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📖What it means
Billed per use, so every call has a measurable price — as opposed to a flat subscription where the marginal call costs nothing extra. The two need different controls: metered lanes need caps, flat ones need access fences.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Subscription
Metered charges per call; a subscription is a standing allowance.
Not: Ringfence
Metering controls how much; a ringfence controls who.
🗣️Also called
pay per useusage-billed