Amberflo is genuinely good at
- Metering-first architecture designed for very high event volumes with real-time aggregation.
- Mature meter and dimension modelling, which matters when one product has many billable axes.
- Sensible separation between metering and billing, so the meter can serve more than the invoice.
Choose them if
Metering at scale is your hard problem — enormous event volumes, many dimensions, real-time counters feeding product limits as well as invoices. Amberflo is built around that and does it properly.
- How usage gets in
- Push only — a metering API and SDKs.
- How it is sold
- Some plan information is published; larger deployments are quoted. Check their pricing page for the current position.
With Amberflo, you
- Your engineers emit meter events from the application; there is no agent and no warehouse sync.
- You add analytics separately if you want to explore the events rather than the meters.
- You go through sales for larger volumes.
- Nothing checks what your suppliers charge you. Every product in this category meters what you sell; none audits what you are billed.
With Pixel Data, you
- You can get usage in without writing code, by installing an agent where the data already is.
- You get the raw events kept and queryable, not only the aggregated meters.
- You get a published flat price with one overage rate.
- You get supplier invoice reconciliation as part of the same subscription.
What it means for you
You get metering, rating and the analysis in one place, and you audit the invoices coming the other way.
Side by side
For usage data. Nothing else is claimed.
| For your usage data | Pixel Data | Amberflo |
|---|---|---|
| Real-time metering at very high volume | Batched, near-real-time | Yes |
| Multi-dimensional meter modellingMany billable axes over one product. | Event properties | Yes |
| Meters usage and rates it into moneyThe core job. Both do it — this is a comparison of everything around it. | Yes | Yes |
| Versioned price plans and an audit trail | Yes | Yes |
| Agent that reads usage off your infrastructureOne command on the machine that already has your CDRs. No code written. | Yes | No |
| Plain HTTPS API for events | Yes | Yes |
| Sync from your data warehouse | On the roadmap | No |
| How usage gets in | Agent, API or warehouse sync | Push only |
| Warehouse-grade analytics over raw eventsNot billing reports — every event kept, queryable, and clickable from any amount. | Yes | No |
| Supplier invoice reconciliationUpload what a carrier charged you; every line is checked against what you recorded. | Yes | No |
| Self-serve signup, no sales call | Yes | No |
| Pricing modelHow the product is sold, not what it costs — figures change and ours are on the website. | Published flat tiers | Partly published, larger volumes quoted |
| Self-hostable | No | No |
| Hosting, upgrades and access control included | Yes | Yes |
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However you get here, you get these three
The same on every comparison, because they are the same three things none of these tools does.
Be live before the kettle boils
You run one line on the machine that already has your usage on it. No schema workshop, no engineering sprint, no project plan.
Defend any figure on any invoice
You click any amount through to its events, and any event through to the arithmetic — increment, minimum, matched prefix, plan version.
Get back what your carrier over-charged
You upload a carrier invoice and get a line-by-line verdict against what your own events say actually happened.
When Amberflo is the right choice
If your metering requirements are the demanding part — very high throughput, many dimensions, real-time counters driving product behaviour — Amberflo is squarely built for that.
Moving from one of these
Coming at launchThe Switch Kit is our migration path: import your existing price plans, run both systems in parallel for a month against the same traffic, and get a daily match report showing where the two disagree — before you move anyone's invoicing. Nothing is switched until the numbers agree.
Checked against public documentation in 2026-07. Products change — if anything here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
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