Today, we announced that @useOrb has entered into a definitive agreement to join @Adyen. @kshithappens and I have spent the past five years building Orb alongside some of the fastest growing companies in the world. The clearest thing we've learned: how companies price is changing faster than how they bill. AI has accelerated the shift toward consumption and outcome-based models, and the infrastructure underneath hasn't kept up. That gap is why we founded Orb, and joining Adyen is how we close it at global scale. Today's announcement doesn't change our commitment to our customers. Orb will continue operating as a stand-alone product, there will be no interruption in service, and our customers can continue to choose to work with their preferred payment processing partner. We're here for the long run, ensuring that our service continues to uphold "billing must be correct" as our customers pursue their most audacious revenue design goals. So why Adyen? Over the past several years supporting our customers' global growth, we've learned that billing at serious scale is only half the equation. The other half is moving money across markets, currencies, and enterprise requirements. Adyen has already built the foundational financial infrastructure that makes this possible. Joining them lets us build offerings that bring to life the vision of self-driving infrastructure for revenue optimization. We’re incredibly excited for Orb to only get better from here. To our team: thank you for all the hard work that you do every day for our customers. It has been, and continues to be, the pleasure of my professional life to work with all of you. To our customers: thank you for trusting us to support your growth and letting us partner with you. Thank you to our investors and supporters who’ve been with us on the journey. And thank you to my family for putting up with me talking about so, so many billing edge cases!

Building AI infrastructure means building systems that can scale alongside the product. Tom Wallenstein, Staff Software Engineer at @youdotcom: “We needed a scalable and flexible billing and metering system that lets us move fast today and keep moving as we grow and things change. Orb gives us exactly that, one system that serves engineering, analytics, and RevOps alike.”

📹 New series: Webhooks by Example Episode 1 How @knocklabs turns @useOrb usage webhooks into customer-facing upgrade nudges - @J_Everhart383 walks through the full system. youtu.be/lSg-hJd23PM?si=bBJL…

Teams monetizing with Orb: Replit Vercel WRITER Supabase Glean Fal LaunchDarkly Factory Baseten Turbopuffer Fireworks AI Momentic many more

At AI infrastructure companies, pricing is part of the product. Sid Shanker, Engineering Manager at @baseten, helps the team launch new models and hardware without turning monetization into a bottleneck. “We launch new models and hardware constantly, and pricing them is half the product decision. Orb lets us move at the speed of our roadmap and prioritize delivering value to our customers.”

Modern AI companies are forcing finance teams to rethink billing infrastructure entirely. At @sanity_io, Helen Chao oversees the systems behind billing and finance operations as the company scales its usage-based business. “We deal with very high usage volumes, and when billing breaks, it impacts revenue operations and close. We needed a more stable metering and invoicing system and found that in Orb.”

At @ExtendHQ, Jordan Meyer helped build the technical foundation as one of the company’s first engineers. When the team evaluated billing infrastructure, the decision came down to speed, flexibility, and long-term leverage. “Using Orb cut our billing project from 6 months to 3 weeks.” That’s the kind of engineering mindset we love supporting.

Thanks for coming out yesterday and celebrating an early National Boba Day with us! The turnout at Feng Cha yesterday was incredible. Thank you to everyone who took a break from Stripe Sessions to come hang with us and talk billing and monetization!

Take a break from Stripe Sessions and come grab free boba on us! 🧋 We're at Feng Cha on Yerba Buena Lane today until 2pm (or while supplies last). Come find us, say hi, and recharge. See you there!

Kevin Grüneberg was @supabase's first billing engineer — now he owns the system behind 1.5M invoices/month. "The detailed invoicing Orb provides is something that a customer can understand more easily. That means less frustration for the customer and less support load for Supabase. And as we grow, that will translate into needing fewer support engineers because we can spend more time on actually billing a product rather than explaining invoices to customers." That’s how you scale billing with your product.

At @baseten, model inference at scale is just the starting point. Deepak Bhandarkar, Head of Finance, makes sure every run turns into real revenue — connecting product velocity with financial precision. We had him at Orb HQ for a fireside chat and asked how he explains Orb internally: “Orb? It’s how we make money.”

Factory Co-Founder & CTO @EnoReyes is building the foundation behind Factory — autonomous AI agents for software engineering, at a moment when both the tech and the business model are still evolving. Today’s $150M Series C is a reflection of that momentum. Proud to support the @FactoryAI team 🚀

Today, @FactoryAI announced a $150M Series C — and they’re building right at the edge of where AI pricing is still being figured out. As their product evolves, so does the business model behind it. That’s where @francesca_lab comes in — keeping things flexible, transparent, and commercially sharp. Proud to support the Factory team as they scale 🚀

New York, we're coming to you🗽 Hosting a happy hour for the Orb community on April 30th — customers, operators, and anyone working at the intersection of pricing, billing, and AI. RSVP: lu.ma/orb-nyc-communityHH

At @dremio, they're building the data platform enterprises are betting their AI stack on. Ryan Tse, Senior Engineering Manager, is making sure the business side scales just as fast — usage-based pricing, tight timelines, billing that can’t be the bottleneck. Grateful to partner with the Dremio team.

We held our second company value awards to close out Q1: -Customer Centricity -Minutes Matter -Run With It -Attention to Detail Congrats to all our winners! Can't wait for Q2 🚀