Cleverbridge and DigitalRoute Partner to Scale Usage-Based Monetization Globally

The combined offering pairs usage metering with global commerce capabilities and expertise, helping software companies scale usage-based pricing across direct, partner-led, and hybrid models.

Cleverbridge, a global commerce partner and digital reseller for software and SaaS companies, today announced a strategic partnership with DigitalRoute to help businesses launch and scale usage-based and hybrid pricing globally. The combined offering gives companies a faster way to bring AI credits, overages, and other consumption-based offers to market without building a new billing and commerce operation from scratch.

AI products and changing consumption patterns are pushing software pricing beyond seats and fixed subscriptions. Credits, usage allowances, overages, and hybrid models can create new revenue opportunities, but they also add more usage to measure, charges to calculate, and customer communications to manage. Without the right systems and processes, sales teams, resellers, finance, and support end up handling much of that work by hand.

“Usage-based pricing should create growth, not more manual work,” said Richard Stevenson, CEO of Cleverbridge. “Customers should be able to handle simpler purchases and billing changes online, while sales teams and partners stay focused on strategic opportunities. This partnership helps make that possible worldwide.”

Used by more than 400 enterprises, including SAP, Rackspace, and TELUS, DigitalRoute’s UsageCloud™ turns product activity from multiple sources into trusted usage data. Cleverbridge helps software companies monetize, sell, and scale those offerings across 240+ markets, managing billing, payments, tax, compliance, and customer support while helping clients launch globally, improve conversion, and strengthen retention over time.

The partnership is designed to support prepaid credits, included usage, postpaid overages, and hybrid subscriptions. It can work alongside existing billing and commerce systems or support new product launches without a separate stack.

“Trusted metering makes usage-based pricing possible,” said Kristine Andersen, Chief Revenue Officer at DigitalRoute. “Cleverbridge brings the global commerce capabilities and expertise needed to turn that usage into revenue worldwide, without forcing companies to replace the systems they already rely on.”

To explore a usage-based or hybrid pricing model, request a demo or contact the Cleverbridge team.